Summer in Norway
Our trip to beautiful Norway inspired my latest novel (work in progress). Here’s a film clip of the gorgeous sights.
The Outlander Effect
The thing about the Outlander phenomenon that I think needs to be acknowledged is that it is not really new, and that it is essentially conservative and of course, reductive. The first popular romanticising of the Scottish Highlands in novels can be attributed to Walter Scott.
Searching for The False Men
I was excited to stand in that mysterious place which inspired the title of my novel. It is the English translation of their ancient Gaelic name: Na Fir Bhreige.
Writing the Highland Clearances
On the north-west coast of Scotland lie the ruins of a croft-house that belonged to my ancestors. You will find them in a village of other abandoned houses, their tumbled-down stones reused for field walls by incomers.
Letter from the Outer Hebrides
We followed all the MacLeods of the world into the stomach of the ferry.