Patrick Macgill Author

Patrick MacGill, ‘the Navvy Poet’ was born in Donegal in 1889 and died in Florida in 1963. He wrote a number of bestselling books (many of which are semi-autobiographical), including, Moleskin Joe, The Rat-pit and The Great Push, as well as a number of poetry collections.

Patrick Baker has worked in the publishing industry for many years and is the author of The Cairngorms: A Secret History (Birlinn, 2014) and the acclaimed bestseller The Unremembered Places: Exploring Scotland's Wild Histories (Birlinn, 2020).