by jba-associates-web | Mar 3, 2023
Polly Clark Polly Clark is the author of three novels and four collections of poetry. She won an Eric Gregory Award for her first poetry collection, Kiss (Bloodaxe, 2000) and her second Take Me With You (Bloodaxe, 2005) was shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize. Her...
by jba-associates-web | Mar 2, 2023
Shaun Bythell Shaun runs Wigtown’s The Bookshop, the largest second-hand bookshop in Scotland set in its only officially designated ‘National Book Town’. When not working amongst The Bookshop’s mile of shelving, Shaun’s hobbies include eavesdropping on customers,...
by jba-associates-web | Mar 2, 2023
The estate of George Mackay Brown George Mackay Brown (1921 – 1996) was one of the greatest Scottish writers of the twentieth century. A prolific poet, admired by such fellow poets as Ted Hughes and Seamus Heaney, he was also an accomplished novelist, dramatist and a...
by jba-associates-web | Mar 2, 2023
Helen Bellany Helen Bellany was the partner and muse of the critically acclaimed artist John Bellany, and is an artist herself. They were married twice and had three children together. Helen spent her early life in the far North of Scotland, and attended art school in...
by jba-associates-web | Mar 2, 2023
Ghillie Basan Ghillie Basan is a writer, broadcaster and food anthropologist who lives in a remote part of the Cairngorms National Park where she runs a Culinary Experience business, Spirit & Spice, hosting groups from all over the world to pair wild food and...
