Authors
Edinburgh International Book Festival Blog
Dawn Geddes was our reporter on the scene at the Edinburgh International Book Festival 2018 launch! Read her blog of the opening events here...
All People Posts
Interviews
A Wee Blether with Chris Forbes
Ahead of his Fringe show we caught up with comedian and Scots Squad star Chris Forbes on sports, nicknames, Gairloch and love songs...
Interviews
Rose Leslie – The Scottish Rose Comes Home
Aberdeen and back again… via Downton and Westeros Rose Leslie is coming home to Aberdeenshire this weekend for her wedding to her Game of Thrones costar Kit Harrington. On Saturday, June […]
People
Award Success For Contini Restaurant
Top Sustainable Business Award for The Scottish Cafe & Restaurant The Scottish Cafe & Restaurant at the Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh, has won the top Sustainable Business Award at […]
Mountains Of The Moon
Fifth-time Lucky
Alan Rowan’s unlucky streak of overcast moonwalks was about to end My faith has been restored – the Pink Moon delivered in abundance. I had chosen Beinn Eighe for […]
Authors
Jim Crumley
“The Scottish landscape is my bedrock. Almost everything I write begins with the landscape, and that becomes the stage set where the writer performs.” Introducing our Scottish wildlife expert, […]
Mountains Of The Moon
Bla Bheinn Under The Blue Moon
March 31 saw 2018’s second Blue Moon and a climb of the blue mountain for Alan Rowan, who was fairly blue with cold himself by the end of it! […]
People
Tom Weir | The First “My Month”
After writing occasional freelance features for The Scots Magazine for several years, Tom Weir was finally given his own column in April 1956 The “My Month” series lasted for over […]
Mountains Of The Moon
The Early Bird Doesn’t Always Catch The Worm
“The Beast from the East” somewhat impeded Alan Rowan’s hiking plans to catch the Worm Moon in his Mountains of the Moon challenge I HAD always feared the third full […]
Authors
Great Scottish Journeys Guide!
Twelve Routes to the Heart of Scotland Keith Fergus, with a little help from the team at The Scots Magazine, has turned his popular Great Scottish Journeys series into a […]
