Scottish Short Stories 1976

Literature & Fiction

Naomi Mitchison

Gordon McGill

P.M. Hubbard

george-mackay-brown

Alan Jackson

Robert A. Crampsey

Carl MacDougall

Paul Mills

Janet Caird

Dobie Giles

Short Stories & Anthologies

Collins

Beside the Ocean of Time

Contemporary

Flamingo

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A time to keep and other stories

This is a superb collection of stories, focusing on light and darkness, winter and its festivals, by one of the greatest story-tellers of the twentieth century. Through a variety of characters from shipwrecked Scandinavians to an Edinburgh gentleman, George Mackay Brown looks at the impact of new ways of thinking on the traditional way of life of Orkney.

Winter Tales

<p>Greenvoe, the tight-knit community on the Orcadian island of Hellya, has existed unchanged for generations. However, a sinister military/industrial project, Operation Black Star, requires the island for unspecified purposes and threatens the islanders' way of life. In this, his first novel (1972), George Mackay Brown recreates a week in the life of the island community as they come to terms with the destructiveness of Operation Black Star. A whole host of characters - The Skarf, failed fishermen and Marxist historian; Ivan Westray, boatman and dallier; pious creeler Samuel Whaness; drunken fishermen Bert Kerston; earth-mother Alice Voar, and meths-drinker Timmy Folster - are vividly brought to life in this sparkling mixture of prose and poetry.</p>

Greenvoe

Penguin??Books

Witch, and other stories (The Heritage of literature series)

Longman

A Calendar of Love

Triad/Panther

Winterfold (Phoenix Living Poets)

Chatto&Windus

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 Bonhoeffer, murdered by the Nazis during World War II. A unique exploration of the eternal questions of guilt, goodness and personal sacrifice.

Magnus: A novel

Genre Fiction

The Hogarth Press Ltd.

Short stories steeped in the life and traditions of Orkney.

Hawkfall and other stories

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