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,...
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 master of the...
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...
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...
Waheed Arian Dr Waheed Arian is an NHS doctor and global health consultant. He speaks on overcoming adversity, PTSD and mental health issues, leadership, innovation and addressing organisational and systemic inequalities, as well as sharing his extraordinary story....
