RobMcInroy
@mcinrob.bsky.social
Scottish writer
Bob and Annie Kelty Scottish historical crime series - Cuddies Strip, Barossa Street, Moot.
Barvick Falls forthcoming autumn 2025
Fiction with a social conscience
www.robmcinroy.co.uk
Bob and Annie Kelty Scottish historical crime series - Cuddies Strip, Barossa Street, Moot.
Barvick Falls forthcoming autumn 2025
Fiction with a social conscience
www.robmcinroy.co.uk
Looking forward to a live interview with the UK Crime Book Club at 7.30pm. You can watch on their FB page or YouTube, where you can also see a recording after.
We'll be talking about Cuddies Strip and no doubt the other books in the series too.
#CrimeFiction #Scotland
We'll be talking about Cuddies Strip and no doubt the other books in the series too.
#CrimeFiction #Scotland
January 21, 2026 at 9:41 AM
Looking forward to a live interview with the UK Crime Book Club at 7.30pm. You can watch on their FB page or YouTube, where you can also see a recording after.
We'll be talking about Cuddies Strip and no doubt the other books in the series too.
#CrimeFiction #Scotland
We'll be talking about Cuddies Strip and no doubt the other books in the series too.
#CrimeFiction #Scotland
OTD 1936
Truce? What truce? The death of King George V was meant to lead to a halt in campaigning in the Ross and Cromarty by-election of 1936. Fat chance...
tinyurl.com/RossC36
#Scotland #Scottishhistory #Inverness
@invernesscourier.co.uk @pressandjournal.co.uk
Truce? What truce? The death of King George V was meant to lead to a halt in campaigning in the Ross and Cromarty by-election of 1936. Fat chance...
tinyurl.com/RossC36
#Scotland #Scottishhistory #Inverness
@invernesscourier.co.uk @pressandjournal.co.uk
January 21, 2026 at 9:04 AM
OTD 1936
Truce? What truce? The death of King George V was meant to lead to a halt in campaigning in the Ross and Cromarty by-election of 1936. Fat chance...
tinyurl.com/RossC36
#Scotland #Scottishhistory #Inverness
@invernesscourier.co.uk @pressandjournal.co.uk
Truce? What truce? The death of King George V was meant to lead to a halt in campaigning in the Ross and Cromarty by-election of 1936. Fat chance...
tinyurl.com/RossC36
#Scotland #Scottishhistory #Inverness
@invernesscourier.co.uk @pressandjournal.co.uk
Fascinating to find a proofreader's correction in the author's own hand in the glossary for William Soutar's Seeds in the Wind. His handwriting is quite distinctive.
#WilliamSoutar #poetrycommunity #Scotland #scottishpoetry #Perth
#WilliamSoutar #poetrycommunity #Scotland #scottishpoetry #Perth
January 20, 2026 at 4:22 PM
Fascinating to find a proofreader's correction in the author's own hand in the glossary for William Soutar's Seeds in the Wind. His handwriting is quite distinctive.
#WilliamSoutar #poetrycommunity #Scotland #scottishpoetry #Perth
#WilliamSoutar #poetrycommunity #Scotland #scottishpoetry #Perth
OTD 1936
The King is Dead. Love live the Ross & Cromarty by-election.
Ronnie Corbett gets his first job, as town crier in Dingwall
tinyurl.com/rossc36
#BookRecommendations #Scottishhistory #scottishpolitics #rossandcromarty #byelections
The King is Dead. Love live the Ross & Cromarty by-election.
Ronnie Corbett gets his first job, as town crier in Dingwall
tinyurl.com/rossc36
#BookRecommendations #Scottishhistory #scottishpolitics #rossandcromarty #byelections
January 20, 2026 at 8:33 AM
OTD 1936
The King is Dead. Love live the Ross & Cromarty by-election.
Ronnie Corbett gets his first job, as town crier in Dingwall
tinyurl.com/rossc36
#BookRecommendations #Scottishhistory #scottishpolitics #rossandcromarty #byelections
The King is Dead. Love live the Ross & Cromarty by-election.
Ronnie Corbett gets his first job, as town crier in Dingwall
tinyurl.com/rossc36
#BookRecommendations #Scottishhistory #scottishpolitics #rossandcromarty #byelections
On this day in 1936
Malcolm MacDonald hospitalised. Skulduggery aplenty. Randolph Churchill's glamour & fury. Liberals fiasco.
