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Dark Stuff
Stories from the Peatlands
Häftad, 2026
203 kr
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'A heartwarming spectacle of desolation.' THE SPECTATOR'Deeply enjoyable ... a celebration of both the ordinary and the extraordinary.' THE SCOTSMANAn evocative social history of Europe's peatlands, moors, bogs and heaths.Donald S. Murray spent much of his childhood either playing or working on the …
Herring Tales
How the Silver Darlings Shaped Human Taste and History
Häftad, 2022
148 kr
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A lighthearted and informative narrative about the history of herring and our love affair with the silver darlings.Scots like to smoke or salt them. The Dutch love them raw. Swedes look on with relish as they open bulging, foul-smelling cans to find them curdling within. Jamaicans prefer them with …
Herring Tales
How the Silver Darlings Shaped Human Taste and History
E-bok, 2015
151 kr
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A lighthearted and informative narrative about the history of herring and our love affair with the silver darlings. Scots like to smoke or salt them. The Dutch love them raw. Swedes look on with relish as they open bulging, foul-smelling cans to find them curdling within. Jamaicans prefer them with …
Dark Stuff
Stories from the Peatlands
E-bok, 2018
214 kr
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An evocative social history of Europe''s peatlands, moors, bogs and heaths. Donald S. Murray spent much of his childhood either playing or working on the moor, chasing sheep across empty acres and cutting and gathering peat for fuel. The Dark Stuff is an examination of how this landscape affected …
Dark Stuff
Stories from the Peatlands
E-bok, 2018
214 kr
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An evocative social history of Europe''s peatlands, moors, bogs and heaths. Donald S. Murray spent much of his childhood either playing or working on the moor, chasing sheep across empty acres and cutting and gathering peat for fuel. The Dark Stuff is an examination of how this landscape affected …
Red Star Over Hebrides
Inbunden, 2023
190 kr
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Even as he grew up on the edge of Lewis, the vastness of Russia never felt too distant for Donald S Murray. Its great literary traditions were often discussed in his home village, while the political unrest and religious fervour that marked its past and present were occassionally reflected in his …
For the Safety of All
A Story of Scotland's Lighthouses
Häftad, 2022
196 kr
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'There have always been lighthouses in my life. There has been a closeness and steadiness to our relationship, as if they have kept pace and in close contact with me.'Lighthouses punctuate Scotland’s coastline – a stoic presence on the edge of the landscape. Since the earliest of these hardy …
In a Veil of Mist
Häftad, 2021
130 kr
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2021 HIGHLAND BOOK PRIZEA poisoned breeze blows across the waves … Operation Cauldron, 1952: Top-secret germ warfare experiments on monkeys and guinea pigs are taking place aboard a vessel moored off the Isle of Lewis. Local villagers Jessie and Duncan encounter strange sights …
Man who Talks to Birds
lockdown poems
Häftad, 2020
113 kr
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Donald S. Murray is widely recognised for his empathy and remarkable ability to convey emotion with restraint and poignancy. In this short collection of poems written during lockdown at his Shetland home, Murray explores the changing geography of the island and how it has, in turn, changed him. On …
As the Women Lay Dreaming
Häftad, 2022
146 kr
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In the small hours of January 1st, 1919, the cruellest twist of fate changed at a stroke the lives of an entire community. Tormod Morrison was there that terrible night. He was on board HMY Iolaire when it smashed into rocks and sank, killing some 200 servicemen on the very last leg of their long …
Call of the Cormorant
Häftad, 2022
127 kr
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From the author of the prize-winning As the Women Lay Dreaming comes a remarkable ‘unreliable biography’ of Karl Kjerúlf Einarsson: an artist and an adventurer, a charlatan and a swindler, forever in search of Atlantis.As a child in the windswept, fog-bound Faroe Islands in the late nineteenth …
Salt and the Flame
Häftad, 2024
127 kr
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April 21, 1923. The SS Metagama is inching out of Stornoway harbour on the Isle of Lewis, bound for Canada. On board are Finlay and Mairead; they are young and hopeful, leaving behind a community that has been touched by tragedy to change their lives forever…On the other side of the Atlantic, …
Loch of the Bees
Häftad, 2026
142 kr
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From the author of the prizewinning As the Women Lay Dreaming comes an evocative and deeply original novel that reimagines the lives of Hebrideans across the centuries, sweeping from the eighth century to the present day.Interlinked stories unfold across generations, layered like blankets of peat, …
The Italian Chapel, Orkney
Häftad, 2017
119 kr
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Thousands of visitors go to the Italian Chapel in Orkney every year, witnesses to a series of remarkable acts of transformation. Among these are the Churchill Barriers nearby, straddling the ocean to link a number of Orkney's southernmost islands to its mainland. Constructed to protect Britain's …
Guga Hunters
Häftad, 2022
134 kr
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Every year, ten men from Ness, at the northern tip of the Isle of Lewis, sail north-east for some forty miles to a remote rock called Sulasgeir. Their mission is to catch and harvest the guga; the almost fully grown gannet chicks nesting on the two hundred foot high cliffs that circle the tiny …
Guga Stone
Lies, Legends and Lunacies from St Kilda
Häftad, 2014
124 kr
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Place one guga [almost fully grown gannet chick] and one stone in a pan of water and boil. Once you can pierce the stone with a fork, the guga is ready for eating…Meet Calum.In 1930, the last remaining St Kildans evacuated their isolated outpost 100 miles off the west coast of Scotland. Calum …
