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
- Fiction from the Highlands
- History books from the Highlands
- Travel guides and writing from the Highlands
- Biography & Autobiography from the Highlands
- Highland Music, Folklore and Sport
- The Loch Ness Monster
Books set in or from Skye and Raasay
Highland writers
- David Alston
- Sharon Blackie
- Tom Bryan
- Edmund Burt
- Donald Campbell
- Helen Campbell
- Robert Davidson
- John Henry Dixon
- Jane Duncan
- Angela J Elliott
- Michel Faber
- Moira Forsyth
- Clio Gray
- Elizabeth Grant
- George Gunn
- Neil M Gunn
- Henry Henderson
- John Horne
- James Hunter
- Barry Hutchison
- Maggie Kingsley
- Norman MacCaig
- Ian McDonough
- Bridget Mackenzie
- Fiona Mackenzie
- Osgood Mackenzie
- Elizabeth Mackintosh aka Josephine Tey
- Sorley Maclean
- Shona MacLean
- Anne MacLeod
- James MacPherson
- Angus Martin
- Gavin Maxwell
- Hugh Miller
- James Miller
- Erica Munro
- Louis-Albert Necker
- Norman Newton
- Màiri Mhòr nan Òran
- I J Parnham
- Anne Perry
- Gillian Philip
- Mary Rhind
- Bess Ross
- Sir John Sinclair
- Ali Smith
- Katharine Stewart
- Elizabeth Sutherland
Skye and Raasay writers
- Meg Bateman
- Lillian Beckwith
- Myles Campbell
- Margaret Bennett
- Rody Gorman
- Roger Hutchinson
- Rob Kerr (Rob MacIlleChiar)
- Sorley Maclean
- Aonghas 'Dubh' MacNeacail
- Rhona Rauszer
- Alastair Scott
Internet Links
- Highland 2007
- Skye and Lochalsh tourism
- Visit Highlands.com
- Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, Gaelic College
- Am Baile - Highland History and Culture