Oh, and the King is dying.
tinyurl.com/1936RossC
#WritingCommunity #Scotland #Scottishpolitics
#Dingwall #Cromarty #BookRecommendations #OTD
Malcolm MacDonald hospitalised. Skulduggery aplenty. Randolph Churchill's glamour & fury. Liberals fiasco.
Oh, and the King is dying.
tinyurl.com/1936RossC
#WritingCommunity #Scotland #Scottishpolitics
#Dingwall #Cromarty #BookRecommendations #OTD
January 18, 2026 at 9:23 AM
On this day in 1936
Malcolm MacDonald hospitalised. Skulduggery aplenty. Randolph Churchill's glamour & fury. Liberals fiasco.
Oh, and the King is dying.
tinyurl.com/1936RossC
#WritingCommunity #Scotland #Scottishpolitics
#Dingwall #Cromarty #BookRecommendations #OTD
Malcolm MacDonald hospitalised. Skulduggery aplenty. Randolph Churchill's glamour & fury. Liberals fiasco.
Oh, and the King is dying.
tinyurl.com/1936RossC
#WritingCommunity #Scotland #Scottishpolitics
#Dingwall #Cromarty #BookRecommendations #OTD
OTD 1936
A blizzard descends on Ross & Cromarty. A stag attacks. Candidates crash & get stranded. Winston Churchill hiding. Female supporters from Brazil
And disquieting news
All in a day's campaigning
tinyurl.com/1936RossC
#BookRecommendation #Scotland #politics #Dingwall
A blizzard descends on Ross & Cromarty. A stag attacks. Candidates crash & get stranded. Winston Churchill hiding. Female supporters from Brazil
And disquieting news
All in a day's campaigning
tinyurl.com/1936RossC
#BookRecommendation #Scotland #politics #Dingwall
January 17, 2026 at 9:24 AM
OTD 1936
A blizzard descends on Ross & Cromarty. A stag attacks. Candidates crash & get stranded. Winston Churchill hiding. Female supporters from Brazil
And disquieting news
All in a day's campaigning
tinyurl.com/1936RossC
#BookRecommendation #Scotland #politics #Dingwall
A blizzard descends on Ross & Cromarty. A stag attacks. Candidates crash & get stranded. Winston Churchill hiding. Female supporters from Brazil
And disquieting news
All in a day's campaigning
tinyurl.com/1936RossC
#BookRecommendation #Scotland #politics #Dingwall
OTD 1936
Candidates curling, power cuts, heavy snow, lots and lots of vitriol
Methods of the gangster
The "Odious Campaign" continues apace
Randolph Churchill would have liked Robert Jenrick
tinyurl.com/1936RossC
#BookRecommendations #Scotland #politics #ScottishHistory
Candidates curling, power cuts, heavy snow, lots and lots of vitriol
Methods of the gangster
The "Odious Campaign" continues apace
Randolph Churchill would have liked Robert Jenrick
tinyurl.com/1936RossC
#BookRecommendations #Scotland #politics #ScottishHistory
January 16, 2026 at 9:22 AM
OTD 1936
Candidates curling, power cuts, heavy snow, lots and lots of vitriol
Methods of the gangster
The "Odious Campaign" continues apace
Randolph Churchill would have liked Robert Jenrick
tinyurl.com/1936RossC
#BookRecommendations #Scotland #politics #ScottishHistory
Candidates curling, power cuts, heavy snow, lots and lots of vitriol
Methods of the gangster
The "Odious Campaign" continues apace
Randolph Churchill would have liked Robert Jenrick
tinyurl.com/1936RossC
#BookRecommendations #Scotland #politics #ScottishHistory
My latest area of research, including a copy of Seeds In The Wind apparently signed by both WIlliam Soutar (1933) and his father (1955).
Bob Kelty Book 5
#Research #WilliamSoutar #amwriting #writingcommunity
Bob Kelty Book 5
#Research #WilliamSoutar #amwriting #writingcommunity
January 15, 2026 at 11:41 AM
My latest area of research, including a copy of Seeds In The Wind apparently signed by both WIlliam Soutar (1933) and his father (1955).
