Bermuda writers, Outerbridge and Raine, focus on international trains and Bermuda history, respectively. By Beverley Causey-Smith Books are certainly fine Christmas gifts and Bermuda has two very talented writers with recent publications, Graeme Outerbridge and David F. Raine. Mr.

Outerbrige's, `Trains: a Photographer's Journey' is a fabulous look at trains around the world and can be purchased through amazon.co.uk for about 17.60.

Bermuda's old Bermuda Railway went out of business five years before Mr.

Outerbridge was born but he has always had a fascination with trains.

This passion led him to a five-year odyssey involving 40 train journeys with his beautiful, multi-lingual wife, Maria Dzgrynuk across Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North and South America, from Nairobi to Nogales.

It was truly the adventure of a lifetime for this very entertaining couple who reflect fondly on the task of travelling the world.

The book review from Amazon refers to the photographs and reads: "They are, quite, simply, stunning - telling their own evocative stories.

"Strikingly, the stories are incredibly diverse- despite the imperialist and capitalist urges that forces the railroads across the glove during the 19th century, each nation seems to have forges its own train culture.'' Locally this book is available from The Bermuda Book Store, Bookmart, and Hamma Galleries.

Writer, David F. Raine , published this year, "An Irishman Came Through'' which required a year's worth of historical research about Tom Moore's visit to Bermuda during 1803-4.

Mr. Raine said: "I was motivated to write about the misunderstanding of Tom Moore during his Bermuda stay; it is another piece of the jigsaw revolving around Bermuda history.'' According to Mr. Raine, Tom Moore was probably the most popular Irish writer of his time.

Students of Literature have come to regard his only visit to the sub-tropics as something of a mystery, a lost period in the Irishman's life: an enigmatic period rarely discussed and never described in great detail.

There were events that occurred during his Bermuda sojourn subsequently causing him to flee to France for exile! Mr. Raine's latest book of this year is, "Shakespeare, an Island and a Storm'' . He focuses on why Shakespeare wrote "The Tempest'' based on the wreck of the Sea Venture.

It will be available in bookstores around Bermuda possibly today or very shortly.

Additionally, it will be for sale from his wife's shop, Bermuda Memories, on King's Square, wSt. George's.

"An Irishman came through'' by David F. Raine