Clachtoll broch

Added on 22 July 2018

For the past few weeks I've been doing the dig diary for Historic Assynt, at the excavation of Clachtoll broch, the setting for my novel, The Walrus Mutterer. You can read more here. Between the fascinating finds and the various experimental archaeology events - pottery made and fired the Iron ...

Art and poetry hand in glove

Added on 12 July 2018

‘Collaboration’, says Michael Longley, the Irish poet, ‘is the opposite of loneliness.’ He sits with his back to the window, on the sill of which a metal trout, with pennies for scales, swims beneath a fragment of a poem stencilled on the glass: ‘I am the trout ...

Events in August

Added on 12 July 2018

I'll be reading from The Walrus Mutterer at Blackwell's Edinburgh Festival fringe event on Thursday 9 August 2018 at 6pm. Come along for a signed copy, or just to find out about the story of Pytheas and his amazing Iron Age journey to these parts. I'll also be doing an event in Glasgow ...