Talking Nan Shepherd: A blether about book festivals
Nan Shepherd is under discussion at Book Festivals in Hexham and Aberdeen in 2018
Nan Shepherd: on the radio
Woman’s Hour Thursday 14 December Poet and writer Nan Shepherd: In the 1930’s Nan Shepherd was one of Scotland’s best known poets and writers, but her masterpiece The Living Mountain languished unpublished in a drawer and she died before it became successful. Jenni speaks to Charlotte Peacock who has written her biography about how the …
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Baltic night Charlotte Peacock talks on Nan Shepherd
The night of Charlotte Peacock‘s talk on Nan Shepherd was indeed ‘baltic’, as Bookmark owner Margery Marshall said. Despite that, well over a hundred people turned out to the event in Grantown on Spey. Writer and photographer Chris Townsend has written a post on his blog about the evening organised by The Bookmark which was the highlight …
Tune in
Tune in your digital radio to BBC Radio Scotland on Monday at 3.25 pm. Charlotte Peacock will be live on the Janice Forsyth show talking about Into the Mountain and reading an extract from the book. The programme will be available shortly after broadcast http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09dh9jy
Behind the hill is sorcery: belated insight into Nan Shepherd
Review: Into The Mountain: A Life Of Nan Shepherd, by Charlotte Peacock STUART KELLY Published: 12:19 Thursday 26 October 2017 The Scotsman The image of Nan Shepherd which now graces a £5 bank note is a curious one. She looks as if she is in fancy-dress as a Native American, or a flapper more concerned …
On air
Live from Aberdeen studios on Monday Nov 6th 3-4pm, Charlotte Peacock will be interviewed on the Janice Forsyth show, BBC Radio Scotland. Tune in or catch up.
Hark, The Herald
Arts news: Nan Shepherd biography Into the Mountain: A Life of Nan Shepherd by Charlotte Peacock, the first biography of the writer, is to be published on October 26. In the 1930s Nan Shepherd was one of Scotland’s best-known writers, and is now featured on the £5 note. Three novels, The Quarry Wood, The …
Nan Shepherd on the house ‘up by’
In 1962, Nan Shepherd wrote a piece on the Downies of Braemar for The Deeside Field (now reprinted in Wild Geese). In it, she says: ‘We never climbed Morrone but we stopped to look at its ancient knobble of glass in one of the windows, to speak to the old people and perhaps be allowed …
‘More than a face on a five pound note…’
Into the Mountain: A Life of Nan Shepherd in St Andrews Thursday 9th November Described by Robert MacFarlane as “rich, wise, subtle, and valuable”, Into the Mountain is the first biography of Nan Shepherd. Nan’s reputation as a dazzling and first-rate Scottish writer has been growing over recent years and, with the …
