Tom Morton
{{Short description|Scottish writer}}
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| birth_name = Thomas Morton
| birth_date = {{birth year|1955}}
| birth_place = Carlisle, Cumberland, England
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| occupation = Journalist, author, broadcaster
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| website = [http://beatcroft.blogspot.co.uk Beatcroft.blogspot.co.uk]
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Thomas Morton (born 1955) is a Scottish broadcaster, journalist and author. He lives and works mainly in the Shetland Islands.
Life
Morton was born in 1955,{{Cn|date=April 2024}} and moved to Shetland in 1987, three years after his wife, Susan, who was a General Practitioner (GP).{{cite magazine|last=Smith|first=Laura|date=4 September 2018|title=Bake Off finalist James Morton teams up with dad Tom for book celebrating Shetland's fruits of land and sea|magazine=Sunday World|publisher=DC Thomson Media}}
Until April 2015, Morton presented a BBC Radio Scotland show, broadcast Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights, from 10:00 PM to 1:00 AM, a Scottish take on rock and pop, from obscure blues to mainstream pop and soul, to current independent releases.[https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-32721432 "Tom Morton stepping down from BBC Radio Scotland show"] - BBC Radio Scotland, 13 May 2015
From November 2011 until January 2015 he edited the magazine Shetland Life.{{Cite web|url=https://www.shetlandtimes.co.uk/2011/10/07/broadcaster-and-journalist-tom-morton-is-named-new-shetland-life-editor|title=Broadcaster and journalist Tom Morton is named new Shetland Life editor|date=7 October 2011|website=The Shetland Times}}
Morton was a co-author, with his son James, of their 2016 book Shetland : Cooking on the Edge of the World.{{sfn|Morton|Morton|2018|loc=Hello}} James is known as a runner-up in series three of The Great British Bake Off in 2012.
Morton's book Holy Waters: Searching for the Sacred in a Glass, published in November 2022, was shortlisted for a Guild of Food Writers Award and won Drinks Book of the Year in the 2023 Fortnum & Mason Food and Drink writing awards.
In 2021, Morton was nominated as Scottish Labour's candidate in the local elections to Shetland Islands Council. He was one of three candidates nominated for three vacancies in the Shetland North Ward. As only three candidates stood, Morton became a councillor, unopposed. He stood down in October 2024.
Works
Morton's works, which encompass both fiction and non fiction,{{Cite web|title=Tom Morton — Shetland Writing and Writers: Tom Morton|url=https://www.shetland.gov.uk/libraries/tom-morton?documentId=425&categoryId=20057|access-date=8 August 2021|website=Shetland Islands Council}} include:
- {{cite book|last1=Morton|first1=Tom|date=2000|title=Internal combustion : a love story
|isbn=9781840183405|oclc=48579310}}
- {{cite book|last1=Morton|first1=Tom|last2=McNaught|first2=John|date=2007|title=Spirit of adventure : a journey beyond the whisky trails
|orig-year=1992|isbn=9781427620149|oclc=228073120}}
- {{cite book|last1=Morton|first1=Tom|last2=Allonson|first2=Rob|last3=Hamilton|first3=Ken|date=2009
|title=Journey's blend : five distilleries, three motorcycles, one whisky
|isbn=9780956308504|oclc=751627780}}
- {{Cite book|last1=Morton|first1=James|last2=Morton|first2=Tom|date=2018
|title=Shetland : cooking on the edge of the world
|publisher=Quadrille|location=London|isbn=9781787133068|oclc=1051138004|author-link1=James Morton (baker)}}
- {{Cite book|last1=Morton|first1=Tom|date=2021|title=It Tolls for Thee — A Guide to Celebrating the End
|isbn=9781786784780|oclc=1262792367}}
- Morton, Tom (2022). Holy Waters: Searching for the Sacred in a Glass. Watkin's Books. ISBN 9781786786562
References
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External links
- [http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0074hk7 BBC Radio Scotland – Tom Morton]
- [http://beatcroft.blogspot.com/ From the Beatcroft, Shetland Isles – Tom Morton's blog]
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