Visiting Dunkeld on a Tricycle – Extract from The Highlands by Paul Murton
26 Jul '21
Paul Murton, a documentary filmmaker known for The Grand Tours of Scotland, journeys the length and breadth of the spectacularly beautiful Scottish...
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National Picnic Month: Stash a Bottle of Elderflower Cordial in your Hamper
20 Jul '21
The Scottish Wild Food Bible by Claire Macdonald is a pocket-sized book containing a mighty selection of recipes that use the huge variety of produce...
Poem of the Week: Summer by Alexander McCall Smith
20 Jul '21
This poem captures the calm of a perfect summer day – how the sky and sea are so still that time seems to have permanently stopped. This...
The Squirrels’ Return: Extract from A Scurry of Squirrels by Polly Pullar
19 Jul '21
This month we published A Scurry of Squirrels, the new book by Polly Pullar which tells of her work in wildlife rehabilitation, and her lifelong...
Poem of the Week: Beachcomber by George Mackay Brown
13 Jul '21
Alexander McCall Smith selected George Mackay Brown‘s poem ‘Beachcomber’ for his anthology of Scottish poems, A Gathering. He...
It Happened Today in History – The Stone of Destiny
03 Jul '21
On 3 July 1996, twenty-five years ago today, John Major stood up in the The House of Commons and announced that the Stone of Scone (the Stone of...
Novels to Sizzle with this Summer
28 Jun '21
Are you wondering what to pack for your staycation? In no particular order, here is our pick of some of the best novels for your...
Denzil Meyrick’s ‘For Any Other Truth’ – The Readers Have Their Say
14 Jun '21
Readers have been leaving their mark on the Amazon site for ‘For Any Other Truth‘, Denzil Meyrick’s latest chart-topping book in...
Poem of the Week: The Poet by George Mackay Brown
11 Jun '21
The title of our new volume of selected poems by Orcadian writer George Mackay Brown, Carve the Runes, comes from the words inscribed on his island...
Miracles in the Sky: Extract from A Sky Full of Kites by Tom Bowser
02 Jun '21
Red kites were once Britain’s most common bird of prey. By the early 1900s they’d been wiped out in Scotland and England following centuries...
It’s World Whisky Day! What’s your Dram?
15 May '21
Whisky is just the best go-to tipple on cold days, fireside evenings, after long walks on the beach or in the hills, sitting with a good book…...
Dystopian Visions – Closer than you think?
14 May '21
‘The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command’ — George Orwell George...
