Sixty Degrees North, Malachy Tallack

In Malachy Tallack’s Sixty Degrees North, he travels along the sixtieth parallel in search of home. From Shetland he journeys across Greenland, Canada, Alaska, Siberia, Finland and Åland and more, exploring the landscapes of this borderland between northern and southern world as well as the ways that people have interacted with those landscapes.

The concept of gratitude and reciprocity is one so simple and yet, if taken on board by every person on earth, could shift the entire trajectory of the planet towards a sustainable future, a world in which every bite of food tastes better for the knowing that it’s a gift from the earth. What do we offer it in return?

Malachy Tallack has written for the New Statesman, the Guardian, the Scottish Review of Books, Caught By The River and many other publications. He won a New Writers Award from the Scottish Book Trust in 2014, and a Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship in 2015. As a singer-songwriter he has released four albums and an EP, and performed in venues across the UK. He is editor of the online magazine The Island Review, and co-editor of Fair Isle: Through the Seasons.