Katherine Stewart

Katherine Stewart’s first book, A Croft in the Hills, was first published in 1960 and has been reprinted many times since. Born in the Highlands in 1914, she spent WWII working in London but moved to Abriachan, near Inverness, after the war. With her husband she ran a croft in the area for many years, as well as the village post office, which closed in 2008.

In 2005 Katharine Stewart helped set up a small museum in Abriachan. A sequel to her crofting book, A Garden in the Hills, came out in 1995. She has also written books on her village of Abriachan and Highland life, such as Women of the Highlands, which presents biographies of many local women since the mediaeval period.