Roger Hutchinson is an award-winning author and journalist. After working as an editor in London, in 1977 he joined the West Highland Free Press in Skye. Since then he has published thirteen books, including Polly: the True Story Behind Whisky Galore. He is still a columnist for the WHFP, and has written for BBC Radio, The Scotsman, The Guardian, The Herald and The Literary Review. His book The Soap Man (Birlinn 2003) was shortlisted for the Saltire Scottish Book of the Year (2004) and the bestselling Calum’s Road (2007) was shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature’s Ondaatje Prize.
19 Ebooks por Roger Hutchinson
Roger Hutchinson: Calum’s Road
'An incredible testament to one man’s determination' – The Sunday Herald Calum Mac Leod had lived on the northern point of Raasay since his birth in 1911. He tended the Rona lighthouse at t …
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Roger Hutchinson: The Soap Man
In 1918, as the First World War was drawing to a close, the eminent liberal industrial Lord Leverhulme bought – lock, stock and barrel – the Hebridean island of Lewis. His intention was to revolution …
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Roger Hutchinson: The Silent Weaver
In September 1939, groups of horsemen in battledress cantered down a broad, grassy plain on the western edge of Europe. The young men of the Western Isles were going to war again. They included a tal …
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Roger Hutchinson: Walking to America
Walking To America follows and recreates the immense journey, in search of a new life and of a miracle doctor who could cure the blindness of one of their number. The journey was taken largely on foo …
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Kenneth Macaulay: The History of St. Kilda
As one of the most remote corners of the British Isles, the island archipelago of St Kilda has long held a fascination for travellers from mainland Britain and beyond. The unique way of life and cust …
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Roger Hutchinson: The Toon
This is the full, unofficial and uncensored story of one of the greatest football clubs in the world. It brings to life the sensational early successes of the great Anglo-Scottish team before the Fir …
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Roger Hutchinson: St Kilda
St Kilda is the most romantic and most romanticised group of islands in Europe. Soaring out of the North Atlantic Ocean like Atlantis come back to life, the islands have captured the imagination of t …
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Roger Hutchinson: Martyrs
In the 1830s and 1840s the district of Glendale on the island of Skye was swamped by immigrants cleared from other north Skye estates. The resultant overcrowding and over-use of land caused simmering …
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Roger Hutchinson: Father Allan
Early on a Sunday morning in October 1905, in Eriskay, one of the smallest and most isolated of Hebridean islands, a forty-five year old Catholic parish priest died of pleurisy. It was a disease whic …
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Roger Hutchinson: Butcher, the Baker, the Candlestick-Maker
At the beginning of each decade for 200 years the national census has presented a self-portrait of the British Isles.The census has surveyed Britain from the Napoleonic wars to the age of the interne …
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Roger Hutchinson: Aleister Crowley
Aleister Crowley (1875-1947) – mystic, writer, poet, astrologer, sexual revolutionary, painter, mountain climber and social critic – has a terrifying reputation. The contemporary press labelled him t …
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Roger Hutchinson: Waxing Moon
Thirty years ago, the Gaelic language and culture which had been eminent in Scotland for 1, 300 years seemed to be in the final stages of a 200-year terminal decline. The number of Gaelic speakers in …
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Roger Hutchinson: Gealach an Fhais
Bho chionn deich bliadhna fichead, bha cnan agus cultar na Gidhlig, a bha air a bhith iomraiteach ann an Alba airson 1, 300 bliadhna, a rir coltais ann an ceumannan deireannach cronadh bsmhor a mhair …
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R Hutchinson & Roger Hutchinson: Toon
This is the full story, unofficial and uncensored, of one of the greatest football clubs in the country. From its birth in the 1890s to its rebirth in the 1990s and up to season 2003-4, The Toon tell …
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Roger Hutchinson: ’66
‘. . . it is now!’ With these legendary three words the 1966 World Cup final came to an end. England had won, and at 5.15 p.m. on 30 July 1966, Bobby Moore wiped his hands on his shorts, shook hands …
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Roger Hutchinson: Into the Light
Into the Light reveals the full thrilling story of Sunderland Football Club – charting the club’s progress from being the first great team to dominate the Football League, to the squad which returned …
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Roger Hutchinson: The Works of Roger Hutchinson
The Parker Society was the London-based Anglican society that printed in fifty-four volumes the works of the leading English Reformers of the sixteenth century. It was formed in 1840 and disbanded in …
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Roger Hutchinson: Polly
Early on a wartime winter’s morning in 1941, the 8, 000-ton cargo ship SS Politician ran aground in the beautiful but treacherous seas of Scotland's Outer Hebrides. Among its cargo were 260, 000 …
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Roger Hutchinson: Beacon in the West
In 1918 Lord Leverhulme bought the island of Lewis with ambitious plans to massively expand its fishing industry and increase its population. In 1923, when his plans had failed, he offered it free of …
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