New Life tackles all the issues, big and small
The June edition of the Shetland Life magazine goes on sale today, and proves to be one of the best for some time. Very interesting…
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Morton publishes thriller novel featuring Bond ‘successor’
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….
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By 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 STORYLife includes history, dialect, green issues and belly dancing
A 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 STORY‘By the time I got to the end I was sairly disappointed …’
Portrait 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…
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Children’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…
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By 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 STORYLightsome magazine
The 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 STORYGöd Man med da heevens and da aert – minister writes dialect bible
By 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 STORYLatest Life on sale now
The 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 STORYThe story of how the post office staff were locked up
Spy 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 STORYLeading TV producer buys rights to film Cleeves crime quartet
By 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 STORYEmphasis on location outdoes the story
Red 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 STORYLatest offerings in monthly Life
This month, Shetland Life contributors dip into a host of interesting subjects. The features are kicked off by Neil Riddell, who offers up an informed…
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