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tel. +44(0)1595 695531 2009Page 2 The Shetland Times Bookshop Page 2009 2 CONTENTS

About us! ...... 2

Shetland – General ...... 3

Shetland – Knitting ...... 14

Shetland – Music ...... 15

Shetland – Nature ...... 16

Shetland – Nautical ...... 17

Children – Shetland/...... 18

Orkney – Mackay Brown ...... 20

Orkney ...... 20

Scottish A- ...... 21

Shetland – Viking & ...... 22

Shetland Maps ...... 23

Shetland/Orkney Videos/DVDs...... 24

Shetland – CDs/Cassettes ...... 24

Orkney – CDs ...... 26

Scottish – CDs ...... 27

Scottish Videos/DVDs ...... 28

How to order ...... 29

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Postage and Packing ...... 31 2009 The Shetland Times Bookshop Page 3 ABOUT US!

Ever since its first issue, way back in 1872, The Shetland Times has faithfully reported on island affairs and is Shetland’s longest standing weekly newspaper. Today, The Shetland Times prints and publishes much of the literature available in the islands, and these titles, along with almost every other Shetland book in print can be found in The Shetland Times Bookshop – the biggest in Shetland and better stocked than most bookshops of comparable size on the Mainland. Able to give your order personal service, we have professional staff, and are members of the Booksellers Association.

Our mail order service has been established for many years. In this list you will find details of Shetland, Orkney, Scottish and Viking books, together with a selection of children’s books. The listings are in alphabetical order, by author, to make it easier for you to find titles by a particular author. A reference number is shown at the end of each description. If the book you are looking for is not on the list it may well be in stock anyway. If not, then we will try to get it for you. As part of our service we receive regular bibliographic updates on CD-ROM which enables us to offer a first class service on customers’ special orders. Simply fill in the order form with the book you require and let us search and order for you.

Shetlanders have a reputation for hospitality and we make every effort to ensure your visit is an enjoyable one. Our bookshop is well known to visitors to Shetland and many continue to use our services long after their trip is over. Here are a few comments from our visitors’ book & internet customers:-

“It was very difficult to choose from such a selection”, Ms. Tocher, Stavanger, . “Love this shop! And the postal service”, Mary Veazey, Luton, . “Good as any bookshop in Lincoln! Must leave or bankrupt !”, Kelley, Lincoln. “Thank you so much for making the culture of Shetland available to those of us who have a keen interest but are unable to travel there at present”, internet customer, Vermont, USA. “This shop is an example for everybody – Ggrreeaatt”, Serge Beuchillot, . “A visit to Shetland isn’t complete if you don’t visit the Shetland Times Bookshop”, Sue Cockayne, Derbyshire. “I came, I saw, I bought books”, Jarrell Thompson, Zambia Page 4 The Shetland Times Bookshop 2009

Shetland – General Orkney and Shetland: A Guide £15.00 A guide to the unique Orkney and Shetland islands. 50229 Town Hall £5.95 A historical insight to produced to Trout in Shetland (Shetland Anglers celebrate its 125th anniversary. 91909 Association) – Reprinting £9.95 Revised edition of Shetland Anglers Association booklet. Shetland Museums and Archives Guidebook £5.00 With colour illustrations. 32374 This beautifully presented guidebook weaves together history and information. 91667 Shetland Special Issue 1999: Vernacular Building 23 £3.00 Old Guide £5.00 The papers in this Shetland issue of Vernacular Building, the A well illustrated introduction to Broch & annual journal of the Scottish Vernacular Buildings Work Irone Age Village. 91668 Group, stem from the memorable annual conference located in Lerwick and in May 1997, celebrating the , The Impossible £6.00 Group’s twenty-fifth anniversary. 317 History of Britain’s most northerly lighthouse. 93357 Moving On’s Top Tips Specials – Recipes £4.50 This practical book contains something for everyone with A book of recipes donated by people of all denominations tips on cooking, cleaning, gardening, health, exercise, DIY in the district of Sandsting. The book was produced to raise and saving money. 93359 funds for the Window Fund of Sand Church. 314 Identity: Essays. Shetland 2009, North Idea £3.60 Guide to and £0.75 Identity is a collection of four short essays, taking very Explore south Shetland and Fair Isle with this handy little different angles on Shetland Identity. The writers – Thomas booklet which contains information about wildlife, walks Simchak, Malachy Tallach, Williamson and Mark and history. 301 Ryan – examine oil, landscape, exile and literature respectively. A series of three images by the artist Roberto More Hamar Nights £5.99 Getto accompany the essays. 95075 Selected poetry and prose from Unst Writers’ Group. This volume follows on from the group’s first volume, Hamar Shepherd’s Delight £3.50 Nights, which was short-listed for the 1995 Shetland Recipes for Shetland lamb and mutton collected and Literary Prize. 19234 compiled by The Shetland Society. 95076 Shetland Breeds £16.00 West Norden World Today slipcased set £80.00 Chapters by experts describe , Cattle, Pony, This cased set includes , Greenland Islands, Shetland Geese and more, revealing their special traits; a geneticist Islands and Today. 93274 probes hereditary; a historian plumbs the past; islanders Cats Protection Shetland 20 £5.00 offer their views and wisdom in this anthology of life. Booklet celebrating 20 years of caring for cats in Shetland. 64772 79111 Memorial Booklet Ancient Monuments of Shetland £4.99 Shetland Bus Friendship Society £3.00 This colourful guide brings history alive and will be enjoyed Souvenir booklet produced for the Shetland Bus Memorial. by anyone interested in Scotland’s . 72805 66071

Shetland In Statistics 2008 £4.00 : A Walk Through the Past £2.95 The latest statistics for Shetland. Includes weather, Fully illustrated booklet takes you on a tour through the population, economy, industry and employment, etc. Also settlement at Jarlshof. 17012 contains helpful and interesting information for visitors and locals alike. 95140 North £3.60 An open invitation was given to submit work for this Noss National Nature Reserve £3.50 collection exploring the themes, images and ideas of north. Guide to the island of Noss where tens of thousands of 87762 birds breed. 76425 Shetland Folk Festival: 25 Years Young £5.00 What Do You See? £5.00 Booklet to celebrate 25 years of the Shetland Folk Festival. New writing from the Annsbrae Just Writing Group. Contains history, photographs and stories. 76340 86616 Up-Helly-A’: Fire Festival at the Turn of the Century Song of the Lark £6.99 Agnes, Sister Mary £7.99 A selection of photographs and descriptions of the event The story of the growth of a family of God on the island of which would make an ideal souvenir. 45564 . 3753 2009 The Shetland Times Bookshop Page 5

For Love Alone Shetland Land of the Ocean Agnes, Mother Mary £7.99 Baxter, Colin and Crumley, Jim £12.50 This is the fourth book in a series, which continues the This book is the fourth collaboration of photographer story of the religious community, which the author Colin Baxter and writer Jim Crumley, whose fascination for founded on the remote island of Fetlar. 66484 wild landscapes is reflected in all their work. In this ambitious joint venture, they have produced a book, which Atween Da Hills fuses light and landscape, life and wildlife, history and Aald Daa an Freends £12.00 controversy into a beautiful and original of A collection of prose and poetry etc., originating from the Shetland – Land of the Ocean. 32698 valley of Daleslees. Most of the material is by Aald Daa better known as Cavy Johnson and his little sister Beth County Folklore Vol III, Orkney and Shetland Isles Gerrard. 60374 Black, George F. £14.00 Aest an Wast da Hill Facsimile edition of 1903 edition. 13340 Aald Daa an Freends £12.00 Like it’s predecessor Atween Da Hills, this book is a Shetland collection of poetry, prose, and music from Cavy Johnson, Blackadder, Jill Slee Hardback £17.95 his sister Beth Gerrard, and some of their friends and This guide traces the from early times, acquaintances. 69939 exploring its landscape and legends, its archaeology and natural history. It is illustrated with drawings, colour Myth and Materiality in a Woman’s World: Shetland photographs and maps which enhance the rich tapestry of 1800-2000 land, sea, wildlife and human life which is the story of Abrams, Lynn £49.99 Shetland. 87185 Shetland has a history unique in Europe, for over the past two centuries it was a place where women dominated the Riptide family, economy, and the cultural imagination. Women ran Blackie, Sharon and Knowles, David edited by £8.99 households and crofts without men. They maintained This diverse collection of new fiction and poetry from the families and communities because men were absent. This showcases the work both of book examines how Shetland became a female place, and established writers and of new names to watch. The offers the answers as to how the inhabitants transgressed Shetland authors represented are Donald S. Murray, Elyse and reversed their traditional gender role. 78180 Jamieson, Laureen Johnson and Mark Ryan Smith. 84622

The Pull of the Moon or Bicycle Dreams £6.99 Sacrifice Anderson, Donald and Cluness, Alex Edited by Bolton, S.J. £6.99 New Shetland creative writing anthology published by the Shetland Arts Trust. 72762 A heart-racing, dark, energetic debut thriller set in Shetland. 93300 Shetland Documents 1195-1579 Ballantyne & Smith £22.00 Two Calves in the House A collection of texts from the medieval and early modern Edited by Bowes, Harold R. £15.00 period. It commences in the middle ages, when Shetland The Shetland Isles in the 1820s were full of surprises. Not was administered directly from Norway, and ends during least for a newly-arrived, not-long-married missionary like years when Shetlanders were coming to terms with new John Lewis. For six years he’d been a pioneer in rulers from Scotland. 39558 Newfoundland. As Shetland Methodism grew he found large, eager crowds. Another time, disappointment. His BEAline to the Islands recently discovered private journal is an eye-opener to a Bao & Hutchison, Phil Lo & Iain £14.95 21st century reader. 78634 The story of air services to offshore communities of the by , its predecessors A Stitch in Time and successors. 58121 Brown, Christine £6.00 Booklet detailing the history of Unst’s fine lace knitting. Zander’s Boat 212 Barnes, Grace £3.50 A play in one act by Grace Barnes and produced by The History of Shetland Badminton Skeklers Theatre Company. 209 Compiled by Burgess, George, Anderson, Rob, of Orkney and Shetland, The Peterson, Jim, Haining, Maurice. £20.00 Barnes, Michael £9.95 89179 Tracing the history of Norn language. First comprehensive account of Norn to appear since early part of this century Jarm and Jeemsie and first to treat both Orkney and Shetland Norn together. Busch, Wilhelm £1.50 Written by professor of Scandinavian Studies at University German poem for children translated into . College . 27513 3746 Page 6 The Shetland Times Bookshop 2009

A Kishie O Monkeys White Nights (AN ALMOST VERTICAL PHANTASMAGORIA) Cleeves, Ann £6.99 Cash, Mackenzie £9.99 This thrilling new novel continues the Jimmy Perez series This collection of poems by the late Mackenzie Cash (Peter set in Shetland by the author of Raven Black. 93944 Mackenzie) contains many humorous poems in dialect. 87766 Raven Black Cleeves, Ann £6.99 Travels in Shetland 1832-52 An intriguing and sinister psychological novel set in Charlton, Edward £10.99 Shetland. Winner of the 2006 Duncan Lawrie Dagger for Edward Charlton’s journals give a vivid picture of Shetland the best crime novel. 81600 in the 1830s, and the changes by the author on a return visit in 1852. 87461 Told Round the Fire Cluness, A.T. £9.95 Nor Heard the Clock Strike Collection of short stories from Unst scholar and historian, Christie-Johnston, Alistair £8.99 first published in 1955. 7442 The author was born in the North Yell manse . Though he has lived much of his life in Australia, Alistair has 2005 never lost his deep felt love of Shetland and Shetlanders. Cluness, Alex £3.00 This novel reflects this love. As a keen hiker and naturalist, A series of poems about someone who is very much in Alistair has explored many of Shetland’s more remote love, but living it through the filter of the fantasy world of districts. His description of the landscape coupled with a cinema. 77585 humorous glimpse into the lives of a community makes this an easy feel good read. 73029 Disguise Cluness, Alex £3.00 HEARD: Past, Present and Future Selection of poems composed by Alex Cluness. 70041 & Eshaness Area Regeneration & Development Shetland and Other Poems Christie, Pat £3.00 Cluness, Alex £5.99 A brief encounter with the wealth of oral history in the Collection of poetry from Shetland Arts Trust Literature Hillswick and Eshaness area. 208 Development Officer and former New Shetlander editor. 59734 – The War Years Remembered Christie, Pat, Edited by £4.00 Sips of Shetland: the essence of an archipelago The second in a series of booklets aimed at collecting and Cooper, David £32.00 preserving the memories of the people of Northmavine This book contains a collection of moments worthy of who remember how the activities of the home front were being savoured. Captured by the camera of Didier Piquer affected by World War Two. 80591 with comments by David Cooper. 86549 Broken Music Hardy Plants in the North Chiesa, Vittorio £3.99 Copland, John £5.99 A collection of verse by Vittorio Chiesa who has spent Making gardeners more aware of the great number of most of his adult life between Shetland and South Africa. hardy and beautiful plants in Shetland is one of the main 82855 aims of this book. 23083 150th Anniversary of Lerwick Parish Church Fishing in Fetar Clausen & Manson £1.20 Coull, James R. £4.50 Booklet celebrating 150 years of Lerwick Parish Church. The general story and records of the Board and of 484 Hay and Company. 78998 St ’s Isle Treasure and 1299 Clarke, David £3.99 Crawford, Barbara £18.00 This booklet has been produced by National Museums Commemorating the 700th anniversary of Shetland’s first Scotland, working with the , to document. 60209 mark the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the discovery of the treasure. 92880 The in the North Atlantic: Environment and History Red Bones Crawford, Barbara E., Edited by £14.00 Cleeves, Ann £16.99 The Proceedings of a Day Conference held on 24th When a young archaeologist studying on a site at February 2001 61488 discovers a set of human remains – the island community is intrigued. Is it an ancient find – or a more contemporary Islands of the Simmer Dim mystery? With Fran in London, and surrounded by people Craig, Stuart £12.00 he doesn’t know and a community he has no links with – Stuart Craig is a dentist with a passion for cycling Jimmy finds himself out of depth. The third novel in Ann in the highlands and islands. This is an account of his travels Cleeves’ award-winning Shetland quartet. 93356 in Orkney and Shetland. 77502 2009 The Shetland Times Bookshop Page 7

