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    <![CDATA[The Sea Road]]>
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    <![CDATA[A haunting and compelling historical novel, The Sea Road is an ambitious retelling of the Viking exploration of the North Atlantic from the viewpoint of one extraordinary woman, as transcribed by an Icelandic monk commissioned to write her life story by his superiors in Rome. Gudrid lives at the remote edge of the known world, in a starkly beautiful landscape where the sea is the only connection to the shores beyond. It is a world where the old Norse gods are still invoked, even as Christianity gains favor, where the spirits of the dead roam the vast northern ice fields, tormenting the living, and Viking explorers plunder foreign shores. Taking the accidental discovery of North America as its focal point, Gudrid's narrative describes a multilayered voyage into the unknown, all recounted with astonishing immediacy and rich atmospheric detail.]]>
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        <name><![CDATA[Margaret Elphinstone]]></name>
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  </authors>  <published>2001</published>
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    <![CDATA[Voyageurs: A Novel]]>
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    <![CDATA[&lt;div&gt;Voyageurs has garnered praise for its historical versimilitude and its exacting character portraits, as well as the story's contemporary relevance. Margaret Elphinstone's magnificent sixth novel gives us Mark Greenhow, a naive and peaceful Quaker who lands on the shores of North America on the eve of the War of 1812, thinking only of finding the missing sister he has always admired for her adventurous spirit. <br/>Mark hitches a ride with the voyageurs who have canoed the rivers, transporting the tons of furs that feed the trade that has made the region a battleground of the French and British empires. Though Mark enters this brave new world with his conscience clean and his convictions sound, his encounters test his rigid upbringing. The backwoods of Canada have certainly led his sister astray; she has been excommunicated from the Society of Friends for running off with a non-Quaker. After her child is stillborn she runs again, deep into Indian country. <br/>Elphinstone's crisp and effortless prose, coupled with her riveting, organic descriptions, her fully drawn characters, and the history of the region, make this novel an astonishingly authentic and profoundly satisfying work of historical fiction.&lt;/div&gt;]]>
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  </authors>  <published>2005</published>
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    <![CDATA[Light: A Novel]]>
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    <![CDATA[&lt;div&gt;Set on a tiny island off the Isle of Man in 1831, <em>Light</em> is a family drama that reads like a pulse-pounding thriller. Sisters-in-law Lucy and Diya are raising their children together far from prying Victorian eyes, even as they dread the day the outside world will come to their island. That invasion arrives in the form of a surveyor and his assistant, sent to the remote outpost because a new lighthouse must be built and, according to custom of the time, a man must be found to replace the current lighthouse keeper, Lucy. That Lucy does a man&#8217;s job and Diya turns out to be a highly educated Indian woman shocks and confuses the men, but soon romance blossoms. Faced with banishment from the only home she&#8217;d ever known, Diya&#8217;s hot-headed daughter attempts a terrible act that may lead the family to ruin. With an assured eye for capturing the alien beauty of the island, Margaret Elphinstone creates an empathetic and compassionate tale of two singular women coming to terms with a sea change in their lives.&lt;/div&gt;]]>
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        <name><![CDATA[Margaret Elphinstone]]></name>
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  </authors>  <published>2007</published>
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    <![CDATA[Sea Stories]]>
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    <![CDATA[To mark the 70th anniversary of the opening of the National Maritime Museum, we have brought together this collection of short stories inspired by a great literary muse. Written by an impressive line-up of British and Irish authors, the collection is intended not only as a celebration of the sea but also of the wealth and diversity of contemporary writing talent.   From the remote and wild coastal landscapes of Orkney and the west of Ireland to mysteries set in the Mediterranean, and from stories inspired by John Franklin's ill-fated expedition to find the Northwest Passage back in the 19th century to a 1970s cruise ship full of teenagers on their way to Gibraltar, this collection takes us on a voyage - challenging our perceptions of the sea along the way.]]>
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        <name><![CDATA[Niall Griffiths]]></name>
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        <name><![CDATA[Jim Perrin]]></name>
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        <name><![CDATA[James Scudamore]]></name>
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    <id>67816</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Martin Stephen]]></name>
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    <average_rating>3.50</average_rating>
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    <id>7449</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Erica Wagner]]></name>
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    <id>2579865</id>
        <name><![CDATA[John       Williams]]></name>
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    <average_rating>4.29</average_rating>
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    <id>843712</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Evie Wyld]]></name>
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    <average_rating>4.11</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>36</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>18</text_reviews_count>
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  </authors>  <published>2007</published>
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        <book>
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    <![CDATA[Hy Brasil]]>
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    <id>372502</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Margaret Elphinstone]]></name>
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    <average_rating>3.82</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>60</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>9</text_reviews_count>
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  </authors>  <published>2002</published>
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        <book>
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    <![CDATA[The Gathering Night]]>
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    <![CDATA[	Between Grandmother Mountain and the cold sea, Alaia and her family live off the land. But when one of her brothers goes hunting and never returns, the fragile balance of life is upset. Half-starved and maddened with grief, Alaia's mother follows her visions and goes in search of her lost son. Then a stranger from a rival tribe appears on their hearth seeking shelter. Are his stories of a great wave and a people perished really to be believed? What else could drive a man to travel alone between tribes in the depths of winter?<br/><br/>Hopes of resolution come when Alaia's mother returns home as a Go-Between, one able to commune with the spirits. But as all the Auk people come together for their annual Gathering Night, who there will listen to the voice of a woman?<br/><br/>The Gathering Night is a story of conflict, loss, love, adventure and devastating natural disasters. This utterly enchanting pre-historical novel is set deep in our stone-age past, but resonates as a parable of our troubled planet 8000 years on.]]>
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    <author>
    <id>372502</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Margaret Elphinstone]]></name>
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    <text_reviews_count>9</text_reviews_count>
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  </authors>  <published>2009</published>
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        <book>
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    <![CDATA[Voyageurs: A Novel]]>
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    <![CDATA[The year is 1811 and Mark Greenhow, a young Quaker, leaves his small community in northern England and embarks upon a life-changing journey. His sister, Rachel, a missionary traveling in North America, has gone missing and is presumed dead. Only Mark refuses to abandon hope. What follows is a beautifully evocative and gripping account of Mark's search across Canada's vast, uncharted wildernesses. Traveling with the &quot;voyageurs&quot;-the men who canoe the immense Canadian fur-trade route-in search of the truth about his sister's last journey, Mark struggles to maintain his religious belief in non-violence while all around him take up arms in the War of 1812. Voyageurs is a gripping and hugely enjoyable adventure set against the magnificent backdrop of nineteenth-century Canada that also addresses the timeless themes of war, love, and the emotional bonds that bind us to one another.]]>
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    <id>372502</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Margaret Elphinstone]]></name>
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  </authors>  <published>2004</published>
</book>

