Malachy Tallack

Malachy Tallack is an award-winning author and singer-songwriter. His most recent book – his fifth – is a novel, That Beautiful Atlantic Waltz, set in Shetland. The book comes with an accompanying album. Malachy's first book, Sixty Degrees North (2015), was a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week, and his second, The Un-Discovered Islands (2016), was named Illustrated Book of the Year at the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards. 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 is from Shetland, and currently lives in Fife.