Robin A Crawford
@robincraw.bsky.social
Bookseller & Author Fife, Scotland
New book 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
https://robinacrawford.com
New book 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
https://robinacrawford.com
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!
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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...
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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November 14, 2025 at 7:04 AM
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...
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...
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:
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Book places here:
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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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November 6, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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:
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Book places here:
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Reposted by Robin A Crawford
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:
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#Booksky
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Read more here:
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#Booksky
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September 17, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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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Read more here:
saraband.net/2025/09/17/s...
#Booksky
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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
September 3, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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
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
August 30, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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
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
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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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August 24, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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...
www.toppingbooks.co.uk/events/st-an...
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.
August 19, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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.
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…
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…
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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August 13, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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…
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…
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
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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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August 11, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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
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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.
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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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August 5, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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...
www.waterstones.com/events/in-co...
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.
July 23, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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.
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 -
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You can listen here, begins at 10:13 -
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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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July 4, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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/...
You can listen here, begins at 10:13 -
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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…
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…
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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July 3, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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…
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…
Thank you to Jon at @littletollerbooks.bsky.social for publishing this:
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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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July 3, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Thank you to Jon at @littletollerbooks.bsky.social for publishing this:
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What We’re Reading
My dear bookshop colleagues have started updating our ‘What We’re Reading ‘ blackboard today…
My dear bookshop colleagues have started updating our ‘What We’re Reading ‘ blackboard today…
What We’re Reading
My dear bookshop colleagues have started updating our ‘What We’re Reading ‘ blackboard today…
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June 25, 2025 at 6:21 PM
What We’re Reading
My dear bookshop colleagues have started updating our ‘What We’re Reading ‘ blackboard today…
My dear bookshop colleagues have started updating our ‘What We’re Reading ‘ blackboard today…
Landing in bookshops now. Thank you to my colleagues at Topping & Company in StAndrews and Edinburgh for making it special.
June 20, 2025 at 6:02 AM
Landing in bookshops now. Thank you to my colleagues at Topping & Company in StAndrews and Edinburgh for making it special.
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.
June 14, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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 title of my new book comes from this riverscape by Sir John Everett Millais. It was painted near Dunkeld, Perthshire in 1876.
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May 26, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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...
Read more here:
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Cover of my new book The Sound of Many Waters, A Journey Along the River Tay publishing 5 July
May 24, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Cover of my new book The Sound of Many Waters, A Journey Along the River Tay publishing 5 July