literature – Lightly Peated

Monday, June 1, 2026

Lightly Peated

Whisky, Blabber 'n' Smoke

History Literature

David June 2, 2020 0 Comments Badbea, Butchers Broom, fishing industry, herrings, Highland Clearance, Highlands, literature, Neil M Gunn, Sun Circle, The Silver Darlings

Novels of Neil Gunn – Pt. 6

The History Novels The Remote Past, The Clearance, The Sea Neil Gunn never liked history when he was at school,

David May 29, 2020 0 Comments colonialism, Highlands, literature, Neil M Gunn

Novels of Neil Gunn – Pt. 5

Gunn’s Early Novels The Plight of the Highlands Sometimes an author’s troubled child reveal more about them than their successes.

David May 16, 2020 0 Comments childhood, Dunbeath, golden age, Highland River, Highlands, literature, Morning Tide, Neil M Gunn, Novels, Scottish Literary Renaissance

Novels of Neil Gunn – Pt. 3

The Wisdom of Childhood Gunn as a Young Boy I am on holiday in Lanzarote in an apartment overlooking a

David May 13, 2020May 30, 2020 0 Comments Bloodhunt, literature, neil Gunn, Novels, The Serpent, The Silver Darlings, Young Art and Old Hector

Novels of Neil Gunn – Pt. 1

A brief introduction to the series I have written few pieces about the novels of Neil Gunn even though they

David September 12, 2019 0 Comments biography, Glen Mhor, Highlands, Inverness, literature, Neil M Gunn, SNP, Tormore

The Making of Tormore – Neil Gunn

Neil Gunn was a novelist. His life’s work was fiction but he was an understandable, coherent individual, reserved yet sociable,

Blabber Distillery Visits

David September 14, 2016 0 Comments Glenmorangie, Humpty Dumpty, literature, PR, Scott Memorial, words, writing

Empty Words

I am well disposed to Glenmorangie (i.e. I think it’s a high quality whisky), the reception room with its displays