Letters from Hamnavoe
- 240 pages
- 9 hours of reading
Light wear to the covers. Shipped from the UK in recyclable card packaging.
George Mackay Brown Books
October 17, 1921 – April 13, 1996
George Mackay Brown, a poet, novelist, and dramatist, dedicated his life to living in and documenting the Orkney Isles. His work deeply explores the life, history, and traditions that shape Orkney's distinct cultural identity. A significant theme in his writing is the preservation of Orkney's heritage against the tide of modernity and the erosion of myth and ritual. Through his unique voice, Brown offers readers a profound connection to a landscape and history intrinsically linked to ancient rhythms and enduring stories.
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.
An Orkney Tapestry
- 256 pages
- 9 hours of reading
First published in 1969, An Orkney Tapestry, George Mackay Brown's seminal work, is a unique look at Orkney through the eye of a poet and a celebration of Orkney's people, language and history. Unavailable for many years, this new edition has a specially commissioned Introduction written by Kirsteen McCue and Linden Bicket.
Under Brinkie's Brae
- 192 pages
- 7 hours of reading
Light wear to the covers. Shipped from the UK in recyclable card packaging.
Portrait of Orkney
- 100 pages
- 4 hours of reading
A vivid portrait of the island that inspired his work from one of Scotland's greatest poets.
In this, the first new selection of George Mackay Brown’s poetry for over 25 years, Kathleen Jamie explores the multi-faceted world of the poet’s Orkney, his lifelong home and inspiration. George Mackay Brown’s concerns were the ancestral world, the communalities of work, the fables and religious stories which he saw as underpinning mortal lives. Brown believed from the outset that poets had a social role and his true task was to fulfil that role. Art was sprung from the community, and his role as poet to know that community, to sing its stories.
Celtic First Names
- 240 pages
- 9 hours of reading
The Island of the Women and Other Stories
- 309 pages
- 11 hours of reading
Mythical tales by a Scottish poet. They range from the title story, which is on the love of a seal for a woman, to a story about the guardian of a stone that protects an island from invaders.
Six Lives of Fankle the Cat
- 128 pages
- 5 hours of reading
Fankle tells Jenny the stories of his different lives with pirates, in ancient Egypt and even with the Empress of China.
