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Greenvoe
George Mackay Brown

ISBN10: 190459817X ISBN13: 9781904598176
Publisher: Birlinn General Polygon An Imprint of Birlinn Limited
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 01 Jul 2004
Greenvoe is a tight-knit community on the Orcadian island of Hellya, unchanged for generations. A sinister military/industrial project, Operation Black Star, requires the island for unspecified purposes and threatens the islanders' way of life. More

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Vinland
George Mackay Brown

ISBN10: 1904598331 ISBN13: 9781904598336
Publisher: Birlinn General Polygon An Imprint of Birlinn Limited
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 01 May 2005
Vinland follows the turbulent life of Ranald Sigmundson, a young boy born into the Dark Ages when Orkney was torn between its Viking past and its Christian future. Struggling to understand the conflicts of his home, Ranald seeks adventure and... More

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ISBN: 9780006548621 - Beside the Ocean of Time

Beside the Ocean of Time
George Mackay Brown

ISBN10: 0006548628 ISBN13: 9780006548621
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Flamingo
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 07 Aug 1995
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 Viking adventures at the court of the Byzantine Emperor in Constantinople. Part of the 1995 Scottish... More

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The Sun's Net
George Mackay Brown

ISBN10: 1846971519 ISBN13: 9781846971518
Publisher: Birlinn General Polygon An Imprint of Birlinn Limited
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 01 Apr 2010
A collection of short stories celebrating life and love. This 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 soldier captured at Bannockburn sees the... More

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The Golden Bird
George Mackay Brown

ISBN10: 1846970857 ISBN13: 9781846970856
Publisher: Birlinn General Polygon An Imprint of Birlinn Limited
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 04 Sep 2008
Features a collection of two stories. 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 the pattern of island life, little changed since Viking... More

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Magnus
George Mackay Brown

ISBN10: 1846970628 ISBN13: 9781846970627
Publisher: Birlinn General Polygon An Imprint of Birlinn Limited
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 15 Jun 2008
Links the twelfth-century story of the saintly Earl Magnus of Orkney's brutal murder at the hands of his cousin Hakon Paulson, to that of the philosopher Dietrich Bonhoeffer, murdered by the Nazis during World War II. This book explores the... More

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Winter Tales
George Mackay Brown

ISBN10: 1904598870 ISBN13: 9781904598879
Publisher: Birlinn General Polygon An Imprint of Birlinn Limited
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 14 Sep 2006
A superb collection of stories by one of the greatest storytellers of the twentieth century. Through a variety of characters, from shipwrecked Scandinavians to an Edinburgh gentleman. George Mackay Brown looks at the impact of new ways of thinking... More

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ISBN: 9781904598909 - The Island of the Women

The Island of the Women
George Mackay Brown

ISBN10: 1904598900 ISBN13: 9781904598909
Publisher: Birlinn General Polygon An Imprint of Birlinn Limited
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 06 Jun 2006
A collection of short stories, exploring the author's concerns with history, spirituality, legend and storytelling. "The Island of the Women" is George Mackay Brown's posthumously published collection of short stories, released in 1998... More

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ISBN: 9781846970832 - For the Islands I Sing

For the Islands I Sing
George Mackay Brown

ISBN10: 1846970830 ISBN13: 9781846970832
Publisher: Birlinn General Polygon An Imprint of Birlinn Limited
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 30 Jun 2008
George's memory is inseparable from Orkney, where he was born the youngest child of a poor family. Tuberculosis framed George's early life and kept him in a kind of limbo. He discovered alcohol which gave him insights into the workings of the mind. More

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ISBN: 9780719568848 - The Collected Poems of George MacKay Brown

The Collected Poems of George MacKay Brown
George Mackay Brown Murray, Brian Bevan, Archie

ISBN10: 0719568846 ISBN13: 9780719568848
Publisher: John Murray Publishers JOHN MURRAY
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 01 Oct 2006
George Mackay Brown is recognized as one of Scotland's greatest 20th-century lyric poets. His work is integral to the flowering of Scottish literature during the last 50 years. Admired by many fellow poets, including Seamus Heaney and Douglas... More

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