Islanders is Margaret Elphinstone's first novel, written when she
lived at Northbanks, Papa Stour in 1979. It is the author's
expression of the seven years she lived in Shetland, during which
she explored Shetland by land and sea, discovered the sagas while
working in Shetland Library, learned to watch birds on Fair Isle,
Noss and other islands, and spent several summers as a volunteer on
a dig at Da Biggings, Papa Stour, excavating a Norse farm. The
novel was re-written in the early 1990s, partly in the National
Library of Scotland, partly in Shetland, and partly (thanks to a
Scottish Arts Council travel grant) in Iceland. Islanders was first
published in 1994. It is now (2008) nearly thirty years since the
first draft was written; since then Margaret Elphinstone has lived
in other places and written other books. But it was Shetland, and
Islanders, that first inspired and formed her as a writer.
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