George Brown

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  • Bibliography:
    20 Books
  • First Book:
    November 1991
  • Latest Book:
    February 2023
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Book List in Order: 20 titles

  • Generous Jefferson Bartleby Jones Forman

    K-Gr 2-- In cloying verse, readers are introduced to Jeff; his two friends; his father; and his father's live-in friend, Joe. Jeff thinks he's lucky to have two dads, each of whom does special activities with him. Because his friends' fathers are bus...

  • Better Angel

    Written in 1933, this classic, touching story focuses on a young man's gay awakening in the years between the World Wars and became an instant underground classic. Kurt Gray is a shy, bookish boy growing up in small-town Michigan. Even at the age of ...

  • The Double Tenth

    Malaya, 1952 - The War of the Running Dogs. They shot the Chinese courier and took the documents he was carrying. Then they cut off his hands and rolled him into a shallow grave. Another act of barbary in a savage jungle war, another dead Commu...

  • Pinpoint

    France 1961. Operation Ponctuelle: the name given to top level assassinations of Gaullist Ministers. Two men lie in wait in a basement garage underneath the Boulevard St. Germain for the Minister of Special Affairs, their aim to kidnap their target a...

  • Sacrifice

    First there was Peter Wright - now the specter of another tell-all British Intelligence officer haunts the government. Greville Sixsmith, a once powerful intelligence executive, retires to Melbourne to write his memoirs, memoirs so potentially ex...

  • The Masked Fisherman and Other Stories

    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 year...

  • Beside the Ocean of Time

    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, travel...

  • A Calendar of Love

    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 ...

  • Greenvoe

    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 t...



  • Hawkfall

    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 s...

  • The Island of the Women and Other Stories

    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 a...

  • Magnus

    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 impris...

  • A Time to Keep

    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....

  • Vinland

    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 intrigu...

  • Winter Tales

    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...

  • D'Leaux, Mississippi

    People say they live in Delux, Rose complained. There is nothing delux about this place no matter how you spell it. It's Delow, Cecile McRae. Low, low, low. And, Delow is the dumbest place on earth. D'Leaux, Mississippi is a novel of manners and memo...

  • Sibyl Sue Blue Rosel

    Stop a murder, save two planets!Who she is: Sibyl Sue Blue, single mom, undercover detective, and damn good at her job.What she wants: to solve the mysterious benzale murders, prevent more teenage deaths, and maybe find her long-lost husband.How she'...

  • The Envoy

  • Ringmain



  • Who Killed Jerusalem?

    A budding cult classic that dramatically splits the reviewers. Which side will you be on?A seamless melding of the intricate plotting of Umberto Eco in The Name of the Rose; the side-splitting humor of John Kennedy Toole in A Confederacy of Dunces; a...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

George Brown has published 20 books.

George Brown does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Who Killed Jerusalem?, was published in February 2023.

The first book by George Brown, Generous Jefferson Bartleby Jones Forman, was published in November 1991.

No. George Brown does not write books in series.
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