Absolutely thrilled that ‘Into The Peatlands’ has been longlisted for the Highlands Book Prize!

http://www.highlandbookprize.org.uk

The environmental cost of peat cutting? What about the cultural cost of not? All these artefacts in National Museum Edinburgh preserved because of domestic peat cutting

Adabrock treasure, Isle of Lewis; Ballachulish Goddess, West Highlands; Blackburn Mill treasure, East Lothian.

Next Tuesday at 7.00 pm I’ll be at @falklandestate to talk about my book #IntoThePeatlands with the wonderful  @agentjenny of @JennyBrownBooks Warmed spiced apple juice from the Falkland orchard, books by @Wstones_Perth Join us! 

Delighted to find ’IntoThePeatlands’ in NHBS Christmas Catalogue. If you’ve never checked out their lovingly curated natural history titles I thoroughly recommend you do.

Clay tablets of cuneiform script from ancient Babylonian libraries or slabs of three thousand year old peat each have their strata of stories to tell us.

Join me on a journey #IntoThePeatlands @falklandestate Tuesday 13th November, 7:00pm. @BirlinnBooks

 

Supernatural moor

“ …Plenty herring, plenty meal,/Plenty peat to fill her creel…”

Moth.

Rannoch Brindled Beauty moth from #IntoThePeatlands @BirlinnBooks.