Patrick Baker

Author

Patrick Baker worked in the publishing industry for many years and is currently a commercial writer and content producer. He is a keen outdoor enthusiast and has walked and climbed throughout Scotland and Europe, serving several years as a non-executive director for Mountain Training Scotland. He is the author of The Cairngorms: A Secret History.

Patrick Baker worked in the publishing industry for many years and is currently a commercial writer and content producer. He is a keen outdoor enthusiast and has walked and climbed throughout Scotland and Europe, serving several years as a non-executive director for Mountain Training Scotland. He is the author of The Cairngorms: A Secret History.

Books

  • Children of the Dead End
    Paperback | Pub: 07 Apr 2022
    £9.99

    Based on personal memories of his life in Ireland and Scotland in the early 1900s, this was Patrick MacGill’s first novel. It tells the story of Dermod Flynn an independent and feisty youth who earns a meagre living as an itinerant farm hand in...

  • The Unremembered Places
    Paperback | Pub: 01 Apr 2021
    £9.99

    Shortlisted for the The Great Outdoors Award for Outdoor Book of the Year and the Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Literature There are strange relics hidden across Scotland’s landscape: forgotten places that are touchstones to incredible...

  • The Cairngorms
    Paperback | Pub: 16 May 2014
    £10.99

    Cairngorms: A Secret History is a series of journeys exploring barely known human and natural stories of the Cairngorm Mountains. It looks at a unique British landscape, its last great wilderness, with new eyes. History combines with travelogue in a...