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Author Merryn Glover with man and stack of books in a bookshop

Posted on 24th April, 2023

Hidden Fires on Tour

Last week was a whirlwind mini book tour for The Hidden Fires around central Scotland and I’m only just catching my breath and catching up …

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Cover image from The Creative Penn Podacast episode on Writing Nature Memoir. Shows typewriter with plants growing out of it.

Posted on 10th April, 2023

On Nature Writing for The Creative Penn Podcast

  I first met Joanna Penn ten years ago at a course in Inverness set up by Peter Urpeth of what was HiArts and then …

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Merryn Glover with binoculars in the Cairngorm mountains

Posted on 12th March, 2023

The Courage to Follow Nan Shepherd

…a lantern, floating and filled with light. Perhaps it is what Shepherd meant when she said, ‘[O]ne walks the flesh transparent.’ – This article first …

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View across Loch Morlich to the Cairngorms

Posted on 18th May, 2021

Learning the Land

…and hoots of un-numbered birds: the robins, doves, chaffinches, crows, pigeons, tits, wrens and more. Some flit across my way, others perch high on spindly …

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Stained glass nativity scene in church windows

Posted on 14th December, 2020

Broken Bread – The Story of a Story

…opportunities for subscribers only. And if you respond, I will write back. So come and swap tales with me, break bread in spirit, share life. …

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Copy of A House Called Askival with tray of Indian Sweets

Posted on 27th July, 2020

Coincidence in A House Called Askival

…2015, we climbed Askival on the island of Rum, left a copy on top registered with BookCrossing and enjoyed what happened next: https://www.facebook.com/freightbooks/posts/376620945880076?__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARC6LRgbDhBRfFx2irHLBqZBZycET2EJ0R2gFYxKmAByXt4yT3O48JfI9eF7bLRZSPnOsjDdxKtr005EiFGJmvFkbOoDpQfk6qRUkY3PTfBNBKYcTxogEqjs2gFb8ZJRQQGuDtdF1ic6e4pR8HRqdavjH3Nnv8rMnAWHoVuttu_jGW2IyLGcfkec_m-5dT7lSdLJh_WUI7LUnayugbdav5JX-fzDAnrkNwpxoGg68tnnZwxPOwHSvYyabx_YBQ6yM2JiGAF_WOHtnjb_pALNVuAiZNzfyzrDyCCLXKbrBLQB6VPD8IuuPk0s6tyaH_9ZyAW_Ks9feDncNqvXP-x9Vzg&__tn__=-R   Then …

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Merryn Glover Author

Posted on 19th February, 2020

Heads Up: A Tale of Two Sittings

…we postpone the author bit. ‘People don’t normally photograph well when they’re cold,’ he explained. ‘Stewart,’ I said, ‘I don’t normally dress up and put …

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Group on wooden bridge

Posted on 14th November, 2019

Having Words with the Non-Writers

Though the Glen Tanar Health Walk group love where they walk and were very happy to have me join them, it was made clear that …

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Group on wooden bridge

Posted on 14th November, 2019

Having Words with the Non-Writers

Though the Glen Tanar Health Walk group love where they walk and were very happy to have me join them, it was made clear that …

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