Books
New Publications
George P.S. Peterson
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collection which brings together a wide range of George’s work – much of it written in Shetland dialect and previously unpublished.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.
Magnie Shearer. Illustrated by Katherine Laidlay
Kevin Jones
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.
Douglas Smith
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.
Lawrence Tulloch
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.
Kaare Iversen
Janice Armstrong & Meilo So
...Dragons and telescopes, red paint and
sea charts...find out in this lively
adventure with Magnus
and his friends.
David Howarth
Our
bestseller now reprinted for a fifth time.
A classic
story of secret wartime missions across the
Dark winters provided the perfect cover for missions to
occupied
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.
