Belladrum 2025
I will be at Belladrum tomorrow (Friday 1st August), reading at the Verb Garden from 1545-1630. Please come along! More details here https://tartanheartfestival.com/news/verb-garden-2025-belladrums-spoken-word-sanctuary-returns
I will be at Belladrum tomorrow (Friday 1st August), reading at the Verb Garden from 1545-1630. Please come along! More details here https://tartanheartfestival.com/news/verb-garden-2025-belladrums-spoken-word-sanctuary-returns
Back in January, I met up with Caroline Crampton, host of the Shedunnit podcast, and showed her around ‘Josephine Tey’s Inverness’. She’s just put up a nice blogpost about our meet-up, which you can read at this link: https://www.shedunnitshow.com/a-visit-to-josephine-teys-inverness/ You can read more about the episode of Shedunnit that I was on, and listen to … More Shedunnit in Inverness
To celebrate the publication of the new softback of my book “Daughters of the North: Jean Gordon and Mary, Queen of Scots”, I will be speaking about my research and writing, and sharing Jean’s story, at a few events. All welcome! JOHN O’GROATSSunday 6th April, 2.30pm, Seaview Hotel. HELMSDALESaturday 12th April, 11am-1pm, Timespan.https://timespan.org.uk/ INVERNESSWednesday 23rd … More Events – April / May 2025
Here are some of the good books I read last year: I don’t always keep a record of the books I read, but sometimes I do. The books I’m sharing here are the ones I’m happy to discuss: have you read any of them? What did you think? Last year I also read a lot … More books of 2023
I will be at the St Duthac Book & Arts Festival on Sunday 17th September, talking about my book “Daughters of the North: Jean Gordon and Mary, Queen of Scots”. The St Duthac book festival is in Tain, which is one of the places strongly associated with Jean Gordon, and I’m looking forward to telling … More St Duthac Book & Arts Festival