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Malachy Tallack

Malachy Tallack is an author and singer-songwriter. His book, Illuminated by Water, was shortlisted for the Richard Jefferies award for nature writing in 2022. His novel, The Valley at the Centre of the World was shortlisted for the Highland Book Prize and longlisted for the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize. His first book, Sixty Degrees North, was a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week, and his second, The Un-Discovered Islands, was Illustrated Book of the Year at the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards. Malachy is managing editor of Gutter, Scotland’s leading literary magazine. He is from Shetland and currently lives in Fife.