Bob Kelty Book 5
#Research #WilliamSoutar #amwriting #writingcommunity
Bob Kelty Book 5
#Research #WilliamSoutar #amwriting #writingcommunity
OTD 1936
We don't get political journalism like this any more...
An Odious Campaign: the Ross and Cromarty By-Election of 1936
tinyurl.com/1936RossC
#Scotland #Scottishpolitics #politics #RossandCromarty #Dingwall
We don't get political journalism like this any more...
An Odious Campaign: the Ross and Cromarty By-Election of 1936
tinyurl.com/1936RossC
#Scotland #Scottishpolitics #politics #RossandCromarty #Dingwall
January 15, 2026 at 10:08 AM
OTD 1936
We don't get political journalism like this any more...
An Odious Campaign: the Ross and Cromarty By-Election of 1936
tinyurl.com/1936RossC
#Scotland #Scottishpolitics #politics #RossandCromarty #Dingwall
We don't get political journalism like this any more...
An Odious Campaign: the Ross and Cromarty By-Election of 1936
tinyurl.com/1936RossC
#Scotland #Scottishpolitics #politics #RossandCromarty #Dingwall
OTD 1936
Crofter Mrs Mackenzie foretells the horror of the NC500. "No new roads," she says.
The Politics of the Dunghill in Dingwall
An Odious Campaign: the Ross and Cromarty By-election 1936
tinyurl.com/1936RossC
#Scotland #Scottishpolitics #ScottishHistory #byelections
Crofter Mrs Mackenzie foretells the horror of the NC500. "No new roads," she says.
The Politics of the Dunghill in Dingwall
An Odious Campaign: the Ross and Cromarty By-election 1936
tinyurl.com/1936RossC
#Scotland #Scottishpolitics #ScottishHistory #byelections
January 14, 2026 at 9:12 AM
OTD 1936
Crofter Mrs Mackenzie foretells the horror of the NC500. "No new roads," she says.
The Politics of the Dunghill in Dingwall
An Odious Campaign: the Ross and Cromarty By-election 1936
tinyurl.com/1936RossC
#Scotland #Scottishpolitics #ScottishHistory #byelections
Crofter Mrs Mackenzie foretells the horror of the NC500. "No new roads," she says.
The Politics of the Dunghill in Dingwall
An Odious Campaign: the Ross and Cromarty By-election 1936
tinyurl.com/1936RossC
#Scotland #Scottishpolitics #ScottishHistory #byelections
OTD 1936
Ross & Cromarty by-election. A time when we had a National Government.
Given the lamentable standard of modern politicians, across the political divide, a new National Government might not be a bad idea.
www.tinyurl.com1936RossC
#Scottishpolitics #ScottishHistory
Ross & Cromarty by-election. A time when we had a National Government.
Given the lamentable standard of modern politicians, across the political divide, a new National Government might not be a bad idea.
www.tinyurl.com1936RossC
#Scottishpolitics #ScottishHistory
January 13, 2026 at 9:12 AM
OTD 1936
Ross & Cromarty by-election. A time when we had a National Government.
Given the lamentable standard of modern politicians, across the political divide, a new National Government might not be a bad idea.
www.tinyurl.com1936RossC
#Scottishpolitics #ScottishHistory
Ross & Cromarty by-election. A time when we had a National Government.
Given the lamentable standard of modern politicians, across the political divide, a new National Government might not be a bad idea.
www.tinyurl.com1936RossC
#Scottishpolitics #ScottishHistory
What's the longest a book's been on your #tbrpile before you got round to it?
This is Highland River, which I've had since about 1976.
It was published in 1942, using wartime economy measures
So 50 years and I've finally got round to reading it...
#NeilGunn #amreading
This is Highland River, which I've had since about 1976.
It was published in 1942, using wartime economy measures
So 50 years and I've finally got round to reading it...
#NeilGunn #amreading
January 12, 2026 at 4:23 PM
What's the longest a book's been on your #tbrpile before you got round to it?
This is Highland River, which I've had since about 1976.
It was published in 1942, using wartime economy measures
So 50 years and I've finally got round to reading it...
#NeilGunn #amreading
This is Highland River, which I've had since about 1976.
