Literary landscapes is new on Am Baile – an interactive map featuring both past and present authors who have been inspired by the landscape of the Scottish Highlands and Islands. From Wick to Campbeltown and from South Uist to Kingussie, click on the map to discover more about writers associated with a particular location.

Each author’s entry has supporting visual and audio material including illustrations, photographs and audio recordings. A short biography is followed by a selected bibliography with links to the Highland Libraries online catalogue. The sound files include authors reading short passages from their own work while authors from the past are read by local schoolchildren or by other local people.

Literary Landscapes is an ongoing project and new authors will be added on a regular basis. If your favourite writer is missing from our initial selection, hopefully they will appear soon; if not, get in touch with your suggestions. We are including not only writers who live and work in the Highlands, but also visiting authors who may have been inspired by the landscape to produce evocative prose or poetry. If you are a writer who has been inspired by the Highlands and Islands and would like to appear in Literary Landscapes, please get in touch.