As part of our continuing association with PROFESSOR KENNETH WHITE – which started in 2005 with his appointment as HI~Arts’ first International Fellow – we are very pleased to publish for the first time the text of Prof. White’s annual lecture at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, 2006 (EIBF).

PETER URPETH wrote on the work of the late Torquil Macrath for an early issue of Northings in 2003

Libraries have come a long way since the days when books were their only stock-in-trade. NORMAN NEWTON surveys the range of services available to users of the Highland Libraries service.

The participants in the Health & Happiness Projects of Skye & Lochalsh report on their current activities.

HI~Arts offers a suite of awards schemes for visual artists, writers, musicians and makers. These can help professionals to develop many different aspects of their practice. In the case of Sutherland-based writer MANDY HAGGITH it took her much further than most of our awards do, and, as she explains, perhaps even further than she herself had expected…

Andy White speaks to MARCUS WILSON about visiting the Highlands, his new album and the business of making music.

Inverness Book Festival, Royal Highland Hotel, Inverness, 5 October 2006

IAN STEPHEN looks at the work of two very different writers from the Highlands.

ALISTAIR PEEBLES reflects on the recent changes in the arts infrastructure in Shetland, and looks back on last month’s very successful book event

JASON ROSE looks forward to welcoming a diverse range of writers to his third festival.