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'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 became a Captain in the Royal Marines, becoming Director of the Aegean Intelligence Service. He wrote more than ninety books - novels, history and biography, essays and criticism, children's stories and verse, and was also an outstanding broadcaster. He founded and edited until 1961 the magazine the "Gramophone", and was President of the Siamese Cat Club. He lived for many years on the island of Barra in the Outer Hebrides, but later settled in Edinburgh. Compton Mackenzie died in 1972.

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'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

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews   8 of 8 people found the following review helpful: Fabulous and funny - a classic, 26 Sep 2005 By A Customer 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.  Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? (Report this)   3 of 3 people found the following review helpful: See the film, read the book., 15 Feb 2006 By  steve b (Dudley England) - See all my reviews 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.  Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? (Report this)   0 of 1 people found the following review helpful: Not as funny as I thought, but has a good plot, 6 Jun 2007 By  Fraser MacDougall (Perth, UK) - See all my reviews 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. Nevertheless, the plot is still ironic and the charcaters are pleasant people, usually laughed at by production-line-manufactured-9-till-5-Monday-till-Friday-I-only-holiday-in-Spain-with-5000-other-beer-bellied-45-year-olds-on-the-beach-at-the-same-time-as-me-did-I-mention-that-I-work-for-an-American-globalisation-firm people (excuse the rant). They are kindly and religious, yet at the same time there is foul and tyrannical Mrs. Campbell. But all in all a good novel. The cover is particularly attractive.  Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? (Report this) › See all 3 customer reviews...		Search Customer Reviews Only search this product's reviews