Author: George Mackay Brown

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 c...

Thorfinn Ragnarson is the daydreaming son of a tenant farmer, avoiding both work and school despite the best efforts of family, friends and neighbo...

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 pursu...

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 C...

Georges memory is inseparable from Orkney, where he was born the youngest child of a poor family and which he rarely left. His mother was a beautif...

First published in 1973 by the Hogarth Press, Magnus is George Mackay Browns tour de force his most poetic and innovative book. He links the twelf...

Greenvoe, the tight-knit community on the Orcadian island of Hellya, has existed unchanged for generations, but Operation Black Star requires the i...

These two long stories are set, like most of George Mackay Browns work, in Orkney and in a period, the last quarter of the nineteenth century, when...

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 h...