Roger Hutchinson (writer)

Roger Hutchinson (born 1949) is a British author and journalist. Hutchinson was born at Farnworth, near Bolton, in Lancashire, but lives on Raasay, off the east coast of Skye.

Education

Hutchinson attended Bretton Hall College in Leeds to study English.[1]

Career

In the late 1960s, around the time he studied English at Bretton Hall College, he founded and edited 'Sad Traffic', published from a small office in Barnsley, which ran for five issues before morphing into Yorkshire's alternative newspaper, Styng (Sad Traffic Yorkshire News & Gossip).[1][2]

He then moved to London and edited OZ, International Times and the magazine Time Out.[1][2][3]

In the late 1970s Hutchinson moved to Skye to become a journalist on the West Highland Free Press.[1] Since 1999 he has lived on Raasay.[1]

He has also served as editor of the Stornoway Gazette.

Books

As of 2017, Hutchinson has written 15 non-fiction books.[2]

Polly, The True Story Behind Whisky Galore (1990) was about the SS Politician, the ship which was wrecked on the Outer Hebrides with a cargo of whisky which inspired the book and film Whisky Galore.[4]

Hutchinson wrote The Real Story of England's 1966 World Cup Triumph ...it is now! in 1995.[5] This book follows the career of Sir Alf Ramsey from his early days in Dagenham through to the 1966 victory.

His book The Soap Man: Lewis, Harris and Lord Leverhulme (2003), was shortlisted for the Saltire Scottish Book of the Year Award.[6]

Calum's Road (2006), about Raasay crofter Calum MacLeod who hand-built a road to his croft, was shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature's Ondaatje Prize.[1][7]

In 2012 Hutchinson published The Silent Weaver, the story of the Uist-raised crofter Angus MacPhee who suffered a schizophrenic breakdown during World War II and subsequently spent 50 years in Craig Dunain Hospital near Inverness where he developed skill in weaving grass taken from the hospital grounds.[8]

As of 2018, Hutchinson's most recent book is The Butcher, the Baker, the Candlestick Maker: The story of Britain through its Census, since 1801 (2017).[9]

References
  1. "Two men, one road and a most unusual journey". The Herald. 13 April 2007. Retrieved 14 January 2018.
  2. "Roger Hutchinson". Your Family History. 1 May 2017. Retrieved 14 January 2018.
  3. Campbell, Duncan (12 February 2001). "'I've had enough of making stuff up'". The Guardian. Retrieved 14 January 2018.
  4. "Whisky Galore Translates Well". Press and Journal (Aberdeen). 16 April 2015. Retrieved 14 January 2018.
  5. Hutchinson, Roger (1995). The Real Story of England's 1966 World Cup Triumph ...it is now!. Mainstream Publishing. ISBN 1-85158-751-9.
  6. "Saltire picks Scottish shortlists". The Bookseller. 8 November 2004. Archived from the original on 9 November 2007. Retrieved 14 October 2008.
  7. Terris, Adam (16 April 2014). "Scottish fact of the week: Calum's Road". The Scotsman. Retrieved 14 January 2018.
  8. "Spaekalation". The Shetland Times. 17 July 2011. Retrieved 14 January 2018.
  9. Moss, Stephen (17 February 2017). "The Butcher, the Baker, the Candlestick Maker: The Story of Britain Through Its Census – review". The Guardian. Retrieved 14 January 2018.


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