It tells the story of how 19-year-old Joseph went out to West Africa to assist an established merchant, returned home 11 years later a rich man and what he did next.
Book Review: ‘Paper Cup’ by Karen Campbell
” with every page I shivered with love and warmth and nostalgia at every thinly veiled reference to the people and places that made me and, for all their paradoxes, informed my worldview.”
Exploring the Dundee & Orkney Origins of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein – Sàr-sgeòil: Frankenstein
A new BBC ALBA documentary explores how the roots of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein – and its monster – can be traced to Scotland. It airs on BBC ALBA on Thursday, June 9 at 9pm
A Bit of Rebellion for Father’s Day
Rebel Orkney: Tales of insurrection from Orcadian history is available to order from all good book sellers
Oxfam and Robert Rendall’s ‘Orkney Shore’
” In this book the autobiographical thread is the indispensable bit of twine round which local nature lore has been crystalized: the records of Orkney marine life from past and present are the sugar candy.” Robert Rendall
Orkney’s WW2 Radar Stations in New Book
Radar in Scotland: 1938-46 has been a passion project for its author, Ian Brown who has been researching the country’s radar sites for 35 years.
New book on geology and landscape of the British Lake District
“Ian, Stuart and Bruce lace their book with some of the best landscape images of the Lake District that I have come across, which invite you to read the text.”
Book Review: ‘Conquered By No One’
‘Conquered by No One: A People’s History of the Scots who made the Declaration of Arbroath in 1320’ takes us on the fascinating journey after Bannockburn through those who attached their seals to this iconic document.
Scotland The Best – The Islands: Peter Irvine’s Stunning New Book
Looking down on the Pierowall and its natural harbour in Westray, Orkney, Scotland. Image credit: Jim Richardson
‘Professor Challenger and his Lost Neolithic World’
“archaeoastronomy, standing stones and stone circles, cairns and their alignments, ancient rock carvings, interesting notches and shapes in the hills, the Ness of Brodgar, the work of Alexander Thom”