When three friends decide to revive the challenge of the legendary poacher John Macnab (to take a grouse, salmon and deer from three Royal Estates), they plan for everything - except an unstoppable yo
Andrew Greig embarked on a 'micro-odyssey' that took place from Stromness, Orkney to the Island of Cava, Scapa Flow on a single voyage, one evening in summer, this collection recounts his trip in poet
What are the contours of a life? This collection of poems features: childhood, adolescence, the country then the city, sex, love, marriage, break-ups and breakdowns personal and political, mountain ad
In March 1985, Mal Duff led a new expedition to conquer Everest by the unclimbed north-east ridge.The last attempt by a Chris Bonington team had ended in failure and tragedy - with the deaths of two g
At the centre of Electric Brae is the crumbling sea-stack of the Old Man of Hoy and the consuming relationship between a young artist, Kim, coldly passionate, talented, secretive, and Jimmy, a North S
Class and national barriers lose their distinction and a heady whirl of parties, drinking and promiscuity distracts from the more serious business at hand. Told in intimate, alternate chapters from th
