Peter Ross
@peteralanross.bsky.social
Author of Upon A White Horse: Journeys In Ancient Britain & Ireland. Also, Steeple Chasing: Around Britain By Church, & A Tomb With A View: The Stories & Glories of Graveyards.
It was a pleasure to see David Boulter perform his work, including pieces from recent @claypipemusic.bsky.social album "Whitby", at Sharmanka Kinetic Theatre. A special place to experience live music. They host gigs every month. Photos by Robin Mitchell.
December 7, 2025 at 3:50 PM
It was a pleasure to see David Boulter perform his work, including pieces from recent @claypipemusic.bsky.social album "Whitby", at Sharmanka Kinetic Theatre. A special place to experience live music. They host gigs every month. Photos by Robin Mitchell.
I’m reading @graemethomson.bsky.social’s excellent biography of Kate Bush, Under The Ivy, and am moved by this bit where she’s *still at school* and her dad plays the unreleased Man With The Child In His Eyes for a caller at the farm.
December 6, 2025 at 1:31 PM
I’m reading @graemethomson.bsky.social’s excellent biography of Kate Bush, Under The Ivy, and am moved by this bit where she’s *still at school* and her dad plays the unreleased Man With The Child In His Eyes for a caller at the farm.
I'm thrilled that Upon A White Horse is going to be Radio 4's Book Of The Week. The first episode, which is on Stonehenge, will be on December 8 at 11.45am – and then there will be a reading from a different part of the book every day up to and including December 12. I hope you'll enjoy listening.
December 1, 2025 at 8:59 AM
I'm thrilled that Upon A White Horse is going to be Radio 4's Book Of The Week. The first episode, which is on Stonehenge, will be on December 8 at 11.45am – and then there will be a reading from a different part of the book every day up to and including December 12. I hope you'll enjoy listening.
Glasgow is having one of those mornings when the sky and stone create works of art wherever you look.
November 30, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Glasgow is having one of those mornings when the sky and stone create works of art wherever you look.
“Ross is not just writing about a specific place or feature, but the people associated with it. It’s a gallimaufry of encounters.”
I’m delighted that Upon A White Horse has been included in @scotsman.com’s Books of 2025.
I’m delighted that Upon A White Horse has been included in @scotsman.com’s Books of 2025.
November 29, 2025 at 9:58 AM
“Ross is not just writing about a specific place or feature, but the people associated with it. It’s a gallimaufry of encounters.”
I’m delighted that Upon A White Horse has been included in @scotsman.com’s Books of 2025.
I’m delighted that Upon A White Horse has been included in @scotsman.com’s Books of 2025.
Delighted that Upon A White Horse has made it into the Financial Times’s Books of 2025. The full list is in this weekend’s paper. Many thanks to Tom Robbins for choosing my book.
November 22, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Delighted that Upon A White Horse has made it into the Financial Times’s Books of 2025. The full list is in this weekend’s paper. Many thanks to Tom Robbins for choosing my book.
Had a bag of chips in a graveyard.
November 7, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Had a bag of chips in a graveyard.
I had the great good fortune to meet Budge, the @norwichcathedral.bsky.social cat, during my visit today. A fine fellow, is he not?
October 23, 2025 at 3:40 PM
I had the great good fortune to meet Budge, the @norwichcathedral.bsky.social cat, during my visit today. A fine fellow, is he not?
I have arrived at last in …
October 23, 2025 at 1:17 PM
I have arrived at last in …
The English leg of my book tour begins on Saturday with a sold-out event in Sheffield. Tickets remain for the other dates: Guildford, Dorchester, Bath, Norwich & Whitby. I'm also doing a special London event in the evening of October 20, as part of @stoneclub.bsky.social. Please do come, if you can.
October 16, 2025 at 11:30 AM
The English leg of my book tour begins on Saturday with a sold-out event in Sheffield. Tickets remain for the other dates: Guildford, Dorchester, Bath, Norwich & Whitby. I'm also doing a special London event in the evening of October 20, as part of @stoneclub.bsky.social. Please do come, if you can.
Popped into Govan Old. The Pictish sarcophagus is looking great. I signed my books in their excellent gift shop. Perhaps pick up a Christmas present while helping @govanstones.bsky.social fundraising?
