"Edinburgh: The Autobiography" edited by Alan Taylor is a fascinating book. It has been published to coincide with Edinburgh's 900th anniversary celebrations in 2024 and tells the story of the city ...

The Scottish Cookbook" by Coinneach MacLeod is one of those very rare books. The say you shouldn't judge a book by its ...

"Edinburgh: A New History" by Alistair Moffat has been published to coincide with Edinburgh's 900th anniversary celebrations in 2024. What you find between the covers is a thoroughly readable ...

The Vikings are one of the best known groups to have emerged from the early medieval era . Yet despite being so often ...

"Scotland From the Air" by Shahbaz Majeed is a magnificent book that would make the perfect gift for Scotlandophiles ...

"The Gravity of Feathers: Fame, Fortune and the Story of St Kilda" by Andrew Fleming is an important book and one that ...

But at Castle Fraser, the owners took a different route. Here they responded to the need for more, and more comfortable, accommodation by sticking to a basic form of a tower house castle, ...

The main A82 departs Spean Bridge in the direction of Inverness by first climbing up the side of Glen Spean. As the road leaves the glen it turns to head north, and as it does so, it passes the ...

Slains Castle is a large imposing ruin fronting directly onto south-east facing cliffs about a kilometre east of Cruden Bay. You can walk to it from a car park in the village itself, or from another ...

The gaunt ruins of Castle Tioram stand on the tidal island of Eilean Tioram near the point at which the River Shiel flows into Loch Moidart. It is reached along a little over two miles of narrow and ...

Holmwood House can be found just over three miles south of central Glasgow and a little south of what was, at the time, the village of Cathcart. It was built in 1857-8 at a cost of £3,600 for the ...

Sir William Russell Flint lived from 4 April 1880 to December 1969. He was widely recognised to be the finest watercolour artist of his generation and in 1947 was knighted for his services to art. The ...