Biography & Travel Writing

Victorian visitors had shooting lodges Scots had trips doon the watter. Norwegian...

When Tamsin Calidas first arrives on a remote island in the Scottish Hebrides, it feels...

In the 1930s, the writer and poet, Nan Shepherd was one of North-East Scotland's best...

Dan Boothby had been drifting for more than twenty years, without the pontoons of...

Anne Cholawo was a typical 80s career girl working in a busy London advertising agency,...

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

The British Isles are an Archipelago made up of two large islands and some 6289 smaller...

In August 1956 a young shepherd, his wife, two-year-old daughter and ten-day-old son...

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

Thoroughly revised and expanded from the 2012 edition (twice the length, almost double...

Among the giants of the Scottish Enlightenment, the name of James Hutton is overlooked....

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