A Tunnel of Love The Sea Road Dargie, Gordon £4.50 Elphinstone, Margaret £7.99 Gordon Dargie’s is a new and gripping poetic voice, A haunting and compelling historical novel. The Sea Road is delivering a sequence of sonnets of remarkable power and an ambitious re-telling of the Viking exploration of the subtlety. 93808 North Atlantic from the viewpoint of one extraordinary woman. 53876 The Early English Settlements of Orkney and Shetland Davis, Graeme £9.99 Wylks, Wind an Weevils This book challenges some of the longest-held beliefs about Edwardson, Jack £5.99 the settlement of Orkney and Shetland and casts new light A collection of Shetland poems. 52437 on the origins and history of the first island settlers. 88552 Coastal Names of Fair Isle Dodie’s Phenomenal Pheesic Eunson, J. £4.50 De Luca, Christine £5.99 This collection of place names were collected by the late Translation of Roald Dahl’s ‘George’s Marvellous Jerry Eunson. 87745 Medicine’ into Shetland Dialect. 92863 Eight Acres and a Boat Parallel Worlds: Poems from Shetland Eunson, Jerry £14.00 De Luca, Christine £8.99 Two hundred years of crofting in Fair Isle. 87932 Written in dialect the poems in this title evoke a simple and Flittin in Fetlar pure way of life. 76701 Fetlar, Interpretive Centre £6.60 Mondes Paralleles Recalling peat work in the island of Fetlar – a photographic De Luca,Christine £9.65 history. 302 A bi-lingual anthology of poems translated to French from Shetland’s Remember English and Shetland Dialect. 86402 Fraser, Gibbie, Compiled by £14.00 These stories give an insight into the different jobs that Wast wi’ da Valkyries made up a whaling expedition and is an historical record of De Luca, Christine £8.99 the men and a job that was so important to Shetland’s Poems in English and Shetland dialect by Shetland born economy at that time. 67743 poet, Christine De Luca. Voes and Sounds, her first collection, is also available. 31169 Prehistoric and Viking Shetland Fojut, Noel £19.99 Plain Song: Poems in English & Shetland Dialect Outlining the life of prehistoric communities in Shetland De Luca, Christine Book £10.00 from earliest traces of human habitation to start of Norse Book & CD £12.50 settlement. New edition which has been updated to take New Poems by Shetland born poet Christine de Luca. account of recent and current thinking. 79511 60246/60247 Cultural Contacts in the North Atlantic Region: The Old Scatness Excavation Manual Evidence of Names Dockrill, Steve £13.50 Edited by : Gammeltoft, Peder, Hough, This book began as a manual to help both students and Carole, Waugh, Doreen £10.00 volunteers to understand how and why things are done as This book is a collection of papers based on talks given at they are at Old Scatness. 86980 an international conference held in Shetland in April 2003. Court Book of Shetland, 1615-29 79167 Donaldson, Gordon (Ed.) £8.50 John Walker’s Shetland The work of Crown officials following the downfall of Gear, Wendy £14.99 Patrick Stewart. 3791 Who was John Walker? Everyone in the isles would have Prehistoric Houses at in Shetland something to say about this controversial character who Downes, Jane £20.00 stands out in the 19th century Shetland. He was probably Excavations at in the 60’s and 70’s most widely despised because of his links with the discovered stone built houses of the later and clearances but was also involved in many other activites the early Iron Age. This report describes the results of the during this interesting period of Shetland’s history. 77371 excavations (stone walls, paved areas, hearths, cubicles) : Island West of the Sun and of the analysis of the stratigraphy and the positions of Gear, Sheila £10.00 the artefacts. Includes drawings and photos. 45725 The portrayal of life ‘on ’, season by season, as seen through the eyes of an islander. Some Sketches and Tales of the Shetland Islands illustrations. 3759 Edmonston, Eliza £29.95 Facsimile reprint of the 1856 edition. Smeegin Wi Smirk I This book gives a general and topographical sketch of the Gordon, Stephen £1.75 islands. It also covers , knitting and smugglers First collection of cartoons from infamous cartoonist Smirk tales. 67779 in Shetland dialect. 6252 Page 8 The Shetland Times Bookshop 2009

Smeegin Wi Smirk IV Walking the Coastline of Shetland No. 3 – Fetlar Gordon, Stephen £5.00 Guy, Peter £10.99 Fourth collection of cartoons from infamous Shetland Descriptive walks around the island of Fetlar. New revised cartoonist Smirk in Shetland dialect. 6251 edition with colour illustrations. 89766 Shetland Anthology Graham, John J. (Ed.) £15.95 Walking the Coastline of Shetland No. 4 – The most comprehensive anthology of Shetland poetry yet. Northmavine Poetry from: Haldane Burgess, Basil Anderson, Jack Guy, Peter £9.99 Peterson and as well as modern poets such as An enlarged and updated edition of the fourth of his seven Rhoda Bulter and Christine De Luca. 39038 titles in the highly acclaimed “Walking the Coastline of Shetland” series. 79510 Shetland Dictionary: Revised Edition Graham, John J. £9.99 Walking the Coastline of Shetland No. 5 – Westside Revised edition with over 150 additional words. Contains Guy, Peter £9.99 an introduction which includes history, pronunciation, Descriptive walks around the Westside of Shetland. etymology and grammar; the main word-list gives Paperback. Includes colour photographs. 16108 thousands of Shetland words still in use and their English equivalents; and an English-Shetland section is designed to Walking the Coastline of Shetland 6 – give the non-Shetland speakers a grounding in Shetland Guy, Peter £8.99 dialect and idiom. Quotations show Shetland words in context and the dictionary is designed for academic and This book is a mine of information about the history and everyday use. 42330 folklore associated with the life of the crofting and fishing communities established here. It is illustrated throughout Vehement Thirst After Knowledge, A with route maps, photographs and diagrams, describes Graham, John J. £20.00 memorable walks around them all. 45738 The history of education in Shetland over four centuries. 35979 Walking the Coastline of Shetland No. 7 – Eastside Love’s Laebrack Sang: Collection of Poems Guy, Peter £9.99 Graham, Lollie £7.95 Descriptive walks around the Eastside of Shetland. 69801 Shetland has produced fine poets during the past century, and Lollie Graham is one of the best of them. He uses Nigh-no-place poetry to celebrate what’s admirable in Shetland and the Hadfield, Jen £7.95 world. 49128 Presents the liturgy of a poet passionately aware of the natural world. 89568 A Shetland Bible Greig, Charles £9.99 Where to Watch Birds in Shetland 81 of the most popular Bible stories in Shetland dialect. Harrop, Hugh £6.00 Illustrated by Smirk. Includes a free CD. 95074. A very useful book that covers birding in Shetland in NOT YET PUBLISHED – DUE SEPTEMBER sections. It details over seventy localities. Each site includes A Rich Heritage detailed directions on how to reach the area, optimum time Greig, Charles £6.99 of year to visit and a guideline of what species are likely to A charming book of Shetland verses illustrated with be seen. 46303 photographs of traditional scenes. 64600 Diary of the Reverend John Mills, Minister of the Parish Bella of Dunrossness, Sandwick and in Hill, Ann £4.99 Shetland 1740-1803 Memories of Bella Hunter of Lerwick. 3745 Goudie, Gilbert £18.35 This work is presented in chronological order, leading the Peerie Peek At Da Past, A reader into the life of a minister in Shetland during the Hobbin, Agnes £8.99 second half of the 1700s. 67552 Loosely divided into three parts it begins with memories of childhood and growing up on a . 48979 Walking the Coastline of Shetland No. 1 – Island of Yell Mackerel at Midnight Guy, Peter £6.95 Hofman, Ethel £9.99 The first in a series of descriptive walks around Shetland’s This is a collection of remarkable stories about the meeting coastline giving distances and times. New revised edition of two diverse cultures in a unique landscape. Fleeing with colour illustrations. 7122 Russia a century ago the author’s family finds a safe haven Walking the Coastline of Shetland No. 2 – Unst in Lerwick, where they open “Greenvald’s”, the shop on Guy, Peter £9.99 Commercial Street. Her father, Harry, embraced by the Descriptive walks around the island of Unst. New Revised locals, soon turns the shop into the beloved gathering place Edition. 53808 for “a good yarn and a dram of whisky.” 82969 2009 The Shetland Times Bookshop Page 9

The Isle of Foula Meandering Holbourn, Ian Stoughton £12.99 Irvine, James W. £10.50 This book, first published two years after the author’s Wandering through life with friends includes a chapter on death in 1935, bears witness to the extraordinary range of the local Home Guard and several little known wartime his knowledge of the island’s history and traditions, and activities. 88551 remains the classic account of Britain’s loneliest inhabited island. 54234 Footprints, Aspects of Shetland Life over the last 100 years The Holiday Planning Guide to Shetland Irvine, James W. £9.90 Holmes, Robin £14.99 Reprint of James W. Irvine’s first book which was first An independent guidebook on Shetland, written by a published in 1980 by the Education Committee 84587 visitor – for visitors. The book is a well-researched, To Be A Soldier referenced and illustrated guide. 62738 Irvine, James W. £8.40 James W. Irvine’s account of the First and Second World The Sledge Patrol Wars relies on what he has read and learnt from the men Howarth, David £7.99 who took part, and in the case of the WW2 he also speaks An amazing tale of seven brave men using dogsleds to from personal experience. 67013 patrol 500 miles of the forbidding coast of eastern Greenland, their wartime mission was to guard against The Final Curtain Nazi infiltration. 65962 Irvine, James W. £9.00 James W. Irvine’s last book and the follow up to “The Shetland Bus, The Waves Are Free”. 73169 Howarth, David £7.99 Good Old Days The story of the hazardous maritime operations between Irvine, James W. £7.50 Shetland and German-occupied Norway during the Second Details events and episodes in James Irvine’s life from World War. 36215 1920s until the 1960’s. 61494 Shetland Islands Today The Dunrossness Story Hroarsson (ed), Bjorn £20.00 Irvine, James W. £13.50 16 local specialists in selective fields have written the Spanning a period of five thousand years, tells of a people content of this beautifully illustrated book. 93272 who, for much of their history, have wrung from the sea and land, the two all-important elements of their lives. Dialect Poems : Fae the Bonnie Isle 60346 Hughson, Mary £3.00 A selection of poems in the Shetland dialect from the island Old Rock to Castle Rock of Whalsay. 36147 Irvine, J. £9.00 Tracing the history of the first 75 years of the Fair Isle: The Archaeology of an Island Community and District Shetland Association. A fascinating, Hunter, J. R. £9.95 comprehensive account with many pictorial memories. This is a detailed study of an island landscape and its 60716 population, invaluable to students, researchers, and Shetland Buses in the 20th Century visitors. 280 pages with line drawings and b/w Jamieson, Gordon M. £17.50 photographs. 20423 The Shetland Islands are the setting for what has to be one of the most unique books ever published on public Shetland Ponies from Shetland transport. 50023 Hunter, Margaret £17.99 This book is a slice of history as well as a tribute to this Nort Atlantik Drift: Poyims ati’ Shaetlin unique breed and its devotees. It examines the breed in its Jamieson, Robert Alan £15.00 native homeland, covers archaeological and written Written in dialect with an English translation this collection evidence and uses previously untapped material. 45739 of stunning photographs is enhanced by original poetry. 89311 Old Shetland Inside the Postcard Hutton, Guthrie £13.95 Johnson, Laureen £9.99 Old photographs from around Shetland, with detailed This book draws chiefly on the personal recollections of captions depicting its places and its people. 94143 fifty people who, between the years of 1925 and 1991, were all employed by or closely involved with the firm of Blaeu’s Orkneys and Shetland T.M. Adie and Sons. 55984 Irvine, James M. edited by £14.95 This volume reproduces the Blaeu’s map and the translated Shetland Black descriptions of Orkney and Shetland with editorial Johnson, Laureen £8.99 footnotes, and explores their provenance, reliability and First novel by the author of ‘Inside the Postcard: Working local significance. 82874 Life at Adie’s, Voe’. 60925 Page 10 The Shetland Times Bookshop 2009

Victorians 60 Degrees North: The Story of the Prosodic Characteristics of Orkney and Shetland Edmondstons and Saxbys of Shetland Dialects Johnston, J. Laughton £32.00 Leyden, Klaske van £9.99 This is the saga of five Edmondston brothers of Shetland This research will be of interest not only to phoneticians and their families, from 18th to the early 20th century. and phonologists working in the field of intonation but also 84624 to dialectologists and historical linguists. 73740

