This week’s destination of choice? Scourie Bay
28 Jun '23
This extract is from Blue Scotland: The Ultimate Guide to Exploring Scotland’s Wild Waters by Mollie Hughes. On the far north-west coast of...
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Our destination of choice this weekend… Loch Morar (as long as your name is not McDonald)
13 Jun '23
This extract is from Blue Scotland: The Ultimate Guide to Exploring Scotland’s Wild Waters by Mollie Hughes. Nestled in the mountains, close to...
Siccar Point: Read about James Hutton’s ground-breaking discovery
28 Oct '22
It was reported in the news this week that Siccar Point has been selected as one of the world’s most internationally important geological...
“By candlelight it was all different”: Extract from Bitterhall by Helen McClory
24 Oct '22
Bitterhall by Helen McClory is a haunting gothic novel that is breathtakingly ambitious in scope, questioning the notion of objective reality and...
Get cosy with an extract from Ghosts in the Gloaming by Denzil Meyrick
11 Oct '22
Ghosts in the Gloaming is the latest Tale from Kinloch from Denzil Meyrick, author of the bestselling DCI Daley series. It is the perfect cosy read...
Landfall on South Georgia – an extract from The Two-Headed Whale
06 Oct '22
The story of whaling is a sensitive subject. Sandy Winterbottom handles it beautifully in her mix of historical narrative, the fictionalised, tragic...
Celebrate National Poetry Day with ‘Autumn’ by Alexander McCall Smith
05 Oct '22
In Celebration of National Poetry Day, we are sharing a timely poem from Alexander McCall Smith’s collection In A Time of Distance....
Poem of the Week: ‘Morning Rituals’ by Jenni Fagan
06 Sep '22
From her newly published collection The Bone Library, our poem of the week is ‘Morning Rituals’. Read the poem, and listen to Jenni...
Summer Solstice: Extract from Native by Patrick Laurie
20 Jun '22
Summer Solstice – the Longest Day Extract from Native: Life in a Vanishing Landscape by Patrick Laurie Battering heat and a dry wind to take your...
Excerpt from Talking at the Gates: A Life of James Baldwin
07 Jun '22
“I never had a childhood,” James Baldwin told a French interviewer in 1974. To a journalist ten years earlier, he proclaimed, “I did not have...
The Case of the Missing Pound Note: A Daniella Coulstoun Short Story (part 4)
22 Apr '22
In just a couple of weeks we are publishing Six Wounds by Morgan Cry, a high-octane crime thriller set in the sun-drenched Costa Blanca and the...
Celebrate Burns Night with an extract from Tam o’Shanter
24 Jan '22
Funny, scurrilous, chilling and gloriously inventive, Tam o’ Shanter is widely regarded as Robert Burns’ masterpiece, and one of his...
