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THE BLUE CABIN

Living by the tides on Islandmore

STILL ON THE SOUND

A seasonal look at island life

MICHAEL FAULKNER’s first book The Blue Cabin ‒ Living by the Tides on Islandmore, published by Blackstaff press in 2006, described his arrival in 2002 with artist wife Lynn McGregor (www.lynnmcgregor.co.uk) and their two terriers, on the otherwise uninhabited island of Islandmore, in Strangford Lough, Northern Ireland.

Described by Belfast Telegraph as ‘an enchanting, funny, and touching book... about the making of a fresh start’, and by Scotland on Sunday as ‘a heart-warming read, full of perception and gentle wit’, The Blue Cabin charts the steep learning curve which boat-only access, no mains electricity and a wooden cabin with the insulation values of a tent, present to two landlubbers accustomed to central heating and a car at the front door...

Still On The Sound ‒ A Seasonal Look at Island Life, published in October 2009 in hardcover, with over two hundred of the author’s own colour photographs, carries on where The Blue Cabin left off, taking a look in words and images at four seasons of island life.

Patrick Taylor, New York Times bestselling author of An Irish Country Doctor and the Irish Country series of novels, describes Still On The Sound as ‘another magical journey from Strangford Lough’s resident poet laureate’, and the publisher’s cover blurb calls it ‘warm, funny and irresistible - a love letter to the island.’

The Blue Cabin Blackstaff Press, 2006 ISBN 0856407933

Still On The Sound Blackstaff Press, 2009 ISBN 0856408492

mikefaulkner@elite.co.uk

Patrick Taylor, author of An Irish Country Doctor

the New York Times bestseller

‘Another magical journey..’

Text and images © Michael Faulkner

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BBC Radio Ulster

Your Place and Mine

19th November 2009: In conversation with Anne-Marie McAleese about island life and the new book, Still On The Sound

BBC Radio Ulster

Arts Extra

27th Oct 2009: Marie-Louise Muir talks to the author and his wife Lynn McGregor about Michael’s latest book Still On The Sound; and Lynn’s solo exhibition at Ross’s, Belfast

‘From Strangford Lough’s resident poet laureate, a richly illustrated love song to Islandmore, its surrounding waters, and the people and animals who dwell there.

This gentle, pictorial follow-up to The Blue Cabin by Islandmore resident Michael Faulkner takes the reader on another magical journey, illustrated with the author’s own photographs. In a series of anecdotes Still on the Sound follows the seasons of one twelve-month ...’