BOOKS

First-ever book festival coming to Tobermory
There's a new kid on the Scottish Book Festival scene this year. The first-ever Tobermory Book Festival, known as West Over Sea, is to take...

New book mines rich seams for historical insight
Marian Pallister tells the story of Argyll and its rich mining history in Not a Plack the Richer. Using in-depth research into official records, letters...

The true story of a life with pine martens
A Richness of Martens is a personal and heartwarming story, as Polly Pullar describes how her love of nature developed throughout a childhood spent in...

Two Wigtown books are optioned by Hollywood
This year's Wigtown Book Festival was the biggest and most successful yet ā with audiences of around 29,000. The provisional figures for the 2018 event,...