The Highlands of Scotland and Isle of Skye

The Scottish Highlands have spectacular mountains, majestic glens and numerous lochs - a true picture postcard landscape which forms a backdrop to picturesque villages, isolated crofts, and ruined castles. The hills and glens are home to a huge variety of wildlife.

The Highlands also provide the backdrop to the BBC series, Monarch of the Glen, based loosely on Compton Mackenzie's novel. The area in which the series is set is Badenoch and Strathspey. Also set in this region are the novels about everyone's favourite Highland policeman, Hamish McBeth.

There is a thriving writers' scene in the Highlands and a number of small book and magazine publishers.

Scotland's only Gaelic-language college, Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, is in Sleat on Skye.

Books set in or from the Highlands of Scotland

Books set in or from Skye and Raasay

Highland writers

Small map of authors from the Highlands
  • David Alston
  • Tom Bryan
  • Edmund Burt
  • Donald Campbell
  • Helen Campbell
  • Myles Campbell
  • John Henry Dixon
  • Jane Duncan
  • Angela J Elliott
  • Moira Forsyth
  • Clio Gray
  • Elizabeth Grant
  • George Gunn
  • Neil M Gunn
  • Henry Henderson
  • John Horne
  • James Hunter
  • Maggie Kingsley
  • Norman MacCaig
  • Bridget Mackenzie
  • Fiona Mackenzie
  • Osgood Mackenzie
  • Ian McDonough
  • Sorley Maclean
  • Anne MacLeod
  • James MacPherson
  • Angus Martin
  • Gavin Maxwell
  • Hugh Miller
  • James Miller
  • Louis-Albert Necker
  • Norman Newton
  • Màiri Mhòr nan Òran
  • Mary Rhind
  • Bess Ross
  • Sir John Sinclair
  • Ali Smith
  • Katherine Stewart
  • Elizabeth Sutherland

Skye and Raasay writers

Small map of authors from Skye and Raasay