On British and Irish islands from the Scillies to the Hebrides, from the Aran Islands to the Shetlands, from Anglesey to the orkneys, many of the finest writers of the 20th and 21st centuries have sought the same freedom of thought as Orwell, and this unique anthology of non-fiction prose island inspired writing by, among others: W B Yeats, orwell, Woolf, Betjeman, Kathleen raine, John Fowles & J M Synge,