Darkland Tales

Join bestselling crime writer Val McDermid and Geographer Royal for Scotland Jo Sharp in conversation with Nicola Meighan about This Door of the Seas, their contribution to the acclaimed Darkland Tales series, in which leading Scottish writers reimagine defining moments in the nation’s past. Together they explore the ill-fated Darien scheme – a tale of ambition, adventure, catastrophe and the moment that changed the nation forever.