All posts in the Memoir category

Fiona on Iona: a journey to the Inner Hebrides

29th August 2025

This August, I travelled to Iona, an island in the Inner Hebrides off the western coast of Scotland. People have been making pilgrimages to Iona for centuries, from the early middle ages onwards. Famously, St Columba sailed from Ireland to Iona in 563, with 12 companions in a ‘curragh’, also known as a coracle. This […]

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Amy Liptrot plays Glastonbury

20th July 2017

The Outrun by Amy Liptrot

At Glastonbury this year, I talked to best-selling author Amy Liptrot about the success of The Outrun, how to write a memoir and what she’s writing next.   Amy Liptrot’s book, The Outrun, has been an extraordinary success. A Sunday Times Top Ten best-seller, it won The Wainwright Prize and has just been awarded the […]

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