simonvarwell.co.uk

Menu

Skip to content
  • Home
  • About
  • Books
    • Up The Creek Without a Mullet
    • The Return of the Mullet Hunter
    • The Next Stop
    • Island Hopping (forthcoming)
    • Books on the Horizon
  • Travel writing
    • Near
    • Far
    • Reviews and rants
  • Other writing
    • Scottish politics
    • General politics
    • Esperanto
    • Faith and society
    • Miscellany
  • Stuff
    • Mullet Search
    • Photography
    • Reading female travel writers
  • Events
  • Newsletter

Uncategorized

I’m slowly getting through all these miscellaneouses and recategorising them! What a fun job…

Sinclair Mausoleum

Sinclair Mausoleum

An exploration of the centuries-old Sinclair Mausoleum, near Ulbster in Caithness.

Thursday 13 July 2017 in Uncategorized.
Helmsdale

A brief stop in Helmsdale

A quick stop in Helmsdale, Sutherland, en route to the island of Stroma. A place well worthy of a return visit.

Monday 10 July 2017 in Uncategorized.
A Ride in the Neon Sun

Preview: A Ride in the Neon Sun, by Josie Dew

A preview of July’s Reading Female Travel Writers title, A Ride in the Neon Sun by Josie Dew.

Thursday 6 July 2017 in Uncategorized.
Fabled Shore cover

Review: Fabled Shore, by Rose Macaulay

My review of June’s title in my Reading Female Travel Writers series – Rose Macaulay’s beautiful if plodding Fabled Shore.

Tuesday 4 July 2017 in Uncategorized.
Fabled Shore cover

Preview: Fabled Shore, by Rose Macaulay

My preview of June’s Reading Female Travel Writers title, Fabled Shore by Rose Macaulay.

Wednesday 21 June 2017 in Uncategorized.
Among Muslims, by Kathleen Jamie

Review: Among Muslims, by Kathleen Jamie

My review of May’s title in my Reading Female Travel Writers series – Kathleen Jamie’s Among Muslims.

Friday 2 June 2017 in Uncategorized.
Among Muslims, by Kathleen Jamie

Preview: Among Muslims, by Kathleen Jamie

Next in my 2017 “Reading Female Travel Writers” quest is my preview of May’s title, Kathleen Jamie’s Among Muslims: Meetings at the Frontiers of Pakistan.

Sunday 7 May 2017 in Uncategorized.
Skating to Antarctica, by Jenny Diski

Review: Skating to Antarctica, by Jenny Diski

My review of April’s title in my Reading Female Travel Writers mission – Jenny Diski’s powerful and beautiful Skating to Antarctica.

Monday 1 May 2017 in Uncategorized.
Skating to Antarctica, by Jenny Diski

Preview: Skating to Antarctica, by Jenny Diski

A preview of April’s title in my Reading Female Travel Writers mission – Jenny Diski’s Skating to Antarctica.

Tuesday 11 April 2017 in Uncategorized.
Travels With My Radio

Review: Travels With My Radio, by Fi Glover

My review of March’s title in my Reading Female Travel Writers mission – Fi Glover’s fun and informative Travels With My Radio.

Thursday 30 March 2017 in Uncategorized.
Travels With My Radio

Preview: Travels With My Radio, by Fi Glover

A preview of March’s title in my Reading Female Travel Writers mission – Fi Glover’s Travels With My Radio.

Monday 6 March 2017 in Uncategorized.
Full Tilt, by Dervla Murphy

Review: Full Tilt, by Dervla Murphy

My second book review in my 2017 quest to read female-authored travel writing – Dervla Murphy’s Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle.

Saturday 4 March 2017 in Uncategorized.
Full Tilt, by Dervla Murphy

Preview: Full Tilt, by Dervla Murphy

My preview of February’s title for my Reading Female Travel Writers project: Dervla Murphy’s Full Tilt.

Friday 3 February 2017 in Uncategorized.
The Virago Book Of Women Travellers

Review: The Virago Book of Women Travellers

My review of the first book in my 2017 quest to read female-authored travel writing – the Virago Book of Women Travellers.

Monday 30 January 2017 in Uncategorized.
The Virago Book Of Women Travellers

Preview: The Virago Book Of Women Travellers

My preview of the first title in my “reading female travel writers” project: The Virago Book Of Women Travellers, edited by Mary Morris and Larry O’Connor.

Monday 2 January 2017 in Uncategorized.
Female travel writers

A new reading project for 2017

An introduction to my 2017 project of reading female travel writers.

Friday 30 December 2016 in Uncategorized.
Mary standing over Inverie bay

Plastic Mary and the Nazi sympathiser

An exploration of two of Knoydart’s constructed landmarks – a statue of Mary and a vanity construct by a Nazi sympathiser.

Wednesday 21 December 2016 in Uncategorized.
Airor

A cycle to Airor

A cycle from Inverie to Knoydart’s other main settlement of Airor.

Wednesday 21 December 2016 in Uncategorized.
Luinne Bheinn

Luinne Bheinn & Meall Bhuidhe

An account of a cracking day’s hillwalking in Knoydart that took in Luinne Bheinn and Meall Bhuidhe.

Wednesday 21 December 2016 in Uncategorized.
Inverie

Inverie city centre

An overview of Inverie, the bustling wee settlement at the heart of the Knoydart Estate, and – not that it feels like it – mainland Britain’s remotest village.

Wednesday 21 December 2016 in Uncategorized.

Post navigation

← Older posts
Newer posts →

simonvarwell.co.uk

Follow me on TwitterPut me in your circles on Google+Sign up to my newsletter and get a free book!My author page on amazon.co.ukMy RSS feedDrop me an email

Newsletter

Sign up for my occasional emails and get all my travel writing news first - plus you get a free ebook of Up The Creek Without a Mullet.


If you've landed directly on this page rather than via the front door, then welcome to my website.

Feel free to join in with your comments, and sign up (at the top of this sidebar) to get new posts direct to your email inbox or to subscribe to my occasional newsletter.

For more information about me, click here.

Find out more about my books here or at Amazon UK via the images below.

Looking for something?

Read my most recent posts

  • King Brude’s Treasure
  • Last Ones Left Alive, by Sarah Davis-Goff
  • What the Scottish Government should have been doing
  • All Strangers Are Kin, by Zora O’Neill
  • The war in Stroma
  • What the second Yes campaign should look like
  • We must revoke
  • Independence is boring
  • Money, money, money
  • Scexit’s not Brexit

Recent Comments

  • Simon Varwell on A year of Reading Female Travel Writers
  • Sean Bennett on A year of Reading Female Travel Writers
  • g m on What the Scottish Government should have been doing
  • g m on What the Scottish Government should have been doing
  • Simon Varwell on Bypassed
Proudly powered by WordPress | Theme: Expound by Konstantin Kovshenin