Biography & Travel Writing

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

A collection of songs transcribed from the singing of Jock Duncan (1925-2021), a...

In this best-selling biography of John Knox, Rosalind K. Marshall traces the life of...

In 1773, James Boswell made a long-planned journey across the Scottish Highlands with...

Book by Samuel Johnson, published in 1775. The Journey was the result of a three-month...

Some people live to walk. Raynor and Moth walk to live . . . Raynor Winn knows that...

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

Neil Ansell walks in some of the most remote parts of Britain, the Scottish Highlands,...

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

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

In this sequel to Life in Lethinnis, Rory offers a further collection of pen-portraits...

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