Book Reviews: Stories Touched with the Blarney; the Book of 1000 Beautiful Things and Other Favourites by Hugh Robinson. Published by Ballyhay Books. Pounds 9.99

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Byline: JUNE McLAUGHLIN

THIS collection of short stories by the award-winning author Hugh Robinson is a follow-up to his best-seller Back Across the Fields of Yesterday. Hugh will be familiar to listeners to Love Forty on BBC Radio Ulster hosted by Walter Love.

In the programme, Hugh has related many stories of his childhood growing up in Ballyhay near Donaghadee. He has penned more of his reminiscences in this second volume.

Hugh writes with a down-to-earth style enriched with a touch of the blarney, and jogs our memory with stories of a byegone age.

With his opening story he pulls at our heartstrings with the tale of a Belfast street urchin and …