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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 Ska
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 twelfth-century story of the saintly Earl Magnus of Orkneys brutal murder at the hands of his cousin Hakon Paulso
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-f
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