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46 | www.westendermagazine.com says. ‘But we seem to have this deep division and people are not hearing the voices on the other side. In the US, liberals are not listening to conservative voices and vice versa, so activists are only speaking to people who agree with them. What’s missing from a lot of the debate is empathy and understanding and that hopefully is what writers can try and put back into the conversation.’ The land and its relationship with its people has long been a fascination for Malachy with his first two books looking at the idea of ‘place’. In his first work Sixty Degrees North, he visited each of the countries on the circle of latitude that is 60 degrees north starting and ending in Shetland where he grew up, exploring the personal relationships that people have with their place as well as his own relationship with Shetland. His second book The Un-Discovered Islands explores two dozen mythical and imagined islands – places that may not exist but people have believed in and had stories about. Beautifully illustrated in full colour it is part travelogue part folklore. So where does a writer who is fascinated by so many places call home? Malachy is clear it’s not Glasgow where he has lived for the last four years. ‘I think Glasgow rather than feeling like one complete place feels like a city with numerous communities within it. I think if you spoke to most Shetlanders and asked them where home was they would say Shetland. I suspect rural places have a stronger hold on people.’ Coming out next year and set in the familiar territory of home is Malachy’s first novel. Called The Valley At The Centre Of The World, it is partly about the idea of centrality. ‘I am trying to turn around that notion that Shetland is often written off as a remote place in the middle of nowhere and I wanted to write about this valley as being an absolute centre of everything. I want readers to care about people who don’t normally get much attention’ Writing full-time feels like the right thing for Malachy to be doing. ‘I have been very lucky since the first book came out that I am able to work full-time on writing. I couldn’t have written the first book until I had been through an awful lot of life experiences. I was resistant to the idea of writing about myself at first until other people pointed out I needed to be there – I think sometimes the writer is the last person to know what they are actually trying to do!’ malachytallack.com Out now: 60 Degrees North – Around The World In Search of Home The Un-Discovered Islands Competition! We have two copies of The Un-Discovered Islands, to give away. Go to westendermagazine.com and click on competitions by the 30th of November 2017. The Un- Discovered Islands £5 OFF * RRP £14.99 *Exclusive offer for WESTENDER readers at Waterstones 351-355 Byres Road branch only, by 30th November 2017.
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