In 1939 the author Neil Gunn stayed in Breaclete and wrote some of his essays for the book Highland Pack there. His experience of staying with Dr PJ Macleod and leaving Loch Beag in the fishing vessel Rhoda for the Flannan Isles provide an invaluable insight into pre-war Hebridean life. This experience was also the inspiration for the most critically acclaimed writing in his most famous work (The Silver Darlings). Also of literary interest are the writings of the former schoolmaster John Nicolson Macleod who lived in the village in the early part of the twentieth century. Writing under the pseudonym Alasdair Mòr (named after the first mate of the Rhoda from croft number 11), his weekly series of highly entertaining articles in the Stornoway Gazette called Litir à Beàrnaraigh (A Letter from Bernera) were collected into a book Litrichean Alasdair Mhòir (The Letters of Alasdair Mòr) in 1932. These essays outline the distinctive wit, character, courage and craftsmanship of the people of the village and the island of Bernera.