Liz MacRae Shaw
| Liz MacRae Shaw | |
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| Born | 1948 Guildford, Surrey UK |
| 🏫 Education | Somerville College, Oxford |
| 💼 Occupation | Writer |
| 📆 Years active | 2010 - present |
Liz MacRae Shaw is a Scottish writer specialising in historical fiction. She lives and works on the Isle of Skye.
Biography[edit]
Liz MacRae Shaw was born in Surrey, studied history at Somerville College, Oxford and subsequently lectured in history.
In 1980 she appeared on Mastermind, reaching the semi-final stage with specialist subjects, 'The life of Elizabeth 1' and 'The Life of the Duke of Wellington'..[1][2]
She later embarked on a second career as a psychotherapist. Since 2008 she has lived on the Isle of Skye.[3]
Work[edit]
Books[edit]
Love and Music Will Endure[4] is based on the life of Mary MacPherson the Skye bard and political campaigner of the nineteenth century who fought on behalf of her fellow Highlanders during the Highland Land Wars. According to WorldCat, it is found in 11 libraries.[5]
No Safe Anchorage[6]No Safe Anchorage’ (2017) - set in Scotland, Canada and Samoa during the nineteenth century. According to WorldCat it is found in 8 libraries.[7]
Other published work[edit]
What it Feels Like to Be Me - a psychological commentary[8] about the contributors to this book by Jenny Salaman Manson, with a foreword by Dr Jonathan Miller.
Researching the life of Mary MacPherson - Màiri Mhòr nan Òran: blending fact and fiction. Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness Volume LXVIII, 172[9]
"Romance or Realism?" a reflection on Sir Walter Scott's Literary legacy featured in Historia - The Historical Writers' Association[10]
Liz MacRae Shaw’s third novel, ‘Had we never loved so blindly’ is due to be published later this year (2020). She is also working on her first children’s book.
Appearances[edit]
Museum & Tasglann nan Eilean Stornoway 2019[11]
Tarbert Book Festival 2018[12]
Penzance Literary Festival 2018[13]
Women Writers in The Highlands HighlandLIT 2018[14]
The Skye Book Festival 2017[15].
NessBookFest 2017, Inverness.[16]
References[edit]
- ↑ "Mastermind". The Radio Times (2977). 1980-11-27. p. 42. ISSN 0033-8060. Retrieved 2019-03-26.
- ↑ "BBC Two - Mastermind". BBC. Retrieved 2019-03-26.
- ↑ "Skyemakers Magazine". Summer 2017. ISSN 2514-5754.
- ↑ MacRae Shaw, Liz (2013). Love and Music Will Endure. The Islands Book Trust. ISBN 978-1907443589. Search this book on
- ↑ World Cat item page
- ↑ MacRae Shaw, Liz (2017). No Safe Anchorage: Flight, Exile, Loss and Hope. Top Hat Books. ISBN 978-1782797067. Search this book on
- ↑ World Cat item page
- ↑ Salaman., Manson, Jenny (2010). What It Feels Like To Be Me. Lanham: O-Books. ISBN 9781846946950. OCLC 727648299. Search this book on
- ↑ Gaelic Society of Inverness Researching the life of Màiri Mhòr: blending fact and fiction. Liz MacRae Shaw Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness Volume LXVIII, 172
- ↑ "Romance or Realism? – Historia Magazine". 14 June 2016. Retrieved 26 March 2019.
- ↑ "Researching the Life of Màiri Mhòr". Evensi. 30 January 2019. Retrieved 26 March 2019.
- ↑ "2018 Programme - Tarbert Book Festival". Tarbert Book Festival. 27 October 2018. Retrieved 26 March 2019.
- ↑ "No Safe Anchorage with Liz MacRae Shaw | Penzance Literary Festival". Penzance Literary Festival. 3 July 2018. Retrieved 26 March 2019.
- ↑ "HighlandLIT Events". HighlandLIT. 29 March 2018. Retrieved 26 March 2019.
- ↑ Skye Book Festival.
- ↑ NessBookFest 2017
External links[edit]
- John Hunt Publishing - Preview of No Safe Anchorage
- The Skye Times - Article about Janet MacKenzie's descendants visiting the island of Rona - subject of Liz MacRae's book 'No Safe Anchorage'
- Scotland's Missing Histories 2 - Màiri Mhòr nan Òran (with Liz MacRae Shaw)
- Scottish Book Trust - Writer profile
- Scottish Islands Explorer Magazine May - July 2020 edition. Rona Past & Present
- Liz Macrae Shaw website
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