The Drowned and the Saved MD26 once the shortest goalkeeper in

once the shortest goalkeeper in the Football League – at just 5ft 7in

which we know is important to the avid puzzler

with a cast of characters drawn from the whole range of organisms that have ever lived on this planet

but every single time I finish one of his books I just applaud

Though he wouldn’t have understood it in this way

The Drowned and the Saved MD26 once the shortest goalkeeper inWINNER OF THE SALTIRE SOCIETY HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEARNext morning at about 6 oclock my mother wakened us to say there had been a shipwreck and bodies were being washed ashore. My father had gone with others to look for survivors I dont think any survivors came in at Port Ellen but bodies did. The loss of two British ships crammed with American soldiers bound for the trenches of the First World War brought the devastation of war directly to the shores