Annie Worsley is a writer, geographer, grandmother and crofter who lives in North West Scotland.
Her first book, Windswept, was published on August 2023. Fragments, her highly anticipated second book, will be published in 2026.
Windswept
Life, Nature and Deep Time in the Scottish Highlands
North West Scotland is a land of unquenchable spirit and severe wildness. In the Highlands, life is ruled by the great elemental forces – light, wind and water hold sway over how land forms, where the sea sits, and what grows. It also dictates how its people live.
Annie returns to prehistory to tell the epic story of how Scotland’s valleys were carved by glaciers, how rivers scythed paths through the mountains, how the earliest people found a way of life in the Highlands – and how she then found a home there millennia later.
“A shaft of golden stormlight, a blast of pure Highland air,
Windswept is an exhilarating account of life lived close to the elements”
Published Works
Annie has written for Elementum and Inkcap Journals, and contributed to Women on Nature, edited by Katharine Norbury. Other essays have been published by Elliot & Thompson in the Seasons anthologies edited by Melissa Harrison. She has written book reviews for Caught by the River and the Times Literary Supplement.
With Kirsteen Bell, she now writes a regular column Croft, Coast and Hill: Letters from the Northwest Highlands for Caught by the River. Annie has written a new introduction to A Croft in the Hills by Katharine Stewart, published by Birlinn, Spring 2025. She recently signed with William Collins for her new book Fragments, coming in 2026.
Secrets of Limestone and Water – The Bone Caves of Inchnadamph
Stories in the Sands of Time – Impressions of Ancestors
The Fire Pit – Stone-Henged and Stone-Lined
