A Narrator at the Height of His Powers tells Denzil Meyrick’s Story
23 Jun '21
Sit back with a dram and enjoy this beautiful video with voice-over from none other than David Monteath, the hugely popular narrator of the audio...
New Writing
Extract from LITTLE WONDER by Sasha Abramsky
23 Jun '21
Battle of the Sexes The summer of her second Wimbledon win, in 1888, Lottie Dod, now aged sixteen, invited three of the best male tennis players of...
‘The Midsummer Music’ from An Orkney Tapestry by George Mackay Brown
21 Jun '21
An Orkney Tapestry by George Mackay Brown is a unique look at Orkney through the eye of a poet, and is now back in print for the first time in over...
The Great Tea Race – Extract from Les Wilson’s PUTTING THE TEA IN BRITAIN
16 Jun '21
‘Rich in fascinating detail and stories … it deserves to sell like hot cakes washed down with a fortifying blend of Assam and Ceylon...
The darkest place is calling: Extract from For Any Other Truth by Denzil Meyrick
15 Jun '21
When a light aircraft crash-lands at Machrie airport, DCI Jim Daley and his colleague Brian Scott rush to the scene. But it soon becomes clear that...
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...
The World’s First Female Sports Superstar: Learn more about Lottie Dod in Little Wonder
03 Jun '21
Tennis, golf, hockey, toboganning, skating, archery: not many sports stars these days could claim such a wide variety of sporting prowess, but the...
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...
Poem of the Week: ‘Scaffolding’ by Eveline Pye
18 May '21
Two poetry anthologies for key workers are published this week – To Learn the Future: Poems for Teachers and To Mind Your Life: Poems for...
Poem of the Week: ‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers
11 May '21
Celebrations of the NHS have special resonance in 2021. Our newest poetry collection, published in partnership with the Scottish Poetry Library, is...
‘This sceptred isle’: Extract from Fringed with Mud and Pearls
11 May '21
In the newly published Fringed with Mud and Pearls, Ian Crofton embarks on a personal odyssey to a number of the islands encircling England,...
Extract from The Heart Remembers by Jan-Philipp Sendker
04 May '21
The Heart Remembers, set against a backdrop of political and family turmoil in Burma, follows the story of twelve year old Ko Bo Bo. Bo Bo has an...
