On Monday 23 August at 7pm award-winning author and singer-songwriter Malachy Tallack will join us on Zoom. The editor of Simple Fire: Selected Short Stories by George Mackay Brown, he will introduce and answer questions on his selection of GMB short stories. It is the first such volume to be published.

Seven Books 5 in the Centenary Book Group series will be hosted by the GMB Fellowship and Orkney Library & Archive on Zoom. To join the session, and to put your questions to Malachy Tallack, please email us at gmbfellows@gmail.com.

Simple Fire is due to be published by Birlinn on 3 June this year.

Malachy Tallack is an award-winning author and singer-songwriter. His first book, Sixty Degrees North (2015), was a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week, and was shortlisted for the Saltire First Book Award. His second, The Un-Discovered Islands (2016), was named Illustrated Book of the Year at the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards.

His most recent work, The Valley at the Centre of the World (2018), was his debut novel, published by Canongate. It was shortlisted for the Highland Book Prize and longlisted for the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize. 

Malachy has written on a variety of subjects, including politics, literature, landscape and agriculture, and his articles, essays and reviews have been published widely. He received a New Writers Award from the Scottish Book Trust in 2014, and the Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship in 2015.

Malachy was the founding editor of the online magazine The Island Review, and was editor of Shetland Life magazine for five years. 

As a singer-songwriter, he has released four albums and an EP, and has performed in venues across the UK. Malachy is from Shetland, and currently lives in Dunblane.