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Biography There are 28 products.
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Close To Where The Heart Gives Out
Review(s): 0A Year in the Life of an Orkney Doctor. By Malcolm Alexander.
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Orkney Isle Endearing
Review(s): 0Memories of a vibrant Rousay childhood in the 1920s and 40s. Enter the childhood world of Phebe Marwick, who grew up in the Wasbister district of Rousay in the inter-war years. Formerly 'Rousay Remembered', freshly updated with additional stories, photos and poetry. Paperback.
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An Orkney Boyhood
Review(s): 0Duncan Cameron Mackenzie's recollections of his post-war childhood on Burray.
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Welcome Home, Prime Minister
Review(s): 0A Duty Clerk at 10 Downing Street, 1983 to 1985. By Orkney based writer Cameron Taylor. Paperback.
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North to South
Review(s): 0Tales of my travels from Alaska to New Zealand. By Kate Barrett. A4 Paperback.
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My Island
Review(s): 0The true story of a silent challenge. Hamish Rosie was born a health baby at his home on the windswept island of South Ronaldsay, off the north coast of Scotland, but at only ten months he contracted meningitis, leaving him profoundly deaf. By Maggie Gordon. Illustrated bu Hamish Rosie.
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A Ba' Player's Journey
Review(s): 0Alan Findlay's story of his journey as a Ba' player, as interviewed by Robert Leslie and with photographs. A4 paper booklet.
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Chrissie's Bodle
Review(s): 0Discovering Orkney's forgotten writer Christina M. Costie. By Rgnhild Ljosland.
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Mary Brunton: The Forgotten Scottish Novelist
Review(s): 0Who would have thought that plain Mary Balfour, born and bred in the far Orkney's, would become Mary Brunton, best selling novelist, rival in her time to Jane Austen, and a leading light in Edinburgh's then flourishing and sophisticated literary circles?... By Mary McKerrow. Foreword by Fay Weldon. Hardback.
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Memories of the S.S Earl Thorfinn
Review(s): 0Billy Cardno served as a cabin boy on the S.S Earl Thorfinn from 1958 until 1961. Here we share his memories of that time, from his first steps on the deck to the ship's final days. A revised and extended reprint of Sailing With Steam. A5 booklet.
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The Clearing
Review(s): 0A memoir of art, family and mental health' from an Orkney based author. By Samantha Clark. Paperback.
£ 8.99
