First a bookshop smash, now Alistair’s POW tale is iPad hit

By Michael MacLeod

THE memoirs of a 91 year-old Scottish former POW have become a surprise hit on one of the world’s biggest online bookstores.

Such has been the demand for Alistair Urquhart’s novel The Forgotten Highlander on Apple’s iBookstore that it is now listed on its front page.

In an unplanned PR scoop that marketing executives would strive for, it means the Dundee pensioner’s book will appear on the front page of the bookstore app on every one of Apple’s popular new gadgets, the iPad.

The book shines a light on Alistair’s harrowing ordeal after being captured by the Japanese during World War II.