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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.

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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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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Robin A Crawford @robincraw.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Fascinating conference yesterday discussing peatland restoration in Scotland, Northern Ireland and Éire. Delighted to be invited to take part in panel discussion and venture out again into the peatlands. Footprints- human, carbon, corncrake preserved out on the moor.

Frontispiece illustration from my book 'Into The Peatlands' showing human footprints -shod and unshod- over time preserved at the foot of a stratified peat bank.

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Robin A Crawford @robincraw.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Thank you to everyone who came along yesterday, lovely to share Tay stories with you. Thank you for buying so many copies if my book! And a huge thank you to Fiona and the Blackness librarians for organising and making me so welcome.

Painting by Dundee artist James Macintosh Patrick 1940. View towards Blackness from his window with Monday washing on line in November garden. Apple tree still fruiting. Little girl in picture now 87

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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 · 20/08/2025

The reviewer does not only inform the reader but can inspire further creativity:- “I am browsing the weekend papers, the ‘Culture’ pages, reading the reviews…

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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 · 02/08/2025

The source of the placard from my book ‘Cauld Blasts and Clishmaclavers’

Roaster definition from Trump’s 2018 Scotland trip

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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 · 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.

‘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

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