Shetland-based broadcaster, author and journalist Tom Morton has published a thriller, Serpentine, which features an isles-born hero identified as a successor to the legendary 007….
READ FULL STORYBy LOUISE THOMASON Pupils in Shetland got a treat last week when acclaimed children’s author Steve Cole visited various schools as part of the Scottish…
READ FULL STORYA varied selection of articles is on offer in this month’s Shetland Life, on sale today. Editor Malachy Tallack discusses the possible decline of the…
READ FULL STORYPortrait of the Northern Isles, by Graham Uney. Halsgrove, £14.99 The publisher’s blurb on the jacket of Portrait of the Northern Isles says it is…
READ FULL STORYChildren’s writer Steve Cole, author of the best-selling Astrosaurs series, will be talking to over 400 Shetland children over three days when he visits local…
READ FULL STORYBy ROSALIND GRIFFITHS Less than a year ago writer Cathy Feeny abandoned the south of France for the wilder shores of Shetland. The isolation, peace…
READ FULL STORYThe current New Shetlander, number 247, is a lightsome and varied issue. An extract from the poem Mindin by the late Willie Barclay of Hoswick…
READ FULL STORYBy RYAN TAYLOR At da very start da Göd Man med da heevens an da aert. Da aert hed nae shape tae it an dir…
READ FULL STORYThe March issue of Shetland Life is teeming with a host of features, covering politics, history and crime. The magazine’s features are kicked off with…
READ FULL STORYSpy Fever: The Post Office Affair by Margaret Flaws. Published by The Shetland Times at £14.99. It’s very seldom that an editorial in The Shetland…
READ FULL STORYBy PAUL RIDDELL Crime writer Ann Cleeves’ quartet of novels set in Shetland may be turned into a prime-time television drama series after a leading…
READ FULL STORYRed Bones by Ann Cleeves. Published by Macmillan, £16.99. Location plays an ever important role in crime fiction these days. Inspector Morse, for example, would…
READ FULL STORYThis month, Shetland Life contributors dip into a host of interesting subjects. The features are kicked off by Neil Riddell, who offers up an informed…
READ FULL STORYThe third novel in Ann Cleeves’ Shetland quartet will be launched on Tuesday at the Shetland Library. The book, Red Bones, begins with the discovery…
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