Name: Malachy Tallack - meet the author
Start: 2026-03-21T14:00:00+00:00
End: 2026-03-21T16:00:00+00:00
Location: 6 Cameron Street, Stonehaven

Malachy Tallack is an author and singer-songwriter, whose fifth book That Beautiful Atlantic Waltz, a novel, was published in 2024, together with an accompanying album. His book, Illuminated by Water, was shortlisted for the Richard Jefferies award for nature writing in 2022. His novel The Valley at the Centre of the World was shortlisted for the Highland Book Prize and longlisted for the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize in 2018. His first book, Sixty Degrees North, was a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week, and his second, The Un-Discovered Islands, was named Illustrated Book of the Year at the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards. Malachy is managing editor of Gutter, Scotland's leading literary magazine. He is from Shetland and currently lives in Fife.