Stargazing: Memoirs of a Young Lighthouse Keeper

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Stargazing: Memoirs of a Young Lighthouse Keeper
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AuthorPeter Hill
LanguageEnglish
Genre Memoir
Publisher Canongate Books
Publication date
2003
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typeBook
Pages275 (2003 edition)
ISBN 1841954993

Stargazing: Memoirs of a Young Lighthouse Keeper is a autobiographical book by Peter Hill published in 2003 by Canongate Books. [1] In January 2004, it was BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week read by David Tennant, [2] and received the Saltire Society's First Book of the Year Award in December that year. [3] [4]

The book is a memoir about Hill's time in the early 1970s as a young lighthouse keeper on the remote Scottish coast at the Pladda Lighthouse, Ailsa Craig Lighthouse, and the Hyskeir Lighthouse.

References

  1. Turpin, Adrian (8 September 2003). "Peter Hill: Tripping the light fantastic". The Independent. Retrieved 19 May 2025.
  2. "Book of the Week: Stargazing: Memoirs of a Young Lighthouse Keeper". BBC Programme Index . Retrieved 25 April 2025.
  3. "Saltire book awards announced". National Library of Scotland. 3 December 2004.
  4. "Scotland's National Book Awards > Scottish First Book of the Year". LibraryThing . Retrieved 1 June 2025.