Roger Hutchinson
Home address:
via Mark Stanton at Jenny Brown Associates, 33 Argyle Place, Edinburgh, EH9 1JTBRAW network:
noLL funded:
yesPublisher:
Birlinn LtdBiography:
I was born in the north of England and worked as an editor in London before joining the West Highland Free Press in Skye in 1977. I became a freelance author and journalist in 1986, and still live in the west Highlands.About writer's work:
My books are non-fiction - biography and social history. 'The Soap Man' was shortlisted for the Saltire Book of the Year in 2004; and 'Calum's Road' for the Royal Society of Literature's Ondaatje Prize in 2007.About writer's events and projects:
I am available for readings, talks, workshops, residencies on biography, history and journalism.
Language:
EnglishAge groups:
AdultsBooks written
Thirty years ago, the Gaelic language and culture which had been eminent in Scotland for 1,300 years seemed to be in the final stages of a 200-year terminal decline. The number of Gaelic speakers in ...
Calum MacLeod had lived on the northern point of Raasay since his birth in 1911. He tended the Rona lighthouse at the very tip of his little archipelago, until semi-automation in 1967 reduced his ...
Shinty was taken by Scots all over the world. Twenty-four camain were standard issue to battalions of the Lovat Scouts during the Boer War. Highland emigrants to Canada, whose descendants still play ...
Early on a wartime winter's morning in 1941, an 8,000-ton cargo ship loaded with whisky ran aground in the beautiful and treacherous seas of the Outer Hebrides. The events which followed became the ...
In September 1939, groups of horsemen in battledress cantered down a broad, grassy plain on the western edge of Europe. The young men of the Western Isles were going to war again. They included a ...
'Walking To America' follows and recreates the immense journey, in search of a new life and of a miracle doctor who could cure the blindness of one of their number. The journey was taken largely on ...