It was published in 1942, using wartime economy measures
So 50 years and I've finally got round to reading it...
#NeilGunn #amreading
On This Day 1936
Snow blankets Ross-shire - who could have guessed? Electioneering becomes difficult but nothing stops these guys...
An Odious Campaign: Ross and Cromarty By-Election 1936
tinyurl.com/1936RossC
#WritingCommunity #politics #Scotland #Scottishhistory #Labour #Dingwall
Snow blankets Ross-shire - who could have guessed? Electioneering becomes difficult but nothing stops these guys...
An Odious Campaign: Ross and Cromarty By-Election 1936
tinyurl.com/1936RossC
#WritingCommunity #politics #Scotland #Scottishhistory #Labour #Dingwall
January 11, 2026 at 9:33 AM
On This Day 1936
Snow blankets Ross-shire - who could have guessed? Electioneering becomes difficult but nothing stops these guys...
An Odious Campaign: Ross and Cromarty By-Election 1936
tinyurl.com/1936RossC
#WritingCommunity #politics #Scotland #Scottishhistory #Labour #Dingwall
Snow blankets Ross-shire - who could have guessed? Electioneering becomes difficult but nothing stops these guys...
An Odious Campaign: Ross and Cromarty By-Election 1936
tinyurl.com/1936RossC
#WritingCommunity #politics #Scotland #Scottishhistory #Labour #Dingwall
OTD 1936
Randolph Churchill is adopted as candidate and chaired through Dingwall; the price of oats rises; snow falls; another wild day in a wild campaign
An Odious Campaign: the Ross and Cromarty By-Election 1936
tinyurl.com/1936RossC
#WritingCommunity #Scotland #politics
Randolph Churchill is adopted as candidate and chaired through Dingwall; the price of oats rises; snow falls; another wild day in a wild campaign
An Odious Campaign: the Ross and Cromarty By-Election 1936
tinyurl.com/1936RossC
#WritingCommunity #Scotland #politics
January 10, 2026 at 9:19 AM
OTD 1936
Randolph Churchill is adopted as candidate and chaired through Dingwall; the price of oats rises; snow falls; another wild day in a wild campaign
An Odious Campaign: the Ross and Cromarty By-Election 1936
tinyurl.com/1936RossC
#WritingCommunity #Scotland #politics
Randolph Churchill is adopted as candidate and chaired through Dingwall; the price of oats rises; snow falls; another wild day in a wild campaign
An Odious Campaign: the Ross and Cromarty By-Election 1936
tinyurl.com/1936RossC
#WritingCommunity #Scotland #politics
OTD 1936
It's agriculture, stupid. Battlelines are drawn in the Ross and Cromarty by-election.
An Odious Campaign: the Ross and Cromarty by-election
tinyurl.com/1936RossC
#Dingwall #Scottishpolitics #Scottishhistory #NationalGovernment
It's agriculture, stupid. Battlelines are drawn in the Ross and Cromarty by-election.
An Odious Campaign: the Ross and Cromarty by-election
tinyurl.com/1936RossC
#Dingwall #Scottishpolitics #Scottishhistory #NationalGovernment
January 9, 2026 at 9:20 AM
OTD 1936
It's agriculture, stupid. Battlelines are drawn in the Ross and Cromarty by-election.
An Odious Campaign: the Ross and Cromarty by-election
tinyurl.com/1936RossC
#Dingwall #Scottishpolitics #Scottishhistory #NationalGovernment
It's agriculture, stupid. Battlelines are drawn in the Ross and Cromarty by-election.