        <book>
  <id type="integer">1383358</id>
  <isbn>184195411X</isbn>
  <isbn13>9781841954110</isbn13>
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    <![CDATA[Hy Brasil]]>
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  <small_image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1183145855s/1383358.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1383358.Hy_Brasil</link>
  <average_rating>5.00</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>1</ratings_count>
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    <![CDATA[]]>
  </description>
<authors>
    <author>
    <id>372502</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Margaret Elphinstone]]></name>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-200x266.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-50x66.jpg]]></small_image_url>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/372502.Margaret_Elphinstone]]></link>
    <average_rating>3.82</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>60</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>9</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
  </authors>  <published>2003</published>
</book>

        <book>
  <id type="integer">6715329</id>
  <isbn>1841959847</isbn>
  <isbn13>9781841959849</isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">0</text_reviews_count>
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    <![CDATA[Light: A Novel]]>
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  <image_url>http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6715329-light</link>
  <average_rating>3.00</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>1</ratings_count>
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    <![CDATA[]]>
  </description>
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    <author>
    <id>372502</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Margaret Elphinstone]]></name>
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    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-50x66.jpg]]></small_image_url>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/372502.Margaret_Elphinstone]]></link>
    <average_rating>3.82</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>60</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>9</text_reviews_count>
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  </authors>  <published>2007</published>
</book>

        <book>
  <id type="integer">1383356</id>
  <isbn>1854250094</isbn>
  <isbn13>9781854250094</isbn13>
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  <title>
    <![CDATA[Organic Gardening]]>
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  <small_image_url>http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg</small_image_url>
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  <average_rating>0.0</average_rating>
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    <![CDATA[<p>When two elderly doctors join Voluntary Service Overseas, they find themselves in unusual circumstances when they arrive in Cambodia. Together these women face not only humid weather, cockroaches, and cultural obstacles, but also something far more challenging: the harsh realities of a country still reeling from the prolonged terrors of Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge. With a generosity of spirit and an unquenchable sense of humor they plunge into the maelstrom of lawlessness where life is cheap, and guns and greed prevail.</p>]]>
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    <author>
    <id>372502</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Margaret Elphinstone]]></name>
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    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-50x66.jpg]]></small_image_url>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/372502.Margaret_Elphinstone]]></link>
    <average_rating>3.82</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>60</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>9</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
  </authors>  <published>1990</published>
</book>

