Shetland

Author: Ann Cleeves
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 1509809805
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 288

Book Description
In this gloriously illustrated companion to her crime novels featuring Inspector Jimmy Perez, Ann Cleeves takes readers through a year on Shetland. Discover its past, meet its people, celebrate its festivals and see how the flora and fauna of the islands change with the seasons. An archipelago of more than a hundred islands, Shetland is the one of the most remote places in the United Kingdom. Its fifteen hundred miles of shore mean that wherever one stands, there is a view of the sea. It has sheltered voes and beaches and dramatically exposed cliffs, lush meadows full of wild flowers in the summer and bleak hilltops where only the hardiest of plants will grow. It is a place where traditions are valued and celebrated, but new technologies and ways of working are also embraced. Whether it is the drama of the Viking fire festival of Up Helly Aa in winter, or the piercing blue and hot pink of spring flowers on the clifftops, the long, white nights of midsummer or the fierce gales and high tides of autumn, Shetland is vividly captured in all its bleak and special beauty. A book to treasure, full of photos and insightful notes about the stunning location of the Shetland series, now a major BBC One drama starring Douglas Henshall.

Shetland Diaries

Author: Simon King
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780340918753
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Simon King moves with his family to the most remote point in the UK and reveals the natural splendour and unique character of the Shetland Islands.

Wild Fire: The Shetland Series 8

Author: Ann Cleeves
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1760781630
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 338

Book Description
The eighth, and final book, in Ann Cleeves’ bestselling Shetland series – a major BBC One drama starring Douglas Henshall as Jimmy Perez. Shetland: Welcoming. Wild. Remote. Drawn in by the reputation of the islands, a new English family move to the area, eager to give their autistic son a better life. But when a young nanny’s body is found hanging in the barn of their home, rumours of her affair with the husband begin to spread like wild fire. With suspicion raining down on the family, DI Jimmy Perez is called in to investigate. For him it will mean returning to the islands of his on-off lover and boss Willow Reeves, who will run the case. Perez is already facing the most disturbing investigation of his career, when Willow drops a bombshell that will change his life forever. Is he ready for what is to come?

Sheltie the Shetland Pony

Author: Peter Clover
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780141313870
Category : Children's stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 183

Book Description
When Emma meets Sheltie, the little pony with the big heart, she feels happier about her move to the country. Together, the pair have lots of adventures, including finding a tresure map and saving the local Horseshoe Pond from being sold.

A Shetland Notebook

Author: Norman Ackroyd
Publisher: Royal Academy Books
ISBN: 9781907533891
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Norman Ackroyd CBE RA has spent over four decades recording the coastal landscapes of the British archipelago. All his watercolours and many of his etchings are executed en plein air, mainly from chartered boats chosen for their skippers' local knowledge and expertise in landing on the more remote rocks and islands. These journeys, which can last up to fourteen hours, are the result of extensive reading and research. A Shetland Notebook contains 39 watercolours selected from several journeys to the edges of Shetland in the spring and summer of 2012. From the verdant flora of the southern isles to the rugged northern cliffs of Unst and Esha Ness, the book paints a vivid portrait of one of the most intriguing yet inhospitable corners of the British Isles. Each sketch is accompanied by a brief but engaging commentary by the artist. SELLING POINTS: * Contains 39 beautiful watercolours of Shetland * Norman Ackroyd is hugely popular for his atmospheric images of the British Isles * Includes a gazetteer identifying the locations of all the paintings 78 colour

Cold Earth

Author: Ann Cleeves
Publisher: Minotaur Books
ISBN: 1250107385
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 396

Book Description
Named one of The Guardian's Best Crime Books and Thrillers of 2016.

Some Shetland Folk

Author: James John Haldane Burgess
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Tales
Languages : en
Pages : 180

Book Description

Raven Black

Author: Ann Cleeves
Publisher: Minotaur Books
ISBN: 1429964375
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 388

Book Description
The basis for the hit series "Shetland" now airing on PBS. Winner of Britain's coveted Duncan Lawrie Dagger Award, Ann Cleeves's Raven Black introduces a dazzling suspense series to U.S. mystery readers. It is a cold January morning and Shetland lies beneath a deep layer of snow. Trudging home, Fran Hunter's eye is drawn to a splash of color on the frozen ground, ravens circling above. It is the strangled body of her teenage neighbor, Catherine Ross. The locals on the quiet island stubbornly focus their gaze on one man--loner and simpleton Magnus Tait. But when detective Jimmy Perez and his colleagues from the mainland insist on opening out the investigation, a veil of suspicion and fear is thrown over the entire community. For the first time in years, Catherine's neighbors nervously lock their doors, while a killer lives on in their midst.

British Diaries

Author: William Matthews
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520320719
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376

Book Description
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1950.

Shetland in the Shed

Author: Lucy Daniels
Publisher: Hodder Children's Books
ISBN: 9780340881668
Category : Animal Ark (Imaginary organization)
Languages : en
Pages : 152

Book Description
The Hope family take in a friend's daughter when her father goes into hospital - and her pony comes too! But Gemma blames the pony for her father's accident and won't go near it. Can Mandy and James get Gemma back in the saddle? 7 yrs+