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ACTIVE OUTDOORS: Author Cameron McNeish is still mixing politics with pleasure – on and off the hills

ACTIVE OUTDOORS: Author Cameron McNeish is still mixing politics with pleasure – on and off the hills

ACTIVE OUTDOORS: Author Cameron McNeish is still mixing politics with pleasure – on and off the hills

17 October 2022

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


Author becomes bridge’s writer

Author becomes bridge’s writer

Author becomes bridge’s writer

25 September 2022

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


Caledonian crime group at festival

Caledonian crime group at festival

Caledonian crime group at festival

23 September 2022

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


BARBARA HENDERSON: Surreal day on trip to Arran

BARBARA HENDERSON: Surreal day on trip to Arran

BARBARA HENDERSON: Surreal day on trip to Arran

17 September 2022

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.


Writer to show how to write short stories in a flash

Writer to show how to write short stories in a flash

Writer to show how to write short stories in a flash

13 August 2022

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


BARBARA HENDERSON: Castles prove an inspiration for writers

BARBARA HENDERSON: Castles prove an inspiration for writers

BARBARA HENDERSON: Castles prove an inspiration for writers

06 August 2022

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.


Party house is the rental to die for...

Party house is the rental to die for...

Party house is the rental to die for...

06 August 2022

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


Inverness bookshop inspired Shona's latest thriller

Inverness bookshop inspired Shona's latest thriller

Inverness bookshop inspired Shona's latest thriller

04 August 2022

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


BOOK REVIEW: Much more to discover on the Moray Way

BOOK REVIEW: Much more to discover on the Moray Way

BOOK REVIEW: Much more to discover on the Moray Way

15 July 2022

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


Outlander author to appear in Inverness

Outlander author to appear in Inverness

Outlander author to appear in Inverness

07 July 2022

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


LISTEN: Beauty and hope in abandoned places with writer Cal Flyn

LISTEN: Beauty and hope in abandoned places with writer Cal Flyn

LISTEN: Beauty and hope in abandoned places with writer Cal Flyn

21 May 2022

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


LISTEN: Ullapool Book Festival past and present with festival chair Joan Michael

LISTEN: Ullapool Book Festival past and present with festival chair Joan Michael

LISTEN: Ullapool Book Festival past and present with festival chair Joan Michael

19 May 2022

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


LISTEN: An Interview with Edinburgh Makar Hannah Lavery at this year's Ullapool Book Festival

LISTEN: An Interview with Edinburgh Makar Hannah Lavery at this year's Ullapool Book Festival

LISTEN: An Interview with Edinburgh Makar Hannah Lavery at this year's Ullapool Book Festival

17 May 2022

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


REVIEW: It's been murder without Cromarty Crime & Thrillers Weekend

REVIEW: It's been murder without Cromarty Crime & Thrillers Weekend

REVIEW: It's been murder without Cromarty Crime & Thrillers Weekend

14 May 2022

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


REVIEW: The Riot Of Resolis – for remembering our past and planning the future

REVIEW: The Riot Of Resolis – for remembering our past and planning the future

REVIEW: The Riot Of Resolis – for remembering our past and planning the future

14 May 2022

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


REVIEW: Cromarty Crime Weekend – talk from Ian Rankin

REVIEW: Cromarty Crime Weekend – talk from Ian Rankin

REVIEW: Cromarty Crime Weekend – talk from Ian Rankin

14 May 2022

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


REVIEW: Crime writer Elly Griffiths talks names and killing off characters

REVIEW: Crime writer Elly Griffiths talks names and killing off characters

REVIEW: Crime writer Elly Griffiths talks names and killing off characters

14 May 2022

Cromarty Crime & Thrillers Weekend audience hears about the research that took 10 Hail Marys


REVIEW: Create your own crime world at the Cromarty Crime & Thrillers Weekend writing workshop

REVIEW: Create your own crime world at the Cromarty Crime & Thrillers Weekend writing workshop

REVIEW: Create your own crime world at the Cromarty Crime & Thrillers Weekend writing workshop

14 May 2022

'Most of us felt comfortable about reading out what we had written and sharing it as we went along'


REVIEW: The ONLY desert island reading for the Cromarty Crime & Thrillers Weekend panel

REVIEW: The ONLY desert island reading for the Cromarty Crime & Thrillers Weekend panel

REVIEW: The ONLY desert island reading for the Cromarty Crime & Thrillers Weekend panel

14 May 2022

They all made very persuasive pitches for their chosen titles – but did things get ugly?


LISTEN: Highland Book Prize 2021 finalist Donald S. Murray on his latest novel In a Veil of Mist

LISTEN: Highland Book Prize 2021 finalist Donald S. Murray on his latest novel In a Veil of Mist

LISTEN: Highland Book Prize 2021 finalist Donald S. Murray on his latest novel In a Veil of Mist

14 May 2022

In this episode of our literary podcast Northern Bibliosphere, we meet with Highland Book Prize 2021 finalist Donald S. Murray.


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