Biography & Travel Writing

This is a fascinating combination of biographical material about the great Scottish...

The Outer Hebrides is an island archipelago on the remotest north-western periphery of...

Mairi Hedderwick embarks on a six-month-long journey to 40 islands from Arran to Lewis,...

The Gaelic pharmacy was rich, the sources of which lay almost entirely in nature and...

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

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

Reflecting on family, identity and nature, Belonging is a personal memoir about what it...

Queen Victoria (1819-1901) wrote a diary nearly every day of her life. Originally...

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...

In telling the story of Bonnie Prince Charlie, this book, unusually, places his...

A few years ago, Annie Worsley traded a busy life in academia to take on a...