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Orkney Tapestry
Av George Mackay Brown, Linden Bicket m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
156 kr
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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. Originally commissioned by his publisher as an introduction to the Orkney Islands, Brown approached the writing from a unique perspective and went on to produce a …
Six Lives of Fankle the Cat
Häftad, 2012
122 kr
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When the shopkeeper gives Jenny a skinny, black kitten she has no idea who she has adopted. Fankle is no ordinary cat. The fiercely clever feline has lived six lives so far: lives of adventure, danger, fortune and poverty. He's stared down angry pirates, started a blood feud, won a war, advised an …
Beside the Ocean of Time
Av George Mackay Brown, George Mackay-Brown
Häftad, 2025
143 kr
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WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY AMY LIPTROTSHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 1994WINNER OF THE SALTIRE SOCIETY LITERARY AWARD 1994'Intimate, humorous, effortlessly combining the strands of history and folklore, the past and the present, this is a deceptively simple book, like a tale told to a child. But its …
Beside the Ocean of Time
Häftad, 1995
164 kr
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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 Book Fortnight promotion.
Vinland
Häftad, 2008
216 kr
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Vinland, George Mackay Brown’s fourth novel, follows the turbulent life of Ranald Sigmunson, a young boy born into the Dark Ages, when Orkney was torn between its Viking past and its Christian future. Lore and legend, the elemental pull of the sea and the land, the sweetness of the early religion …
Beside the Ocean of Time
Av George Mackay-Brown, George Mackay Brown
E-bok, 2025
40 kr
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WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY AMY LIPTROTSHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 1994WINNER OF THE SALTIRE SOCIETY LITERARY AWARD 1994'Intimate, humorous, effortlessly combining the strands of history and folklore, the past and the present, this is a deceptively simple book, like a tale told to a child. But its …
Beside the Ocean of Time
Av George Mackay-Brown, George Mackay Brown
E-bok, 2014
45 kr
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In this novel set on the fictitious island of Norday in the Orkneys, George Mackay Brown beckons us into the imaginary world of the young Thorfinn Ragnarson, the son of a crofter. In his day-dreams he relives the history of this island people, travelling back in time to join Viking adventurers at …
Greenvoe
Häftad, 2019
136 kr
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Greenvoe, the tight-knit community on the Orcadian island of Hellya, has existed unchanged for generations, but Operation Black Star requires the island for unspecified purposes and threatens the islanders’ way of life. A whole host of characters - The Skarf, failed fishermen and Marxist historian; …
Magnus
Häftad, 2019
134 kr
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First published in 1973 by the Hogarth Press, Magnus is George Mackay Brown’s tour de force – his most poetic and innovative book. He 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 …
Time in a Red Coat
Häftad, 2019
124 kr
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Bestowed at birth with two gifts, an ivory flute and a bag of silver and gold coins, a young girl wanders through time.She is destined to pursue the dragon of war and before he consumes the world in flames, subdue him not with violence but music. Moving across the battlefields from East to West, …
Vinland
Häftad, 2019
124 kr
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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 knowledge across the seas, his journeys taking him as …
Beside the Ocean of Time
Häftad, 2019
137 kr
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Thorfinn Ragnarson is the daydreaming son of a tenant farmer, avoiding both work and school despite the best efforts of family, friends and neighbours. Instead, the boy dreams up elaborate historical fantasies of himself as a Viking traveller, a freedom-fighter for Bonnie Prince Charlie and the …
Carve the Runes
Selected Poems
Häftad, 2021
176 kr
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In this new Selected Poems, Kathleen Jamie explores the multi-faceted world of George Mackay Brown’s Orkney, the poet’s 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 …
Simple Fire
Selected Short Stories
Häftad, 2021
172 kr
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George Mackay Brown was a master of the short story form and produced a steady stream of short fiction collections, starting with A Calendar of Love (1967) and include A Time to Keep (1969) and Hawkfall (1974), as well as his poetry collections and novels. In this selection, edited and introduced …
Masked Fisherman and Other Stories
E-bok, 2014
45 kr
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An incident from the Viking period in the Northern Isles of Scotland inspired the story from which this collection takes its name. The stories range from the first century, to the 1920s - when the author was a child - to one which ends a hundred years from now.
