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Celebrating love and friendship in poetic verse

Alexander McCall devoted a recent column in Scottish Field to to the joys of poetry (especially Auden, who he reveres). This collection, which examines the...

The martyrs who brought Christianity to the Scots

The latest offering from national treasure Alistair Moffat is a deeply lovely account of the ‘white martyrs’, the Irish priests who, at huge risk to...
Bill Paterson

Boswell Book Festival announces online guests for 2021

This year’s Boswell Book Festival will be a virtual event with some of the most talked about biographers, diarists and writers of memoir appearing at...

Get Scottish Field for £50 for three years – and a free book by Sam Heughan

If you love all things Scottish, then you definitely need our limited edition special Scottish Field digital subscription offer. Running until the end of May...

A third celebration of powerful Scottish women

Mairi Kidd dedicates a third of her book to powerful Scottish women (the remainder to Irish and Welsh equivalents) whose tales have been overlooked or...

A celebration and history of Scottish art and artists

Have you ever wondered about the backstory of James Guthrie’s ‘To Pastures New’ painting? Or indeed the tale of Henry Raeburn? Here to fill the...


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