... , like stakeholders in the Pequod. Each issue is a report to you and we try to do our utmost for you out on the high seas of luck and serendipity, to please you in your passions, your islomania especially. Issue 4 more than maintains the standard set. Among those landed this time: Norman Ackroyd (and some fourteen images, ten devoted to St Kilda), Ronald Blythe (‘Family Circles’), John Burnside ...

World famous burlesque star Dita Von Teese discusses her islomania, and recent holiday in the Maldives. "I have a feeling that if I were cast away like Robinson Crusoe on a desert island I would quickly find a way to manufacture make-up."Dita Von Teese swaps the stage for the mesmerising MaldivesBy Dita Von TeeseThe Daily Mail, UKNovember 10, 2009