Douglas Stuart in conversation with Kevin MacNeil
29 May, An Lanntair, Stornoway – £12/£10
“JOHN OF JOHN is Douglas Stuart’s finest novel yet… he infuses his narrative with an authentic understanding of the essence of Hebridean identity… a contemporary masterpiece”
https://lanntair.com/events/event/douglas-stuart-john-of-john-book-tour/
#Scottish #literature #novel #DouglasStuart #LGBT #QueerLit #Hebrides
Schottland vor einem Jahr 💙
Scotland a year ago 🏴
#TravelThursday #Schottland #Scotland #Harris #Hebrides #Fotografie #photography
The beacons are lit! Merry & Pippin take a foodie road trip around Scotland
The friendship between Billy and Dom remains one of the coolest things. Even among the friendship the LOTR actors have, they seem to be even tighter with each other (as you can tell from their podcast The Friendship Onion).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Udq7FCjiWEo #Food #Hebrides #Scotlan
On this date in 1832, Felix Mendelssohn's Hebrides (Fingal's Cave) premièred. 10 things you might not know about it.
https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2026/05/14-may-hebrides-fingals-cave.html
🎲 RANDOM GAME, Dear Esther: Landmark Edition (Steam) https://store.steampowered.com/app/520720
Survive a crash on a deserted island. A voice reads fragments of a letter. Explore the haunting Hebrides landscape. Pure narrative experience with no traditional gameplay. Themes of love, loss, guilt, redemption.
• Randomized audio, visuals, and events for unique playthroughs
• Environments reveal a mysterious past
• Poetic...
#SteamAndEpic #Environments #Randomized #Soundtrack #Landmark #Hebrides
“An outflung peninsula on an abandoned island whose birds are in crisis and whose people are long gone, ‘Fianuis’ means ‘testimony’, or ‘witness’.”
—Kathleen Jamie, “Island at the edge of the world”
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2006/aug/26/featuresreviews.guardianreview4
#Scottish #literature #EarthDay #EarthDay2026 #environment #environmentalism #Rona #Hebrides
Abandoned more than 150 years ago, the tiny isle of Rona now only echoes to the siren songs of salt-winds and sea-birds. In this bleak place, the acclaimed Scottish poet Kathleen Jamie found not just abundant wildlife and beauty, but alarming signs of environmental crisis in the north Atlantic.
Peter Henderson
Assoc for Scottish Literature
Anja
Megan Lynch (she/her)
Julie Howlin
Bob the Traveler
Steam & Epic Games | Daily
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