The new issue of Northwords Now is out now, and it features an article I wrote about Norn, the extinct language once spoken in the far north of Scotland and the northern isles – its link to the Faroe Islands, and why it’s being used in a contemporary song by Faroese band Hamradun. The whole … More Northwords Now – Summer 2025
Great to see this review of my book “Daughters of the North: Jean Gordon and Mary, Queen of Scots” in “The Gunn Herald”, the magazine for the Clan Gunn: “Henderson’s a skilled writer… With focus and grit, Henderson’s Daughters of the North is well worth the effort” They also publish an interview I did with the magazine’s editor, … More Reviews
I have just finished going through the proof copy of my new book “Jofrid Gunn” – it will be on sale from August! I’m really pleased with how the finished book looks. If you are in Inverness, please save the date: there will be a special launch event at Waterstones in the Eastgate, on Saturday … More Jofrid Gunn – save the date
I have a new article about Josephine Tey in The Bottle Imp, the online magazine of the Association for Scottish Literature. If you are interested my biography of Josephine Tey, included in the article are the first details of a special new Tey project that I have been working on, so you don’t want to … More The Bottle Imp
I was pleased to see a new review of my book “Daughters of the North: Jean Gordon and Mary, Queen of Scots” from Undiscovered Scotland: “a superb book… it’s only possible to guess at the sheer depth of research that must have gone into producing an account of the interplay of the lives of two … More new review of “Daughters of the North”
Jennifer Morag Henderson 