"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, ...

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 ...

South east of Melrose what appears to be the old main road to Newton St Boswells skirts around the north-east slopes of the Eildon Hills before coming to an abrupt end at a gate marking the closure of ...

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 ...

The broad valley of Strath Suardal provides an easy low-level route that runs south-west from Broadford all the way to Torrin on Loch Slapin. Today the valley is a quiet place, with only a few ...

Set a few hundred yards back from Millport's seafront is Great Cumbrae's most intriguing and tranquil attraction. With seating room for barely 100, the Cathedral of The Isles is tiny, but remarkably ...