        <book>
  <id type="integer">1134955</id>
  <isbn>1846481589</isbn>
  <isbn13>9781846481581</isbn13>
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  <title>
    <![CDATA[Voyageurs]]>
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  <image_url>http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1134955.Voyageurs</link>
  <average_rating>0.0</average_rating>
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    <![CDATA[]]>
  </description>
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    <author>
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    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-50x66.jpg]]></small_image_url>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/372502.Margaret_Elphinstone]]></link>
    <average_rating>3.82</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>60</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>9</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
  </authors>  <published>2007</published>
</book>

        <book>
  <id type="integer">1134956</id>
  <isbn>1846481767</isbn>
  <isbn13>9781846481765</isbn13>
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  <title>
    <![CDATA[Voyageurs]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1134956.Voyageurs</link>
  <average_rating>0.0</average_rating>
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    <![CDATA[]]>
  </description>
<authors>
    <author>
    <id>372502</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Margaret Elphinstone]]></name>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-200x266.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-50x66.jpg]]></small_image_url>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/372502.Margaret_Elphinstone]]></link>
    <average_rating>3.82</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>60</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>9</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
  </authors>  <published>2007</published>
</book>

        <book>
  <id type="integer">1134957</id>
  <isbn>1552783766</isbn>
  <isbn13>9781552783764</isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">0</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[Voyageurs C]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1134957.Voyageurs_C</link>
  <average_rating>0.0</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>0</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[]]>
  </description>
<authors>
    <author>
    <id>372502</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Margaret Elphinstone]]></name>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-200x266.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-50x66.jpg]]></small_image_url>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/372502.Margaret_Elphinstone]]></link>
    <average_rating>3.82</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>60</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>9</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
  </authors>  <published>2003</published>
</book>

        <book>
  <id type="integer">1342997</id>
  <isbn>1841950513</isbn>
  <isbn13>9781841950518</isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">0</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[The Sea Road: A Novel]]>
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  <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182875380m/1342997.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182875380s/1342997.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1342997.The_Sea_Road_A_Novel</link>
  <average_rating>0.0</average_rating>
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  <description>
    <![CDATA[A haunting and compelling historical novel, The Sea Road is an ambitious retelling of the Viking exploration of the North Atlantic from the viewpoint of one extraordinary woman, as transcribed by an Icelandic monk commissioned to write her life story by his superiors in Rome. Gudrid lives at the remote edge of the known world, in a starkly beautiful landscape where the sea is the only connection to the shores beyond. It is a world where the old Norse gods are still invoked, even as Christianity gains favor, where the spirits of the dead roam the vast northern ice fields, tormenting the living, and Viking explorers plunder foreign shores. Taking the accidental discovery of North America as its focal point, Gudrid's narrative describes a multilayered voyage into the unknown, all recounted with astonishing immediacy and rich atmospheric detail.]]>
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    <author>
    <id>372502</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Margaret Elphinstone]]></name>
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    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-50x66.jpg]]></small_image_url>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/372502.Margaret_Elphinstone]]></link>
    <average_rating>3.82</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>60</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>9</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
  </authors>  <published>2001</published>
</book>

        <book>
  <id type="integer">1134951</id>
  <isbn>1552784541</isbn>
  <isbn13>9781552784549</isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">0</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[Voyageurs]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1134951.Voyageurs</link>
  <average_rating>0.0</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>0</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[]]>
  </description>
<authors>
    <author>
    <id>372502</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Margaret Elphinstone]]></name>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-200x266.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-50x66.jpg]]></small_image_url>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/372502.Margaret_Elphinstone]]></link>
    <average_rating>3.82</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>60</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>9</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
  </authors>  <published>2004</published>
</book>

        <book>
  <id type="integer">1383355</id>
  <isbn>0704340704</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780704340701</isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">0</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[The Incomer]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1383355.The_Incomer</link>
  <average_rating>0.0</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>0</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[]]>
  </description>
<authors>
    <author>
    <id>372502</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Margaret Elphinstone]]></name>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-200x266.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-50x66.jpg]]></small_image_url>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/372502.Margaret_Elphinstone]]></link>
    <average_rating>3.82</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>60</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>9</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
  </authors>  <published>1992</published>
</book>