An Odious Campaign: the Ross and Cromarty by-election
tinyurl.com/1936RossC
#Dingwall #Scottishpolitics #Scottishhistory #NationalGovernment
On this day 90 years ago
1936
Lady Houston's flunkey, James Wentworth Day, arrives in Dingwall "to shoot ducks"
An Odious Campaign: the Ross and Cromarty By-Election 1936
tinyurl.com/1936RossC
#ScottishHistory #Politics #byelections #Dingwall #WritingCommunity #Scotland
1936
Lady Houston's flunkey, James Wentworth Day, arrives in Dingwall "to shoot ducks"
An Odious Campaign: the Ross and Cromarty By-Election 1936
tinyurl.com/1936RossC
#ScottishHistory #Politics #byelections #Dingwall #WritingCommunity #Scotland
January 8, 2026 at 8:59 AM
On this day 90 years ago
1936
Lady Houston's flunkey, James Wentworth Day, arrives in Dingwall "to shoot ducks"
An Odious Campaign: the Ross and Cromarty By-Election 1936
tinyurl.com/1936RossC
#ScottishHistory #Politics #byelections #Dingwall #WritingCommunity #Scotland
1936
Lady Houston's flunkey, James Wentworth Day, arrives in Dingwall "to shoot ducks"
An Odious Campaign: the Ross and Cromarty By-Election 1936
tinyurl.com/1936RossC
#ScottishHistory #Politics #byelections #Dingwall #WritingCommunity #Scotland
On This Day in 1936
News Randolph (MacChurchill) Churchill is returning from Casablanca ignites the Ross & Cromarty by-election campaign
An Odious Campaign: The Ross and Cromarty By-Election 1936 - Rob McInroy
tinyurl.com/1936RossC
#Scottishhistory #Dingwall #politics #WritingCommunity
#Scotland
News Randolph (MacChurchill) Churchill is returning from Casablanca ignites the Ross & Cromarty by-election campaign
An Odious Campaign: The Ross and Cromarty By-Election 1936 - Rob McInroy
tinyurl.com/1936RossC
#Scottishhistory #Dingwall #politics #WritingCommunity
#Scotland
January 7, 2026 at 11:45 AM
On This Day in 1936
News Randolph (MacChurchill) Churchill is returning from Casablanca ignites the Ross & Cromarty by-election campaign
An Odious Campaign: The Ross and Cromarty By-Election 1936 - Rob McInroy
tinyurl.com/1936RossC
#Scottishhistory #Dingwall #politics #WritingCommunity
#Scotland
News Randolph (MacChurchill) Churchill is returning from Casablanca ignites the Ross & Cromarty by-election campaign
An Odious Campaign: The Ross and Cromarty By-Election 1936 - Rob McInroy
tinyurl.com/1936RossC
#Scottishhistory #Dingwall #politics #WritingCommunity
#Scotland
Date for the diary - I'll be speaking to the UK Crime Book Club on their channel live on 21 January at 7.30, discussing all things Cuddies Strip and Bob and Annie Kelty.
I'll post a link closer to the time.
#BookSky #writingcommunity #BookRecommendations #CrimeFiction #HistoricalFiction
I'll post a link closer to the time.
#BookSky #writingcommunity #BookRecommendations #CrimeFiction #HistoricalFiction
January 6, 2026 at 7:01 PM
Date for the diary - I'll be speaking to the UK Crime Book Club on their channel live on 21 January at 7.30, discussing all things Cuddies Strip and Bob and Annie Kelty.
I'll post a link closer to the time.
#BookSky #writingcommunity #BookRecommendations #CrimeFiction #HistoricalFiction
I'll post a link closer to the time.
#BookSky #writingcommunity #BookRecommendations #CrimeFiction #HistoricalFiction
OTD 1936
Early intimations the Ross & Cromarty by-election would be an extraordinary affair came with news Lady Houston was becoming involved. Fascist, possibly insane, with a pathological hatred of Ramsay MacDonald
tinyurl.com/1936RossC
#ScottishHistory #BookRecommendations
Early intimations the Ross & Cromarty by-election would be an extraordinary affair came with news Lady Houston was becoming involved. Fascist, possibly insane, with a pathological hatred of Ramsay MacDonald
tinyurl.com/1936RossC
#ScottishHistory #BookRecommendations
January 6, 2026 at 8:31 AM
OTD 1936
Early intimations the Ross & Cromarty by-election would be an extraordinary affair came with news Lady Houston was becoming involved. Fascist, possibly insane, with a pathological hatred of Ramsay MacDonald
tinyurl.com/1936RossC
#ScottishHistory #BookRecommendations
Early intimations the Ross & Cromarty by-election would be an extraordinary affair came with news Lady Houston was becoming involved. Fascist, possibly insane, with a pathological hatred of Ramsay MacDonald
tinyurl.com/1936RossC
#ScottishHistory #BookRecommendations
Snowing in East Yorkshire. Within the hour there will be not a loaf of bread or a pint of milk to be had.
