Waking Up on Iona: Alistair Moffat goes In Search of Angels
27 Mar '21
Alistair Moffat roamed across Scotland’s western seaboard looking for traces of the saints who first brought Christianity to these shores....
Tea Time Treat
After Flodden: Women’s History Month IV
23 Mar '21
This week, in our series of Women’s History Month extracts from Rosemary Goring’s Scotland: Her Story, we encounter an instance of women...
Spring flowers: Silver Birch from Scottish Plant Lore
23 Mar '21
The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh is home to an enormous collection of plants, both native to Scotland and from all corners of the globe. In...
Fried eggs and chanterelles on polenta wedges from The Scottish Brunch Bible
23 Mar '21
Brunch always feels like a bit of a luxury, and something we might rarely take the time to make ourselves at home. We are still a few weeks away from...
Poem of the Week: from The Book of Iona edited by Robert Crawford
23 Mar '21
With Palm Sunday and Holy Week on the horizon, we turn west to The Book of Iona. This anthology, edited by Robert Crawford, is ‘given over to...
World Poetry Day Staff Picks: Our Favourite Scottish Poems
18 Mar '21
The act of choosing a favourite can be all about the moment in time, it’s to capture a feeling, mood or resonance rather than to designate a...
World Poetry Day: Somewhere / Today by Nadine Aisha Jassat
16 Mar '21
A cosmic alignment sees World Poetry Day coincide with the first day of Spring on Sunday 21st March 2021. That said, this week’s poem is a...
Wicked Nephews and Hapless Uncles: Extract from The King Over The Water by Desmond Seward
16 Mar '21
New in paperback this week, The King Over The Water by Desmond Seward is the first modern history for general readers of the entire Jacobite movement...
Wild Garlic and Potato Soup from the Scottish Wild Food Bible
16 Mar '21
Wild garlic is the perfect place to start if you are new to foraging, hugely abundant in woodlands throughout the spring months, and also a very...
Convent Espionage: Women’s History Month III
15 Mar '21
Our third instalment of extracts for Women’s History Month is a double decker: early-modern prioresses and the very modern Muriel Spark. The...
‘Little Beings’: Extract from Mother: A Human Love Story by Matt Hopwood
09 Mar '21
Mother’s Day is coming up, and in celebration, we have chosen an extract from Mother: A Human Love Story by Matt Hopwood, in which he presents...
Women’s History Month – Scotland: Her Story, Part II
08 Mar '21
In our second extract from Rosemary Goring’s essential anthology, Scotland: Her Story, we present an interview with the only Scottish...
