Orkney Fiction
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Around The Orkney Peat-Fires
Around the Orkney Peat-Fires is packed with easy-to-read short stories, once told around blazing fires on dark, 'coorse' Orcadian nights before the invention of television.
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Beside The Ocean Of Time 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 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 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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Electric Brae: A Modern Romance 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 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 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 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 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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'Keeping The Sources Pure': The Making Of George Mackay Brown Sabine Schmid
Sabine Schmid assesses the literary stature of George Mackay Brown by contextualising his prose and his poetry within 20th century British and European literary practices and traditions of thought.
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Magnus 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 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 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 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 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 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 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'.