January 3, 2026 at 12:07 PM
Snowing in East Yorkshire. Within the hour there will be not a loaf of bread or a pint of milk to be had.
New year, new area of research. Looking forward to getting stuck into this.
#ScottishWriting #scottishhistory #scottishhistoricalfiction
#ScottishWriting #scottishhistory #scottishhistoricalfiction
January 1, 2026 at 10:24 AM
New year, new area of research. Looking forward to getting stuck into this.
#ScottishWriting #scottishhistory #scottishhistoricalfiction
#ScottishWriting #scottishhistory #scottishhistoricalfiction
when your schoolteacher is a psychopath there's nowhere to hide...
Barvick Falls
www.robmcinroy.co.uk/barvick-falls
#BookSky #WritingCommunity #HistoricalFiction #CrimeFiction #ScottishFiction #ScottishWriting #Scotland #Perthshire #Crieff
Barvick Falls
www.robmcinroy.co.uk/barvick-falls
#BookSky #WritingCommunity #HistoricalFiction #CrimeFiction #ScottishFiction #ScottishWriting #Scotland #Perthshire #Crieff
December 31, 2025 at 4:17 PM
when your schoolteacher is a psychopath there's nowhere to hide...
Barvick Falls
www.robmcinroy.co.uk/barvick-falls
#BookSky #WritingCommunity #HistoricalFiction #CrimeFiction #ScottishFiction #ScottishWriting #Scotland #Perthshire #Crieff
Barvick Falls
www.robmcinroy.co.uk/barvick-falls
#BookSky #WritingCommunity #HistoricalFiction #CrimeFiction #ScottishFiction #ScottishWriting #Scotland #Perthshire #Crieff
Everyone knows something about Lorna Carrington
But no one knows everything
If they did they'd be very, very frightened
robmcinroy.co.uk/barvick-falls
#WritingCommunity #CrimeFiction #HistoricalFiction #ScottishFiction
But no one knows everything
If they did they'd be very, very frightened
robmcinroy.co.uk/barvick-falls
#WritingCommunity #CrimeFiction #HistoricalFiction #ScottishFiction
December 30, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Everyone knows something about Lorna Carrington
But no one knows everything
If they did they'd be very, very frightened
robmcinroy.co.uk/barvick-falls
#WritingCommunity #CrimeFiction #HistoricalFiction #ScottishFiction
But no one knows everything
If they did they'd be very, very frightened
robmcinroy.co.uk/barvick-falls
#WritingCommunity #CrimeFiction #HistoricalFiction #ScottishFiction
Festive greetings to all who know me. For those of you who are interested, there's an update on the progress in my current work on my website here
robmcinroy.co.uk/news
Looking forward to a new publication some time in 2026.
#BookSky #WritingCommunity #HistoricalFiction #CrimeFiction
robmcinroy.co.uk/news
Looking forward to a new publication some time in 2026.
#BookSky #WritingCommunity #HistoricalFiction #CrimeFiction
December 24, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Festive greetings to all who know me. For those of you who are interested, there's an update on the progress in my current work on my website here
robmcinroy.co.uk/news
Looking forward to a new publication some time in 2026.
#BookSky #WritingCommunity #HistoricalFiction #CrimeFiction
robmcinroy.co.uk/news
Looking forward to a new publication some time in 2026.
#BookSky #WritingCommunity #HistoricalFiction #CrimeFiction
Just some of the monographs consulted for my "stupendously well-researched" (West Highland Free Press) book, An Odious Campaign, available now from @tippermuirbooks.bsky.social
#scottishhistory #scotland #politics #churchill #ramsaymacdonald #dingwall #rossandcromarty #by-elections
#scottishhistory #scotland #politics #churchill #ramsaymacdonald #dingwall #rossandcromarty #by-elections
December 21, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Just some of the monographs consulted for my "stupendously well-researched" (West Highland Free Press) book, An Odious Campaign, available now from @tippermuirbooks.bsky.social
#scottishhistory #scotland #politics #churchill #ramsaymacdonald #dingwall #rossandcromarty #by-elections
#scottishhistory #scotland #politics #churchill #ramsaymacdonald #dingwall #rossandcromarty #by-elections