A Dream of Silver Between Weathers Johnston, J. Laughton £8.99 McMillan, Ron £11.99 Laughton Johnston is better known for his writings on A travel writer for more than twenty years, McMillan cast natural history and nature conservation. A Dream of Silver an inquisitive and witty eye over present-day Shetland to is his first novel. Due to the decline in his health, an old man interweave the Islands history, archaeology and 400- is forced to move from his retirement cottage on Shetland million-year-old geology with observations of a remarkably to live at the Edinburgh home of his 10-year-old grandson. hospitable society that remains intricately connected to the As a way of making contact with a child he hardly knows, outside world. His warm and generous narrative is the first and who hardly knows him, the old man begins to tell the original Shetland travelogue since 1869. 91309 boy the story of his own childhood and of his encounter with the works of the two giants of Scottish literature of A Package of Measures the 19th century. It is a moral and physical journey; the Mainland, Jim £6.00 narratives of the grandfather and grandson, and that of an New book of poetry by local author. 61765 old man’s childhood, closely interweaving. 83671 Lights Of Islands: Shetland Islands in Photographs & Naturalist’s Shetland, A Poems, Foula and Fair Isle Johnston, J. Laughton £45.00 Mariotti, Sergio £5.40 Shetland’s ecology is explained with key samples used to Photographs and poems of Foula and Fair Isle. 47726 illustrate the nature and effect of its isolation and the overlap of northern and southern, British, Scandinavian Drifting Alone to Norway and Icelandic species and communities. 36031 Manson, T.M.Y £6.20 The amazing adventure of Betty Mouat and tales of The Making of the Shetland Landscape others who have drifted to Norway. 6902 Knox, Susan £20.00 This scholarly and original book seeks to give the The Other Titanic of Shetland the weight it merits. 67715 Martin, Simon £17.99 In 1914, the Oceanic sank off Shetland. A remarkable Scotland’s Northern Lights salvage operation was achieved some sixty years later by Krauskopf, Sharma £11.99 two divers. In this book one of these divers tells the story. Some of Scotland’s and the world’s most spectacular 71585 are located in the Northern Isles. This book discusses all 21 major lighthouses in the area most of which A History of Scatsta Airfield ( Revisited) Shetland were built by the famous Stevenson family of lighthouse Mayes, Terry £3.00 engineers. 88550 First published in 1996 this third reprint is a direct result of the jet age coming to which is Shetland’s A Year at the Lighthouse first passenger jet service albeit to the Oil Industry. RAF Krauskopf, Sharma £16.95 SCATSTA, located in the north of mainland Shetland was The diary account of an American author over her the most northerly RAF airfield in the British Isles. The yearlong stay at Eshaness Lighthouse. 60373 most northerly RAF establishment in the UK was at Skaw on the island of Unst where a radar station was set A Gadderie of Shetland Verse up.Scatsta was constructed to meet an urgent operational Laurenson, Tom £6.99 requirement to provide a base for fighter cover facilities for A collection of poems in Shetland dialect by Shetland born nearby RAF Voe a major Catalina and Sunderland exile Tom Laurenson. 68127 flying boat base and its accommodation camp at Graven. It also provided a satellite airfield to Shetland’s only other Tochts on Shetland Life wartime RAF airfield at Sumburgh located on the southern Laurenson, Tom £3.99 tip of Shetland. 53 A collection of Shetland poems. 31574 Early Congregational Independancy in Shetland Lerwick Lifeboatman’s Story, A McNaughton, Dr. W. D. £9.99 Leith, George £14.00 In this volume Dr.McNaughton seeks to rescue from the History of the Lerwick lifeboat station, the rescues, the slide towards oblivion a much overlooked aspect of life in characters, as told by former coxswain. 3782 early nineteenth century Shetland. 71587 2009 The Shetland Times Bookshop Page 11

Goodnight Gypsy Moon The History of the Lerwick Lifeboats Micco, Gianpaolo Dante De £9.99 Morris, Jeff £3.00 Parallel text English/Italian. Several of the poems in this Following his book on the lifeboats, Jeff Morris’ new book were first published in one or other of the following: book deals with the history of the Lerwick lifeboats. 380 The New Shetlander, Northwords, Mother Wave (A The Guga Hunters Collection of Verse) 72779 Murray, Donald £9.99 Aald Smucks This book tells the story of the men who voyage to Miller, Linda Agnes £12.00 Sulasgeir each year and the district they hail from. This title A collection of humorous dialect poems covering many provides an insight into the history of Ness, the culture and facets of life in Shetland, beautifully illustrated by Wibby a way-of-life that lies behind the world of then Guga Thompson and Jacqueline Nicolson. 61748 Hunters. 92943 The North Atlantic Front Between Minch and Muckle Flugga Miller, James £5.00 Murray, Donald S. £3.00 This well illustrated book tells the story of operations along In these poems Donald Murray writes with wonderful wit the northern front in a sequel to the author’s earlier book, and a real sense of intimacy of men and women from the Scapa Flow. Now available in paperback. 78370 Western Isles to Shetland whose characters, for generations, have been carved and weathered by the sea Isles of the North: A Voyage to the Lands of the Norse that fills their harbours, scours their shorelines and colours Mitchell, Ian £9.99 their perceptions of the world. Donald Murray comes from The author’s investigative sail in the summer of 2002 Ness in the , but now lives and teaches in aboard the 30ft. Foggy Dew, took him on a voyage Shetland. 79051 from through the Western Isles to Orkney and Shetland, and on to the west coast of Norway then from Speak to us Catriona: New Tales and Traditions of the Nordfjord,via , to and back to Britain across Lews the to . 68527 Murray, Donald £5.00 In this new collection, Donald S. Murray takes his Jeemsie da Jarl – A Grand Old Viking Century inspiration from ‘Tales and Traditions of the Lews, the Moncrieff, Mike £7.99 celebrated work of renowned folklorist and historian Dr. Meet Jeemsie da Jarl, star of this collection of 100 Donald Macdonald of Gisla, Affectionately known as Dolly unforgettable cartoons. Follow him and his long suffering Doctor. 85986 wife through life’s trial and tribulations; from Up-Helly-A’ situations to visits from his grandchildren and battles with Shetland modern technology. A unique compliation of wit from the Newton, Norman £9.99 pen of local cartoonist Mike Moncrieff. 77369 An essential guide for the discerning tourist and island devotee: everything the visitor needs to know about the Beaten Gold, islands’ heritage, landscape, climate, flora and fauna. Moncrieff, Jim £4.00 15488 A collection of 17 poems complemented by a series of Sonnets and Secrets illustrations by Andrew Morrison. 92834 Nicol, Jessie £9.99 Following an accident in 1994, which impaired her Seasonsong mobility, Jessie Nicol was obliged to give up her favourite Moncrieff, Jim £6.00 hobby of painting. She turned to writing short stories and This first collection contains some of the poems appearing poetry, favouring the sonnet form. Much of her writing has in ‘The New Shetlander’ magazine as well as one or two been published in the popular local magazine Shetland Life older personal favourites. However, the majority of the over the years. 79509 poems are recent writings which reflect on landmark moments from his life and the vagaries of the Shetland Swan, The – Shetland’s Legacy of Sail seasons which blur the edge of change. 39041 Nicolson, James R. £9.99 This is the story of the Swan – a unique survivor from the The Other British Isles days of the sail drifters. Now beautifully restored Moore, David W. £32.50 she graces Shetland waters as a living tribute to the men A history of Shetland, Orkney, the , , who built and sailed these fine vessels and the women who Angelsey, Scilly, Isle of Wight and the . gutted and packed the products of their labours. 39148 80773 Yell Past & Present The Further North You Go Nisbet, David £8.50 Morton,Tom £7.99 This book contrasts the changes in Yell over the last 100 The story of one man’s journey into the heart of a remote years. David Nisbet has returned to the sites of old island community. Large motorcycles, oddly short photographs and taken new ones. The images are and suicidal sheep all feature in this tragic-comic tale. displayed beside one another for ease of comparison. 65731 43897 Page 12 The Shetland Times Bookshop 2009

Images of Fishermen, The North Atlantic The Compleat Lode of Carp Olsen, Maria £49.00 Renwick, Frank, Baron of Ravenstone £8.00 Highlighting some of the world’s leading fishing people – a A judicious account of recent events in the carp islands as unique inside view of Faroe, Shetland, Iceland, and told to the Baron of Ravenstone. 84236 Greenland . 83985 Exploring the Coasts & Shores of Fair Isle Kebister: The 4000 Year Old Story Of One Shetland Riddiford, Elizabeth £5.80 Township Including some suggested coastal walks, this booklet illustrates some of the richness and variety of Fair Isle’s Owen, Olwyn £39.50 maritime resource and why the Fair Isle community strives The four thousand year old story of one Shetland to protect it. 72234 township. Contains many illustrations and diagrams. 42279 Mother Wave: A Collection of Verse Merrybegotten Ritch, Paul J £6.95 Pearson, Fiona £13.95 Verse in English and Shetland dialect. 13675 This is a story, loosely based on three generations of the Ultima : Recollections of Shetland Holidays in the author’s ancestors and is set in 19th century Fair Isle and 1930s Orkney. 75653 Robards, Fred £12.00 Orkney and Shetland, The Scottish Isles: A collection of over 100 b/w photographs taken by Penrith, Deborah £12.95 doctor’s son. The family came from Scotland to Shetland This fully revised guide is the ideal companion for a trip to for holidays in the 1930s. 32534 the islands. 85756 Bombs, Boils and Brushes … a Rural Doctor’s Notes Robertson, Dr R.J. £12.99 Life in Castle Retired general practitioner Bobby Robertson tells some of Peterson, D. Hilda £8.99 the more amusing stories about life as a country GP in An historical novel of those contemporaries of Patrick Shetland. 93320 Stewart. The story depicts the conditions and hardships Grammar and Usage of the Shetland Dialect endured by the people of Shetland in the 17th century. The Robertson & Graham £6.95 Shetland dialect is often used in conversation. 293 A guide to the usage of grammar in the Shetland dialect. From Böd to Boardroom 3781 Peterson, D. Hilda £7.99 Merchant’s Tale, A: Life of William Hay A fictional account of the life of local entrepreneur and (1787-1858) philanthropist, Arthur Anderson, who was devoted to his Rose, Margaret £7.99 native islands, From Böd to Boardroom also reconstructs This fictional account of a well-known son of Shetland. life in Lerwick during the 1800s and introduces other well From childhood experiences of whaling and smuggling, we known stories in Shetland history. 55983 follow him through his early years of apprenticeship to adulthood, through the triumphs and tragedies of his Hairst Blinks Ower Papa professional and personal life. 42332 Peterson, George P.S. £5.00 Shetland Ponies Book of verse in Shetland dialect by George P.S. Peterson Russell, Valerie £15.99 who was brought up on Papa Stour. 64883 The author’s researches have unearthed much new Taste of the North information, and the result is an unequalled collection of Perring, Emma Edited by £5.80 facts about the and it’s history. 20330 “Taste of the North” introduces some of the rich and A Lerwick Boy varied traditional foods found within Fair Isle and the Sandison, Bruce £11.99 northern areas of Norway and . Some recipes are The author recalls episodes in his life from childhood to still used widely within the regions. 72235 retirement. Many of the stories will be familiar to people who lived and worked in Lerwick. 89769 Fond Hopes Destroyed and Her Racing Descendants Prior, Mary £9.99 Sandison, Charles £7.99 Fond Hopes Destroyed draws on the rich records in the The development of the Shetland boat. 81466 Shetland Archives to describe the broken relationships which landed some couples in court in breach of promise Slyde in the Right Direction cases. Sailor’s letters to their sweethearts written from Sandison, Chrissie £11.99 around the world were particularly incriminating, and often Born in 1917 in a remote area on the of caused amusement when read there. Ribaldry and Shetland, Chrissie kept a diary for nearly 50 years. heartbreak making strange bedfellows. 77368 Realising that a way of life that had existed for generations has irrevocably changed over her lifetime, Chrissie wrote Harp of her memories of life in the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s and Renwick, Jack £20.00 these were published in Shetland Life. Those articles An anthology of poems in English and Shetlandic illustrated provide the basis for this book, with other memories and by Liam O’Neill. 88845 information added. 89765 2009 The Shetland Times Bookshop Page 13

Christopher Sandison of Eshaness (1780-1871): Diarist Shetland Crofter Postie in an Age of Social Change Simmons, David £8.99 Sandison, Ronald £24.00 Captures the typical life of a crofting family prior to the The life and times of a schoolmaster at Eshaness. A vivid arrival of the oil in Shetland. 59736 account of life in Northmavine in the nineteenth century. With b/w and colour illustrations. 27511 Shetland Dye Book Simmons, Jenni £4.50 Memories of William Sandison and the Tale of the A guide to the secrets of traditional dye methods. Booklet Papa Stour Robbers with a few illustrations. 5840 Sandison, William £3.00 The story of the Papa Stour Robbers and the mystery of a Railways of Shetland missing kist of gold. 74252 Simms, Wilfred F. £6.00 A list of the railways used for industry in Shetland. 29638 The Shetland Isles Schei. Liv Kjorsvik, Moberg, Gunnie £17.95 In da Liv Schei explores the history, folklore and landscape of the Simpson, Charlie £12.99 islands of Shetland. Illustrated by Gunnie Moberg’s For five years Charlie Simpson wrote a popular monthly photography, the book also focuses on many of the article for the Shetland Fishing news. Gathered together characters who have peopled the islands, and shows how for the first time, this book contains recipes and past and present influences have combined to make much more besides. 49761 Shetland what it is today. 79512 Gulf Stream Blues Pictish and Viking-Age Carvings from Shetland Sinclair, James £3.60 Scott, Ian and Ritchie, Anna £7.50 James Sinclair was born in 1961 and attended the More than a hundred carved stones survive. Ian Scott has Anderson High School. James only started writing in his recorded all of the remaining carvings – many of which are forties and has had poems published in The New being published for the first time – and Anna Ritchie sets Shetlander, Shetland Life, Shetland Arts Trust’s Poetry these fine monuments and their art style within the wider Postcard Book and an anthology of new Shetland writing archaeological context of Scotland between AD600 and Pull of the Moon or Bicycle Dreams. 85985 AD1200, 95073 NOT YET PUBLISHED – DUE DECEMBER 2009 Handwork Edited by Anne Sinclair £5.80 Defiant Courage: Norway’s Longest WW11 Escape In Fair Isle and Sorsele, Nord Trondelag and Steigen, Scott, Astrid Karlsen and Haug, Dr. Tore £12.95 artisans of the past helped enable their communities to Revealed finally, the complete and astounding story of Jan survive through the sustainable production and decoration Baalsrud and the people who helped him escape from the of articles made from wool, wood and metal. This book Gestapo in 1943. 60492 gives a taste of their legacy and of some of those skills True Romance of Busta, The which continue into this present day. 72236 Scott, Frances £6.30 The story of the Giffords of Busta, . Illustrations. Midnight and Tarantella 22444 Smith, Mark Ryan £3.00 Collection of poems in English and Shetland dialect. 90576 Gardie: A Shetland House and its People Scott, Wendy Hbk £30.00 Pbk £16.99 The Northern Isles – Orkney & Shetland Sea Kayaking From the extensive family archive at Gardie comes the by Smith, Tom and Jex, Chris £19.99 story of the house’s passage through turbulent times and Illustrated with superb colour photographs and useful maps the everyday life of the generations who lived in and throughout, this book is a practical guide to help you select around it. 86603, 86604 and plan trips. 84521 Orkney and Shetland: A Landscape Fashioned by Toons and Tenants: Settlement & Society in Shetland, Geology 1299-1899 Scottish, Natural Heritage £2.50 Smith, Brian £13.99 Booklet about Shetland and Orkney geology; few colour Based on years of original research, this book of essays illustrations. 21840 deals with the rural communities of Shetland over six centuries. This book contains a full explanation of the Da Book O Trows HB £20.00 famous letter of 1299 – Shetland’s oldest document – Shetland Folklore Development Group PB £15.00 about events on the island of Papa Stour. 48978 For centuries Shetlanders have been encountering the Trows and dealing with their mischievous and often Shetland Documents 1580-1611 unfriendly behaviour towards humans. This is a collection Smith & Ballantyne £7.50 of such encounters, as recorded throughout Shetland over Collection of texts and summaries of Shetland documents the past 500 years. 89178, 89177 from the period of the Stewart . 7121 Page 14 The Shetland Times Bookshop 2009

