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  • BEACON IN THE WEST
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    BEACON IN THE WEST
    ROGER HUTCHINSON
    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 charge to the islanders in two parts. One part, which included impoverished rural areas, was economically unviable. But the other, based around the busy fishing port and administra...

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  • THE WORKS OF ROGER HUTCHINSON
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    THE WORKS OF ROGER HUTCHINSON
    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 1855 when its work was completed. Named after Matthew Parker -- the first Elizabethan Archbishop of Canterbury, who was known as a great collector of books -- the stimulus for the ...

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  • MARTYRS
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    MARTYRS
    ROGER HUTCHINSON
    The true story of an uprising against wealthy landowners in early nineteenth-century Scotland. In the 1830s and 1840s, the district of Glendale on the Scottish island of Skye was swamped by immigrants cleared from other north Skye estates. The resultant overcrowding and over-use of land caused simmering discontent—not against the incomers, but against the landowners, who regard...

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  • ST KILDA
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    ST KILDA
    ROGER HUTCHINSON
    "The definitive history" of the mysterious, remote archipelago in the North Atlantic whose last inhabitants were evacuated nearly a century ago ( Scotland on Sunday). St Kilda is the most romantic—and most romanticized—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 the outside wor...

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  • THE SILENT WEAVER
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    THE SILENT WEAVER
    ROGER HUTCHINSON
    A "fascinating, poignant" biography of the WWII veteran who, while confined to an asylum, became one of the great outsider artists of modern times ( The Scotsman). 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 of Scotland were going to war again. They included a tall, sh...

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  • THE SOAP MAN
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    THE SOAP MAN
    ROGER HUTCHINSON
    The true story of a tycoon's dashed dream: "A wonderful little book about what happens when righteous ambition meets stubborn culture." — Scotland on Sunday Shortlisted for the Saltire Scottish Book of the Year Award In 1918, as the First World War was drawing to a close, the eminent industrialist Lord Leverhulme, whose name lives on today within the multinational company Unile...

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  • CALUM'S ROAD
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    CALUM'S ROAD
    ROGER HUTCHINSON
    This story of a Scottish lighthouse keeper's years-long quest to build a road and revive a town is "an incredible testament to one man's determination" ( The Sunday Herald). Shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature's Ondaatje Prize Calum MacLeod had lived on the northern point of the Scottish island of Raasay since his birth in 1911. He tended the Rona lighthouse at the ...

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