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Robin A Crawford

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Author & bookseller Fife, Scotland Out now: The Sound of Many Waters, A Journey Along the River Tay Birlinn Previously: Into The Peatlands 2018 Birlinn, Cauld Blasts and Clishmaclavers 2020 Elliott & Thompson robinacrawford.com

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Robin A Crawford @robincraw.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
At the Ferry Join me if you can at Broughty Ferry library 7:00pm on 30th September.
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At the Ferry
Join me if you can at Broughty Ferry library 7:00pm on 30th September.
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Robin A Crawford @robincraw.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Paperback out now. Just some of the books that inspired my journey.
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Robin A Crawford @robincraw.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Join me at the Dundee Book Festival on the 20th June for the launch of the paperback of The Sound of Many Waters. #DundeeBookFestival #BookSky Details here: dundeebookfestival.com/product/robi...
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Robin A. Crawford The Sound of Many Waters
Celebrate The Sound of Many Waters at Dundee Book Festival as Robin Crawford explores the River Tay’s history, landscape and lasting cultural legacy.
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Robin A Crawford @robincraw.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
To celebrate #LàAbairtNaGàidhlig #SayAGaelicPhraseDay from ‘The Sound of Many Waters’: ….flicking through a copy of Perthshire Gaelic in the clearance box in a local bookshop I come across a warning: ‘tàlaidhidh am biadh fiadh na beinne’ – ‘hunger makes the wolf come out of the woods’.
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Seachdain na Gàidhlig (World Gaelic Week) @sngaidhlig.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Bheil thu deiseil airson Là Abairt na Gàidhlig a-màireach? // Are you ready for Say a Gaelic Phrase Day tomorrow? #SeachdainNaGàidhlig2026 #LàAbairtNaGàidhlig #SayAGaelicPhraseDay
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Robin A Crawford @robincraw.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Preorder ‘The Sound of Many Waters’ paperback edition at Waterstones and receive 25% off enter “FEB26” at the checkout to redeem the offer to receive 25% off RRP www.waterstones.com/campaign/feb... #WPreorder
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Kirsty Lilley @kirstylilley.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Weekly dose of inspiration from yesterday’s conference on #peatlands, co-hosted by the Consulate General for Ireland, UoE, ECCI, and @crossborder.bsky.social - highlighting amazing and ongoing collaborations across the arts/humanities and sciences, and the impact of research across borders
A conference room with an opening slide for the Peatlands Restoration Conference, co-organised by the Consulate General of Ireland, the Edinburgh Climate Change Institute, the University of Edinburgh, and the Centre for Cross Border Cooperation.
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Scottish Book Trust @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Book Week Scotland is friendship woven through words. ❤📚 Whatever you are doing to celebrate, from going along to one of hundreds of events to reading a brilliant book at home, we wish you a happy Book Week Scotland! 📚🥳
A poster advertising Book Week Scotland with the slogan 'friendship woven through words'. The dates are 17–23 November.
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Robin A Crawford @robincraw.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Wee 50 word piece on friendship published for @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social #BookWeekScotland It’s the one beginning “Friends are the ones that you enjoy the bitterest of arguments with.” My friend is delighted with the “contains strong language” warning! www.scottishbooktrust.com/scotlands-st...
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50 Word Non-Fiction: Friendship – Batch 2 by Various Authors
Every year, we ask people from all over Scotland to share their true stories with us
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Robin A Crawford @robincraw.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Delighted to be talking about my journey along the River Tay at Blackness, my local library when I lived on Windsor Street. #bookweekscotland #bookweekscotland25 #dundee #bookevent Book places here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/robin-craw...
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Robin Crawford - Author Talk
Join us for a lively chat with author Robin Crawford as he shares stories and insights about nature and the River Tay.
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Saraband Books @saraband-books.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
We're delighted to announce that we'll be publishing 'predominant nature writer' Jim Crumley's latest book, Symphonic: Harmony in Nature and Why It Matters ✨ Read more here: saraband.net/2025/09/17/s... #Booksky 📚💙
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Robin A Crawford @robincraw.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
A tryst/a ceilidh. “On the bridge over the Inchewan Burn that separates Little Dunkeld from Birnam a plaque marks the traditional boundary of the Highland Gaelic and Lowland Scots languages: allt/burn, Uisge Tatha/River Tay.“ Be braw to meet you at The Birnam Reader Bookshop next Thursday. #BookSky
Event at the Birnam Reader Bookshop, 7:30 pm on Thursday 11th September. Station Rd, Birnam, Dunkeld PH8 0DS
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Robin A Crawford @robincraw.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Waving not drowning. “Hold up your hand… if the Tay is the index finger, imagine your thumb as the Isla, flowing in from the east, your middle finger the rivers Garry and Tummel from the north, and from the west the ring finger represents the Braan and the Almond, your pinkie the Earn.” #booksky
Audience at event in Toppings bookshop, St Andrews, Scotland for launch of ‘The Sound of Many Waters’ raise their hands to map the river Tay and its main tributaries.
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Robin A Crawford @robincraw.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Having introduced so many authors as a bookseller I’m looking forward to the official launch of my own book #TheSoundOfManyWaters in the bookshop on Thursday. Do join me if you can. 7:30pm www.toppingbooks.co.uk/events/st-an...
