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The Island of the Women and Other Stories

The Island of the Women and Other Stories

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.…

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Winter Tales

Winter Tales

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…

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The Wreck of the Archangel

The Wreck of the Archangel

This collection of the poetry of George Mackay Brown centres on the theme of journeys - including an ill-fated 19th century trip ending off the…

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Portrait of Orkney

Portrait of Orkney

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,…

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For the Islands I Sing

For the Islands I Sing

George Mackay Brown wrote this memoir in the years before his death in 1996, but he did not want it published while he lived. Here…

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