Great news from Two Ravens Press that A Wilder Vein is meeting with enthusiasm from book-buyers in its first month on the shelves. A few good/interesting reviews and coverage through its contributing writers appearing on Radio Four's Excess Baggage, Sara Maitland's piece in the Observer last Sunday, and the Guardian Travel section this coming Saturday, are helping to spread news of the title. But hopefully it's also a 'word-of-mouth' phenomenon, always the most reliable and sustained method.
Thursday, November 26, 2009
Wednesday, November 04, 2009
'A Wilder Vein' is launched
I'm now looking forward to the feature on BBC Radio 4's Excess Baggage this Saturday at 10am when John McCarthy will be in conversation with contributors Andrew Greig and Sara Maitland. Local media are also making something of it here and there's a lovely review from Cameron McNeish here which also appears in TGO magazine.
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Making a new radio play
'The Three Knots' is the realisation of an idea seeded at least three years ago when, while looking through back copies of the Scots magazine in the National Library of Scotland for something else, I stumbled upon an engraving of a remarkable vessel arriving on Loch Sunart in the West Highlands in 1846. It remained anchored there for ten years, and played a highly significant role in the spiritual and political life of the local community. I was intrigued. I have written about how it captivated me before, here. I walked the hills there, and started to inhabit the place with my imagined characters, until they grew, gathered to themselves relationships, conflicts, mythical associations, and so shaped a story.
Hear it as an afternoon play on Radio Four at 2.15 on December 22nd.
Monday, October 12, 2009
The Searching Glance comes out in paperback

Delighted that my short story collection, The Searching Glance is issued in a new paperback edition from Salt Publishing on 15th November, and available immediately direct from their website, at the great price of £7.99.
Labels:
Salt Publishing,
short story,
The Searching Glance
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Reading by local authors at the Drovers' Tryst Walking Festival, Crieff, October 10th

I'm also running a 'walking and writing' workshop earlier that day in the beautiful setting of Innerpeffray Library.
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Fellow of Winnie-the-Pooh
Labels:
A A Milne,
Royal Literary Fund,
Stirling University
Sunday, August 16, 2009
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