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Aald Papa, I'm Dine!
George P.S. Peterson
George P. S. Peterson has been a regular contributor to Shetland Life and The New Shetlander magazines for many years but this is the first time his writing has appeared in book format for over 16 years.

Auld Papa I’m Dine! is a diverse collection which brings together a wide range of George’s work – much of it written in Shetland dialect and previously unpublished. History, short stories, poetry, trowie tales and bedtime stories for children, all feature, and are complemented by the author’s own illustrations.
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Cats, Clouds and Flatpacks!
Magnie Shearer. Illustrated by Katherine Laidlay
We were born with the gift of laughter. It lifts our spirits and makes us feel happy. Laughter is a contagious emotion. It can bring people together. It can help us feel more alive. Laughter can help you feel better about yourself and the world around you. Laughter can be a natural diversion. When you laugh, no other thought comes to mind. After laughing for only a few minutes, you may feel better for hours.
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Images of Shetland Sport 2009
Kevin Jones
Kevin Jones began his passion for photography relatively recently. What started life as a hobby has now become a little more than that as he now provides the readers of The Shetland Times and Shetland Life with very many of their sporting moments in time.

This collection of over 150 images from 2009 captures a wide range of the very many sports taking place within a Shetland calendar year. The Island Games in Äland, rowing, football, hockey, netball, volleyball, badminton and equestrian sport to name a handful are covered as Kevin captures the action and the winners.
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Noo Dan
Douglas Smith
This is Douglas Smith's first book, although he has become a familiar writer with many articles published in local journals, mainly relating to the links between Shetland and Norway during the Second World War.

Here Douglas Smith outlines his family story with its ties to Lerwick and writes of growing up and his schooldays in the very different town landscape of the thirties and as a youngster in wartime Shetland when he witnessed the aftermath of a fatal mine blast and German Heinkels attacking a seaplane in the north harbour.

Douglas Smith’s work gave him an unparalleled insight into the changing fortunes of the islands as conditions gradually improved over the years. It also involved him in many of the environmental issues raised by the arrival of the oil industry in the islands in the 1970s.
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On the Rocks - A lightkeepers's tale
Lawrence Tulloch
The history and architecture of lighthouses has been well documented. But what of the people who lived and worked on the lights around our coastline?

When Lawrence Tulloch became a lightkeeper aged twenty-eight it gave him and his family job security and a home. In On the Rocks a lightkeeper's tale he looks back at the work and routines involved in keeping lights from Muckle Flugga to Chicken Rock and recounts the ups and downs of living in close proximity with other keepers. Many became friends for life, but great patience had to be exercised with those few who made things a bit difficult. The characters he met and the stories they had to tell bring a vanished era back to life.
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Shetland Bus Man
Kaare Iversen
Shetland Bus Man is the unique memoir of a Norwegian Resistance man who escaped from German occupied Norway in 1941. He made the hazardous journey across the North Sea in a small fishing boat with a number of other men, to continue the war against the German force from secret bases in the Shetland Islands.
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The Grumpy Old Sailor
Janice Armstrong & Meilo So
What on earth is that grumpy old sailor up to?
...Dragons and telescopes, red paint and
sea charts...find out in this lively
adventure with Magnus
and his friends.
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The Shetland Bus
David Howarth

Our bestseller now reprinted for a fifth time.

 

A classic story of secret wartime missions across the North Sea.

 

Dark winters provided the perfect cover for missions to occupied Norway during the Second World War, and the closes base was from Britain’s most northerly group of islands, Shetland. Most Norwegians knew about the “Shetland Bus”, which did not go overland, but across the North Sea, taking supplies and saboteurs into the fjords under the noses of the Germans, and taking refugees to safety on the return journey – journeys in small fishing boats which covered thousands of miles, testing the skills of the Norwegian seamen who risked their lives in hurricanes, fog and darkness to make the crossing.

 

David Howarth was a junior naval officer who helped set up and operate the base. His story is of successes and failures, and the courage, skill and adventurous spirit of the men who risked their lives on the Shetland Bus.

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