Ex-Cairngorms National Park Authority staff member turns author
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An author and former Cairngorms National Park Authority staff member will be back in Grantown later this week to promote her first book.
Time on Rock by Anna Fleming offers a climber’s eye view of the natural world, tracing a geological and personal journey across the British Isles over 10 years.
The story takes the reader from the gritstone rocks of the Peak District and Yorkshire to the gabbro pinnacles of the Cuillin, the slate of North Wales and the high plateau of the Cairngorms.
Fleming told the Strathy: "We'll be talking about the book including how I came to write it; the many landscapes, environments and geologies in the book; how Nan Shepherd and the Cairngorms inspired my writing, and about rock-climbing culture."
She was education and inclusion officer for the CNPA, based in Grantown, and led on projects including Women in Wellies, Shared Stories and developing the Literary Landscapes education resource.
More recently, as a freelancer, she has just helped the park authority run its first ever Cairngorms Youth Fund.
Fleming, who now lives in Edinburgh, has published her work in journals, magazines and anthologies.
As well as writing for the Guardian, she keeps a regular blog, The Granite Sea, in which she writes about the natural world.
She is a qualified Mountain Leader who has also worked for the Cairngorms National Park Authority and completed a PhD with the University of Leeds.
Fleming will be in conversation with Will Boyd-Wallis, former CNPA staff member too and now working for the National Trust Scotland, at The Pagoda in Grantown this Thursday from 7pm.
Entry is free and unticketed.
Complimentary wine, nibbles and beer are being generously supplied by Top Out Brewery, in partnership with Canongate Books.
