The Scots Magazine

14 July 2022

The Scots Magazine - August 2022 - Discover the beauty and grandeur of the Outer Hebrides, celebrate the Edinburgh International Festival and Fringe’s 75th anniversary, and enjoy a wee blether with Mike Scott, lead singer of Scots band The Waterboys on their new album. Enjoy our interview with presenter, Invictus Games medallist and former Royal Marine JJ Chalmers, and award-winning writer Abir Mukherjee tells how he took the leap from economics to exploring British colonial history. For music, literature, comedy and conversation events take the family to North Berwick’s 10-day Fringe By The Sea festival. Jim Crumley admires stunning vistas in the far north as he pens his Ode to Orkney. Polly Pullar meets those tackling a rural mental health crisis, and Cameron McNeish introduces the freshest voices in nature and outdoor writing. Plus more people, places, wildlife, culture from around Scotland