Her modernist novels portray the restricted and often tragic lives of women in contemporary Scotland. She was a keen hill-walker and her poetry expresses her love for the mountainous Grampian landscape.
Nan Shepherd is commemorated in Makars' Court, outside The Writers' Museum, Lawnmarket, Edinburgh.
Selections for Makars' Court are made by The Writers' Museum; The Saltire Society; The Scottish Poetry Library.
Novels
- The Quarry Wood (1928)
- The Weatherhouse (1930)
- A Pass in the Grampians (1933)
Poetry
Nonfiction
- The Living Mountain (published 1977, written in the 1940s).