October 15, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Popped into Govan Old. The Pictish sarcophagus is looking great. I signed my books in their excellent gift shop. Perhaps pick up a Christmas present while helping @govanstones.bsky.social fundraising?
So, I'm watching Sally Wainwright's excellent Riot Women – and, astonishingly, Joanna Scanlan's character has a copy of my book Daunderlust. I'd LOVE to know how the heck that has come about.
October 14, 2025 at 8:39 PM
So, I'm watching Sally Wainwright's excellent Riot Women – and, astonishingly, Joanna Scanlan's character has a copy of my book Daunderlust. I'd LOVE to know how the heck that has come about.
Lovely to see Upon A White Horse in the autumnal window of Waterstones on Sauchiehall Street. There should still be signed copies inside, I think.
October 3, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Lovely to see Upon A White Horse in the autumnal window of Waterstones on Sauchiehall Street. There should still be signed copies inside, I think.
It hardly seems possible, given that Capacity exists in the world, but I’m beginning to think that this is the best Big Thief album.
September 29, 2025 at 9:37 AM
It hardly seems possible, given that Capacity exists in the world, but I’m beginning to think that this is the best Big Thief album.
“A beautifully written book of traces and absences.” Many thanks to Stuart Kelly and Scotland on Sunday for this thoughtful review of Upon A White Horse. Great to share the pages with @megaheid.bsky.social
September 28, 2025 at 9:58 AM
“A beautifully written book of traces and absences.” Many thanks to Stuart Kelly and Scotland on Sunday for this thoughtful review of Upon A White Horse. Great to share the pages with @megaheid.bsky.social
Great to pick up a copy of @megaheid.bsky.social’s An Inconvenience Of Penguins at the book’s Glasgow launch. I think we can all agree that is an all-time great author photo.
September 27, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Great to pick up a copy of @megaheid.bsky.social’s An Inconvenience Of Penguins at the book’s Glasgow launch. I think we can all agree that is an all-time great author photo.
Happy publication day to @megaheid.bsky.social, whose book An Inconvenience of Penguins is newly hatched. Great title, great concept – travelling the world to see all eighteen species of penguin – and a great story. I hope the book, unlike its daft wee earthbound subjects, takes flight.
September 25, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Happy publication day to @megaheid.bsky.social, whose book An Inconvenience of Penguins is newly hatched. Great title, great concept – travelling the world to see all eighteen species of penguin – and a great story. I hope the book, unlike its daft wee earthbound subjects, takes flight.
If anyone in Glasgow or Edinburgh would like a signed copy of Upon A White Horse, there are copies in Waterstones on Sauchiehall Street, Argyle Street, Princes Street and at the Braehead shopping centre. Blackwell’s on South Bridge and Topping on Blenheim Place also have a few.
September 13, 2025 at 2:57 PM
If anyone in Glasgow or Edinburgh would like a signed copy of Upon A White Horse, there are copies in Waterstones on Sauchiehall Street, Argyle Street, Princes Street and at the Braehead shopping centre. Blackwell’s on South Bridge and Topping on Blenheim Place also have a few.
Thank you to everyone for their good wishes on the publication of Upon A White Horse. It was heartening to hear from so many of you. I hope that you will enjoy the book.
September 12, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Thank you to everyone for their good wishes on the publication of Upon A White Horse. It was heartening to hear from so many of you. I hope that you will enjoy the book.
At Glasgow’s only stone circle…
September 11, 2025 at 8:57 AM
At Glasgow’s only stone circle…
“There is something about ancient places that fills a hollow in our souls…”
September 9, 2025 at 10:05 AM
“There is something about ancient places that fills a hollow in our souls…”
Please do join me at the National Museum of Scotland on Sunday September 28. I’ll be in conversation with Dr Fraser Hunter about Upon A White Horse and objects in the museum collection. Tickets available at the link: www.nms.ac.uk/events/in-co...
September 8, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Please do join me at the National Museum of Scotland on Sunday September 28. I’ll be in conversation with Dr Fraser Hunter about Upon A White Horse and objects in the museum collection. Tickets available at the link: www.nms.ac.uk/events/in-co...
Some thoughts on the Dorset Ooser.
September 5, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Some thoughts on the Dorset Ooser.
On the Cerne Abbas Giant …
September 4, 2025 at 7:52 AM
On the Cerne Abbas Giant …