Whisky Galore

Name: Whisky Galore
Author: Compton Mackenzie

by Compton Mackenzie

Comic novel about wartime whisky smuggling and its chaotic effects on a Scottish island

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Compton Mackenzie

Mackenzie was a prolific and popular novelist whose early Sinister Street was considered scandalous and whose comic Whisky Galore became a beloved classic. His vast output ranged from serious Bildungsroman to Scottish farce.

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