I just saw the Call the Midwife episode that was filmed on Lewis.  The scenes filmed at the Gearranan blackhouse village reminded me of one...

Whenever possible I like to find the graves of authors whose books about the islands have influenced me over the years.  Here are six I...

He is much maligned. And over the past 40 years it has seemed incorrect to say anything positive about him. But I will. Alasdair Alpin ...

When I was on Skye in July (sounds like the start of a bad poem) I paid a visit to Loch nan Dùbhrachan. I went there because of a book I fo...

One of my favourite island books is Alasdair Alpin MacGregor's Searching the Hebrides with a Camera (1933). I acquired the book in 199...