        <book>
  <id type="integer">1134953</id>
  <isbn>1552783758</isbn>
  <isbn13>9781552783757</isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">0</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[Voyageurs]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1134953.Voyageurs</link>
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  <ratings_count>0</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[&lt;div&gt;Voyageurs has garnered praise for its historical versimilitude and its exacting character portraits, as well as the story's contemporary relevance. Margaret Elphinstone's magnificent sixth novel gives us Mark Greenhow, a naive and peaceful Quaker who lands on the shores of North America on the eve of the War of 1812, thinking only of finding the missing sister he has always admired for her adventurous spirit. <br/>Mark hitches a ride with the voyageurs who have canoed the rivers, transporting the tons of furs that feed the trade that has made the region a battleground of the French and British empires. Though Mark enters this brave new world with his conscience clean and his convictions sound, his encounters test his rigid upbringing. The backwoods of Canada have certainly led his sister astray; she has been excommunicated from the Society of Friends for running off with a non-Quaker. After her child is stillborn she runs again, deep into Indian country. <br/>Elphinstone's crisp and effortless prose, coupled with her riveting, organic descriptions, her fully drawn characters, and the history of the region, make this novel an astonishingly authentic and profoundly satisfying work of historical fiction.&lt;/div&gt;]]>
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<authors>
    <author>
    <id>372502</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Margaret Elphinstone]]></name>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-200x266.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-50x66.jpg]]></small_image_url>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/372502.Margaret_Elphinstone]]></link>
    <average_rating>3.82</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>60</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>9</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
  </authors>  <published>2003</published>
</book>

        <book>
  <id type="integer">1383357</id>
  <isbn>0722512678</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780722512678</isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">0</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[The Holistic Gardener]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1383357.The_Holistic_Gardener</link>
  <average_rating>0.0</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>0</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[]]>
  </description>
<authors>
    <author>
    <id>372502</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Margaret Elphinstone]]></name>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-200x266.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-50x66.jpg]]></small_image_url>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/372502.Margaret_Elphinstone]]></link>
    <average_rating>3.82</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>60</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>9</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
  </authors>  <published>1988</published>
</book>

        <book>
  <id type="integer">1383359</id>
  <isbn>0722522592</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780722522592</isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">0</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[The Green Gardener's Handbook]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1383359.The_Green_Gardener_s_Handbook</link>
  <average_rating>0.0</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>0</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[]]>
  </description>
<authors>
    <author>
    <id>372502</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Margaret Elphinstone]]></name>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-200x266.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-50x66.jpg]]></small_image_url>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/372502.Margaret_Elphinstone]]></link>
    <average_rating>3.82</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>60</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>9</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
    <author>
    <id>655431</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Julia Langley]]></name>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-200x266.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-50x66.jpg]]></small_image_url>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/655431.Julia_Langley]]></link>
    <average_rating>0.0</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>0</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>0</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
  </authors>  <published>1990</published>
</book>

        <book>
  <id type="integer">2457127</id>
  <isbn>1904999522</isbn>
  <isbn13>9781904999522</isbn13>
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  <title>
    <![CDATA[A Sparrow's Flight]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2457127.A_Sparrow_s_Flight</link>
  <average_rating>0.0</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>0</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[In A Sparrow's Flight, her second novel, first published in 1989, Margaret Elphinstone is already occupying her characteristic location on the borderlands which were to become familiar territory in her subsequent writing. The novel is set in the 'debatable lands' between Scotland and England but explores more elusive borders between waking and dreaming, sanity and madness, myth and reality, and the unsettling landscape between our imagined pasts and hoped for futures. Thomas and Naomi are on a journey through a world that has experienced catastrophic change. Early reviewers, writing amid the Cold War, placed the story in the aftermath of nuclear holocaust. The author offers no such certainty. The plaintive but unexplained references to 'before the world changed' resonate with a menace all the more unnerving in its ambiguity. Through this regenerating landscape - the previously blighted 'empty lands' - Thomas and Naomi find their journey turns full circle, returning them to their starting point as changed people, with new understandings of friendship and belonging. As with every quest there is a grail and their grail is music. Its rediscovery is a metaphor for that Golden Age we all need to believe existed 'before the world changed'.  &quot;........powerfully convincing in its blend of medievalism and post-modern disillusion...&quot;                              Douglas Gifford]]>
  </description>
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    <author>
    <id>372502</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Margaret Elphinstone]]></name>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-200x266.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-50x66.jpg]]></small_image_url>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/372502.Margaret_Elphinstone]]></link>
    <average_rating>3.82</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>60</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>9</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
  </authors>  <published>2007</published>
</book>