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Robin A. Crawford on The Sound of Many Waters: A Journey alog the River Tay at Topping & Company Booksellers of St Andrews
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Robin A Crawford @robincraw.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Thank you @blackwells.bsky.social #Edinburgh for your -double- support of #TheSoundOfManyWaters much appreciated. My dad and I used to love discovering wonderful books in all the neuks of the old James Thin’s and it was a real pleasure revisit the South Bridge bookshop with my own son today.
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Robin A Crawford @robincraw.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Reviews for ‘The Sound of Many Waters’ Travel through time and space along Scotland's longest river Robin A Crawford's account of walking the Tay from source to sea is like having a local show you around their home river. In 2019, the historian and long-distance kayaker David Gange wrote a book…
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Reviews for ‘The Sound of Many Waters’
Travel through time and space along Scotland's longest river Robin A Crawford's account of walking the Tay from source to sea is like having a local show you around their home river. In 2019, the historian and long-distance kayaker David Gange wrote a book called The Frayed Atlantic Edge, which encouraged readers to think about both the history and geography of the British Isles in a completely new way.
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Robin A Crawford @robincraw.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Thank you to Roger Cox for his kind and understanding review of #TheSoundofManyWaters in @scotsman.com on Saturday. Thank you for getting it! Extremely touched for my book to be mentioned in the exalted company of #DavidGange and @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/ou...
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The Sound of Many Waters by Robin A Crawford review: 'Puts the Tay at the heart of Scotland's story'
Robin A Crawford’s account of walking the Tay from source to sea is an engaging journey through both time and space, writes Roger Cox
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Robin A Crawford @robincraw.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Do please join me at @waterstones.bsky.social #Dundee on 21st August. “Under Waterstones on Commercial Street… a tide line five feet from the floor encircles the basement offices and storerooms, marking a Tay flood 15 years ago.” Wellies optional. www.waterstones.com/events/in-co...
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In Conversation with Robin Crawford | Events at Waterstones Bookshops | Waterstones
Events at Waterstones get you closer to the books and authors you admire most. Find information and tickets about In Conversation with Robin Crawford today.
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Robin A Crawford @robincraw.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
@ukstoptrump.bsky.social in Aberdeen
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Robin A Crawford @robincraw.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Thank you to booksellers Euan, Nick and Richard @waterstones.bsky.social #Perth for your kind welcome and continued warm support of ‘The Sound of Many Waters’, very much appreciated.
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Robin A Crawford @robincraw.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Thank you to #BBCScotland and Connie for inviting me on today to talk about the river Tay and ‘The Sound of Many Waters’. You can listen here, begins at 10:13 - www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Mornings - with Connie McLaughlin - BBC Sounds
Connie McLaughlin gets to the heart of the stories making the news.
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Robin A Crawford @robincraw.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Publication day! A river book has many sources. It begins in clouds blown in from far out on the ocean, deposited on mountain top as snow, in sheets of rain on bleak moors, rises up from deep underground caverns. Twists of circumstance, of fate direct its journey. Such vagaries shape its words…
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Publication day!
A river book has many sources. It begins in clouds blown in from far out on the ocean, deposited on mountain top as snow, in sheets of rain on bleak moors, rises up from deep underground caverns. Twists of circumstance, of fate direct its journey. Such vagaries shape its words reflecting the creatures, the plants, the people who live and die in it, on it, by it.
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Robin A Crawford @robincraw.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Thank you to Jon at @littletollerbooks.bsky.social for publishing this: www.littletoller.co.uk/the-clearing...
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Flotsam by Robin Crawford
In this new essay for The Clearing, the author Robin Crawford considers what's left behind by the river Tay: in nature and human history.
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Robin A Crawford @robincraw.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
What We’re Reading My dear bookshop colleagues have started updating our ‘What We’re Reading ‘ blackboard today…
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What We’re Reading
My dear bookshop colleagues have started updating our ‘What We’re Reading ‘ blackboard today…
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Robin A Crawford @robincraw.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Landing in bookshops now. Thank you to my colleagues at Topping & Company in StAndrews and Edinburgh for making it special.
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Robin A Crawford @robincraw.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Topping up my holiday reading with Arturo’s Island by Elsa Morante from @pushkinpress.com bought at Nutrimenti bookshop, island of Procida in the Bay of Naples.
Procida ferry‘The Buried City’ by Gabriel Zuchtriegel, @hodderbooks.bsky.social 
Italo Calvino ‘The Narrative of Trajan’s Column’, Letters of Pliny the Younger, Seneca ‘On the shortness of life’. @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social
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Robin A Crawford @robincraw.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
The title of my new book comes from this riverscape by Sir John Everett Millais. It was painted near Dunkeld, Perthshire in 1876. Read more here: robinacrawford.com/2025/05/26/t...
‘The Sound of Many Waters’ 1876 by John Everett Millais (1820-1896) in the collection of the National Trust for Scotland, Fyvie Castle
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Robin A Crawford @robincraw.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Cover of my new book The Sound of Many Waters, A Journey Along the River Tay publishing 5 July
cover of my new book The Sound of Many Waters, A Journey Along the River Tay publishing 5 July
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