ABOUT RON MCMILLAN
Ron McMillan, born in the Central Scottish town Paisley in 1958, grew up in what he considers ‘a typically functional family of the period; a family with two hard-working parents, an omnipresent network of adoring aunts, attentive uncles and feisty cousins, as well as three surviving grandparents who were equal parts cranky, loving and endlessly entertaining.’
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FOREWORD BY ALY BAIN
This is a refreshing and entertaining look at my native islands. It has all the more value as the author is a much travelled journalist. It would be impossible to describe Shetland without giving the weather its place. Ron McMillan does this to sketch in the background to present day Shetland.
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BETWEEN WEATHERS LAUNCH TOUR
The tour began with Ron’s arrival from his home in Bangkok and proceeded apace to the National Library of Scotland in Edinburgh, visiting Sandy Bell’s Bar afterwards, to the Visit Shetland office in Lerwick, the Shetland Classic Car and Bike Show at the Clickimin Centre with time out at the Shetland Times Bookshop, closing at Paisley Central Library. Engrossed Between Weathers readers have since been spotted on planes, ferries and buses. Copies can now be found in shops across Scotland and England as well as libraries and the internet.
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BETWEEN WEATHERS AS A FOUND POEM
Mary Johnston of Bonnyrigg wrote to say that she had found Between Weathers difficult to put down not just because Ron McMillan writes in such an interesting and arresting way of the geological, historical and sociological features of Shetland, but because his prose is so poetic – especially when he writes of the weather. Choosing certain passages and reforming them this is what she came up with.
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MEDIA ATTENTION
Sue Wilson in Northings
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REVIEW BY JAMES MACKENZIE IN THE SHETLAND NEWS
This SHETLAND NEWS review by James Mackenzie of BETWEEN WEATHERS shows how well Ron McMillan’s book is viewed in the Islands. It is probably the best in-depth appreciation to appear so far. Read it here but please do also visit http://www.shetland-news.co.uk
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EXTRACT FROM BETWEEN WEATHERS
My sleep in an otherwise unoccupied and frigid room the size of a tennis court goes thankfully undisturbed by boat rigging intrusions, and the next morning finds me wrapped up in every item of clothing I own, duck-waddling past the Donna Rose towards where Keith Robertson’s little workboat bobs against the floating marina. Keith is the part-time böd warden, and full-time proprietor of a mussel farming operation whose production lines make neat patterns a couple of kilometres out in the firth.
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NORTHERN SIGHTS WITH RON MCMILLAN
Here are some photographs by Ron McMillan, a professional photographer for many years. All of them have references to brilliant ‘Between Weathers: Travels in 21st century Shetland.
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