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  • Scottish Placenames

    by George Mackay ...
    This popular and interesting book explains how over 2000 towns, villages and lochs in Scotland got their names, with placename origins explained. ... Read more

    $3.74 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Magnus

    by George Mackay Brown ...
    This profound and poetic novel has been described as George Mackay Brown's most innovative work. He recounts the tale of the murder of the Earl of Orkney in the 12th century and links it to the story of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German theologian imprisoned and executed by the Nazis during World War Two. A fascinating meditation on the eternal questions of guilt, goodness and sacrifice from one of ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Vinland

    by George Mackay Brown ...
    In his fourth novel, George Mackay Brown takes us to an Orkney torn between its Viking past and its Christian future.Set in the early 11th Century, it tells the story of Ranald Sigmundson, who turns his back on a successful life of political intrigues and battles to design a ship to take him on a journey even greater than the first great voyage of his life, the one to Vinland. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • An Orkney Tapestry

    by George Mackay Brown ...
    First published in 1969, An Orkney Tapestry, George Mackay Brown's seminal work, is a unique look at Orkney through the eye of a poet. Originally commissioned by his publisher as an introduction to the Orkney Islands, Brown approached the writing from a unique perspective and went on to produce a rich fusion of ballad, folk tale, short story, drama and environmental writing. The book, written at ... Read more

    $10.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • An Orkney Tapestry

    by George MacKay Brown ...
    First published in 1969, An Orkney Tapestry, George Mackay Brown's seminal work, is a unique look at Orkney through the eye of a poet. Originally commissioned by his publisher as an introduction to the Orkney Islands, Brown approached the writing from a unique perspective and went on to produce a rich fusion of ballad, folk tale, short story, drama, and environmental writing. The book, written at ... Read more

    Was $12.99 USD Now $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Winter Tales

    by George Mackay Brown ...
    This collection celebrates winter and its festivals, light and darkness. It includes the tales of Lieutenant William Bligh at the port of Hamnavoe, an Edinburgh man rediscovering his roots in Shetland, Baltic-men shipwrecked on the Orkney coast, and Norse warriors setting out for the Holy Land.Through these stories George Mackay Brown explores the effects of new ways of thinking and working on the ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Masked Fisherman and Other Stories

    by George Mackay Brown ...
    An incident from the Viking period in the Northern Isles of Scotland inspired the story from which this collection takes its name. The stories range from the first century, to the 1920s - when the author was a child - to one which ends a hundred years from now. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Island of the Women and Other Stories

    by George Mackay Brown, G Mackay Brown ...
    In these six stories George Mackay Brown leads us back along the sweep of Orkney's past and beyond even that to the remoteness of fable. He reveals the timelessness of the lived moment and the constants of island life in the harvest of sea and land and the compulsions of voyage and homecoming. ... Read more

    Was $3.99 USD Now $2.99 USD

  • Beside the Ocean of Time

    by George Mackay Brown, George Mackay-Brown ...
    WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY AMY LIPTROTSHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 1994WINNER OF THE SALTIRE SOCIETY LITERARY AWARD 1994'Intimate, humorous, effortlessly combining the strands of history and folklore, the past and the present, this is a deceptively simple book, like a tale told to a child. But its echoes sound on unforgettably. A whole universe is created from a grain of Orkney sand' Independent< ... Read more

    Was $5.99 USD Now $2.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Greenvoe

    by George Mackay Brown ...
    The small Orcadian community of Greevoe has remained unchanged for generations. Now a shady government project, Operation Black Star, threatens to destroy the islander's way of life.George Mackay Brown's first novel describes a week in the life of the islanders as the come to terms with the repercussions of Operation Black Star in a masterful mix of prose and poetry from one of Scotland's greatest ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Portrait of Orkney

    by George Mackay Brown ...
    Portrait of Orkney is a personal account of a people, their history and their way of life, and of a landscape that has shaped them, and been shaped by them. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Christmas Stories

    by George Mackay Brown ...
    George Mackay Brown was born in Stromness, Orkney, on 17 October 1921. He died there in 1996. His many awards include a Society of Authors Travel Award, 1968; SAC Literature Prize, 1969; Katherine Mansfield Menton Short Story Prize, 1971; Hon. LLD from Dundee University, 1977; OBE, 1974; James Tait Black Memorial Prize 1987 (for The Golden Bird). He was nominated for the Booker Prize in 1994 for ... Read more

    $8.19 USD