Next Saturday, 24th October, I will be taking part in an online session to showcase the launch of the new issue of Northwords Now magazine. The launch is part of Dingwall’s “Word on the Street” book festival, which this year is reimagined online as “Word Off the Street”. You can check out the full programme, … More Word Off the Street
This week, I returned to the Highland Archive Centre for the first time since lockdown. To research the biography and non-fiction that I write, I often use archives and libraries to look at original documents and reference books. Obviously all of these places have been closed over the last few months due to the coronavirus … More Return to the Archives
There are new plans for the site of Josephine Tey’s family shop on Castle Street. In my biography of Josephine Tey, I describe how her father Colin owned a fruit shop on Castle Street in Inverness, and also rented out flats above the shop. Here on this blog, I’ve talked before about what has happened … More Josephine Tey’s Castle Street
While museums and archives are closed due to the coronavirus, many of them are posting interesting content online. I regularly use archives and museums to research my writing, both locally in the Highlands and further afield, and I noticed that this week on Facebook IMAG are highlighting their MEM Donaldson photography collection. You can follow … More MEM Donaldson: MEMD Herself
One edition of Josephine Tey’s book “The Daughter of Time” was published in the distinctive green covers of the Penguin Crime series. A friend sent me this link the other day, to the recent obituary of Romek Marber, the designer of these classic covers: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/apr/20/romek-marber-obituary Marber had a fascinating life, escaping from the Holocaust and … More Romek Marber and Josephine Tey