Portrait of Orkney
E-bok, 2014
50 kr
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Portrait of O rkney is a personal account of a people, their history and their way of life, and of a landscape that has shaped them, and been shaped by them.
Wreck of the Archangel
E-bok, 2014
45 kr
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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 Orkney island of Westray, from which the book takes its title.
Selected Poems 1954 - 1992
E-bok, 2014
45 kr
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A compilation of poetry written by George Mackay Brown over a 30-year period, which represents his favourite work. These poems reflect the richness of the Orkney Island community where he lives - a community permeated with its past and still close to the natural world.
Vinland
E-bok, 2014
45 kr
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In his fourth novel, George Mackay Brown takes us to an Orkney torn between its Viking past and its Christian future. Set in the early 11th Century, it tells the story of Ranald Sigmundson, who turns his back on a successful life of political intrigues and battles to design a ship to take him on a …
Calendar of Love
E-bok, 2014
45 kr
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The author''s beloved Orkney is brought vividly to life in this classic collection, peopled with crofters, fishermen, ferrymen and tinkers. History plays a part too, for Norse and Scottish legend are revived in tales of witch trials, priest hunts and Viking raids, all endowed with the stark beauty …
Winter Tales
E-bok, 2014
45 kr
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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 man rediscovering his roots in Shetland, Baltic-men shipwrecked on the Orkney coast, and Norse warriors setting out for the Holy Land. …
Time to Keep
E-bok, 2014
45 kr
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The second collection of stories published by George Mackay Brown, this volume includes 12 stories arising from both ancient and modern life on the island of Orkney.
Following A Lark
Av George Mackay-Brow, George Mackay Brown
E-bok, 2014
51 kr
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A country boy creeps unwillingly to school on a lark-filled summer morning. Norse crusaders, preparing to sail on Earl Rognvald''s crusade in 1151 break into the burial chamber at Maeshowe seeking treasure, and cut runes in its massive stones. And the famous Iceland poet Thorbjorn leaves his farm …
For the Islands I Sing
E-bok, 2014
44 kr
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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 we see the author''s simple, bardic honesty turned on himself. In particular, he looks at Orkney, where he was born the youngest child in a poor family, and which he …
Island of the Women and Other Stories
Av G Mackay Brown, George Mackay Brown
E-bok, 2014
45 kr
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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. He reveals the timelessness of the lived moment and the constants of island life in the harvest of sea and land and the compulsions of voyage and homecoming.
Northern Lights
Av G Mackay Brown, George Mackay Brown
E-bok, 2014
45 kr
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Many of the places, people, legends and seasons that formed Brown''s vision and work are presented here, with poems appearing among the prose. Included are memoirs of his parents, friends and passing strangers with legends and stories of the places.
Travellers
E-bok, 2014
45 kr
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These unknown and sometimes unexpected poems by the Orcadian master have all his characteristic simplicity and power. In these poems readers will find new ideas previously unexplored, but they will also find those qualities that made George Mackay Brown different from anyone else.
Magnus
E-bok, 2014
45 kr
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This profound and poetic novel has been described as George Mackay Brown''s most innovative work. He recounts the tale of the murder of the Earl of Orkney in the 12th century and links it to the story of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German theologian imprisoned and executed by the Nazis during World War …
Hawkfall
E-bok, 2014
45 kr
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This collection of sharply-etched fables, dealing with death, legend, love and violence create an Orcadian world that spanning myth and reality - a world set firmly between the sea and the sky - a collection of islands which are life-sustaining and soul refreshing.
Greenvoe
E-bok, 2014
45 kr
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The small Orcadian community of Greevoe has remained unchanged for generations. Now a shady government project, Operation Black Star, threatens to destroy the islander''s way of life. George Mackay Brown''s first novel describes a week in the life of the islanders as the come to terms with the …
