Malachy Tallack

Biography

Malachy Tallack (born 20 November 1980) is a Shetland singer-songwriter, journalist and author, who was born in England and moved to Shetland with his family when he was ten years old.
He edited the magazine Shetland Life, and founded the online magazine The Island Review. He wrote a weekly column for the New Statesman about his experiences of rural life and living on a remote Scottish island, and has since published two books of non-fiction: Sixty Degrees North (2015), which was a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week, and The Un-Discovered Islands (2016), which won the Edward Stanford Illustrated Travel Book of the Year Award 2017.
As a musician, Tallack has released three albums of folk-rock music, and supported Runrig on their 2007 UK tour.

Fiction

The Valley at the Centre of the World (3 May 2018)

Non-fiction

Sixty Degrees North: Around the World in Search of Home (1 July 2015)
The Un-Discovered Islands: An Archipelago of Myths, Phantoms and Fakes (13 October 2016)
Illuminated by Water: Nature, Memory and the Delights of a Fishing Life (7 July 2022)