Books

To mark World Book Day we’ve been turning a new leaf – by checking out some of the latest outdoors titles on the shelves.

John Davidson takes a look inside two new walking guides from outdoors publisher Cicerone

When bothies were closed during the pandemic, outdoor author John D Burns had to find a new way to explore the remote parts of the Highlands.

At the start of his book Tony Davidson takes you back in time to the first moment he met what would become Kilmorack Gallery.

The renowned outdoors man talks to John Davidson about his love of wild places and argues that there remains a battle to keep our hard-fought freedoms

An award-winning Inverness children’s author has been named as the Forth Bridge’s inaugural writer-in-residence.

Scottish crime-writing friends in the seven-strong Caledonia Crime Collective (CCC) to talk at the St Duthac Book and Arts Festival in Tain.

What a surreal day! As I write, I am sitting on my bed in a guesthouse on the Isle of Arran. It is almost midnight. Here is what happened.

Two writing workshops have been organised on the theme of flash fiction in Inverness by HighlandLIT. The sessions will be led by Meg Pokrass.

AS I write, I am sitting in a guesthouse in Dumfries, ready for weekend events at Caerlaverock Castle where one of my books is set.

It didn’t take Carrbridge crime writer Lin Anderson long as Covid emerged to see the chance to write a one-off standalone thriller.

The Bookseller Of Inverness sets a life-or-death Jacobite adventure racing across the Highlands...

The Moray Way Companion, by Norman Thomson. Published by Birlinn, £14.99

Author of the international best-selling Outlander series of books, Diana Gabaldon, is set to appear for the first time at Eden Court Theatre.

On our fourth episode of our Highland Book Prize 2021 special series, we catch up with journalist and writer Cal Flyn.

In this last glimpse into the amazing experience that was the Ullapool Book Festival, we talk to the powerhouse behind the festival.

Next on our Dispatches from Ullapool is the multi-talented and newly appointed Edinburgh Makar, poet and playwright Hannah Lavery.

The sun shone on Ross-shire's crime (writing) capital as the book festival returned!

An ingenious full-length play celebrates a crime in Cromarty's own history

Getting inside a crime legend's head, planning a death on Murder Island