Leaving Caldey
Jon Woolcott contemplates the family histories lost to time. Lacuna: noun 1. lake, 2. a hiatus, blank, missing part. My...
25th May 2022
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The Summer Book
This week, in celebration of its 50th Anniversary, Sort of Books republish Tove Jansson's 'Summer Book' with a brand new afterword...5th May 2022
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Archipelago: A Reader
Katherine Venn delves into an extensive volume celebrating the output of Archipelago magazine, which published poetry, prose, and visual art...5th January 2022
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Many Rivers to Cross: The Kerrera Ferry
Melissa Mouchemore's latest ferry crossing takes her to the Inner Hebrides. Don’t expect to find the Kerrera ferry mustering with...12th December 2021
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Notes from an Island
Tove Jansson and Tuulikki Pietilä's 'Notes from an Island', a chronicle of the time spent by the couple at their...13th November 2021
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The Island 1961
Today Erland Cooper releases his The Island 1961 EP. Comprising music, words from Tove Jansson's 1961 essay The Island, read...17th June 2021
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Going Home
Now a long-term resident of Tasmania, Ruth Dawkins returns to her childhood home on the Outer Hebridean Isle of Harris....19th March 2021
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Helpston to Bernera / Commoners to Crofters
Jim Ghedi gives insight into the lands and legacies which shaped his upcoming album, and shares a live session filmed...20th November 2020
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Island Dreams: reviewed
Nick Small delves into Gavin Francis's Island Dreams: Mapping an Obsession — an exploration of isolation and connectedness based on...12th November 2020
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Island Dreams
In Island Dreams: Mapping an Obsession, recently published by Canongate, Gavin Francis sheds new light on the importance of islands...5th November 2020
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Three Letters by Tove Jansson
As he embarks on the writing of his next book, Dan Richards delves into the correspondences of Tove Jansson. Last...25th October 2020
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The Summer Isles
The Summer Isles: A Voyage of the Imagination - Sue Brooks reviews Philip Marsden's latest, our Book of the Month...24th October 2019
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Sands, sounds and bearings: Maps with no land
Sands, sounds and bearings: Maps with no land Maps are not ways of escaping. Things were always going to turn...29th November 2016
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Hy Brasil
An extract from The Un-Discovered Islands by Malachy Tallack (Birlinn, hardback, 152 pages. Out now.) In the second of two...27th November 2016
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Love of Country
Love of Country: A Hebridean Journey by Madeleine Bunting (Granta, hardcover, 368 pages. Out now.) Review by Sue Brooks One...6th November 2016
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The Un-Discovered Islands
The Un-Discovered Islands by Malachy Tallack (Birlinn, hardback, 152 pages. Out now.) From ancient times right up to the present...15th October 2016
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January Gales in Orkney
Eastside surf. Photo: Sarah Sankey Words: Steve Sankey. For weeks now the islands have been lashed by southerly gales, sometimes...30th January 2016
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Sixty Degrees North: Around the World in Search of Home
The Caught by the River Book of the Month Malachy Tallack - Sixty Degrees North: Around the World in Search...17th July 2015