Donald S Murray

Home address:
Seasgair, Casho, Quarff, Shetland, ZE2 9EY
Telephone:
0131 655 1511


Author type:
Writer
BRAW network:
no
LL funded:
no
Language:
English
Age groups:
Teens, Adults
Local authorities available to visit:
Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Angus, Argyll and Bute, Clackmannanshire, Dumfries and Galloway, Dundee, East Ayrshire, East Dunbartonshire, East Lothian, East Renfrewshire, Edinburgh, Falkirk, Fife, Glasgow, Highland, Inverclyde, Midlothian, Moray, Comhairle nan Eilean Siar (Western Isles), North Ayrshire, North Lanarkshire, Orkney, Perth and Kinross, Renfrewshire, Scottish Borders, South Ayrshire, South Lanarkshire, Stirling, West Dunbartonshire, West Lothian

Books written

And On This Rock: Italian Chapel
Written by: Donald S Murray
This book tells the story of the tenacity and strength, laughter and tears of the Italian prisoners-of-war who built the Italian Chapel in Orkney, using folk-tale and myth to show how spirits ...
Small Expectations
Written by: Donald S Murray
A collection of poems, short stories and prose pieces inspired by ‘Great Expectations’ about the tug and draw of both island and mainland life on the existence of a young Hebridean. Written in ...
Speak To Us Catriona: New Tales and Traditions of The Lews
Written by: Donald S Murray
Poetry based on a journey to the islands off the west coast of Ireland, partly funded by the Western Isles LEADER Millennium Awards – Shortlisted for the Callum MacDonald Memorial Award.
Special Deliverance
Written by: Donald S Murray
Short stories mainly set in the present, future and past of the Hebrides – but casting a sideways glance at other aspects of Twentieth Century life, such as the inner city riots of the seventies ...
The Guga Hunters
Written by: Donald S Murray
An account of the guga (or young gannet) hunters from Ness in the isle of Lewis who go out each year to bring back a harvest of birds from Sulasgeir, a rock some twenty miles from their homes. It ...
Weaving Songs
Written by: Donald S Murray