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THE STORY BEHIND…

 hope that my new book will teach readers lots of things they don’t know about Orkney, but also challenge them to rethink some of the things they do know. The adjective that most people would associate with Orkney would be remote. The idea of the book was to take that idea of remoteness and challenge it. It’s intended as a history of modern Britain, but seen entirely from the perspective of

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