Our wildlife writer heads for the TV screen

Scottish Field’s wildlife writer Cal Flynn takes to the small screen this week on the Big Scottish Book Club. Host Damian Barr goes travelling this week with his guests at Troon Concert Hall. One of the guests is our very own Cal, who writes our wildlife features each month, as she introduces us to some…

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A detailed look about women in war and science

Many extraordinary female scientists, doctors, and engineers tasted independence and responsibility for the first time during the First World War. How did this happen? Patricia Fara reveals how suffragists, such as Virginia Woolf’s sister, Ray Strachey, had already aligned themselves with scientific and technological progress, and that during the dark years of war they mobilized…

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Beneath the ocean waves – excitement and danger

Into the Abyss, the first volume in The Diving Trilogy, is a fascinating collection of true life diving adventures from author Rod MacDonald’s long diving career. We learn how his love of hitting the depths began, and we follow his progression from novice diver in the 1980s through the dangers of the deep air diving…

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A life-long love of music in a charming autobiography

Scots and music are a combination that’s as old as the hills. Whether singers and groups in the charts today, heading back to the eighties with Simple Minds, the sixties with Lulu, and before that with traditional verse, there is definitely something in our water that makes us musical. The GG and Me is the…

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Stepping back in time to the groovy sixties

There’s something rather appealing about the sixties, especially to those who weren’t there. It’s an era which marked an explosion of colour, fashion, music, television, new attitudes and revolution, which were a radical departure from the monotonous austerity of Post-War Britain. Beatniks and Beehive is the follow-up to Bob Dewar’s best-selling Soor Plooms and Sair…

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Amusing tales from pensioners on the buses

When one hits a more mature number of years, one of the benefits that arises is the free bus pass. Bus Pass Barbara and Bus Pass Molly are a pair of friends who first met in Glasgow’s Buchanan Bus Station, and ever since then, they have been using the (to give it its official title)…

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Dog gone it – a fascinating look at our canine friends

At Scottish Field, we love dogs. All sizes, all breeds – we adore our four-legged friends. And we’re not the only ones – Of Dogs and Men is a collection of lovely anecdotes and mythological stories about our canine companions, which maps the evolution and bond between man and dog. Part autobiography and part history,…

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Chronicle of 175 years of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland

A show-stopping, page-turning new book turns the spotlight on the fascinating history of a world-renowned performing arts school and a jewel in Scotland’s cultural crown. Royal Conservatoire of Scotland: Raising the Curtain, which hits bookshelves on December 7 and is published by Luath Press, showcases 175 years of magic and memories at the nation’s conservatoire.…

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Miriam Margolyes shares her Scottish roots

TV chatshow favourite Miriam Margolyes delves into her Scots family background this weekend. She joins The Big Scottish Book Club to recount the story of how her family moved to Scotland in the late 19th century, and settled in Glasgow. National treasure Miriam looks back on her extraordinary life and working with everyone from Scorsese…

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Space – bringing the final frontier down to Earth

Space – the final frontier, according to the boss of a fictional Scottish starship engineer. Oor Big Braw Cosmos is exactly the kind of book that Montgomery Scott would want to read, combining elements of cosmic science with the Scots language. This book is fascinating collaboration between eminent Scots astronomer John C. Brown and renowned…

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