HighlandLIT Author Evening with Liz Macrae Shaw

Name: HighlandLIT Author Evening with Liz Macrae Shaw
Start: 2025-08-18T18:30:00+01:00
End: 2025-08-18T21:00:00+01:00
Location: Inverness Creative Academy, (WASPS) Stephen's Street, Inverness, IV2 3JP

Schedule

Mon Aug 18 2025 at 06:30 pm to 09:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Inverness Creative Academy, (WASPS) Stephen's Street, Inverness, IV2 3JP | Inverness, SC

Author Evening with Liz Macrae Shaw - Monday 18th August at 6.30 for 7.00pm
Venue: WASPS (Inverness Creative Academy) Midmills Building, Stephen's St, Inverness IV2 3JP, in the first floor workshop space (Room B 010)
A long-time friend of HighlandLIT, Skye-based author Liz Macrae Shaw will be reading from and discussing her fourth novel, The second surge of the sea: the circle of time which is set in Skye in the earlier 20th century. It brings to life ‘an extraordinary tale of adventure, danger and betrayal’ reminding us of ‘the power of storytelling to return the tide of memory.’
Don’t miss this opportunity to meet a gifted writer in person.
This event is free to attend, and is offered in person and on Zoom. Refreshments will be available.
To attend in person, please book via this link https://www.trybooking.com/uk/FDYN so that we can send you a code for the side entrance to WASPS. To attend via Zoom, please email [email protected] by 12 noon on 18th August and we will send you a link to the event.
Liz Macrae Shaw is a Skye-based author, who has a lifelong fascination with the island’s stark beauty, family stories, traditional music and Gaelic culture. Her mother was Skye-born, but Liz was brought up in England where she studied history at Oxford, and subsequently had two satisfying careers in England, firstly as a history lecturer in a Further Education College and secondly as a counsellor and therapist.
She now lives on Skye and has published three earlier novels – Love and Music will Endure, No Safe Anchorage, and Had we never loved so blindly.
At the HighlandLIT event on 18th August, Liz will be discussing her new historical novel, recently published with the Islands Book Trust - The second surge of the sea: the circle of time.
The Island Book Trust website describes the book:
Instead of enjoying her summer holiday in the 1960s with her friends in the south of England, the disgruntled teenager Margaret finds herself banished to stay with her grandparents on the Isle of Skye. However, she discovers an unexpected kinship with her grandfather as he gradually reveals the story of his early life on the island before and during the First World War. An extraordinary tale of adventure, danger and betrayal is brought to life.
The novel also contains much social history about life in Skye during the 20th century.
Liz writes:
Some of the characters in the story have been inspired by my own family history and photographs, such as the images shown on the back cover of my grandmother Dolina MacRae (née Nicolson), her brother Murdo Nicolson, and the iconic Skye terrier.
The title is a reference to ‘An Ataireachd Ard’ (‘The Surge of the Sea’), a beautiful Gaelic song about the pain of exile and loss that hails from the Isle of Lewis in the Western Isles.