Biography & Travel Writing

A farmer's daughter from Galloway in south-west Scotland, Jane went to work at the...

At the age of thirty, Amy Liptrot finds herself washed up back home on Orkney. Standing...

This book is a celebration of the life and adventures of Andy Jackson, Scottish...

This is a book for anyone interested in wildlife, for art lovers, for tourists wanting...

Martin Moran has been a man of the mountains since youth. Famously, he made the first...

Island Wife tells the story of Judy, who, at 19, met her Wild Pioneer. He whisked her...

A lively, at time hilarious, first-hand account of a lighthouse keeper's life in the...

Born at a clifftop lighthouse in 1910, Archie's life was spent in the world of Scottish...

Fifty years ago Gavin Maxwell went to live in an abandoned house on a shingle beach on...

This is a story about uncovering the things that really matter, and discovering what...

Just days after Raynor learns that Moth, her husband of 32 years, is terminally ill,...

For many years George Mackay Brown wrote a weekly column in 'The Orcadian', and this...