Sojourn in the Land of the Simmer Dim An Outline of Shetland Archaeology Smith, Donald B. £6.50 Stewart, John £9.95 Former AEI languages teacher recalls enthusiastically the New edition of John Stewart’s book which was first time he spent in Shetland in the 1960s. B/W photographs. published in 1958 with a new foreword by county Booklet. 10194 archaeologist Val Turner and two new sections of Stewart's previously unpublished work, which were found in the Orkney and Shetland archives. 93371 Smith, John S. £5.50 Old photographs from the George Washington Wilson Folklore From Whalsay and Shetland collection. 7151 Stewart, John £15.00 John Stewart’s folklore collection, from his native island of MacDiarmid in Shetland Whalsay, and from Shetland as a whole. 76415 Smith & Graham £7.95 Based on letters, poems, photographs and personal Cookery for Northern Wives impressions this covers Hugh MacDiarmid’s Shetland Stout, Margaret £9.95 period. 7818 First published in 1925, this traditional Shetland Cookbook is an exact reprint with an additional foreword by family Willie’s War and Other Stories member Margaret Stuart and a preface by Scottish food Smith, Willie £9.99 historian Marion McNeill. 93370 An interesting and often amusing account of life during the war-and some other stories written by a Scalloway man. Shepherd’s Delight Includes his wartime memories of the “Shetland Bus boys”. Recipes for Shetland lamb and mutton collected and 69110 compiled by The Shetland Sheep Society. The Shetland Bus 1940-45 – Faces and Places 60 years From a Shetland Lairdship to a Norwegian Barony: the on Mouat family and the Barony of Rosendal Sorvaag, Trygve £25.00 Sunde, Jørn Øyrehagen £4.50 In this unique blend of photography and history The text from the first Shetland Museum and Archives photojournalist Trygve Sorvaag has met and portrayed Memorial Lecture held in honour of Tom Henderson, the individuals living on both sides of the North Sea, now sixty first curator of the museum. The lecture explored the years after the war to give a new perspective on our history of the Mouat family itself, as well as more general wartime history. 61432 relationships which existed between Shetland and Norway A Raft in the Pool in the 16th to 18th centuries. 93686 Strachan, John £9.99 Born in 1940 on the Island of Yell, Shetland, John A. The Shetland Guide Book Strachan grew up at a time when piped water and electric Tait, Charles £12.95 light were still distant dreams for the out lying isles. But the Colourful and lively guidebook to Shetland. Includes useful simplicity of the life was made up for by the richness of information about archaeology, history, and character in the islands. These are boyhood memories comprehensive sections on different areas of Shetland. from a way of life long departed; remembered with 66971 honesty, humour and great affection. 77695 Stones in the Millpond. My Memory is Free Tait, Christian S. £8.95 Strachan, David £9.99 In this book Christian S. Tait gives her personal response to Beginning with an early memory as a four year old the family letters written from the battlefronts of the First author takes us down the years with various tales until the World War. 51234 advent of oil. A tragedy in Lerwick’s North Loch; a traumatic event in 1952; memories of a well loved dog; Guid Unkens Eftir Mark: Mark’s Gospel In Shetlandic first experience of Up-Helly-A’; the experience of a Yell Tait, John M. £3.00 nurse in the 1930s; aboot da toon in the late 1950s. He Mark’s gospel in Shetlandic. Includes sections on grammar, also takes the reader further afield recounting the pronunciation and a Shetlandic – English glossary. 41277 Australian bridge disaster; a fruitless search in Wisconsinin and memories of London’s East end and Dockland. 89768 Shetland Plays Taylor, Marsali £6.99 As Time Goes By Two short plays in Shetland dialect written for Strachan, David £8.99 schoolchildren. Suspeecion and Da Lassies O the Haaf A potpourri of tales from times past mostly with a nautical . 95072 flavour. Beginning with his early years at Sound and schooldays at Lerwick Central Public school and in Yell, the Island Challenge author takes us through his experiences on the training Thomason, Edward £18.00 Dolphin, voyages in the merchant navy and his time as Memoirs of former convenor. a distressed British seaman. 48980 Illustrated with b/w photographs. 27512 2009 The Shetland Times Bookshop Page 15

Index to Old-Lore Miscellany of Orkney, Shetland, Holm Sweet Holm and Watt, Jessie Lovie £12.00 Townsend, J.A.B. (Ed.) £2.25 Novel about a young lass who comes to Lerwick as a gutter This index is intended to supplement the one compiled and the divide between incoming "Scottie" fisherfolk and some years ago. This present index has a more thematic native islanders. 11988 approach and covers the Old Lore Miscellany only, which Metal Rose was issued in 10 volumes between 1907 and 1946, Watt, Jessie L. £9.99 forming the major sub-series of the aforementioned Old- The novel is firmly rooted in the reality of the Scottish Lore series. 20534 landscape, the cutting edge of scientific thought, yet twists Tall Stories? 2 Millennia of Brochs and turns like most satisfactory of fantasies. 66100 Turner (Ed.), Val E., Steve J. Dockrill, Rebecca A. Nicolson, Julie M. Bond £17.99 Shetland’s Northern Links: Language and History “Tall Stories?” began life as a conference held in Lerwick in Waugh (Ed.) & Smith £12.99 July 2000. It was conceived as a celebration, both of the One in a series of publications by the Scottish Society for “inspirational stone towers” which have stood around for Northern Studies, the contributions in this publication arise around 2000 years and of the work underway at Old from a conference held in Lerwick in the summer of 1993. Scatness Broch. This volume presents the full spectrum of 24763 ideas and beliefs of the leading broch protagonists today. Walking Shetland 76440 Welsh, Mary £6.99 Walking in the Orkney and Shetland Isles Comprehensive and informative guidebook detailing forty- Uney, Graham £12.95 five walks on Shetland. Provides information on wildlife, Over 50 walks are covered in this book, ranging from geology and flora and fauna. Maps and illustrations by short strolls such as around The Knab, or to the Staneydale Rosemary Harward. 68531 Temple to more challenging routes. 92964 Island Pilot Portrait of the Northern Isles Captain Whitfield, Alan £13.95 Uney, Graham £14.99 This new edition describes Alan’s pioneering of island This stunning collection of more than 140 photographs airfields around Shetland, plus his final tour of the islands taken in all seasons illustrates the unique diverse landscapes 37 years later, and his flying career in Canada, Cumbria, of Orkney and Shetland. 94259 and the Western Isles, and with Strathair. 87901 Around Shetland: A Picture Guide The Zetland Golf Club (Edinburgh) Various £5.99 Williamson, Gilbert £5.00 Around Shetland is a beautifully presented picture guide to History of the Zetland Golf Club in Edinburgh which was Shetland. The book is divided into sections that cover Fair formed in 1909 by Shetlanders. 294 Isle, South Mainland, Lerwick, Central Mainland, West Mainland, and The Isles. The photographs Berries on the Heather cover many aspects of Shetland’s landscape and Shetland Williamson, Kari £8.99 life and are the work of several contributors. 45740 In this novel, set in the late Thirties, the author has drawn Tall : Celebrating Tall Ships’ Visit to Lerwick 9- on her recollections of the close-knit family and community 12th August 1999 lifestyle prevalent at the time. It describes the situations and Various £6.99 day-to-day events, both humorous and serious, which A selection of photographs and description of the event occur in the lives of a three-generation family on an island which would make an ideal souvenir. 43885 croft. 88949 Kippers for Breakfast Selected Shetland Stories of C.J. Williamson Vigor, Millie £8.99 Williamson, C.J. £4.10 Moving house from one end of to the other, Short stories from the pen of Scalloway photographer. Cornwall to the Shetland Isles, was to be the start of nearly Booklet. 7571 seven years of new and exciting experiences for Millie Shetland and the Outside World, 1469-1969 Vigor. While helping her husband to rebuild a ruined croft Withrington, Donald J. £7.50 house Millie bought land, acquired a flock of sheep, a Fourteen essays ranging over a wide array of topics, pup and started a poultry rearing business. 67159 illuminating the course of Shetland history over the five Peter Tait: A Remarkable Story hundred years which followed Christian I of Waite, John E. £12.00 pawning of the islands to Scotland in 1469. 8369 This fascinating book, based on extensive research, traces the life of Peter Tait from his birth in Shetland in 1828 to Shetland – Knitting his death in the Russian Empire in 1890. It describes his years in Limerick, as a manufacture of army uniforms, using Shetland Lace steam powered sewing machines, as a Deputy Lieutenant Amedro, Gladys £22.00 and for three consecutive years, Mayor of the City; sheds 14 knitting patterns from the Gema Ord Collection using significant new light on his supply of uniforms to the Shetland lace wool, including shawls, christening gowns and Confederate States during the American Civil War. 77592 stole. 89767 Page 16 The Shetland Times Bookshop 2009

The Art of Fair Isle Knitting, History, Technique, Color The Princess Shawl: A Shetland Lace Masterpiece & Patterns Hardback £24.99 Miller, Sharon £20.00 Feitelson, Ann Paperback £16.99 90963 The author leads readers through the history of Fair Isle knitting and explains style’s techniques, colourways and Heirloom Knitting’s Shetland Hap Shawls Then and patterns and encourages readers to create their own Now designs. Includes 23 original Fair Isle designs. Hardback Miller, Sharon £14.50 29959. Paperback 93849 This comprehensively illustrated book is for lace knitters with a love of history! Sharon Miller gives authentic Jamieson’s Shetland Knitting Book, Book 2 £17.99 traditional designs and modern hap patterns in written and 21 Handknitting designs in pure Shetland wool. There are charted forms with colour recipes for numerous beautiful beautiful textured sweaters to inspire the advanced borders. 84497 beginner and some stunning designs combining colourwork and texture geared to the more experienced knitter. Heirloom Knitting 81305 Miller, Sharon £30.00 A Shetland lace knitter’s pattern and workbook. 53810 Jamieson’s Shetland Knitting Book, Book 3 £16.99 22 handknitting designs in pure Shetland wool, contains a Encyclopaedia of Knitting, The: Step by Step section of traditional lace shawls, many cozy jackets and Techniques, Stitches and Inspirational Designs pullovers, some fanciful felt bags, and an innovative Stanfield, Lesley £12.99 patchwork jacket. 84087 A comprehensive guide to the basic and advanced knitting Pam Shawl £2.25 techniques designs and styles. These include Fair Isle Knitting pattern from Gema Ord. A baby shawl knitted in knitting and lace knitting. 48617 2-ply Lace Shetland wool. 16 Simply Shetland 4 £17.99 Lace Christening Shawl £2.25 Patterns for garments with a modern casual look knitted Knitting pattern from Gema Ord. Knitted in Cobweb from Shetland wool. 91231 Shetland wool. 15 Simply Shetland £17.99 Gibbie Shawl £2.25 In this book you’ll find beautiful examples of age-old, Knitting pattern from Gema Ord. Knitted in Cobweb traditional Shetland knitting side-by-side with Shetland wool. 117 contemporary knitting projects. 81306 Fair Isle Knitting Patterns: Reproducing the known work Simply Shetland 2 £17.99 of Robert Williamson There are designs for all tastes and styles projects for all Macgregor, Mary 11.99 levels of knitter in this book. 81307 This comprehensive collection of traditional Fair Isle knitting patterns reproduced from a collection of stencil Country Weekend Knits printed patterns from the 1930s is illustrated by graphs Weston, Madeline £20.00 and charts. 93315 A collection of 25 classic patterns, including Ganseys, Fair Isle, Aran and Shetland Lace. 92170 Icelandic Knitting using Rose Patterns Magnusson, Helene £12.99 Shetland – Music This collection includes 26 garments and accessories taking as inspiration traditional Icelandic rose-pattern designs. Drumossie Collection 92879 Allan, Eric £6.75 Traditional Scandinavian Knitting The Drumossie Collection is Eric Allan’s second book of McGregor, Sheila £13.99 150 compositions, mainly in the Scottish tradition, but also Illustrated with 191 black-and-white and 19 colour including some songs, piano pieces, “jazzy bits” and his pictures, this classic guide will delight knitting enthusiasts. Ness River Suite. Contains compositions dedicated to 72680 Shetlanders. 67759 Traditional Fair Isle Knitting Ringing Strings McGregor,Sheila £13.99 Anderson, Tom £9.00 The author shows how any circular-method knitting tunes and personal descriptions of traditional technique can create Fair Isle patterns and offers practical Shetland dances. 3696 advice on designing garments and the use of colour, assisting knitters in designing their own patterns and finding Collection, The, Volume 1 £9.95 inspiration for endless variations and adaptations. 66173 First collection of four volumes of music by Tom Anderson. Foreword by Magnus Magnusson. 19139 Lerwick Lace Shawl: A Study in Knitted Lace Design – from the Antique to the Modern Tom Anderson Collection, The, Volume 2 £10.95 Miller, Sharon £17.95 This 2nd volume contains 70 compositions from the well- 90964 known Shetland fiddler and composer. 62747 2009 The Shetland Times Bookshop Page 17

