slanders is Margaret Elphinstones first novel, written when she lived at Northbanks, Papa Stour in 1979. It is the authors expression of the seven years she lived in Shetland, during which she explored Shetland by land and sea, discovered the sagas while working in Shetland Library, learned to watch birds on Fair Isle, Noss and other islands, and spent several summers as a volunteer on a dig at Da Biggings, Papa Stour, excavating a Norse farm. The novel was rewritten in the early 1990s, partly in the National Library of Scotland, partly in Shetland, and partly (thanks to a Scottish Arts Council travel grant) in Iceland. Islanders was first published in 1994. It is now (2008) nearly thirty years since the first draft was written since then Margaret Elphinstone has lived in other places and written other books. But it was Shetland, and Islanders, that first inspired and formed her as a writer. .from the opening pages with their map of the islands which turns north and south upside down to reflect the orientation of the island worldview, the readers conventional perspectives on peripheral cultures is destabilised, and resettled in a view from a rock perched far in the Atlantic, looking at Europe, Britain, and even Orkney and Shetland from a very different valuecentre. Douglas Gifford, A History of Scottish Womens Writing.

Binding: N/A;472 pages; Publisher: Zeticula; Classification: N/A; Weight: 808.55 g; Dimensions: N/A

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