Since November of last year, Scottish musician and artist, Jenny Sturgeon, has been in conversation with artists, writers and ecologists about Nan Shepherd’s The Living Mountain.
The result is The Living Mountain Conversations, a series of … Read the rest
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.
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Nan Shepherd was one of Scotland’s best known poets and writers, but her masterpiece The Living Mountain languished unpublished in a drawer and she died before it
Review: Into The Mountain: A Life Of Nan Shepherd, by Charlotte Peacock STUART KELLY Published: 12:19 Thursday 26 October 2017
The image of Nan Shepherd which now graces a £5 bank note is a curious one. She … Read the rest
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 … Read the rest
Review by Ian MacLeod for Waterstones, Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow
Into the Mountain: A Life of Nan Shepherd by Charlotte Peacock
Robert Burns is on our Sterling £10 note, Jane Austen on the old lady of Threadneedle … Read the rest
‘…juniper is secretive with its scent. it has an odd habit of dying in patches, and when a dead branch is snapped, a spicy odour comes from it. I have carried a piece of juniper wood for months, breaking … Read the rest
