Orkney & Shetland

Lonely Planet's local travel experts reveal all you need to know to plan the trip of a...

It is a cold January morning and Shetland lies buried beneath a deep layer of snow....

Four hundred years separate them. One book binds them. Glasgow 2024: Clem waits...

This is the charming and poignant account of twenty-five years spent in Orkney. After...

Thorfinn Ragnarson is the daydreaming son of a tenant farmer, avoiding both work and...

As a child, Lawrence learned many folk tales from his father, Tom Tulloch. Tom was a...

When an internet lifestyle influencer arrives on Shetland to document her 'perfect'...

The residents of Orkney can’t sleep. Through 18-hour summer days, the islands are...

A guidebook to 80 walks on the Isles of Shetland and Orkney. From short strolls to...

In her late twenties, poet Jen Hadfield moved to Shetland to make a new life. Here, in...

Peter Marshall was born in Orkney. His ancestors were farmers and farm labourers on the...

1843. On a remote Scottish island, Ivar, the sole occupant, leads a life of quiet...