In this informative and often humorous account of Scottish island life, Freddy embarks on a nostalgic journey around the Isle of Gigha, his home since the early 1990s. He has responded to requests for a rehash of an earlier book on the island, which was written before the community buy-out of 2002. The book neatly combines fact and anecdote, and is richly illustrated with colour and black and white photographs, with appendix material from, the Rev. RSG Anderson’s 1920s title The Antiquities of Gigha. The Magic of Gigha draws an evocative picture of how things were for islanders in the not too distant past and is a must for anyone with an interest in Scottish islands.