BOOKS

A handy guide to Scotland’s skiing scene
This is, so the blurb informs us, Scotlandās first guide to off-piste skiing and snowboarding. The book focuses on the mountains around Ben Nevis and...

A chaotic childhood led to a life in nursing
Mary J MacLeodās childhood memoirs tell the chaotic story of her upbringing ā from an idyllic childhood, her motherās death changes everything. Passed from one...

When the landlords kept their tenants in state of terror
In None Dare Oppose, a study of Highland landlordism, author John MacLeod paints a portrait of Victorian Scotland. For two decades, the people of Lewis...

An exciting thriller with clever plot twists
The body of a woman is found bludgeoned and dumped in the water of Loch Lomond, while Iain Fraser of Helensburgh, who put her there,...