A new article in the Press & Journal about Josephine Tey, highlighting the changes at the site of her family’s shop in Castle Street in Inverness – and suggesting the idea of a blue plaque for Tey…
I’ve written about ‘MEMD’ on this blog before, and the other week journalist Susy Macaulay contacted me about a piece she was writing about ‘Herself’. Photographer Mary Ethel Muir Donaldson’s evocative pictures of the Highlands were featured in an article in the Press & Journal at the weekend. You can read the article online here: … More MEMD – new article and photographs
I did a talk for the Inverness Townscape Heritage Project back in 2019 – they have now released a lovely video to mark the end of their Academy Street scheme, which you can watch here: The video has some great images of Academy Street now and in the past, and also shows (briefly) my talk … More Academy Street
I have two new poems in the Spring-Summer 2021 issue of Northwords Now magazine, which is out now. You can view or download the whole magazine for free at http://www.northwordsnow.co.uk – they have just updated their website and it is well worth checking out: you can even browse back issues, including the last edition which … More The Days
With lockdown easing here in Scotland, I was very pleased to return to the Highland Archive Centre yesterday to carry on with some research for my writing. I was also happy to finally be able to access some books from Inverness Library: the library closed at the first lockdown and since then has not fully … More Return to the Archives 2
