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.