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Maggie Fergusson
One of the most highly acclaimed biographies of 2006 – now published in paperback
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Alison Gray
George Mackay Brown, the poet, novelist and dramatist, is seen by some as not just Orkney’s, but Britain’s best twentieth-century poet - widely praised by Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney and…
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Ron Ferguson
George Mackay Brown is one of the 20th century’s finest writers. This biography sweeps us along on an enriching literary and spiritual journey..Draws on unpublished letters, conversations with the enigmatic…
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Brian Murray,Ed. Archie Bevan
The poems of one of Scotland’s finest poets collected in a single volume.
Dr. Timothy C Baker
In this book Timothy C. Baker situates George Mackay Brown’s work within a broad literary and philosophical context to articulate how his novels engage with the question of community.
Rowena Murray,Brian Murray
Charting the development of Brown’s ideas and style, this book offers a study of the poet and writer’s work taken as a whole. Including comparative studies of his key works…
Linden Bicket
This timely book places Brown s literary vision in a larger frame of reference beyond Scotland, while identifying the special place Brown occupies as a Scottish Catholic writer.
This timely book places Brown’s literary vision in a larger frame of reference beyond Scotland, while identifying the special place Brown occupies as a Scottish Catholic writer.
Sabine Schmid
This volume assesses the literary stature of George Mackay Brown by contextualising his prose and his poetry within twentieth-century British and European literary practices and traditions of thought. Challenging the…
Joanna Ramsey
This tender and personal memoir by the poet Joanna Ramsey of George Mackay Brown gives an account of some aspects of the last eight years of his life in Stromness…
Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt/M., New York, Wien. This volume assesses the literary stature of George Mackay Brown by contextualising his prose and his poetry within twentieth-century British and European…
SCOTNOTES booklets are a series of study guides to major Scottish writers and texts frequently used within literature courses, aimed at senior secondary school pupils and students in further education.
George Mackay Brown
A collection of original Christmas Cards sent every year by George Mackay Brown
‘The First Wash of Spring’ collects some of George Mackay Brown’s lyrical and independent-minded musings of those subjects that took his interest.
Originally published: Edinburgh: G. Wright, 1979.
A selection of 300 weekly diary columns written for The Orcadian from 1979 to 1991. Rockpools and daffodils come into these short essays fairly frequently - fragments of the sea…
Set in the Orkneys on the fictitious island of Norday, a young poet daydreams the history of the island and its people. He travels back in time to Viking adventures…
First published in 1973 by the Hogarth Press, Magnus is George Mackay Brown’s tour de force - his most poetic and innovative book.
A young princess wanders through history with an ivory flute and a bag of coins, healing those who have been crippled or afflicted by battle. Her aim is to slay…
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…
Lore and legend, the elemental pull of the sea and the land, the sweetness of the early religion and the darker, more ancient rites, weave through this exquisite celebration of…
George Mackay Brown wrote this memoir in the years before his death in 1996, offering a simple, bardic honesty turned on himself.
Christmas Stories gathers together all the short stories that he wrote each Christmas for The Herald and/or The Tablet during the 1970s and early 80’s. Some have been published in…
Fankle tells Jenny the stories of his different lives with pirates, in ancient Egypt and even with the Empress of China.
Beyond the Swelkie is a collection of poetry and prose in English, Scots and Gaelic celebrating the centenary of George Mackay Brown. Its contributors are based in Orkney and across…
James Maitland
In 1966 the Livingston Ecumenical Experiment was launched in West Lothian. This book describes the origins of the ecumenical movement, the early years in Livingston, and the close co-operation of…
Greenvoe, the community on the Orkney 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…
In this new Selected Poems , Kathleen Jamie explores the multi-faceted world of George Mackay Brown's Orkney, the poet's lifelong home and inspiration.
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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…
Re-issue of George Mackay Brown’s first book of poems with a new introduction by Kathleen Jamie. Black and white illustrations by Julia Sorrell.
This is the first volume in a series begun by Isobel Murray and Bob Tait in 1984, and finished in 2008 Authors covered in other volumes include: 2. Iain Banks…
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 and a celebration of Orkney’s people…
Passion Partners is based on a postgraduate study on Gerard Manley Hopkins by the Orcadian writer George Mackay Brown at Edinburgh University in the 1960s that has only recently become…
From the "Pied Beauty" of the "Greenfields Kirk" to the "Theological Blades," the illuminated threnody of the Hopkins-Mackay Brown partnership takes us on a journey deep into the Fornaldars?gur of…