Key Notes: The History of the Lerwick Orchestra Unst Fiddle Tunes Cooper, Susan £9.00 Polson, Sam £6.50 Full of illustrations and stories of the people who were Collection of fiddle tunes from Shetland’s most northerly involved in the Lerwick Orchestra and its music making. island. Written by the late Sam Polson and compiled by his 19136 colleague from the Unst Fiddle Society, Arthur Spence. 24481 Songs and Sights of Shetland Guy, Christine £7.99 Wilderness Collection, The Collection of songs and music from around the isles, many Scollay, Margaret, Robertson, Lell £11.99 in Shetland dialect. 16998 Collection of tunes from Shetland composed by Margaret Scollay, Alan Scollay and Lell Robertson, includes Jarl Da Roup and Other Tunes Hunter of Gillaburn, Da Beachcomber, The Kellister Waltz Hallett, Nigel £7.50 and Leona’s Reel. 84019 A collection of music and tales from Fair Isle and the North. Spencie’s Tunes Vol. 2 46822 Spence, Steven £11.99 A collection of Shetland tunes composed by Steven Spence. Tunes Composed By William A. Hunter, Shetland 93367 Hunter, William A. £8.50 Compositions from the late William A. Hunter, a well- Running for a Fry known Shetland musician. These 29 tunes are sure to be Stove, Thomas A. £14.99 well received. 37784 A collection of fiddle tunes complete with demonstration CD featuring all of the compostions in the book. 77370 Leveneep Head Jamieson, Ronald £9.00 Shetland Violinist, The Shetland music by Frank Jamieson and Ronald Jamieson, Stove, Magnus J. £6.50 volume one. 74 The Gideon Stove tune book with many photographs and anecdotes. 26 Muckle : Shetland Music with chord symbols Rowin Foula Doon Jamieson, Ronald £8.70 Vagaland £0.75 Volume three of Ronnie Jamieson’s collection of fiddle 2 page songsheet – words by Vagaland (T.A. Robertson) tunes. Foreword by . 25639 and melody by T.M.Y. Manson. 47 Voe Up-Helly-Aa Song Sheet £1.90 Jamieson, Ronald £7.50 487 Shetland music with chord symbols by Frank Jamieson and Ronald Jamieson, volume two. 184 Shetland – Nature

Shetland Tunes from Unst Shetland Naturalist Vol.2, part 4 2007 £5.00 Laughland, John £11.99 This edition covers the Marine Algae of , the The tunes in this book for violin and piano refer to the Large Red Damselfly and the Biodiversity in Wild Shetland places on Unst where the composer has spent many happy Trout. 86981 hours. 84554 Shetland Naturalist Vol.2 part 3 2006 Rushton, D.R.A, Heubeck, M, Fraser, P.A. £5.00 Ho-Ro-Gheallaidh This volume includes a review of seaweeds in Shetland with Martin, Christine £7.95 an account of traditional uses and an annotated list of Session tunes for Scottish fiddlers. Includes Shetland reels. Shetland spiders and pseudoscorpions including new 7995 records up to 2005. 82021 Da Vaam O’ Da Skynbow: Stories of Shetland Music – Shetland Naturalist, The, Vol. 2, part 1 £5.00 Notes Between Canvas 62075 Morton, Tom £5.99 Witty little book recounting tales of Shetland music and Shetland Naturalist, The, Vol. 1, part 1, 1991 £3.00 musicians. Illustrated by Richard P Wemyss. 42910 A magazine of the natural sciences – a must for anyone interested in the environment of Shetland. 169 Scots Fiddle (Vol. 3) Tunes, Tales & Traditions of the Shetland Naturalist, The, Vol. 1, part 2, 1992 £3.00 Western Highlands, Hebrides, Orkney & Shetland. A magazine of the natural sciences – a must for anyone Murray, Neil J. £20.00 interested in the environment of Shetland. 292 This is the third and final volume of a unique series of collections of Scottish music. The music reflects different Shetland Naturalist, The, Vol. 1, part 3, 1994 £3.00 styles from West marches and Gaelic slow-airs to Geology and fungi are two of the topics covered in this Shetland reels. 67989 edition. 182 Page 18 The Shetland Times Bookshop 2009

Shetland Naturalist, The, Vol. 1, part 4, 1995 £3.00 Birds of a Shetland Summer A record of rare fish recorded from Shetland waters and Harvey,Paul, Piquer, Didier £7.99 the melt-down of the Shetland ice cap in Unst are included This book is intended as a photographic guide to some of in this edition. 19548 the more common birds that can be seen during a summer visit to the Shetland Isles. 86550 Shetland’s Native Domestic Animals Bowie, Dr. Stanley £7.50 Shetland’s Wild Flowers A brief history, breed characteristics and breed Malcolm, David £6.95 descriptions for Shetland’s Native Domestic Animals. Full colour guide to Shetland’s wild flowers. 3740 75664 The Birds of Shetland Pennington, Mike, Harvey, Paul, Osborn, Kevin, Shetland Lichens Riddington, Roger, Ellis, Pete, Heubeck, Martin and Okill, Dalby Kery, Dalby, Claire £15.00 Dave £40.00 A comprehensive guide to lichens in Shetland. 79103 This avifauna analyses in depth the status of every species recorded in Shetland. 69014 Birds of Fair Isle Dymond & Pullan £5.95 Rare Plants of Shetland Bird movements and breeding records. Some illustrations. Scott, Harvey, Riddington & Fisher, Walter, Paul, Roger 5895 and Morag £21.75 This book provides an up-to-date account of 138 of Shetland Nature Diary, A Shetland’s rarest plants. 60704 Gammack, Joyce J.M. £9.95 Shetland’s landscapes, habitats and wildlife month-by- Noss National Nature Reserve: A Theatre of Birds month. Illustrated with author’s own b/w line illustrations Scottish Natural Heritage £3.50 and colour photographs. 24852 Guide to the island of Noss where tens of thousands of birds breed. 76425 Walking the Coastline of Shetland No. 1 – Island of The Impossible Garden Yell Rosa Steppanova £25.00 Guy, Peter £6.95 This book will appeal to all gardeners, from the The first in a series of descriptive walks around Shetland’s inexperienced beginner faced with a bare piece of ground coastline giving distances and times. 7122 to the advanced plantsman with an interest in rare and unusual plants and how best to combine them in a creative Walking the Coastline of Shetland No. 2 – Unst way. 65732 Guy, Peter £9.99 Descriptive walks around the island of Unst. New revised Shetland – Nautical edition. 53808 Clyde Cruising Club: Directions and Anchorages Walking the Coastline of Shetland No. 4 – These titles form part of a series of completely new Northmavine editions of the Clyde Cruising Club’s Sailing Directions for Guy, Peter £9.99 the northern waters of the British Isles. An enlarged and updated edition of the fourth of his seven titles in the highly acclaimed “Walking the Coastline of Clyde Cruising Club: Shetland Islands £25.00 Shetland” series. 79510 62017 Walking the Coastline of Shetland No. 5 – Westside Clyde Cruising Club: N. & N.E. Coast of Scotland and Guy, Peter £9.99 Orkney Islands £25.00 Descriptive walks around the Westside of Shetland. 62018 Paperback. Includes colour photographs. 16108 Walls Regattas 1895-1995 £7.50 Walking the Coastline of Shetland No. 6 – South Celebrating a century of sailing in Walls this book gives an Mainland insight into the history of the area and the people involved Guy, Peter £8.99 in sailing. 362 This book is a mine of information about the history and Shetland Interclub Regattas. £8.00 folklore associated with the life of the crofting and fishing Illustrated with b&w photographs. Published in 1997 for communities established here. It is illustrated throughout the 50th Shetland interclub regatta. 29877 with route maps, photographs and diagrams, describes memorable walks around them all. 45738 Clyde Shipping: The Twilight Years £12.99 The Twilight Years is a trip down memory lane for those Walking the Coastline of Shetland No. 7: Eastside who remember when the Clyde was the third most Guy, Peter £9.99 important river in Britain and its ports some of the busiest. Descriptive walks around the Eastside of Shetland. 69801 55034 2009 The Shetland Times Bookshop Page 19

Trawling: Celebrating the industry that transformed An Eye on the Coast and North-East Scotland Wilson, Gloria £12.99 Anderson, Raymond £14.99 This collection of photographs and drawings is a personal This book honours the skippers who today are celebration of fisher people, harbours and boats used along businessmen with multi-million pound investments to the coast of Scotland and parts of the North East. 80925 service it strives to capture in words and pictures the unique spirit of the in the North-East of Children – Shetland/Scottish Scotland. 88844 ’s Breakfast, The Fishing, Fishermen, Fish Merchants and Curers in Armitage, Ronda £5.99 Shetland The Grinlings are the Very Special Guests at the Coull, James R. £15.00 lighthouse’s 200th birthday. They dress up as pirates and Episodes in fishing and curing herring and white fish. 89172 prepare to have lots of swashbuckling fun. But when they take to the high seas, they have far more pirate adventure Orkney and Shetland Steamers than they could ever have imagined. Suddenly breakfast Deayton, Alistair £12.99 seems a long way off... 56405 Informative text and images covering the past two centuries of the ferries, piers and people they served. Lighthouse Keeper’s Catastrophe 58075 Armitage & Armitage £5.99 Picture book for age approx 4-7 years. When Mr Grinling Harry’s Shetland Fishing Almanac 2009 accidentally locks Hamish and the lighthouse key inside the Jamieson, Harry £4.50 lighthouse, trouble looms… 35934 Tidetables for Lerwick, local constants, list of lights and Hiccup the Viking who was Seasick beacons, course and distance timetable, list of Shetland Cowell, Cressida £5.99 fishing vessels, coastguard services, etc. 89273 Find out what happens to Hiccup when he goes to sea for North Boats: Story of North of Scotland, Orkney & the first time in this original and funny book. 78781 Shetland Shipping Co Smootie comes tae Lerrick McRobb, Alastair £6.95 De Luca, Christine £7.50 A comprehensive account of the history of the ferry Christine De Luca tells the story of a brave little cat called services from mainland Scotland to Orkney and Shetland. Smootie having to leave her birth island of to brave Illustrated in both colour and black & white. Compiled and the world of Lerwick and find a new home. 77539 written by the late Alastair McRobb. 34234 Haki the Shetland Pony History of the Aith Lifeboats Fidler, Kathleen £4.99 Morris, Jeff £3.00 Children’s’ story about a Shetland pony and its owner who Descriptions and insights into the history of the Aith joined a circus. 60066 lifeboats from the start of the century to present day. Revised edition 381 You’re a Hero Peerie Bear! Gillian Fox £4.99 Images of Fishermen, The North Atlantic For once, it’s not Peerie Bear in danger, but his friend Jess Olsen, Maria £49.00 and her cousins, who are trapped on the rocks with the Highlighting some of the world’s leading fishing people – a tide rising fast! Peerie Bear teams up with O’Maalie, a bad unique inside view of Faroe, Shetland, Iceland, and tempered seagull, and together they manage to save the Greenland fisheries. 83985 day! 44143 Katie Morag and the Dancing Class Fishing Traditions of Fair Isle Hedderwick, Mairi £5.99 Emma Perring £5.80 Katie Morag has to go to ballet class. She has to wear a frilly Based on the Fair Isle diaries this booklet explores the frou-frou skirt and ballet pumps, instead of her favourite changes in fishing stocks around the isles during the 20th wellies. Katie Morag is not impressed – she has better century and the impact this had on the community. 72237 things to do on a Saturday morning. 89719 Steam Drifters Recalled Katie Morag and the Birthdays Reid, J. £12.00 Hedderwick, Mairi £5.99 This book deals with the steam drifters owned in an area Katie Morag is desperate for it to be her birthday, but as stretching from the River Spey to Shetland. Each entry she soon discovers, there are plenty of other birthdays to details information such as place and year of registration, be celebrated on Struay both before and after hers. 80572 owners and dimensions.61768 Big Katie Morag Storybook The Saga of the Earls Hedderwick, Mairi £5.99 Robson, Adam £30.00 Tales of Scottish island life are gathered in this book with A pictorial history of two ships, which were the lifelines of pictures, poems and sea shanties – all designed to keep Shetland for 98 years. 57940 Katie Morag fans entertained for hours. 45488 Page 20 The Shetland Times Bookshop 2009

