Angus Watson first studied and taught French before a growing interest in Gaelic led to ten years crofting in Skye and a Gaelic degree at Aberdeen. He is responsible for a book on the placenames of the Ochil Hills and a St Andrews PhD on the Earldom of Strathearn, in both of which Gaelic placenames loom large. He has had short stories and poems in Gaelic, Scots and English published in a number of Scottish literary magazines. He now lives in France and dreams of a French-Gaelic Gaelic-French Dictionary!