Classic Scottish Memoirs & Autobiographies

Title Deeds: A Work of Fiction

Liza Campbell

Liza Campbell was the last child to be born at Cawdor Castle, the family seat of the Campbells, as featured in "Macbeth". Her father Hugh, the twenty-fifth Thane, inherited good looks, brains, wealth, an ancient title, three stately homes and 100,000 acres of land. "Title Deeds" tells the story of Liza's idyllic childhood with her four siblings in Wales in the 1960s, until Hugh inherited Cawdor and moved the family up to the Scottish Highlands.

Baghdad's Spy: A Personal Memoir Of Espionage And Intrigue From Iraq To London

Corinne Souza

This is the story of Britain's Secret Intelligence Services (SIS) - often referred to as MI6 - as told from the perspective of a senior SIS spy's daughter. Souza describes espionage as a way of life.

From The Alleghenies To The Hebrides: An Autobiography

Margaret Fay Shaw

Margaret Fay Shaw's life spans a century of change. In her early teens she was dispatched from the idyllic surroundings of the Alleghenies to stay with a distant cousin near Glasgow. It was here that her love of Scotland was born. After studying music at New York and Paris, she returned to live for six years with two sisters in a cottage on South Uist. Her autobiography is a plea in defence of a Gaelic culture and world that is disappearing.

A Lie About My Father

John Burnside

John Burnside's unflinching honesty, profound thinking and heart-stopping images of beauty and fracture combine to create a moving, unforgettable memoir of two lost men: a father and his child.

Forever Francie: My Life With Jack Milroy

Mary Lee

A funny memoir of Jack Milroy, one of Scotland's best-loved showbiz legends, by Mary Lee, his partner for 50 years. Lee tells the story of their lives, the highs, the lows, the triumphs and the tragedies but most important of all, the humour.

Ghosting: A Double Life

Jennie Erdal

Ghosting is a remarkable account of one woman's life - or, to be more accurate, lives. For fifteen years, Jennie Erdal had a double existence: officially she worked as a personal editor for one particular man - Tiger - but in reality she was his ghost-writer and in some mysterious sense his alter ego. During this time she wrote a great deal that appeared under his name - from personal letters and business correspondence to newspaper columns, novels and full length books.

Past Forgetting: A Memoir of Heroes, Adventure, Love and Life With Fitzroy Maclean

Veronica, Lady Maclean

Descendant of the Fraser family and wife of a diplomat, Veronica Maclean tells the story of her life played out against the dramatic social, political and diplomatic history of the 20th century.

Night Song of the Last Tram: A Glasgow Childhood

Robert Douglas

Night Song of the Last Tram is a superb evocation of childhood and of a Glasgow of trams and tenements that has long since disappeared.

The Yellow on The Broom: The Early Years of a Traveller Woman

Betsy Whyte

Comprising the memoirs of a Scottish traveller woman, this book, first published in 1979, was one of the first to open up the experiences and storys of Scotland's Travelling people to the wider public.

Jessie's Journey: Autobiography of a Traveller Girl

Jess Smith

The first in a trilogy of biographical books by Traveller and storyteller Jess Smith.