BEING FRANK
From Takapuna, on Auckland’s North Shore, to Kirkwall, the main town on Orkney Island, is a distance of 17,580km. Yet those two widely separated places are now connected, thanks to Orkneybased Scots writer and musician Duncan McLean, 57, who published his first book, Bucket of, in 1992. His primary source of income, however, is the grocery store in Kirkwall (population: 7420) owned by his wife’s family since 1859.
