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...
Tea Time Treat
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...
Cool Down on Ice Cream Day
15 Jul '21
The heat is on… so we are delighted to report that July is officially ice cream month and it would appear that 18 July is National Ice Cream...
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...
Robert J. Harris on the enduring appeal of Sherlock Holmes
25 Jun '21
Whether on page or screen, Sherlock Holmes continues to fascinate. Our author of A Study in Crimson, Robert J. Harris, has written about the enduring...
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...
‘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...
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...
Poem of the Week: Moment Musical in Assynt by Norman MacCaig
31 May '21
Henry Morton described Skye’s Cuillin ridge as ‘Wagner’s ride of the Valkyries frozen in stone and hung up like a colossal screen...
Recipe of the Week: Raspberry Shortbread from Sue Lawrence’s Scottish Baking
31 May '21
Scotland is basking in the first of the summer sunshine this week, a much welcome change to the very soggy May we have left behind. Summer berries...
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...
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…...
