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Autumn News
28 September 2021
August and September news
25 August 2021
June and July news 2021
05 July 2021
Events, reviews and a looong read
28 May 2021
All my latest news
30 April 2021
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23 March 2021
Event with nature writer Jim Crumley 18th Feb 2021
04 February 2021
PREORDER 'The Other Side of Stone' now
28 January 2021
Fiction workshop at Garsdale Retreat May 2021
22 December 2020
LOVE WORDS workshops January 2021
22 December 2020
My next book coming March 2021
02 December 2020
Come on a walking and writing workshop wherever you are
25 September 2020
DOUBLING BACK is back in print
11 September 2020
Publication day for Antlers of Water!
06 August 2020
Black Lives Matter in the far north of Scotland
03 August 2020
Seaside-Season-Sale on Call of the Undertow
26 July 2020
Confluence of Years
14 July 2020
Camel Cadence - a poem on patience
10 July 2020
New short story collected in Homeless World Cup anthology
05 July 2020
Talking to Christopher Brookmyre
02 July 2020
Free audio short stories with my newsletter
19 June 2020
Virtual short story writing course with Birnam Book Festival
22 May 2020
Lockdown poem for a strange Easter
15 April 2020
Fiction workshop Garsdale Retreat July 2020
23 March 2020
The Rainbow by DH Lawrence
07 March 2020
Take a listen to Radio 4's Book of the Week next week
30 January 2020
Autumn 2019 news of writing, workshops and more literary escapades
06 November 2019
Time-travelling nature writing
04 July 2019
Kidnapped by a tidal island
16 June 2019
In the Footsteps of Robert Louis Stevenson and other news
29 May 2019
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23 November 2018
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19 October 2018
Latest news including a new short story responding to Tennyson's poem Crossing the Bar
29 April 2018
On BBC Radio 4's 'Open Country'
18 December 2017
Freight Books in provisional liquidation
19 November 2017
Workshops coming up and things to read
07 November 2017
Recent news of my new writing and teaching projects
01 July 2017
Spring SBT workshops and other news
17 April 2017
Radio 3 essay and turn of the Year News
03 January 2017
WalkHighlands : Street Play in Edinburgh
04 September 2016
Writer-in-Residence at George Watson's College
04 September 2016
Roald Dahl's centenary - my celebration is a dancing Centipede!
04 September 2016
Overnight in the hills
22 June 2016
End of residency at Edinburgh's Sick Kids
22 June 2016
New publication: Our Tissardmine Tagine
22 June 2016
Chris Townsend reviews Doubling Back
02 March 2016
The Mary Tree - short story on Radio 4 during February
09 February 2016
Story for Christmas
15 December 2015
26 Winters exhibition and book
24 November 2015
New walking stories published here and there!
09 November 2015
Short film about me for Czech TV
09 November 2015
New reviews for Doubling Back in paperback
09 November 2015
Essay about walking the poetry path at Corbenic
25 September 2015
Sharing the loneliness of the long distance writer
09 September 2015
Doubling Back out in paperback on 7th September
21 August 2015
Horizon Pool - short story on BBC Radio 4 Extra
01 July 2015
Bearded, badly dressed, ascetic, misanthropic?
17 June 2015
Top tips for writing narrative non-fiction
04 May 2015
The Writers’ Path: across the hills to Moniack Mhor
17 April 2015
Interviews recorded for International Women's Day
09 March 2015
Review of Doubling Back in latest Gutter mag
28 February 2015
New review of Doubling Back
02 February 2015
new walking essay for Walk Highlands
01 February 2015
Christmas story in The Scotsman
20 December 2014
My best books of 2014
03 December 2014
The Fall on BBC Radio 4 Extra
02 December 2014
Doubling Back one of the 2014 best Scottish Books
24 November 2014
My first column for Walk Highlands
28 October 2014
Doubling Back reviewed in Perceptive Travel magazine
28 October 2014
Talking to The Skinny about influences during the EIBF
03 October 2014
Doubling Back reviewed by Walk Highlands
01 August 2014
new review of Call of the Undertow in Dura
27 July 2014
Doubling Back reviewed in Northwords Now
24 July 2014
Morocco trip deadline!
23 July 2014
article in the Sunday Telegraph
17 July 2014
review of Doubling Back on Mumsnet
15 July 2014
Review of Doubling Back in DURA
07 July 2014
Doubling Back in the Daily Mail
30 May 2014
Doubling Back reviewed in Scotland on Sunday today
25 May 2014
Interview on Talking Walking podcast
25 May 2014
Doubling Back to be BBC Radio Four book of the week
28 April 2014
Aberdeen Arts Across Learning Festival
16 March 2014
The Return of Hoof Beats
16 February 2014
this is what's coming next
10 February 2014
a couple more reviews for Call of the Undertow
02 February 2014
Doubling Back - the next book...
12 January 2014
More reviews
10 January 2014
Best Books of 2013
05 January 2014
Call of the Undertow makes its way in the world
17 December 2013
Call of the Undertow concludes tour
07 November 2013
Call of the Undertow 'tour' underway
23 October 2013
First sight of a new book
05 October 2013
What they're saying about 'Call of the Undertow'
10 September 2013
Having a writing mentor
04 September 2013
My treasure
16 August 2013
Workshop on creating characters - Perth
23 July 2013
'Call of the Undertow': a novel
28 June 2013
Come and write on a camel in Morocco!
15 April 2013
Short Circuit - a guide to the art of the short story
15 April 2013
Aberdeen Arts Across Learning Festival
07 February 2013
New story in Riptide
07 February 2013
6th July 2013, Workshop at East Neuk Festival, Fife
07 February 2013
Working with Cate James, illustrator
11 January 2013
Radio Play airs again
10 December 2012
The pen and the desert
03 December 2012
A story for Advent
01 December 2012
'Following our Fathers' gets special mention by the Boardman Tasker judges for mountain literature
27 November 2012
Writing in the desert
16 November 2012
All Write
04 November 2012
A Blend of Brownsbank
28 October 2012
Advanced Higher Creative Writing
04 October 2012
Three Lochs Book and Arts Festival
21 September 2012
'26 Treasures' in print
20 September 2012
Le Livre sur les Quais
08 September 2012
Hats off to our teachers
25 August 2012
Retreat at Lavigny
21 August 2012
'Places, Worlds and Words' workshop, Edinburgh International Book Festival
13 August 2012
Writing Fiction course
16 July 2012
Droving journey in the news
12 July 2012
Drove journey through the Cairngorms
30 June 2012
Fathers' Day reading
17 June 2012
Writer in Residence at the Sick Kids Hospital, Edinburgh
07 June 2012
Review of Following our Fathers (don't forget Father's Day coming, June 17th!)
01 June 2012
The Written World - report back
14 May 2012
latest 'best foot book' published
10 February 2012
Winter Words at Pitlochry
04 February 2012
The Three Knots on Radio 4 Extra
29 December 2011
The Lamp - Radio 4 Afternoon Play
07 December 2011
26 Treasures opens
03 December 2011
New story on 'Throw Away Lines'
22 November 2011
Dundee Literary Festival
28 October 2011
workshop and reading in Biggar
18 October 2011
Creative writing workshops in Perthshire's Big Tree Country
01 October 2011
Abridgement of Kestrel for a Knave on Radio Four Extra
29 August 2011
'The Match' named in The Guardian's top ten football fictions
18 August 2011
Community Land
01 August 2011
new short story on radio four
09 June 2011
'The Heart in our Soles' published online
28 May 2011


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