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Largs and Millport News

As featured in
Cumberland Herald

Gill Hoffs' new book, The Sinking of the RMS Tayleur, grabbed me out of bed last night like a storm. There are so many questions surrounding the sinking and the individual fates of the emigrants aboard the ship--tragedies and triumphs so compellingly and respectfully portrayed by the author. Gill Hoffs sets the scene generously with striking, often unsettling detail; and her descriptions of mid-nineteenth-century ship travel and the surrounding social conditions are convincingly well researched. These things alone would have kept me reading, but the jewels of this book are certainly the voices. The author resurrects the passengers of the RMS Tayleur and their stories in an approachable style that also serves as a suiting memorial to this tragedy. From the sailing and sinking to the ensuing inquest, each moment comes alive through dozens of eye-witness accounts. Hoffs has compliled a thorough and thoroughly engaging multi-voiced work. And I'm so glad Hoffs made the decision to include so.. Read more
Christopher Allen, Imustbeoff.com

This is an excellent book backed up with some very good quality photographs, many of which are rare and seldom seen. I would very highly recommend this book to our readers.
Shipping –Today and yesterday April 2013

A magnificent volume. Packed with the most beautiful artist-drawn picture postcards from the Golden-Age – liners, interiors, advertisements - it is a sheer delight. I'd challenge any non-postcard collector not to be entranced with the book's illustrations. It will be a friend for life.
Picture Postcard Monthly