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This debut novel by award-winning poet Michael Pedersen tells the story of a lighthouse keeper and his son on the island of Muckle Flugga, the northernmost inhabited point of these islands. Although a ...

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Slow Horses actor Jack Lowden is set to narrate the audiobook of Michael Pedersen’s debut novel Muckle Flugga. Faber has acquired world audio rights to the book, which is set on the real-life Scottish ...

A big influence on the 21st-century literary novel is the essayistic fiction of the late German writer WG Sebald, whose imprint can be seen on Rachel Cusk and Teju Cole, two of many authors to ditch ...

A giant fish weighing more than 67lbs (30kg) has been caught off the Shetland Islands. James Isbister caught the 6ft-long creature just off Muckle Flugga, reports BBC News. Isbister is awaiting ...

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