Wild Geese
Nan Shepherd is most famous for The Living Mountain. Published here together for the first time is a collection of her other writing.
Quiet influence: Nan Shepherd’s lonely uphill struggle
The great celebrator of the Cairngorms has long been overlooked. Charlotte Peacock finally redresses the balance. Fiona Sampson The Spectator View of the Cairngorms National Park in Scotland (image: iStock) The Spectator, 6 January 2018, 9:00 AM ‘It’s a grand thing to get leave to live’, perhaps the most famous line Nan Shepherd wrote, is carved …
Nan Shepherd on the tramp
Tomorrow at 3pm on BBC Radio 4’s Open Country, Helen Mark visits the Cairngorms in Scotland to find out why this landscape was an inspiration and a refuge for writer Nan Shepherd. Shepherd’s neglected book, The Living Mountain, has found new audiences with a resurgence in the popularity of nature writing in recent years and …
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Nan Shepherd was one of Scotland’s best known poets and writers, but her masterpiece The Living Mountain languished unpublished in a drawer and she died before it became successful.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 …
Hole Ousia
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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 …
