Call of the Undertow is back in print! You may recall that it disappeared with the liquidation of Freight Books this time last year. I have now reissued it as a special edition hardback -- it even has its own silk marker ribbon -- with a lovely dustjacket designed by Andrew Forteath. It won’t be possible to distribute it through bookshops but I will have it available for events etc and it can be purchased through my website here. The price is £12.99 and £15 to include postage and packing. A perfect Christmas present? Read a review in The Independent here. 

Creative Writing Workshops 2019
 
Stories from The Sands STOP PRESS: there is 20% discount on the cost of this travel and writing adventure to the Moroccan Sahara from February 15th-24th 2019, IF you book by the end of November 2018. Please see here for details and contact Karen Hadfield directly on hadfieldk@gmail.com (or contact me with any queries about the workshop/writing content). it's a very good price already, but even better with the discount! I always find the desert has a powerful influence on my own writing and highly recommend the beautiful setting of Cafe Tissardmine and its sumptuous food.

Other workshops I will be teaching during 2019 include: 

Words in The Landscape, a weekend workshop at the Scottish Sculpture Workshop in the Cairngorms, March 22nd-24th, for women participants to generate words from the experience of landscape, movement and nature. Part of the year-long Into the Mountain project inspired by Nan Shepherd - details will appear on their website shortly.

In July I return to the wonderful setting of the Garsdale Retreat in the Dales for a fiction-writing residential course 22nd-27th July, with Carol Farrelly as the visiting writer halfway through the week.

And in September (9th-14th) I'm delighted to be back in the Highlands at Moniack Mhor teaching with Rob Cowen, and with Tim Dee as the visiting writer. We will be taking excursions into the local environment for our stimulus and exploring the area and our responses to it in words. More information here.

Who goes there? Mapping ‘Extreem Wildernes’
I am map mad, and when I read that Ordnance Survey map 440 is the least purchased in Britain and represents the least visited area, at least by walkers, I had to go there. You'll find my piece for Walkhighlands here about a trip to inland Sutherland in late October and about the whole fascination of maps and remote places.
 
Happy reading and writing!
Linda