Willie Orr worked as a shepherd in the West Highlands, including in the Ross of Mull, until a tractor accident forced a change in his life. Enrolling in Stirling University as a mature student, he graduated in Scottish History and published ‘Deer Forest, Landlords and Crofters’. He taught History in Oban High School and then worked for Sir Tom Devine on ‘The Great Highland Famine’, discovering documents relating to Shiaba. Returning to teaching in Oban, he became a counsellor for troubled children. In 2019 he published ‘MICK’, a novel about a cruelly fostered boy in the 1950’s and ‘The Shepherd and the Morning Star’, a biography/autobiography. He lives near Oban in Argyll.