“You must never call it the Shetlands. Islanders are proud and can be p...” — Ann Cleeves Quote

You must never call it the Shetlands. Islanders are proud and can be prickly about the name: it's either Shetland or the Shetland Islands.

Shetland is the most remote place in the U.K. It's a part our country, but completely unique. It might be British, but it's closer to Norway than to Edinburgh, and it feels very different from the mainland.

Shetland has always been a place of sanctuary for me. I visited when I dropped out of university, and I just loved it from the minute I got there. It's a bleak but very beautiful place.

I especially don't like the graphic violence against women and children often depicted in novels such as 'The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo' and others. I'm not sure if it's being done just to entertain or whether it really is necessary for the characters involved.

I want to make a boatload of money and i want to poof and maybe make it on the senior tour, live on islands, get a bigger Nantucket house.

My mother's side of the family, they're from Montserrat in the Leeward Islands.

When I was four years old, we lived in the Fiji islands, but I don't remember much.

Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.

I know that not many people can go to the Marshall Islands. It is really one of the most remote places on earth.