About this title: 'Love makes the world go round? Not at all. Whisky makes it go round twice as fast.' The hilarious story of wartime bootlegging in the Scottish islands. Wartime food rationing is bad enough, but when the whisky supplies run out on the Hebridean islands of Great and Little Todday, nothing seems to go right. Then the fifty-thousand-bottle cargo of the shipwrecked S. S. Cabinet Minister brings salvation - in its most giddily intoxicating form. Compton Mackenzie was born in West Hartlepool in 1883. He was educated at St Paul's School and Magdalen College, Oxford. During the First World War he ...
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Description: Very good. Whisky Galore (Essential. penguin S.). Paperback. GUARANTEED availability, condition & fast dispatch! . PLEASE NOTE IF PURCHASING A VIDEO: Unless otherwise specified, all our videos are VHS PAL-UK & Europe Format. read more
Binding: PAPERBACK
Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS LTD
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780140282719ISBN:0140282718
Description: Good. Paperback, good condition. Cover image is a stock image and may vary. Your book will be securely packed and promptly dispatched from our UK warehouse. read more
Binding: PAPERBACK
Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS LTD
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780140282719ISBN:0140282718
Description: Good. Paperback, good condition. Cover image is a stock image and may vary. Your book will be securely packed and promptly dispatched from our UK warehouse. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780140282719ISBN:0140282718
Description: Good. This book is in GOOD overall condition. It shows signs of having been read and has general light wear to the cover, spine and pages. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Reprint Society
Date Published: 1951
Description: Very Good in Good jacket. Hardback book with dust jacket. overall rating: very good condition. any shelfwear/edgewear will be minor and usually confinded to jacket. may have other minor defects (eg name to ffep, mild discolouration to block edges etc). read more
Edition: Reprint
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Chatto and Windus, London
Date Published: 1949
Description: Very Good. No Jacket. 12mo. Slight bumping / minor wear to corners. Some rubbing to extremities. 264pp. Red cloth, owner's inscription on free front endpaper. read more
Edition: The Reprint Society
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Reprint Society, London
Date Published: 1951
Description: Very Good. No Jacket. This hilarious novel is the distinguished author's first introduction to World Books members. It is a comedy about the Outer Hebrides based on the actual wreck, off the Island of Eriksay, of a ship bound for America with a cargo of the precious whisky of Scotland during World War II..256 pages text. Original green cloth. No Marks. read more
Edition: First Published 1947.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Reprint Society Ltd. by arr. with Chatto and Windus
Date Published: 1951
Description: Good. No dust jacket. Ex-library. Beverage ring mark front cover. Vertical cloth wrinkle, front. Minor edgewear. Endpaper Foxing. Library pocket. 256 p. Includes illustrations. Glossary of the Gaelic Expressions. Chapter Notes. Title page illustration, pen&ink bottle ship. Green cloth covered boards. Dark brown leather spine title paste-on, gold title. Popular cast of characters and an education in use of Gaelic in the story-telling.. read more
Edition: Book Club ed.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Reprint Society, London
Date Published: 1951
Description: VG hardback in VG dustjacket. Dustjacket protected in removable clear film. Pages clean, binding tight. A very nice reading copy. read more
Edition: Reprint
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Vanguard Library, London
Date Published: 1953
Description: Very Good in Fair jacket. 12mo. Reprint. 248pp. Comic story set in the Hebrides about a shipwrecked cargo of whisky. Brown cloth with damaged dj, with large chip from top corner of front cover. Otherwise internally vG. read more
"Another DNF, I found the book very boring. Actually I picked it up for my sister because the movie made from this book, "Tight Little Island", is one of he favorite movies."
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