The ice has finally melted from Barnhill, the ground is warming up, and the hill seems to be waking up for Spring. The first daffodils ar...

This blog was plagued by these signs for a while: For various reasons, most of the photos in 2013-14 were hosted there, but displayed h...

Stuart Maconie's books are always lively, fun, informative and entertaining. He's previously written about the North , the South ...

I first saw the name, "Primo Levi", in Berlin, in December 2003. The "Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe" in the...

This book is an absolute delight. Quirky, unusual and written with a wry, witty ease of touch, the text is accompanied by lovely photos. ...

Clahnaben from the Fettercairn to Banchory Road.

I've seen a few films recently, most of which were okay, some of which were overrated, none of which I thought were worthy of a revie...

When Oxford University Press sent me a review copy of Greg Garrett's book, Living With The Living Dead , which claims amongst other ...

Ben Gulabin is a great little hill, a charming Perthshire Corbett. It does look enormous and rather daunting when it fills the horizon for...

I first stumbled across the delightful poetry of Norman MacCaig via Andrew Greig's wonderful book, "At The Loch of The Green Cor...

What could be a better way to start off a new year's reading than with an epic history from the pen of William Dalrymple? As with his...

Bryan Burrough's "Days of Rage" tells the stories of the radical terrorist groups which emerged from the tumult of the 1960...