        <book>
  <id type="integer">2457128</id>
  <isbn>0748661786</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780748661787</isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">0</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[Islanders (Fiction Series)]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2457128.Islanders</link>
  <average_rating>0.0</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>0</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[]]>
  </description>
<authors>
    <author>
    <id>372502</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Margaret Elphinstone]]></name>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-200x266.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-50x66.jpg]]></small_image_url>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/372502.Margaret_Elphinstone]]></link>
    <average_rating>3.82</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>60</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>9</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
  </authors>  <published>1994</published>
</book>

        <book>
  <id type="integer">2457129</id>
  <isbn>0722531214</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780722531211</isbn13>
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    <![CDATA[The Organic Gardener's Handbook: Everything You Need to Know for Successful Gardening]]>
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    <![CDATA[A book to convert any reluctant gardener, and one that will charm the dedicated.-- The Gardener]]>
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        <name><![CDATA[Margaret Elphinstone]]></name>
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    <average_rating>3.82</average_rating>
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    <text_reviews_count>9</text_reviews_count>
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  </authors>  <published>2001</published>
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        <book>
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    <![CDATA[Light]]>
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    <![CDATA[]]>
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        <name><![CDATA[Margaret Elphinstone]]></name>
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        <book>
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    <![CDATA[A Treasury of Garden Verse]]>
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    <![CDATA[]]>
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  </authors>  <published>1990</published>
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        <book>
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    <![CDATA[The Incomer or Clachanpluck]]>
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    <![CDATA['We are the land. The elements that created the land live in our bodies. We are born, we bring to birth, and we die, and the land takes us. There is no difference. What is done to us is also done to the land, and what is done to the land is the thing which is done to us. There is nothing else.'    Naomi, the enigmatic fiddler, arrives in Clachanpluck, bringing her music and the ominous potential of an incomer. Her unexpected arrival enriches this remote forest village even as she disrupts it.  This is a story of an all-consuming love of the land; the power of friendship; the seasonal round of creation and death; and the physical thrill of storm and rhythm, fire and candlelight. The impending sense of catastrophe - global and personal -  which haunts this world, finally erupts in violence: trust and love are the casualties. The Incomer follows in the tradition of the ballads: fantasy gilds the mundane and the ordinary is made extraordinary.    'A beautifully imagined society with its holistic pantheism and imbued with the sense of the power of music.'   The Scotsman  'An immensely satisfying book to read because of its rich symbolism and allegorical qualities.In reading a book such as this with the female re-instated, we realise how much of woman and her psyche has been expunged from Western literature.'    Cencrastus]]>
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    <id>372502</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Margaret Elphinstone]]></name>
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    <id>681756</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Dorothy McMillan]]></name>
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    <average_rating>3.00</average_rating>
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  </authors>  <published>2007</published>
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        <book>
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    <![CDATA[Islanders]]>
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    <![CDATA[slanders 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.-    '.from the opening pages with their map of the islands which turns north and south upside down to reflect the orientation of the island worldview, the reader's conventional perspectives on peripheral cultures is destabilised, and resettled in a view from a rock perched far in the Atlantic, looking at Europe, Britain, and even Orkney and Shetland from a very different value-centre.'-    Douglas Gifford, A History of Scottish Women's Writing.]]>
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    <id>372502</id>
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    <average_rating>3.82</average_rating>
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    <id>492802</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Simon Hall]]></name>
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        <book>
  <id type="integer">6850847</id>
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    <![CDATA[Gathering Night]]>
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    <![CDATA[Between Grandmother Mountain and the cold sea, Alaia and her family live off the land. But when one of her brothers goes hunting and never returns, the fragile balance of life is upset. Half-starved and maddened with grief, Alaia's mother follows her visions and goes in search of her lost son. Then a stranger from a rival tribe appears on their hearth seeking shelter. Are his stories of a great wave and a people perished really to be believed? What else could drive a man to travel alone between tribes in the depths of winter? Hopes of resolution come when Alaia's mother returns home as a Go-Between, one able to commune with the spirits. But as all the Auk people come together for their annual Gathering Night, who there will listen to the voice of a woman? &quot;The Gathering Night&quot; is a story of conflict, loss, love, adventure and devastating natural disasters. This utterly enchanting pre-historical novel is set deep in our stone-age past, but resonates as a parable of our troubled planet 8000 years on.]]>
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    <id>372502</id>
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    <text_reviews_count>9</text_reviews_count>
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        <book>
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    <![CDATA[Sea Road]]>
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    <![CDATA[]]>
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    <author>
    <id>372502</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Margaret Elphinstone]]></name>
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        <book>
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    <![CDATA[Gato]]>
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    <id>372502</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Margaret Elphinstone]]></name>
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  </authors>  <published>2005</published>
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