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This book of avian haiku flies on its inspiration from birds. Blue tits, robins and owls are familiar sights closer to home, whereas parrots and flamingos hail from further afield. All have their distinctive beauty, behaviour and habitats. The title comes from a track by The Peatbog Faeries, concerning a mysterious parrot who might just know the route to the lost city of Atlantis.

This book of avian haiku flies on its inspiration from birds. Blue tits, robins and owls are familiar sights closer to home, whereas parrots and flamingos hail from further afield. All have their distinctive beauty, behaviour and habitats. The title comes from a track by The Peatbog Faeries, concerning a mysterious parrot who might just know the route to the lost city of Atlantis.

This haiku collection was written in 2016, recalling a week's visit in September 1997 to an aunt and uncle's house in Whittlebury, Northamptonshire, after meeting with health problems while at Stirling University, and leaving the previous December. The writer regards the restful and stimulating time he had at Wellstood House as part of his 'rest cure', and went on to study successfully with The Open University. The front cover shows a street i...

These poems are the result of a protracted bereavement, the more so as the writer's Aunt Elizabeth developed early-onset Alzheimer's and gradually lost her faculties in a manner very painful to her and her relatives. Now that she has passed away, these are written to comfort particularly the writer's mother and Uncle Cameron, her remaining siblings, and to encourage them in the hope of heaven. It is also hoped they may help others who have los...

Love Among the Ruins is a book of haiku celebrating the coming of spring. It does so among the setting of four castles on the Isle of Mull, off the western coast of Scotland. It starts amid the wintry desolate ruins of the thirteenth-century Aros Castle, moving to the empty shell of the unsafe tower-house, Moy Castle, built around 1450. It then focuses on the more modern Glengorm Castle, built where the township of Sorn once stood in 1860, and...

In 1688, King James VII of Scotland and II of England was ousted in the so-called 'Glorious Revolution'. Yet in parts of the Scottish Highlands, there was a lingering loyalty to him and his line. This is a ground-breaking study in the involvement of the northern Highlands of Scotland (here defined as Sutherland, Caithness, Ross-shire and Inverness, though not Inverness-shire) in the major Jacobite rebellions of 1715 and 1745. It examines aspec...

In 1688, King James VII of Scotland and II of England was ousted in the so-called 'Glorious Revolution'. Yet in parts of the Scottish Highlands, there was a lingering loyalty to him and his line. This is a ground-breaking study in the involvement of the northern Highlands of Scotland (here defined as Sutherland, Caithness, Ross-shire and Inverness, though not Inverness-shire) in the major Jacobite rebellions of 1715 and 1745. It examines aspec...

Love Among the Ruins is a book of haiku celebrating the coming of spring. It does so among the setting of four castles on the Isle of Mull, off the western coast of Scotland. It starts amid the wintry desolate ruins of the thirteenth-century Aros Castle, moving to the empty shell of the unsafe tower-house, Moy Castle, built around 1450. It then focuses on the more modern Glengorm Castle, built where the township of Sorn once stood in 1860, and...

In 1688, King James VII of Scotland and II of England was ousted in the so-called 'Glorious Revolution'. Yet in parts of the Scottish Highlands, there was a lingering loyalty to him and his line. This is a ground-breaking study in the involvement of the northern Highlands of Scotland (here defined as Sutherland, Caithness, Ross-shire and Inverness, though not Inverness-shire) in the major Jacobite rebellions of 1715 and 1745. It examines aspec...

This is a collection of haiku in praise of a bumblebee species native to Scotland, bombus lapidaries, so it seemed apt to render it in Scots. The poems alternate between Scots and English, the latter roughly translations of the former, following the four seasons.

The author of this novel lived in Aberdeen for 20 years, and it is very much a celebration of the city, especially places in the centre he knew well. Focusing on the lives and loves of four students over one year, it follows the changing seasons (wet to wetter)of the Granite City. The cover shows Marischal College, part of Aberdeen University, adjoining Upperkirkgate.

The year is 1903. The pioneering expedition led by Commander Robert Falcon Scott, captaining the Discovery to the South Pole, is already well-documented. For the first time, this narrative also reveals that for two men aboard the ship, Dr Edward Wilson and Louis Bernacchi, it becomes a voyage of self-discovery in their encounters with aliens and possible futures.

These poems were written between 1997 and 2003. They evoke a strong sense of Scottish history, on the land and at sea, in places ranging from Aberdeen to Cromarty (the main setting, especially for local stories such as Captain Reid's mermaid and the Sutors) and further north into the Highlands. Although there is a heavy sense of decay, in buildings, machines and people, this is due to the passing of time. Only the landscape remains pure and un...

These poems were written in 1998 due to a bereavement. My Uncle Fraser, an unusual, talented and remarkable man by any standards, passed away from cancer. These poems were written in the sure and certain hope of meeting with him again in heaven, and also celebrating the Highlands that we shared and loved.

These short stories powerfully evoke Scottish landscape, history and architecture. With a keen sense of the past impacting on the present, they are gripping and often moving. The author was a winner of the WH Smith Young Writers' competition in 1991, judged by then Poet Laureate Ted Hughes, and has wanted to publish a book of his own short stories ever since. Some of these stories have been previously published on www.cazart.co.uk. 'The News F...

These poems build on the first volume of the same name in looking at local history over the centuries. This one evokes the Pictish (Iron Age and Early Medieval) culture, left behind in many richly carved stones up and down the east of Scotland. Some of these still stand in their original locations, some have been taken into the care of museums, such as Groam House in Rosemarkie in the Black Isle, where the author used to volunteer. The Rosemar...

These short stories powerfully evoke Scottish landscape, history and architecture. With a keen sense of the past impacting on the present, they are gripping and often moving. The author was a winner of the WH Smith Young Writers' competition in 1991, judged by then Poet Laureate Ted Hughes, and has wanted to publish a book of his own short stories ever since. Some of these stories have been previously published on www.cazart.co.uk. 'The News F...

These poems build on the first volume of the same name in looking at local history over the centuries. This one evokes the Pictish (Iron Age and Early Medieval) culture, left behind in many richly carved stones up and down the east of Scotland. Some of these still stand in their original locations, some have been taken into the care of museums, such as Groam House in Rosemarkie in the Black Isle, where the author used to volunteer. The Rosemar...

These poems were written in 1998 due to a bereavement. My Uncle Fraser, an unusual, talented and remarkable man by any standards, passed away from cancer. These poems were written in the sure and certain hope of meeting with him again in heaven, and also celebrating the Highlands that we shared and loved.

These poems were written between 1997 and 2003. They evoke a strong sense of Scottish history, on the land and at sea, in places ranging from Aberdeen to Cromarty (the main setting, especially for local stories such as Captain Reid's mermaid and the Sutors) and further north into the Highlands. Although there is a heavy sense of decay, in buildings, machines and people, this is due to the passing of time. Only the landscape remains pure and un...