A HIGHLAND author, whose latest novel was rejected by a number of publishing houses, decided to take matters into his own hands and publish it himself as a Kindle ebook.
John Logan made his thriller The Survival of Thomas Ford, which is set in Inverness and Drumnadrochit, available for download at the end of December.
THIS is the second instalment of Isabella (Isa) A. Sutherland's account of life at Lairg Higher Grade School in the 1920s, an extract discovered by her niece, Irene Grant of Lairg. The 'Ina' mentioned in the piece is Irene's mother, Isa's twin sister.
AT Lairg Higher Grade school I enjoyed my secondary education, though the headmaster was a bit intimidating. He had been shell shocked in the First World War and this affected him from time to time and he brought it out on the pupils.
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THE solitary stone sits alongside a couple of lonesome pines on a track high above the village of Cromdale on Speyside. Marked as Clach nam Piobair - the Piper's Stone - on the map, it is linked to the Battle of Cromdale in 1690.
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Recalling the schooling of twins Isa and Ina Sutherland In "Our Old Files" in the NT edition of December 2 last year, we reproduced a paragraph in the 75 Years Ago section about teachers accepting
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This is our second photo showing the Brora Minstrels, this time after performing to Brora Senior Citizens in the Royal Marine Hotel, taken in the late 1960s or early 1970s.
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