Katie Morag and the Riddles Superpuffin Hedderwick, Mairi £4.99 Mackenzie-Bowie, Ewen £4.99 Another adventure with Katie Morag. 56848 Superpuffin is no ordinary puffin. He can fly at twenty times the speed of sound. He lives in a burrow on the cliffs at Katie Morag and the New Pier in Shetland. His friend Thomas lives in a Hedderwick, Mairi £5.99 bungalow in Bayswater, New Zealand. One night Everyone, especially Katie Morag, is looking forward to Superpuffin collects Thomas and 45 minutes later they land when the new pier will be finished. But what, Grannie on a beach in Shetland where the otters are playing … On Island wonders, will happen to the good old ways? 26488 their journey Thomas and Superpuffin meet lots of friends including a tiger and an orang-utan. After they’ve spent the Katie Morag and the Wedding afternoon playing with the otters in Bixter Voe they fly Hedderwick, Mairi £5.99 back to New Zealand and land just as the sun is rising over In this fifth title about Katie Morag and her island home, Rangitoto. 82033 Marie Hedderwick takes a balanced view of a community on the brink of change. 12709 Peerie Bear and the More Katie Morag Island Stories Ramsay, Gillian, Illustrated by Anne Barron £4.99 Hedderwick, Mairi £7.99 Old Daa’s bedtime stories about Trowie folk – the Four of your favourite Katie Morag adventures in one mischievous little people that live in the Shetland Islands – book. 68686 are just stories, meant to scare children “and bears” into behaving. Peerie Bear knows that they don’t exist, and that Colour Shetland Grandpa tells the tallest tales. But is he right? Tuck your Hoseason, Sarah £2.99 toes under the duvet for this Trowie tale, for you just never Childrens’ colouring book which includes pictures of know. 82837 Shetland Ponies, Up Helly A’, Clickimin Broch and a map of Shetland for budding young artists to colour in. 82971 A Hansel O Stories 1 CD Sandison, Iris, De Luca,Christine, Moncrieff, Jane £4.99 Puzzles from Shetland A CD of stories in Shetland dialect for children aged 4-9. Hoseason, Sarah £2.99 Includes Ellie an da sail needle by Iris Sandison. 4 Smootie Keep the young folk occupied with this Shetland Puzzle the cat stories by Christine De Luca and Rasmie Ratter by book which includes a Shetland Quiz, Runic Writing, Jane Moncrieff. 77541 Shetland Place Names and Wordsearch. 82972 A Stranger came Ashore Ellie an da Sail Needle Hunter, Mollie £4.99 Sandison, Iris £7.50 Children’s story about the folk with a Shetland Iris Sandison’s tells the story of Ellie’s old teddy bear Ted in setting. 60067 Shetland dialect. The book is beautifully illustrated by John Cumming’s pen and water colour illustrations. 77540 Shetland Wildlife Alphabet Mary Isbister £5.99 Viking At School Children’s guide to Shetland’s wildlife in dialect. Strong, Jeremy £3.99 20cm, 72pages. Mr and Mrs Ellis send Sigurd the Viking Homecoming back to school to teach him some twentieth-century Johnson, C. £4.99 manners... 36575 7 year old Alan and his four brothers eagerly await the arrival of their Dad, home on leave. What adventures lie in Tarantula Tide wait for them… 86397 Tregenza, Sharon £5.99 Benny-benny Seawater A traditional children’s adventure story, bursting with the Johnson, Lisa – illustrated by Katherine Laidlay £6.99 life of the Shetland Isles. “Tarantula Tide” is the winner of Benny-benny Seawater spends all his holidays on his Aunty the Prize 2008, which rewards new Scottish and Uncle’s croft in Shetland. He has plenty of freedom writing for children. 92855 and he loves exploring the haystacks, the byre, the bridge and the burn, but most of all he loves being a Viking. In this How to be a Detective book Benny-benny Seawater spends his best holiday ever- Turner, Val £8.50 making his own Viking costume. 83842 An introduction to Shetland’s archaeology for children of all ages. 7008 the Brave Little Dinosaur: A Story for Children of All Ages Peerie Mootie an her Muckle Buits Krauskopf, Sharma £7.99 Watt, Valerie £7.99 Sharma Krauskopf, who lives at the Eshaness Lighthouse Peerie Mootie is nae ordinary fairy. She laeks tae git clertit tells the story of how Dore Holm, a blue cross-eyed in gutter so she wears muckle buits. But she leaves a slester dinosaur was honoured with a monument for the bravery on da bairns pillows. And den da Queen Fairy fins oot. he showed saving his friend, Whale. 72644 87460 2009 The Shetland Times Bookshop Page 21

Da Peesterleeties an da Curse o da Njuggle A Calendar of Love Watt, Valerie £7.99 Brown, George Mackay £6.99 A children’s trowie story for 8 – 12 year olds. Valerie Watt In these fourteen short stories is a secondary teacher who lives in Lerwick with her explores this ‘small green world’ through the lives of husband Alex and son Magnus. Whilst she was playing the fishermen, the crofters, the tinkers and drinkers, fiddle one morning, Magnus spotted Tivla and Fivla interweaving Norse and Scottish legend, past and present, Peesterleetie peeping out of a cupboard. A friendship grew into a vivid, refreshing and starkly beautiful whole. 79830 between the two families from which Valerie’s first book Northern Lights has emerged. 78999 Brown, George Mackay £9.99 In these diary entries, essays, poems, reportage, memoirs Wilma Widdershins And Da Muckle Tree of family and friends, selections from his Orcadian column Wills, Jonathan £7.99 and a fascinating account of his visit to Shetland. 87313 This Shetland story for children of all ages is beautifully illustrated by Gurli Feilberg. 93271 A Time to Keep Brown, George MacKay £6.99 Orkney – Mackay Brown A Time to Keep is George MacKay Brown’s second volume of short stories inspired by both ancient and modern life on Magnus the Orkney islands. 79830 Brown, George Mackay £6.99 Hawkfall This book explores the eternal questions of guilt, goodness Brown, George Mackay £6.99 and personal sacrifice. 91101 All these sharply etched fables deal with George MacKay Brown’s perennial themes-love, violence, death and The Golden Bird rebirth-and are set in an Orcadian world that spans myth Brown, George Mackay £6.99 and reality, past and present. 72559 These two long stories are set, like most of the author’s work, in Orkney and in a period, the last quarter of the Under Brinkie’s Brae nineteenth century, when the pattern of island life, little Brown, George Mackay £7.50 changed since Viking times, was beginning to be A selection from George Mackay Brown’s long running threatened. 92192 weekly column in the Orcadian. 62168 Vinland The Masked Brown, George Mackay £6.99 Brown, George Mackay £6.99 The author’s fourth novel follows the turbulent life of The title story in this collection was inspired by an incident Ranald Sigmuson, a young boy born into the Dark Ages, from Viking period in the Northern Isles of Scotland. when Orkney was torn between its Viking past and its 92191 Christian future. 75099

The Collected Poems of George Mackay Brown Beside the Ocean of Time Bevan, Archie, edited by £20.00 Brown, George Mackay £6.99 The story of Thorfinn, a crofter’s son living on the remote In this collected edition the poems of one of Scotland’s island of Norday and his escape into a world of his finest poets is published in one volume for the first time. imagination. Shortlisted for the 1994 Booker Prize. 77899 83581 Greenvoe Greenvoe Brown, George Mackay £6.99 Brown, George Mackay £6.99 The author’s first novel recreates a week in the life of an George Mackay Brown’s recreates a week in the life of an island community as the community come to terms with island community in his first novel. 68528 with the prospect of change on their island of Hellya. 68528 Winter Tales Interrogation of Silence: The Writings of George Brown, George Mackay £6.99 Mackay Brown Winter Tales is a superb collection of tender and Murray, Rowena and Murray, Brian £14.95 compassionate tales, focusing on light and darkness, winter Absorbing and accessible to all, this is the essential book to and its festivals, by one of the greatest story-tellers of the understanding a lifetime’s writing from one of the 20th twentieth century. 83692 century’s great writers and poets. 92309 The Island of Women and other stories Orkney Brown, George Mackay £6.99 George Mackay Brown’s writing has never been more Orkney compelling and imaginative than in these six stories that Bailey, Patrick £6.99 celebrate the sea and the land, the past and the present, Everything the visitor needs to know about the islands’ voyages and homecomings. 82054 heritage, landscape, climate, flora and fauna. 84129 Page 22 The Shetland Times Bookshop 2009

A Year in an Orkney Kitchen Wings Over Bichan, Alan £22.50 Scott, Jack £6.00 A collection of Orkney recipes prepared and presented by At just 3 years short of the British Airways pilots’ Alan Bichan. 89176 compulsory retirement age, Jack learnt to fly and bought his first aeroplane. 31083 Kitty Berdo’s Book Of Orkney Rhymes Flaws, Margaret Tait £9.50 Images in Time Volume 3 A compilation of rhymes from Orkney and Shetland, some Sinclair, Norman £14.95 in print for the first time. 14444 Compiled from the remarkable collection of photographs taken by James William Sinclair, whose career spanned From Jutland to Junkyard more than 60 years. Third in the series. 49940 George, S.C. £7.99 In 1919 the German High Seas Fleet began in unison to A Creek to a Haven : Fifty Years of the Orkney sink in Scapa Flow. Shortly after the Admiralty stated that Fishermen’s Society saving the ships was an impossibility. From 1924 using Sutherland, Capt. R.L. and Crichton, Stewart, compiled by techniques at the frontiers of science, the battlefleet was £7.00 raised and scrapped. This is the story of the salvage As well as providing an insight into the fishing and operation. 66838 processing industry in Orkney over the last century, this book gives a fascinating glimpse of some of the characters This Great Harbour Scapa Flow involved. 67698 Hewison, W. S. £12.99 Scapa Flow is the seaway that runs between Orkney Last Dawn mainland and the island of . The late W.S.Hewison’s Turner, David £7.99 book is the ultimate history of this remarkable place. The story of the Royal Oak tragedy at Scapa Flow. 90377 78369 Orkney by Air Souvenir Postcards from Orkney: Orkney in Picture Warner, Guy £12.95 Postcards Orkney by Air is a photographic record of aviation in the Hudson, Norman £9.99 Orkney Islands from the first flights by Ted Fresson Pictorial as seen on 200 early picture through to the twenty-first century. It is accompanied by postcards. A4 paperback. 12153 historical narrative. 79053 The Islands of Orkney Scottish A-Z Schei, Liv Kjorsvik £12.95 Sixty-seven islands make up Orkney. The author discusses Go Listen to the Crofters how each island community has developed to make Cameron, A.D. £12.99 Orkney what it is today – vibrant, friendly and Richly illustrated, this is the fullest and widest-ranging breathtakingly beautiful. 84619 account of crofting and crofters ever put together. Full of contemporary pictures and marvellous anecdotes, it is Orkney’s Lifeboat Heritage invaluable for everyone who wants to learn more about Leach, Nicholas £17.99 Scotland’s history. 28059 The seas around Orkney and the Pentland are among the most dangerous and perilous of any in the world. The The Scottish Islands volunteer lifeboat crews of Orkney have performed many Hawell-Smith, Hamish £30.00 incredible, courageous and daring rescues. This book Comprehensive guide to every Scottish island. With full recounts all of the medal-winning rescues. 87542 colour illustrations and relief maps of all the main islands. 92726 Scapa Flow: From Graveyard to Resurrection Mills, Simon, Reuter, Ludwig von £14.95 Air Ambulance Service Features the biography of Vice Admiral von Reuter and the Hutchison, Iain £19.95 German navy leading to the 1st World War and a History of Scottish air ambulance service. 66564 translation of von Reuter’s memoir originally published in 1921. The final narrative concerns the exploits around the Scottish Lighthouses salvage of the German Imperial fleet. 76935 Krauskopf, Sharma £12.99 Details and photographs of 31 magnificent lighthouses and Scapa beacons, Scottish Lighthouses, built over the last two Miller, Jim £9.99 centuries to protect ships in Scotland’s dangerous coastal Jim Miller presents an illustrated history of the famous waters. 52438 Orkney naval base, Scapa. This is the first book to tell the story of Scapa through photographs. Gathered from local People of the Sea collections, the Imperial War Museum and many other Thomson, David £6.99 sources this is a unique portrayal of life on this remote This book tells the story of the haunting journey in search naval base. 54395 of the man-seal legends of the Celt. 50532 2009 The Shetland Times Bookshop Page 23

