Ann Cleeves` bestselling series of crime novels, featuring Detective Jimmy Perez, & now also adapted for a major BBC television series, draw their inspiration from the place in which they take place: Shetl&. An archipelago of more than a hundred islands, it is the one of the most remote places in the United Kingdom. Its fifteen hundred miles of shore mean that wherever one stands, there is a view of the sea. It has sheltered voes & beaches & dramatically exposed cliffs, lush meadows full of wild flowers in the summer & bleak hilltops where only the hardiest of plants will grow. It is a place where traditions are valued & celebrated, but new technologies & ways of working are also embraced. In this gloriously illustrated companion to her novels, Ann Cleeves takes readers through a year on Shetl&, learning about its past, meeting its people, celebrating its festivals & seeing how the flora & fauna of the islands changes with the seasons. Whether it is the drama of the Viking fire festival of Up Helly Aa in winter, or the piercing blue & hot pink of spring flowers on the clifftops, the long, white nights of midsummer or the fierce gales & high tides of autumn, Shetland is vividly captured in all its bleak & special beauty.