Posts Tagged ‘Reviews’

Some very different schooldays, but none the worse for all that

School Days 1951-62, by Gordon Smith. Published by Gordon Smith.

I can close my eyes, go back 50 years or so and bring it all – or a great deal of it – to life again: the swings, the football and rounders on the pitch, the Geo, the bandie pool. Dandy and Beano on Friday, news and weather forecasts only on the wireless.

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Coffee table book publishing, Norwegian style

Batalden: Shipwreck and Emi­gration, by Trond Strømgren. Strømgren Publishing.

Trond Strømgren is an unusual but confident Norwegian publisher. I say unusual because his imprint is “Strømgren Publishing: Batalden – New York – Tokyo”. You’d expect an international publisher to have office in the two cities right enough, but Batalden?

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Bolted together, Full Slag still come up with the goods

Fullsceilidh Spelemannslag are a complete pain in all sorts of ways.

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Magical adventures of Benny-benny Seawater

Benny-benny Seawater: The First Day of the Summer Holidays by Lisa Johnson, illustrated by Katherine Laidlay. Published by The Shetland Times, £6.99.

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Shakespeare influence evident as Irvine looks at seven ages of man

Four Score Years and Ten, by James W. Irvine. Published by A. Irvine, £11.40.

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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 from The Shetland Times Bookshop.

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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.

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Morton 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 and violence in the extreme.

The book is set initially in Gaza, as the hero of the story, Mark Murricane, is kidnapped while trying to free an already kidnapped businessman.…

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Collection 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 Shetland who know only too well what it is like to be woken from a warm, comfy bed in the early hours of a wild winter’s day by the alarm…

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Fine 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 somewhat disconcerting to realise that many things once universal and seemingly everlasting are now rare and historical. Such is the case with fishing boats; you’ll search far and wide today…

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