George MacKay Brown

• Jan-1990
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• 1993
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• Mar-1999
• / Suspense
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This is the story of the saintly Earl Magnus of Orkney who walked calmly, knowingly and completely unarmed to a terrible death at the hands of his cousin Hakon Paulson. Even the hardened Vikings who were at the fateful meeting in 1116 turned away in ...

• Jan-2002
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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 ...

• Aug-2004
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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 ...

• Nov-2004
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• Aug-2006
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"The Island of the Women" is George Mackay Brown's posthumously published collection of short stories, released in 1998, two years after the author's death. Like his previous collections, "A Time to Keep" and "A Calendar of Love", this volume explore...

• Dec-2006
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• Aug-2017
• / Literary
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In this, George Mackay Brown’s first collection of short stories, the themes he would develop over his career are set out â€" an obsession with his home Orkney, its dark and violent Viking past, the cycle of the seasons, and the struggle of its inh...

• Jun-2019
• / Literary
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These two long stories are set, like most of George Mackay Brown’s work, in Orkney and in a period, the last quarter of the nineteenth century, when the pattern of island life, little changed since Viking times, was beginning to be ...

• Jul-2019
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• Dec-2020
• / Literary
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George Mackay Brown was born in Stromness, Orkney, on 17 October 1921. He died there in 1996. His many awards include a Society of Authors Travel Award, 1968; SAC Literature Prize, 1969; Katherine Mansfield Menton Short Story Prize, 1971; Hon. LLD fr...

• Jun-2021
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• Oct-2021
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Christmas Stories gathers together some of the previously unpublished winter themed and Christmas stories that Mackay Brown either published separately in newspapers, or included in limited edition book printings, together with some of his previously...