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Mairi Hedderwick
Born: 1939 in Gourock, Inverclyde
First Book: Katie Morag Delivers the Mail (Bodley Head, 1984)
Awards: Honorary degree from the University of Stirling
Mairi Hedderwick was born in Gourock in 1939 and moved to the Isle of Coll at the age of seventeen when she took a job as a mother’s help. She left the island a few years later to attend the Edinburgh College of Art. After her studies, she remained in Edinburgh for a short time, working as a primary-school teacher before returning to Coll in the early 1960s. For a time, she, her husband and her young family lived there in a house with no electricity or running water, their nearest neighbours two miles away.
In 2003 she was awarded an honorary degree from the University of Stirling for her outstanding contribution to writing and illustration in Scotland, especially for children.
Mairi is the author and illustrator of the popular children’s series, Katie Morag, which she loosely based around her own experiences of island life, and which is currently being animated for children’s television. She also writes and illustrates travel books for adults and illustrates Jane Duncan’s Janet Reachfar children’s books published by Birlinn. Mairi Hedderwick’s range of beautifully illustrated diaries and stationery, featuring her exquisite watercolours of the Hebridean islands, is also published by Birlinn.
Eye on the Hebrides, An
ISBN: 9781841587943
Category: Travel Writing, Travel
Author: Mairi Hedderwick
Publication Date: August 2009
Format: Paperback
Price: £10.99
Stock Status: in stock
Portrays the islands from Arran to Lewis in all their diversity, with swift and perceptive cameos of everyday life drawn with humor and affection alongside gorgeous landscapes which capture the magical beauty of the Hebrides.
Hebridean Birthday Book, The
ISBN: 9781841584607
Category: Stationery
Author: Mairi Hedderwick
Publication Date: August 2006
Format: Hardback
Price: £7.99
Stock Status: in stock
Illustrated throughout with Mairi Hedderwick’s beautiful sketches of the Hebrides, this large-format, hardback book is the perfect way to remember birthdays of friends and family.
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Hebridean Calendar 2012
ISBN: 9781841589473
Category: Stationery
Author: Mairi Hedderwick
Publication Date: May 2011
Format: Hardback
Price: £7.99
Stock Status: in stock
Hebridean Desk Address Book, The
ISBN: 9781841589879
Category: Stationery
Author: Mairi Hedderwick
Publication Date: May 2011
Format: Hardback
Price: £12.99
Stock Status: in stock
This is an address book which is attractively illustrated with acclaimed illustrator Mairi Hedderwick’s beautiful sketches of seasonal Western Island scenes.
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Hebridean Desk Diary 2012, The
ISBN: 9781841589480
Category: Stationery
Author: Mairi Hedderwick
Publication Date: May 2011
Format: Hardback
Price: £12.99
Stock Status: in stock
A perennial favourite, this diary is another beautiful addition to the Hedderwick stationery.
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Hebridean Notebook
ISBN: 9781841588773
Category: Art, Stationery
Author: Mairi Hedderwick
Publication Date: May 2010
Format: Hardback
Price: £6.99
Stock Status: in stock
Following the immense success of the Hebridean diaries, birthday books, and address books, Birlinn have added a notebook to its attractive range of Hebridean stationery.
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Hebridean Pocket Address Book, The
ISBN: 9781841589886
Category: Stationery
Author: Mairi Hedderwick
Publication Date: May 2011
Format: Hardback
Price: £7.99
Stock Status: in stock
A beautifully illustrated handy address book. Colleced over a period of 40 years, these skeches showcase Hedderwick's remarkable knowledge of the Western Isles.
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Hebridean Pocket Diary 2012, The
ISBN: 9781841589497
Category: Stationery
Author: Mairi Hedderwick
Publication Date: May 2011
Format: Hardback
Price: £7.99
Stock Status: in stock
The perfect travelling diary, beautifully illustrated by the acclaimed Mairi Hedderwick.
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Hebridean Visitors' Book, The
ISBN: 9781841584614
Category: Stationery
Author: Mairi Hedderwick
Publication Date: August 2006
Format: Hardback
Price: £11.99
Stock Status: in stock
Features beautiful, full-colour paintings by Mairi Hedderwick. New addition to the successful range of Hebridean diaries and address books.
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Highland Journey
ISBN: 9781841587936
Category: Travel Writing, Travel
Author: Mairi Hedderwick
Publication Date: June 2009
Format: Paperback
Price: £14.99
Stock Status: in stock
Combines two artists' texts to provide a social commentary comparing two vastly contrasting eras, written by two complete strangers with a common distaste for tourist hordes and the impact of man's encroachment in Scotland's landscape.
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Last Laird of Coll, The
ISBN: 9781780270197
Category: Biography/Local Interest
Author: Mairi Hedderwick
Publication Date: September 2011
Format: Paperback
Price: £6.99
Stock Status: in stock
Kenneth Stewart is the last of the old Lairds of Coll, one of the loveliest of all the Hebridean islands. In this book Mairi Hedderwick, one of the island’s best known inhabitants who has also known the laird since her first visit to the island more than fifty years ago, explores the laird’s lifelong connection with Coll.
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Oh No, Peedie Peebles
ISBN: 9781780270029
Category: Children's
Author: Mairi Hedderwick
Publication Date: July 2011
Format: Paperback
Price: £5.99
Stock Status: in stock
‘Charming’ – Daily Telegraph
‘Hilarious . . . Young children will be amazed and delighted’ – Books for Your Children
The Peebles family have just moved house and there’s a lot to be done. Much to his annoyance, Peedie Peebles is not, under any circumstances, allowed near any of the pots of paint.
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Peedie Peebles' Summer or Winter Book
ISBN: 9781780270036
Category: Children's
Author: Mairi Hedderwick
Publication Date: July 2011
Format: Paperback
Price: £5.99
Stock Status: in stock
A delightful lift the flap book for small children, beautifully illustrated by author, Mairi Hedderwick, featuring the engaging exploits of toddler, Peedie Peebles.
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Sea Change
ISBN: 9781841587868
Category: Travel/Art
Author: Mairi Hedderwick
Publication Date: November 2009
Format: Hardback
Price: £20.00
Stock Status: in stock
This beautifully illustrated journey from the east to west of Scotland in an antique yacht, The Anassa, gives a moving account of a wonderful sea voyage.
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Sea Change: The Summer Voyage from East West Scotland of the Anassa
ISBN: 9781780270210
Category: Art, Travel
Author: Mairi Hedderwick
Publication Date: May 2012
Format: Paperback
Price: £14.99
Stock Status: not yet published
Mairi Hedderwick's beautifully illustrated account of sailing through the highlands and islands of Scotland.
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Shetland Rambles
ISBN: 9781841589985
Category: Scottish, Art
Author: Mairi Hedderwick
Publication Date: November 2011
Format: Paperback
Price: £14.99
Stock Status: in stock
Shetland Rambles is a beautiful, poignant and entertaining journey through the islands by one of Scotland’s best loved authors and illustrators and packed with incidental detail and charm.
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