Orkney Fiction

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    Beside The Ocean Of Time - Paperback - George Mackay Brown
    Shortlisted for the 1994 Booker Prize, 'Beside the Ocean of Time' mixes myth and reality in an Orkney setting.
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    Bring Deeps - Hardback - Elizabeth Arthur
    On their first meeting, Emrys and Sebastian fall powerfully, fatally in love. Their affair is intense and deeply sexual, but darkened by the secrets they keep from one another. On Orkney, with the fog-shrouded megaliths as a backdrop, the affair of kindred souls plays out to its tragic conclusion.
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    A Calendar Of Love - Paperback - George Mackay Brown
    Set against the harsh background of Orkney, this collection of stories tells of fishermen, crofters, farmers and tinkers and how they live out their lives. The author succeeds in writing in a style that takes the reader into the realm of the mystical.
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    The Chapel At The Edge Of The World - Paperback - Kirsten McKenzie
    Emilio and Rosa are childhood sweethearts, engaged to be married. But it is 1942 and the war has taken Emilio far from Italy, to a tiny Orkney island where he is a POW. Rosa must wait for him to return and help her mother run the family hotel on the shores of Lake Como, in Italy.
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    Electric Brae: A Modern Romance - Paperback - Andrew Greig
    Electric Brae deals with passionate love, obsession, loyalty and betrayal. It is about Scotland now and then, whisky and cocaine, rhythm and blues, friends and lovers. Like the Electric Brae itself, it quietly subverts our assumptions.
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    George Mackay Brown's Greenvoe - Paperback - Alan MacGillivray; Association for Scottish Literary Studies
    The 'Scotnotes' series is a collection of study guides on major Scottish writers and literary texts. This volume looks at George Mackay Brown's 'Greenvoe'.
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    Greenvoe - Paperback - George Mackay Brown
    Greenvoe, the community on the Orkney Island of Hellya, has existed unchanged for generations. George Mackay Brown has recreated a week in its life, mixing history with personality in a sparkling mixture of prose and poetry.
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    Hawkfall And Other Stories - Paperback - George Mackay Brown
    This collection of stories demonstrates the full range of George Mackay Brown's literary talent. All of these sharply-etched fables deal with his perennial themes - love, violence, death and rebirth - and are set in an Orcadian world that spans myth and reality, past and present.
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    In Another Light - Paperback - Andrew Greig
    In the early 1930s, an ambitious young Scotsman sets out on the long sea voyage to Penang, eager to take up his post running a maternity hospital in the colony. 70 years later forty-something engineer Edward Mackay, while recuperating on Orkney, begins to unravel the story of a man he thought he knew - his father.
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    The Italian Chapel - Paperback - Philip Paris
    'The Italian Chapel' is a story of forbidden love, lifelong friendships torn apart, despair and hope, set against the backdrop of the creation of a symbol that is known around the world.
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    Magnus - Paperback - George Mackay Brown
    George Mackay Brown turns the story of the saintly Earl Magnus of Orkney into a much wider and more transfiguring metaphor for goodness within a society that is corrupt and debased. Magnus is one of the writer's most important novels.
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    An Orkney Murder - Paperback - Alanna Knight
    A long awaited holiday for Rose McQuinn, visiting her sister Emily in Orkney, takes on an unexpected and sinister twist when an archaeological dig for the grave of a 13th century princess, the Maid of Norway, unearths a corpse of a more recent date.
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    Six Lives Of Fankle The Cat - Paperback - George Mackay Brown
    Jenny lives in Orkney and acquires a black cat through deceit. She names him Fankle, and he is very special cat. Fankle can talk and he tells Jenny about his incredible previous cat's lives.
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    Song Of The Selkies - Paperback - Cathie Dunsford
    The Edinburgh Festival brings together artists from around the world. Cowrie is among them, telling stories & giving readings. But even Cowrie can't anticipate the chemistry that will begin when a group of storytellers sets off to the Orkney Islands.
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    A Time To Keep - Paperback - George Mackay Brown
    Set against the harsh background of Orkney, this collection of stories tells of fishermen, crofters, farmers and tinkers and how they live out their lives. The author succeeds in writing in a style that takes the reader into the realm of the mystical.
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    Venus As A Boy - Paperback - Luke Sutherland
    In a room in Soho, a man is turning gold. His flesh, his organs, even his eyes, are being transformed by some human alchemy. And the path to this curious and frightening predicament has been filled with incredible moments. It began on South Ronaldsay amongst the seals and ancient ruins of Orkney.
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    Vinland - Paperback - George Mackay Brown
    'Vinland' follows the turbulent life of a boy born into the Dark Ages, when Orkney was torn between its Viking past and its Christian future. From the author of 'Beside the Ocean of Time'.
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    Winter Tales - Paperback - George Mackay Brown
    A collection of stories, focusing on light and darkness, winter and its festivals. Through a variety of characters from shipwrecked Scandinavians to an Edinburgh gentleman, George Mackay Brown looks at the impact of ways of thinking on the traditional way of life of Orkney.
Last modified Tuesday 21 July 2009