Winter

Added on 11 March 2018

I’m teaching three courses (creative writing, poetry and nature writing) at the University of Highlands and Islands this semester, in Inverness, so I spend two days a week there, which means I’m having some amazing landscape experiences. Driving home this Friday night was particularly sp...

Ice

Added on 26 February 2018

What is it about frozen lochans? I am entranced by them. Yesterday we walked for hours out into the frozen hinterland of Assynt, crunching across bogs that would, in their normal state, swallow us up to at least our knees. This land is more water than solid earth, and the network of little lochs is...

Book Launch for The Walrus Mutterer

Added on 26 February 2018

My new historical novel, The Walrus Mutterer, the first of a trilogy called Stone Stories, will launch in March 2018 at an event in Lochinver. The novel is set in the Iron Age, 320 BC, and the blurb on the back says. 'A visceral evocation of ancient folklore and ritual, The Walrus Mutterer is an...