Why?
Someone asked what do I want to achieve with my writing, do I want to change the world? Not really, I want to take it on holiday.
Someone asked what do I want to achieve with my writing, do I want to change the world? Not really, I want to take it on holiday.
– Because I write about Scotland, I’ve been accused of being a Scottish Nationalist but I write about what I know and I’ve been through all of the drove road country, so I wrote Drover. […]
McPherson, Moidart, Australia, Drover – How Mary McPherson got to Australia was a story in itself. Her husband was a ship’s captain but there were few jobs in the depression and he was working as […]
Australia, McPherson, drovers – People think of theold drovers as living in general poverty but that wasn’t the case. Old McPherson, the drover I mentioned, could take a good dram when he was droving. Who […]
Moidart, Australia and drover McPherson. My wife had an adopted aunt called Mary, whose father had been a drover. I heard of Mary as Mary McPherson but women had a habit of calling their friends […]
I’ve been researching to do a follow up novel on Drover. It’s set in Scotland after Waterloo with all the unsettled returning soldiers and the early mechanisation of the cotton industry. At school we were […]
Pot Holes, Burns and Bible Study – I found the following, written in the late 18th century, while researching for Burns’ night and thought it still applicable. “I’ve arrived – thanks to the gods, Through […]
As you will have gathered from the books I write, I have an interest in history. It comes from my father and one teacher. Other teachers taught that the Romans left Britain in 410, about […]
The Caledonian Canal While we were in Aberdeen, the Stonehaven Yacht Club organised the a trip down the Caledonian Canal in the Sail Training yacht Winston Churchill. I was sea sick for a day and […]
About writing Drover Ever since I read Kidnapped, I’d always wanted to write a story set among the glens and bens of the Scottish Highlands but the trigger came from a most unlikely source – […]