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1. Beside the Ocean of Time
by George Mackay Brown
Set in the Orkneys on the fictitious island of Norday, a young poet daydreams the history of the island and its people. He travels back in time to ... More
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2. Magnus
by George Mackay Brown
First published in 1973 by the Hogarth Press, "Magnus" is George Mackay Brown's tour de force - his most poetic and innovative book. He links the ... More
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3. Greenvoe
by George Mackay Brown
A sinister military/industrial project. Operation Black Star, requires the island of Greenvoe for unspecified purposes and threatens the islanders' ... More
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4. Winter Tales
by George Mackay Brown
These stories celebrate winter and its festivals, in a northern setting. They encompass Lieutenant William Bligh at the port of Hamnavoe, an ... More
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5. Six Lives of Fankle the Cat
by George Mackay Brown
When the shopkeeper gives Jenny a skinny, black kitten she has no idea who she has adopted. Fankle is no ordinary cat. The fiercely clever feline has ... More
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6. The Masked Fisherman and Other Stories
by George Mackay Brown
An incident from the Viking period in the Northern Isles of Scotland inspired the title story of this remarkable collection of short stories. Mackay ... More
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7. The Golden Bird: Two Orkney Stories
by George MacKay Brown
These two long stories are set, like most of George Mackay Brown's work, in Orkney and in a period, the last quarter of the nineteenth century, when ... More
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8. Hawkfall
by George Mackay Brown
Collection of eleven sharply-etched fables deal with Brown's perennial themes--love, violence, death, and rebirth.
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9. Letters from Hamnavoe
by George Mackay Brown
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10. Rockpools & Daffodils
by George MacKay Brown
Much of George Mackay Brown's fiction and verse is based on his life in Orkney, especially his childhood.
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13. Vinland
by George Mackay Brown
List of all editionsVinland, George Mackay Brown's fourth novel, follows the turbulent life of Ranald Sigmunson, a young boy born into the Dark Ages, when Orkney was ... More
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15. Andrina and Other Stories
by George Mackay Brown
List of all editionsThis is an evocative and striking collection from the master of the short story form. The title story was dramatised for BBC television in the 1980s ... More
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16. Sun's Net
by George Mackay Brown
List of all editionsThis is a bewitching and atmospheric collection of short stories celebrating life and love: the world ripens as a baby stirs in its mother's womb; a ... More
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18. Northern Lights: A Poet's Sources
by George MacKay Brown
List of all editionsNorthern Lights is a collection of George Mackay Brown's writings on the places, people, and legends that formed his vision and his work. Throughout, ... More
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19. A Calendar of Love and Other Stories
by George Mackay Brown
List of all editionsThe author's first collection of short stories. The characters of these stories - the fishermen, the crofters, the farmers and the wild tinkers - ... More
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20. A Calendar of Love
by George Mackay Brown
List of all editionsIn this, George Mackay Brown's first collection of short stories, the themes he would develop over his career are set out - an obsession with his ... More
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21. A Time to Keep and Other Stories
by George Mackay Brown
List of all editionsThis is George Mackay Brown's second volume of short stories, first published in 1969. They tell of Orkney life - elemental tales of the fishermen, ... More
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22. The Wreck of the Archangel
by George Mackay Brown
List of all editionsThis collection of the poetry of George Mackay Brown, whose most recent work was a volume of short stories entitled The Masked Fisherman, centres on ... More
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23. The Island of the Women and Other Stories
by George Mackay Brown
List of all editionsIn 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. As always he ... More
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24. The Sea & the Tower
by George MacKay Brown, George MacKay Brown
List of all editionsBeautifully illustrated Homeric poems of love and longing by one of Scotland's greatest poets
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