Shetland – Viking & Picts Destination Viking, Sagalands, The Icelandic Sagas and Oral Tradition in the Nordic world. The Viking Gods £11.99 Cooper, David, Gudmundsson, Rognvaldur, Tom, Muir, This book contains excerpts from Snorri Sturluson’s Edda, editors £10.00 which was written around 1220, and is the most important This guidebook represents the culmination of Destination source on the Gods of the Vikings. 55502 Viking Sagalands, an Interreg 111B Northern Periphery project involving 17 partners from eight different countries New Vanguard 47: Viking £9.99 and regions: Greenland, Iceland, the Faroe Islands, From the one-man canoes of the Scandinavian Stone Age Norway, Sweden, Scotland (Orkney and Shetland), the Isle to the invasion fleet of William the Conqueror, this book of Man, and Canada ( Newfoundland). The book focuses traces the evolution of the Viking Longship. 56640 not only on the Sagas and their accounts of events, but also on more contemporary storytelling. The Vikings and their Origins: in the 1st 81205 Millenium £6.95 In this book David Wilson describes the history and culture Viking Stories of the Vikings from the beginning of the Christian era to Collected and illustrated by Davie Cooper £5.00 the end of the Viking Age in about AD 1100. 54306 These stories have been compiled from a variety of sources by Davie Cooper on behalf of the Shetland Havamal: The Sayings of the Vikings £5.99 Amenity Trust as part of the Sagalands Northern Havamal is the words of wisdom which served as spiritual Periphery Programme Project. 73881 provisions for the Vikings on their long journeys over the The Penguin Book of Norse Myths: Gods of the Vikings rough sea to discover new lands. These sayings give a clear Crossley-Holland, Kevin £10.99 picture of their view of and attitude to life. 55501 This compendium of Norse mythology contains a collection of dramatic, moving, intricately structured stories. 24605 Towers in the North: The Brochs of Scotland Armit, Ian £17.99 Viking Invader The brochs are amongst the best-known ancient Fleming, Fergus £4.99 monuments in Scotland. Dr. Armit describes the current Part of the Newspaper History series, a mock, tabloid-style state of our knowledge, probes the controversies over newspaper which provides information about different their origins and function, and provides an annotated list of aspects of the daily life of Vikings, such as pillaging, sea the most accessible and best-preserved broch sites. 60710 travel and plundering. 30928 A Guide to Prehistoric and Viking Shetland The Saga of King Hrolf Kraki Fojut, Noel £19.99 Bycock, Jesse L. (tr) £8.99 Outlining the life of prehistoric communities in Shetland Composed in medieval Iceland, Hrolf’s saga is one of the from earliest traces of human habitation to the start of the greatest of mythic-legendary sagas, relating half-fantastical Norse settlement. 79511 events that were said to have occurred in fifth-century Denmark. 35217 Swein Asleifson: A Northern Pirate Gunn, Robert P. £2.99 Saga of the Volsungs A small book crammed with the action, double-dealing and Byock, Jesse L. (Tr.) £9.99 bloodthirsty adventure which surrounded Swein Asleifson Written in the thirteenth century, The Saga of the Volsungs and his people some 800 years ago! 3320 is one of the key texts of Old Icelandic literature and is of Vikings, The central importance for an understanding of Viking culture. Heath, Ian £11.99 40377 This book follows their progress as they raided Viking Age Iceland everywhere from Norway to North Africa, established the Byock, Jesse L.(Tr.) £12.99 dukedom of Normandy, provided the Byzantine Combining history and anthropology, this remarkable Emperors’ bodyguard and landed on the shores of study explores in rich detail all aspects of Viking age life. America 500 years before Columbus. 57026 50584 History of the Vikings Jones, Gwyn £9.99 The in the Viking Age The subject of this book is the Viking realms, Denmark, Christiansen, Eric £18.99 Sweden, and Norway, their civilisation and culture, and A thought-provoking survey covering many aspects of their many-sided achievements at home and abroad. Nordic life, including ecology, politis, war, work, and 52434 migration. 82886 The Vinland Saga: The Norse Discovery of America The Vikings, Voyages of Discovery and Plunder Leifur Eiricksson £9.99 Chartrand, I £20.00 One of the most arresting stories in the history of This beautifully illustrated book includes new material exploration, these two Icelandic sagas tell of the discovery about the Vikings in North America and the lives the Viking of America by Norsemen five centuries before Christopher led at home. 81478 Columbus. 88835 Page 24 The Shetland Times Bookshop 2009

Icelandic Histories and Romances Explorer Map 468: Shetland – Mainland North East O’Connor, Ralph £12.99 £7.99 The Icelandic sagas, composed between the twelfth and the Scale 1:25,000. 62131 nineteenth centuries, are one of the world’s great literary treasures. After an extended and lively introduction to the Explorer Map 469: Shetland – Mainland North West genre, Ralph O’Connor provides new translations for five £7.99 of the greatest of these sagas. 67879 Scale 1:25,000. 62132 : The History of the Earls of Orkney Explorer Map 470: Shetland – Unst, Yell, Fetlar £7.99 Palsson, Hermann and Edwards, Paul (tr) £8.99 Scale 1:25,000. 62133 Written around 1200 by an unknown author, the Orkneyinga Saga is an intriguing fusion of myth, legend and Landranger Maps LR1 £6.99 history. 3334 Landranger: Shetland – Yell, Unst and Fetlar all-purpose map. Scale 1:50,000. 100cm x 99cm. Folded. First in series Vikings, The of four which covers Shetland area. 65734 Roesdahl & Margeson £11.99 For 300 years, from just before AD 800 until well into the Landranger Maps LR2 £6.99 eleventh century ... the Vikings affected almost every Landranger 2: Shetland – Sullom Voe and Whalsay all- region accessible to their ships, and left traces that are still purpose map. Scale 1:50,000. 65735 part of life today. 57026 Landranger Maps LR3 £6.99 The Faroe Islands Landranger 3: Shetland – North Mainland all-purpose map. Schei, Liv Kjorsvik £14.99 Scale 1:50,000. 65736 Rising steeply from the sea between Shetland and Iceland, the Faroe Islands appear as a dark, inhospitable mountain Landranger Maps LR4 £6.99 mass. This book offers a detailed account of this Landranger 4: Shetland – South Mainland. Scale 1:50,000. remarkable corner of the world. Dealing not only with the Provides tourist information, roads and paths of south history, geology, natural history but also the culture, place mainland. 65737 names, language and folklore, in particular The Faereyinga Saga (Saga of the Faroe Islanders), the only written source Lerwick 1900: Old Maps £2.20 about the islands which survives from the Viking Age. This map of Lerwick in 1900 will delight historians, 65426 genealogists and all who are interested in the ’s most northerly town. 50020 Egil’s Saga Translated by Bernard Scudder £8.99 Shetland and Orkney Map £4.50 This Icelandic saga tells the story of the long and brutal life Official tourist map. Shows the whole of Shetland on one of the tenth-century warrior-poet and farmer Egil side and the whole of Orkney on the other. 68118 Skallagrimsson. 72012 Philip’s Red Book: Shetland and Orkney Leisure and King Harald’s Saga, Sturluson Snorri Tourist Map £4.25 Magnusson, Magnus and Palsson, Hermann (tr) £9.99 This double-sided leisure and tourist map of Shetland and This compelling Icelandic saga describes the life of King Orkney gives detailed coverage of the islands’ road Harald Hardradi, from his battles across Europe and Russia network at a scale of approximately 2.5 miles to 1 inch. to his final assault on England in 1066, less than three 94995 weeks before the invasion of William the Conqueror. 3331 Shetland Map £4.95 The Northern World A detailed, easy-to-use colour map with clear shaded relief. Edited by Wilson, David M. £19.95 Features places of interest, historic sites, brochs and The Renaissance made us forget our Northern ancestors, building, ferry routes, viewpoints and much more. 69303 yet the contribution of the Germanic-speaking peoples to our civilization between AD400 and 1100 is in many ways Road Map 1: Northern Scotland, Orkney & Shetland as vital as that of the Latin speakers. Who were these £4.99 people- the Goths and Franks, the Saxons and , the Up-to-date road map with tourist information and place Slavs and the Vikings-to whom we owe so much? The names index. Features Orkney and Shetland and the north Northern World is a book for everyone who seeks to of Scotland from Pitlochry upwards. 62136 understand the present in the light of the past. 67790 Scotland Sheet 131 Unst & Fetlar, Solid & Drift Shetland – Maps £12.00 1:50 000 series solid and drift geological map of Unst and Explorer Map 466: Shetland – Mainland South £7.99 Fetlar. 83789 Scale 1:25,000. 62129 Scotland Sheet 129 Northmaven, Bedrock £12.00 Explorer Map 467: Shetland – Mainland Central £7.99 1:50 000 Scale Geological series Bedrock map of Scale 1:25,000. 62130 Northmaven 83787 2009 The Shetland Times Bookshop Page 25

Scotland Sheet 130 Yell, Solid & Drift £12.00 Roads Not Travelled 1:50 000 Scale British Geological Survey map of Yell, Bain, Aly, Cunningham, Phil £12.74 Scotland sheet 130, solid and drift. 83788 Yet another from Phil and Aly, yet more good stuff. A fair few tunes by Phil, demonstrating his ever-developing Shetland/Orkney – Videos/DVDs mastery of modes. The box’n’fiddle harmony of these two DVD £13.69 players surpasses most others, and is here augmented by A full 60 minutes of high quality video, including the Phil on whistles, mandolin, cittern, and keys, with Anna highlights of this spectacular event and featuring some of Massie and Martin O’Neil guesting on guitar and bodhran. the very best of Shetland music. 83134 83210 Drifters/ Caller Herrin DVD £19.56 Aly Bain & Friends CD Two films. Drifters is the story of the North Sea herring fleets, shot mainly around Yarmouth and Lowestoft in Bain, Aly CD £11.99 1929 (60 mins.). Caller Herrin follows the herring boats at Aly Bain and Friends is the soundtrack from the popular TV sea off the coast of Scotland and the Shetland Islands. (20 Series of the same name. This collection also features mins.) 63236 artistes such as, Phil Cunningham, Capercaillie, Boys of the Lough, Hamish Moore, Clive Gregson & Christine Collister. The Edge of the World 47950 A film by DVD £19.56 The Edge of the World tells the moving story of a remote First CD £11.99; island and its inhabitants, whose traditions and way of life Bain, Aly Cassette £6.99 are threatened by a rapidly industrialising world. Shot over First Album features Violet Tulloch on piano and Willie four months on the wild windswept Shetland Island of Johnson on guitar. Tracks include Margaret’s Waltz, Foula in the 1930s. 68108 Waiting for the Federals, The Hangman’s Reel and The The Sea Harvesters DVD £18.99 Auld Noost. 47951 (CD) 47952 (Cs) In this rare collection of films, partly in colour, you will hear fishermen, some of whom appear in the films, tell of their Pearl, The CD CD £11.99; experiences in the great days of a lost era of fishing. 67674 Bain & Cunningham Cassette £6.99 The Shetland Flyer The Pearl is a recording from the ever-popular partnership Eddie Watt DVD £12.00 of Aly Bain and Phil Cunningham. The tracks on this CD Eddie Watt ran a successful plumbing business. But an include Bonnie Nancy, Quendale Bay, The Music of Spey encounter with God on a stormy night changed all that. He and The Pearl. 47955 (CD) 47956 (Cs) became a commercial pilot and ended up taking his family to East Africa where he flew for Mission Aviation Ruby, The CD CD £11.99; Fellowship. Then in 1996, he returned to his native Bain & Cunningham Cassette £6.99 Shetland Isles and has been flying for ever since. The Ruby is a recording from the ever-popular partnership 79278 of Aly Bain and Phil Cunningham. Tracks on this CD include Violet Tulloch Queen of Lerwick, Sarah’s Song, Logan Shetland – CDs/Cassettes Water and The Ruby. This recording is also available on cassette. 47957 (CD) 47958 (Cs) The Moarfield Waltz: A Tribute to Gordon Jamieson CD £13.00 Follow The Moonstone CD This superb charity album features tracks from many of the Shetland bands: Cullivoe, Alan Nicholson, Da Fustra, James Bain & BT Scottish Ensemble CD £11.99 Leask, David Halcrow, and some superb fiddling from Aly Bain and the BT Scottish Ensemble perform a beautiful Bryan Gear and friends. Ten of the tunes were composed collection of pieces from around the North Sea. The by the late Gordon Jamieson. 86620 recording is divided into three suites; from Scandinavia, Shetland and Scotland. The music crosses the bridge Afore the Mast Cassette: Tunes & Tales of the Sea between classical and traditional. Also available on cassette. from Shetland Island Cassette £6.99 47960 (CD) This album was released to coincide with the 1999 Cutty Tall Ships Race visit to Shetland. Tunes and tales of the Another Gem CD sea from the Shetland Isles with story-tellers George Bain & Various CD £11.99 Peterson and Andrew Williamson and fiddle player Debbie Latest CD from this ever-popular Shetland musician. Scott. 44302 48566 Under Canvas CD £11.99 CD of Shetland music produced to accompany the book Inquisitive Finger Syndrome CD ‘Notes Between Canvas’ by Tom Morton (available in Barker, Willie CD £11.99 Shetland-Music section) and a show at The Bonhoga Another eclectic mix of , rock and blues from Gallery by artist Richard Wemyss in 1999. The CD Willie Barker. This one features tracks such as Chickens features an eclectic collection of musicians ranging from Won’t Fly (Barnyard Mix), Gluff Da Kye, The Glen Rosa Pete Stack and Da Rayburns and The Red Vans to Aly Bain Stumble and The Wake of St. Clair. 47997 and Filska. 50460 Page 26 The Shetland Times Bookshop 2009

Back tae Burns CD Across the Waters CD Compilation of Spootiskerry, Sunnyside & The Laebrak Fridarey CD £13.00 Ian Burns £15.99 Shetland folk music from this popular Fair Isle family group. A of tunes composed, played and recorded Includes Unst Boat Song and Da Saang o’ Da Papa Men. by Ian Burns playing accordian, fiddle, guitar, bagpipes, 64602 piano, mandolin and drums. 55653 From Shetland CD Twenty Trevor Hunter CD £11.95 Boys of the Lough CD £14.00 This is Trevor Hunter’s second recording of fiddle music. Tradition evolves and develops its own character; this Trevor began playing as a youngster and was taught for a originally all-Irish band now has members from time by the late Dr. Tom Anderson. His special gift is the Northumberland, the Highlands and Shetland too. Their ability to combine a lifelong understanding of traditional music reflects local influences in tunes and styling, but with fiddle styles with an advanced technique and tone derived good old whistle, box and fiddle based sound they are from study of the classical violin. 71604 ready for anything. Tunes from the traditions, skills from the angels. 78715 Leaving Lerwick Harbour CD Hunter & Tulloch CD £11.99 Strikes Again CD From the legendary fiddler Willie Hunter, ‘Leaving Lerwick Da Fustra CD £11.99 Harbour’ is the last album he recorded before his death. A walloping new CD of the Shetland ceilidh sound. Includes Accompanied by Violet Tulloch on piano. 47947 favourites such as the Gay Gordons, The Veleta, Strip the Willow and Da Foula Reel. 49105 Laebrack McKay, Catriona, Stout, Chris CD £11.99 The Foaming Sea CD A glorious album of twists and turns, with Chris on fiddle Da Fustra CD £11.99 and viola and Catriona on harp. Traditional Scottish tunes Da Fustra’s energetic live Shetland ceilidh CD. Includes and some recently composed sets, demonstrating the waltzes, jigs, reels and the old favourite, The Boston Two- intuitive style developed in ten years of playing together. step. 49109 78716

