Donald S. Murray Forfatter
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In In a Veil of Mist (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A haunting exploration of the cost of war and the Cold War arms race that tells the story of a little-known germ warfare incident in the Scottish Outer Hebrides, with the empathy and poignancy of the author’s prize-winning first novel, As the Women Lay Dreaming.
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The Guga Hunters (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Every year, ten men from Ness, at the northern tip of the Isle of Lewis, sail north-east for some forty miles to a remote rock called Sulasgeir. Their mission is to catch and harvest... Læs mere
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For the Safety of All: A Story of Scotland's Lighthouses (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Lighthouses punctuate Scotland's coastline - a stoic presence on the edge of the landscape. In For the Safety of All, Donald S Murray explores these lighthouses through history, storytelling and the voices of the lightkeepers.
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As the Women Lay Dreaming (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A powerful, poignant and award-winning novel of the UK’s worst peacetime maritime disaster since the Titanic – the 1919 Iolaire tragedy off the coast of Isle of Lewis – written by a son of the Hebrides.
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The Call of the Cormorant (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
From the author of the prize-winning As the Women Lay Dreaming comes a remarkable ‘unreliable biography’ of Karl Kjerúlf Einarsson: an artist and an adventurer, a charlatan and a swindler, forever in search of Atlantis.
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The Man Who Talks to Birds (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Donald S Murray is widely recognised for his empathy and remarkable ability to convey emotion with restraint and poignancy. In this short collection of poems written during... Læs mere
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Herring Tales: How the Silver Darlings Shaped Human Taste and History (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Levering: 6 - 9 hverdage
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Red Star Over Hebrides (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Growing up on the edge of Lewis, the vastness of Russia never felt too distant for Donald S Murray. Inspired by the Russian canon, Red Star Over Hebrides draws upon the... Læs mere
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The Dark Stuff: Stories from the Peatlands (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
An evocative social history of Europe's peatlands, moors, bogs and heaths.
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The Loch of the Bees (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
From the author of the prizewinning As the Women Lay Dreaming comes an evocative and deeply original novel that reimagines the lives of Hebrideans across the centuries, sweeping from the eighth century to the present day.
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