Kirsteen Bell
Kirsteen Bell is a Scottish writer of narrative non-fiction and poetry. All her words are gathered from the croft in Lochaber where she lives, and the surrounding Scottish Highlands. Her writing and reviews can be found in such places as Paperboats, Caught by the River, The Guardian Country Diary, Gutter, and Northern Scotland Journal. She is also a bookseller at The Highland Bookshop as a part-time bookseller, and is Highland Book Prize Co-ordinator at Moniack Mhor, Scotland’s Creative Writing Centre.
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From northern lights to summer rains, ditches bright with forget-me-nots to mossy peat, house martins to sea eagles, hazel catkins to autumn crab apples, Landscapes of Home celebrates a year of close attention to the natural world.
Rooted in five acres of croft in Lochaber, in the heart of the Highlands, these intimate observations follow the landscape month by month as weather, wildlife and seasons transform it. Familiar paths and everyday encounters reveal themselves anew: rowans blaze into colour, birds return, plants flower, and even the smallest changes become worth noticing.
Written with warmth, curiosity and an ecologist’s eye, Landscapes of Home asks what we discover when we limit our horizons and look more closely at what is already around us. In an age of restless movement and ecological uncertainty, it is an invitation to slow down, pay attention, and learn to know and love a place through its seasons.
