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Daily snapshots of life on an otherwise uninhabited island..

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Michael Faulkner

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  • Chopin in Majorca
    Valledemossa, Majorca In the autumn of 1838, before the onset of another Polish winter, Fryderyk Chopin travelled to the island of Majorca...
  • The House at Otowi Bridge
    In the last hour of the last day of 2009, Lynn and I observed a little ritual on the island foreshore. I was going to say 'tradition...
  • Cat Ballou and The Blue Cabin
    Lee Marvin opened his acceptance speech for Best Actor in the 1965 comedy western Cat Ballou with the words, "Half of this Oscar belon...
  • Apple Of My Eye: Helene Hanff
    I have never been to New York, but I've read the book. I discovered it twenty-five years ago, and it planted in my brain a notion of t...
  • Here's a thing
    Did you know that Bart Simpson's (oops, subsequent edit in light of Ray's comment below: Homer Simpson's) mother Mona Simpson wa...
  • Billy Watts guitar solo - Eric Burdon and The Animals, House of the Rising Sun
    Two years ago Lynn and I travelled to Edinburgh to see our friend Bill Watts, from Los Angeles, play guitar with Eric Burdon and The Anima...
  • Literary Strangford
    The Literary Strangford Map and Guide was launched yesterday at Salt Water Brig restaurant on the Ards Peninsula, between Portaferry and Kir...
  • Jock Of The Bushveld
    Jock "It was my dawg!" By a curious and perhaps unfortunate association, Remembrance Day always reminds me of my most treasu...
  • Mark Twain on proofreaders
    It has been fascinating looking at the publishing business from, as it were, the other side of the fence. Mark Twain Writing being s...

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Still On The Sound - A Seasonal Look at Island Life

Still On The Sound - A Seasonal Look at Island Life
By Michael Faulkner (Nov 2009) Blackstaff Press

The Blue Cabin - Living by the Tides on Islandmore

The Blue Cabin - Living by the Tides on Islandmore
By Michael Faulkner (Sept 2009) Blackstaff Press

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About the books

In 2002 we left Scotland for a wooden cabin on the otherwise uninhabited island of Islandmore on Strangford Lough, Northern Ireland.

The Blue Cabin tells the story of our first full year on Islandmore, and Still On The Sound is a fully-illustrated follow-up in hardback, taking a look at four seasons of island life, seven years on..

Lynn is a professional artist and her work can be seen at http://www.lynnmcgregor.co.uk/. For background on the books, as well as reviews, events, pictures etc, go to http://www.thebluecabin.com/

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