Events coming up

Added on 20 August 2016

On Thursday 1 September I'll be the 'bard in the bookshop' at 12.30 (lunchtime) in Nairn Bookshop as part of the Nairn Book and Arts Festival. This is one of the loveliest bookshops I know, and I'm really looking forward to being back there. On Saturday 1 October, I'll be leading...

Events in June

Added on 17 June 2016

I am delighted to be doing some lovely events this weekend. One is in Inverness, for Lapidus, the organisation dedicated to the link between health and literature. It is a training event for the use of the new Bibliotherapy Toolkit, called Words Work Well. I'll be focusing on reading poetry as a...

Acting locally

Added on 17 June 2016

For ages, I have been promising various people locally that 'when the novel's finished' I'd get involved in one of the many community organisations in Assynt. And that moment has come. I have been co-opted as a director on the board of Assynt Foundation, which owns 44,000 acres of wh...