Category Archives: Scotland

May 8, 2025 · 10:09 am

Introducing Friend and Fellow Author Hamish Brown

Hamish Brown

Author Hamish Brown joined Eventispress for possibly his last book, at nearly 90 years of age. Having no access to the internet, a PC or a mobile phone, he was at a loss as to what to do with his completed manuscript when Sandstone Press closed as a publishing company last year ( they sell their back copies through other platforms now) Eventispress stepped in and offered to publish his new book and it is now for sale in all the Waterstones in Scotland.

Hamish Brown’s achievements and some interesting facts about him:

  • Hamish has published over 40 books (including updating his popular Fife Coastal Path by Birlinn)
  • Hamish has climbed all the Munros in the UK (the first one to climb them all in one go, only using public transport or foot between them.)
  • Hamish has led expeditions in Morocco
  • Hamish was born in Ceylon (Sri Lanka)
  • Hamish has spent most of his life living in Fife.
  • Hamish must have planted thousands of snowdrops over a period of over 40 years!

I think he is an amazing man and I am grateful to be his friend.

Here’s his latest book:

Available in Waterstones Scotland

I will be posting some Adventures with Hamish in the summer.

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April 24, 2025 · 10:50 am

Fort George ~ Inverness

It was poignant to visit the area where John Taylor, my step Great Grandfather was born, brought up and subsequently joined the army. We arrived at Fort George, near Inverness, which is on a peninsula jutting out into the Moray Firth, Scotland, opposite Rosemarkie on the Black Isle.

Fort George is apparently the strongest fortified fort in the British Isles.

It seemed so familiar to me, but that is hardly surprising since it reminded me of the many forts around Portsmouth and Gosport, near where my parents lived and grew up.

It was a perfect blue sky day. Since there were still army personnel about, it was not hard to imagine John staying in barracks there.

If you’d like to read his story of how he came to live and work on the island of Alderney, Channel Islands in later life, my parents wrote a novella set in the mid 19th century which describes in fiction, life in those days, both at Fort George, Scotland (and Guernsey too) and subsequently on Alderney.

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February 21, 2025 · 9:52 am

Exciting News ~ Released today on Kindle

The scene is set, for this mid 19th century novella, in North East Scotland in the small village of Dunphail. The story leads us to the Channel Island of Alderney, off the coast of Cherbourg.

This is my parents’ novella, edited by myself, released in memory of them both.

It is the prequel to Riduna and Ancasta.

Janus ~ Gateway to Heaven on Earth

is released on Kindle today ~ 21st February 2025

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