For those who follow me on that page of faces thing, for the past ten days I’ve been challenged to post images from ten films I love but with no […]
Scottish legends have travelled the globe and sparked the imagination of artists for centuries. One particularly grisly tale has helped spawn a notorious shocker and is now at the heart […]
Castle Stalker is another in our series of Most Photographed Castles in Scotland. When I made my original tour for the book, the rain lashed at me like a dominatrix […]
My Scotland is one of dark deeds and dark tales. Stories of ghosts and demons, of battles and massacres, of murder and mayhem. And cheap laughs, always cheap laughs. Here I travel to the borders – the debatable lands which for centuries were the killing fields for warring nations and noble families – to visit what is for me the most sinister castle I’ve ever seen.
We’ve just had St Andrew’s Day, the feast day of Scotland’s Patron Saint (it was November 30, in case you didn;t know). Have you ever wondered why Scotland adopted the Saltire as its national flag? Well, there are two competing stories.
To explain what I’ll be doing every now and again regarding the extracts from DEVIL’S GALLOP, here is the original introduction to the book. THE woman in the tourist information […]
As part of my very occasional wander down the byways of Scotland’s dark history – based on my book Devil’s Gallop – I thought I’d share some stories about one […]
The crime writing improvisational comedy show plays Spain and Glasgow Comedy Festival. A quartet of Scottish crime writers are set to swap murder for mirth at the Glasgow International Comedy […]
With the most recent adaptation of DRACULA garnering raves, I thought I’d share something I wrote many years ago about Cruden Bay, a town on the north east coast of […]
So. That’s been a year. Professionally, 2019 was pretty good. I’m not one for being profligate with superlatives (the word ‘good’ seems to cover pretty much everything) so take it […]