About the Author

Tom Steel was born in 1943 in Edinburgh, Scotland, and was educated at Daniel Stewart’s College. He graduated from Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he read history, in 1965 and joined the staff of Rediffusion Television as a programme researcher. From 1968 he worked for Thames Television as producer and director on such programmes as Today, This Week, People and Politics and several network documentaries, including the series Destination America and documentaries like A Far Better Place, which told the story of St Kilda. His book The Life and Death of St Kilda, now in tenth edition, is also published by HarperCollins.

Reviews

‘First-rate recreation of a vanished way of life’ Scotsman ‘Compulsive reading’ Guardian