- Paperback: 304 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; New edition edition (25 Feb 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0140282718
- ISBN-13: 978-0140282719
- Product Dimensions: 17.6 x 11 x 2.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 490,000 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Love makes the world go round? Not at all. Whisky makes it go round twice as fast.
--This text refers to the
Audio CD
edition.
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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 50,000 cargo of the shipwrecked S.S. "Cabinet Minister" brings salvation - in its most giddily intoxicating form.
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is one of my favourite books ever written.
It was made into a black and white film many years ago and is based on the true story of a cargo ship full of whisky running aground off the coast of a Scottish island during the war, when whisky was impossible to get hold of. You can guess the rest! The Scottish characters are excellently observed and you can almost smell the heather as the escapades of the islanders are brought to life on the page. Whimsical, warm and funny, this is a real feel-good book that can be read again and again. A true classic.
It was made into a black and white film many years ago and is based on the true story of a cargo ship full of whisky running aground off the coast of a Scottish island during the war, when whisky was impossible to get hold of. You can guess the rest! The Scottish characters are excellently observed and you can almost smell the heather as the escapades of the islanders are brought to life on the page. Whimsical, warm and funny, this is a real feel-good book that can be read again and again. A true classic.
12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is a an interplay between the hard dry times of two Scottish Islands when they run out of the "water of life", the glory of finding an unlimited source of it and the hardships facing a WW2 romance.The friendly humour brings me back time and time again -I've a copy printed in 1951 and it's just as a good read now as then. One of the most "five star" books ever written.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book from which the famous film was taken, is well worth a read in it's own right. It is different from the film in a number of ways, there are two islands not one and unlike the film there are Catholics as well as Calvinists on the island. Also the girl courted by George Campbell (played by Gordon Jackson in the film) is not the sister of the girl courted by the English soldier.
If you enjoyed film, which I believe is a masterpiece, then read the book for a more complex and detailed, but just as funny, version of the same story.
There are also a number of lesser known books in MacKenzie's Highlands series, such as Rockets Galore, The Rival Monster and the Monarch of the Glenn, which has nothing to do with the TV series except that it is set in the Highlands and has the same title. Most are out of print but all are worth the efford to find and read.
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A Droll Tale
I'm not a great fan of maps, footnotes etc in novels but a map of the islands would have helped in Whisky Galore. Maybe there was one in the first editions. Read more
Published 5 months ago by Gargoyle
One of the funniest books ever
This has to be one of the funniest books ever. The characters are so well drawn and believable, from the stern Mrs Campbell who doesn't want her son George to marry, the wily... Read more
Published on 26 April 2010 by James Skivington
GREAT FILM
I FOUND AFTER WATCHING THIS FILM THE HUMOUR AND WIT THAT IT BRINGS,I CAN JUST IMAGINE HOW THEY FEEL WHEN THE WHISKY RUNS OUT , TRULY A GREAT FILM AND WELL WORTH THE WATCHING OR IS... Read more
Published on 13 Oct 2009 by T. Mc Gowan
Not as funny as I thought, but has a good plot
This novel was portrayed as being "a classic comic novel" but it is not funny as I thought it would be. It is more of a dark satire. Read more
Published on 5 Jun 2007 by Fraser MacDougall
Happy knock around and love for the water of life
The wrecking of a ship carrying hundreds of bottles of whisky on a remote Scottish island is the main plot idea for WG. Read more
Published on 6 Feb 2003 by Alex Magpie
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