Monumental undertaking celebrates inter-county
United Through Sport, Orkney v Shetland – The story of the Junior Inter-County, by Jockie Wood. Published by The Orcadian Ltd at £23.99 and available
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‘Music that is often plaintive and appealing in equal measure’
Stir It Up. CD produced by Anderson High School music group Tunester.
READ FULL STORYMorton adventure story will be summer’s top read in the genre
Serpentine, by Tom Morton. Mainstream Publishing, £9.99. This interesting new thriller from Tom Morton is about The IRA, terrorists, golf, bomb plots, sabotage, murders, corruption…
READ FULL STORYCollection of lifeboat stories a stark reminder of valour shown by crews
Lifeboat Heroes by Edward Wake-Walker. Haynes Publishing, £19.99. Most of us can only try to imagine it. But there are a number of people in…
READ FULL STORYFine book on fishing
Kindly Folk and Bonny Boats, by Gloria Wilson. History Press, £12.99 When one is old enough to look back over quite a few decades, it’s…
READ FULL STORYAngling book with thoughts, insights and witticisms
Angling Lines – Fishing in Scotland by Bruce Sandison. Published by Black and White Publishing at £9.99. I first came across Bruce Sandison’s writings on…
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…
READ FULL STORYWorthy addition to range
Old Shetland, by Guthrie Hutton. Published by Stenlake, £13.95. Douglas Smith, who died in January, was a Lerwick boy through and through, although he lived…
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 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 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 STORYA glorious book but no local gardens
Close. A Journey in Scotland. Photography by Allan Pollok-Morris. Exhibition at Bonhoga Gallery from Saturday 14th February. This glorious coffee table book of photographs and…
READ FULL STORYDoctors’s first book definitely a Christmas gift contender
Bombs, Boils & Brushes … a Rural Doctor’s Notes by Dr R J Robertson. Published by The Shetland Times Ltd at £12.99. MOST of us…
READ FULL STORYSandison bestseller recalls town’s past
Memoirs of a Lerwick Boy, Bruce Sandison, The Shetland Times Ltd., £20 hardback, £11.99 paperback. BRUCE Sandison was captain of the Boys’ Brigade when I…
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