Biography & Travel Writing

John Gregorson Campbell (1834-91) was one of the most outstanding folklorists working...

Hugh Miller was born in 1802 in Cromarty, Ross-shire. He started his working life as a...

The year is 1746. The Jacobite rebellion has failed catastrophically and Scotland is...

In 2021, Ruby Free, 21, got her dream job working on an RSPB reserve. But this position...

One of very few books available on Moidart in the north-west of Scotland, it evokes the...

Simon Fraser was one of Scotland most notorious and romantic figures. A double-agent...

In 1969, John McPhee moved his family from New Jersey across the Atlantic to live in...

Paul Murton has long had a love of the Viking north - the island groups of Orkney and...

Columba is one of the best known and most well documented figures in Celtic...

A facsimile of Hugh Miller’s notes recording his rambles around Scotland in the mid...

Being a woman was her only crime. Scottish Highlands, 1727. In the aftermath of a...

A Croft in the Hills, first published in 1960, is now acknowledged as a classic among...