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Friday essay: I thought a 5-day solo hike would reclaim a lost self. My menopausal body had other plans

I’ve been on the trail for three hours, the first time I fall.

The Conversation · Feb 26

Country diary: Green shoots in the ancient forest

Glen Einich, Cairngorms: A wintry walk in the Rothiemurchus woodland is always glorious. To see some of its barer expanses starting to recover tops it off

The Guardian - UK · Dec 5, 2025

Nan Shepherd: Naked and Unashamed review – the poetry, prose and passion of a Scottish modernist

Richard Baron and Ellie Zeegen’s play follows the writer from wide-eyed child discovering nature in rural Scotland to feisty care-home resident

The Guardian - UK · Jun 6, 2025

Podcasts go behind the bank note to tell Nan Shepherd’s story

IN 2016, the writer Nan Shepherd made history by becoming the first woman to feature on a Scottish bank note.

The National (Scotland) · Oct 16, 2022

Top 10 nature memoirs

Moving on from writing that holds the natural world at arm’s length, authors have begun using intimate life to show nature as a protagonist in itself

The Guardian - UK · Sep 28, 2022

Landscape artist unearths Scottish Gaelic gem unheard for decades

WHEN Scottish landscape artist Rose Strang began searching for music to inspire her paintings of Ardnamurchan, she didn’t expect to discover a…

The National (Scotland) · Jun 12, 2022

Alan Riach interviews Gerda Stevenson on the art of writing

WITH her collection of biographical poems Quines: Poems in Tribute to Women of Scotland, and her book of short stories Letting Go, Gerda Stevenson…

The National (Scotland) · May 16, 2022