A Shetland Dance CD Live and Hazardous Da Fustra CD £11.99 Rock, and Nails CD £13.99 Shetland’s favourite band with Shetland’s favourite dances. Just as the title says, from Shetland, too. Trad. meets 21 tracks including the full blooded, full-length Shetland proto-punk with manners on this blazing album of attitude. style Quadrilles. 56426 Excellent musicianship and a wonderful selection of tunes. 78723 Drop the Box CD Drop the Box CD £11.99 More & More CD Drop the Box combine tradition-steeped musical prowess Rock Salt & Nails CD £11.99 with wide ranging influences. The group have toured Rock, Salt & Nails have toured extensively throughout extensively as far afield as Canada, Russia and . Tracks Europe and beyond, remaining one of Shetland’s most on this album include Dr. Love, Saved and Edge of the popular exports in the folk/ rock scene. Tracks on this CD World. 47985 include More & More, Life and Lucy Bain Reprise. 47987

Da Farder Ben Da Welcomer CD Boxed CD Fiddler’s Bid CD £11.99 Rock Salt & Nails CD £11.99 Latest CD from this dynamic Shetland band. 56134 Rock, Salt & Nails have toured extensively throughout Europe and beyond, remaining one of Shetland’s most Thousand Miles Away CD popular exports in the folk/ rock scene. Tracks on this CD Filska CD £11.99 include Speed, Butterflies and You & Me. 47988 Filska are 4 brilliant musicians who between them play fiddle, accordian, piano, guitar & vocals their latest CD Debbie Scott CD includes The West Shores of and Bethany’s Waltz. Scott, Debbie CD £11.99 67780 Debbie Scott’s new CD is a mixture of traditional and contemporary fiddle music with guitar and double bass by Tide & Time CD John Hutchison. 47948 Filska CD £11.99 Lively offering from ever popular young fiddlers Filska. Turning Tide Tracks include Bunjie’s Dilemma, The One Inch Trowel, Shoormal £11.99 Boy Fae Da Bid, Monday Morning and Cairngorm Brooch. Another fine collection of songs from the Shetland vocal- 49112 led group. Members Freda, Joyce and Trevor have written the songs, in their hallmark ballady, harmonizing style. 2009 The Shetland Times Bookshop Page 27

Their voices are backed by piano, guitar, accordian and musicians. A good introduction to Shetland music. This CD bass giving depth and a certain intimacy to the range of includes tracks such as Leaving Lerwick Harbour, Juniper emotions in their songs. 83209 Jig and Central House. 47971

Migrant CD Shetland Folk Festival 2000 CD Shoormal CD £12.99 Various CD £11.99 12 new compositions from Shoormal including Pilgrim and This CD has been produced to coincide with the 20th Bohus. 67015 annual Shetland Folk Festival. Features visiting and local artistes including Steve Kaufman, Loyko, Bap Kennedy, Ivver Entrancin Wis CD Catriona MacDonald, Balfa Toujours and many more. Sinclair, Lise CD £12.99 48003 Shetland poems in music by Lise Sinclair. Includes: Lullaby Ida Mirkenin, Wir Midder Da Sea and Dreamboat. 89432 Orkney – CDs

Northern Shore CD Black White and Blue CD Solan CD £11.99 Drever, Ivan CD £12.95 A new outfit on the Shetland and international scene, Solan Respected Orcadian singer and guitarist Ivan Drever is also are a featuring, unusually, concertina lead with guitar well known throughout the world of traditional music as a and electro/acoustic fiddle backing. 47943 songwriter, for his work with Scottish band Wolfstone. 10 tracks, including Glasgow Rain, Annie Laurie, Fiona Spencies’s Tunes CD Halloway’s/The Dashing White Spirit. 56007 Spence, Steven CD £11.99 This is Steven Spence’s first CD containing his own Back to Back CD compositions of 37 Shetland tunes. Teamed up with Drever, Ivan CD £11.95 composer/ arranger John Laughlin, this music is captivating 11 tracks from Wolfstone singer Ivan Drever and Struan and unique; it is an excellent source of material to enhance Eaglesham. Tracks include Know Way of Knowing, Irma’s any fiddler’s repertoire. 71605 Song, The Fisherman and No Tie Ups. 56013

The Devil’s Advocate Every Breaking Heart CD Stout, Chris CD £11.99 Drever, Ivan CD £11.95 Chris is a remarkably talented fiddle player (of Fiddler’s Bid 14 tracks from Wolfstone singer Ivan Drever with Duncan fame) and self penned tunes on this album show him to be Chisholm (fiddle), Struan Eaglesham (keyboards, a fine composer too. He is joined by friends on sax, piano, bodhran), Allan Wilson (smallpipes), Micky Austin (). harp, bass and guitar for a simply stunning album. Devil’s Tracks include I Am The Night/President Garfield, A New Advocate; Bambodansarna; Auld Swarra; Phil’s Tune; The Day and The Little Ones. 56012 Aith Rant; Fisherman’s Prayer; The Sheriff; Nanny and Andrrew; Dynorost. 86557 The Orkney Fiddler CD Running for a Fry Driver, Fiona CD £11.95 Stove, Thomas A. CD and Book £14.99 Fiona Driver (fiddle), Billy Peace (keyboards and A collection of fiddle tunes complete with demonstration accordion) and Stewart Shearer (guitar). 16 tracks CD featuring all of the compostions in the book. Thomas including The Weird Tune/Sandy Brechin’s Reel/Islay Gideon Stove was born into a musical family, his Rant. 56041 grandfather being the well-known Shetland fiddler Gideon Stove. Originally from Lerwick but now living in the North Just a Few Tunes CD East of Scotland the author teaches fiddle playing. He Ritch, Kenny and Kenneth CD £11.95 recently achieved his Licentiate of London College of Music Fiddle and accordion music by Kenny and Kenneth Ritch. Diploma in Scots fiddle teaching. 77370 Tracks include Three Good Reels, Da Slockit Light, Da Auld Resting Chair and Mr. Michie. 56016 Twilight Bound CD Thulbion CD £11.99 Leetera CD Twilight Bound from Thulbion features past Scottish Seelyhoo CD £11.95 champion fiddler Judi Nicolson with husband Ian on Tracks include Hoy High, Hoy Low, Na Spioradan Briste accordion, Violet Tulloch on piano and Andrew Tulloch on and the Marquis of Huntly’s Farewell. 56033 guitar. Tracks include Loretta, Sheilis, Gravel Walk and Eeles’ Dream. 47967 Coming Through…. CD The Smoking Stone Band CD £12.95 Shetland Dialect: Language of the Fiddle CD From beautiful Appalachian hoedowns and swinging blues Various CD £11.99 to a hard driving Shetland Reel and their own A selection of Shetland fiddle music, traditional and compositions, a truly eclectic mix. Tracks include Fathers contemporary, from a wide selection of young Shetland Farewell, Da Slockit Light and Albert Ross. 56050 Page 28 The Shetland Times Bookshop 2009

Folk Music in Orkney Vol. 3 CD Dusk Till Dawn The Best of Capercaillie CD Various CD £11.95 Capercaillie CD £12.95 Features tracks Hush Hush, Into the Wind and The Longest A best of album featuring a wide selection of Capercaille’s Goodbye. 56019 distinctive . A band that crashes through barriers and blends many musical traditions to create a Orkney Folk Festival CD truly unique sound. 55995 Various CD £12.95 Features music commissioned from local Orkney musicians The Old Style CD to mark the end of the last millennium. Work by Hazel and Blazin’ CD £11.99 Jennifer Wrigley, Gavin Firth and Andy Cant. 56051 A superb album with all the top notch tunes and technicalities we have come to expect from such a brilliant Skyran CD group. 64428 Wrigley, Jennifer and Hazel CD £12.95 Twin sisters from Orkney who are now well known on the Scottish Country Dancing CD international stage. Daughters of Orkney tradition they Crowe, Bobby & His Band CD £4.99 have created an Orcadian sound in which can be heard A collection of Reels, Two-Steps, Polkas and Waltzes Irish, American, Shetland and influences. 56056 performed by Bobby Crowe and his band. Includes Strip the Willow, Hornpipe, Gay Gordons and Eightsome Reel. Mither o’ the Sea CD 56024 Wrigley, Jennifer and Hazel CD £11.95 Tracks include Swelkie, The Teran, Brae o’ Scorne, Scapa- Fit? CD Flow and The Dance. 56035 Old Blind Dogs CD £12.95 Pipes, whistles, fiddles and remarkable vocals. 12 new Huldreland CD tracks from Scotland’s most exciting traditional band. Old Wrigley, Jennifer and Hazel CD £11.95 Blind Dogs have become one of the most in demand Includes Eynhallow Sound, 5 Hills of Hoy, Orkney Islands traditional groups performing today. This is a dynamic Hornpipe and The Giant Party. 56032 blend of six instrumental and six vocal tracks, including Robert Burns’ Is There for Honest Poverty and the pub Dancing Fingers CD anthem Tatties and Herrin. Together Old Blind Dogs take Wrigley, Jennifer and Hazel CD £11.99 Celtic music to a fresh new level while retaining a tradition Tracks include Listen to the Mockingbird, Grey Eagle and steeped in centuries of Scottish folklore and history. 56057 Ale is Dear. 56010 CD Orkney After Sunset CD CD £11.95 Wrigley Sisters with David Campbell CD £11.95 Includes the Folk Police, Faerie Stories, Mr. Problematic Old legends and modern tales combined with traditional and Weirdness. 56036 Orkney tunes. Internationally acclaimed David Campbell is widely regarded as one of Scotland’s finest storytellers. The Stamping Ground CD Jennifer and Hazel Wrigley have travelled the world CD £13.95 extensively and placed Orkney firmly on the worldwide Top Gaelic folk-rock band. CD includes lyrics in English and map of music. 56021 Gaelic. Tracks include Book of Golden Stories, The Stamping Ground, Wall of China, Running to the Light, Scottish – CDs Leaving Srathconon and Oran. 55999 The Gaelic Collection 1973-1998 CD Legacy of the Scottish Fiddle CD CD £12.95 Runrig CD £13.95 Alasdair Fraser (fiddle) and Paul Machlis (piano). Tracks 55992 includeThe Auld o’ Don, Rose-Acre and The Beauty of the North. 56009 Solar Shears CD Shooglenifty CD £14.60 Fire On! CD Wild ceilidh-type music played on fiddle, banjo, mandolin, Blazing Fiddles CD £12.99 guitar,drums and percussion. 64380 A collaboration of six top fiddle players from different parts of Scotland. Duncan Chisholm, Allan Henderson, Grand Concert of Scottish Piping CD Catriona MacDonald, Bruce MacGregor, Iain MacFarlane Various CD £11.95 and Aidan O’Rourke, with Andy Thorburn (piano) and Piping by Gordon Mooney, Angus D. MacColl, Martyn Mark Clement (guitar). 12 tracks including The Cascade, Bennett, Gordon Duncan, Iain MacInnes and Allan The Greenland Set, Marine Swanson, Waltzes and Donald, MacDonald. 56030 Willie and his Dog. 56022 Celtic Spirit CD Live in Concert CD Various CD £11.95 Capercaillie CD £12.95 Poignant and moving interpretations of classic Scottish and The first live album from Capercaillie. It captures their high- Irish ballads. Tracks include Danny Boy, Wild Mountain energy instrumental prowess superbly, and the crystal Thyme, Amazing Grace, and Caledonia. brilliance of Karen Matheson’s voice. 64378 56004 2009 The Shetland Times Bookshop Page 29

Celtic Connections CD Scottish – Videos/DVDs Various CD £9.99 18 tracks from the world renowned Festival, a gathering of the best in Celtic music. Tracks on Auld Lang Syne this CD include Zito the Bubbleman (Ceolbeg), Annalese Various £12.99 Bain (Aly Bain), the Twa Corbies (Old Blind Dogs), Aye Wakin O (Heather Heywood) and Double Rise Set 36 of the best Scottish melodies of the century. (Wolfstone). 56054 Including Amazing Grace, The Skye Boat Song, and Auld Lang Syne. 55931 The Rough Guide to Scottish Music CD Various CD £9.99 An introduction to Scottish music in traditional Rough Scottish Moods Guide style. Includes a variety of musicians to give you a Various £12.99 good taster of Scottish music. Includes Boys of the Lough, Capercaille, Battlefield Band and Wolfstone. 56003 Some of Scotland’s greatest ballads, a blend of acoustic guitars and the ambient sounds of nature. Including Loch The Rough Guide to Scottish Folk CD Lomond, Flower of Scotland and Over the Sea to Skye. Various CD £9.99 55929 19 tracks. A celebration of song and dance from one of Europe’s strongest living folk traditions, featuring poignant Step We Ceilidh Gaelic laments, and a rousing finale from the King of Highland Pipers. 56002 Various £12.99 This video shows in detail and in close up, how to do some Scottish Tranquility CD popular dances that are danced at ceilidhs, weddings and Various CD £6.99 many other social events. Including Gay Gordons, St. This unique recording compromises some of the best-loved Bernard’s Waltz and Strip the Willow. 55925 songs of Scotland, performed by piano and orchestra in a gentle, relaxed manner which truly evokes the freshness and tranquillity of the mountains and lochs of Scotland. Some Scottish videos, are also available in NTSC (North 56053 America and Japan format). Please enquire if required. Page 30 The Shetland Times Bookshop 2009

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