Enigmatic – mysterious – intriguing: George Mackay Brown was a notoriously private man. He rarely left his native Orkney, and yet became one of the 20th century’s finest poets a...
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George Mackay Brown was one of Scotland's greatest twentieth-century writers, but in person a bundle of paradoxes. He had a wide international reputation, but hardly left his na...
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 Hea...
George Mackay Brown and the Philosophy of Community
Timothy C Baker · ISBN 9780748638123
Julkaistu 2009 Kieli englanti sidottu
George Mackay Brown has long been recognised as one of the most original and important Scottish writers of the twentieth century. This book is the first comprehensive account of...
George Mackay Brown's Greenvoe
A. MacGillivray · ISBN 9780948877087
Julkaistu 1998 Kieli englanti pokkari
Alan MacGillivray's SCOTNOTE study guide carefully traces Greenvoe's narrative threads and is an excellent resource for senior school pupils and students.
George Mackay Brown and the Scottish Catholic Imagination
Linden Bicket · ISBN 9781474411653
Julkaistu 2017 Kieli englanti sidottu
This lively new study is the very first book to offer an absorbing history of the uncharted territory that is Scottish Catholic fiction. For Scottish Catholic writers of the twe...
George Mackay Brown and the Scottish Catholic Imagination
Linden Bicket · ISBN 9781474445764
Julkaistu 2019 Kieli englanti nidottu
This lively new study is the very first book to offer an absorbing history of the uncharted territory that is Scottish Catholic fiction. For Scottish Catholic writers of the twe...
The Collected Poems of George Mackay Brown
Brian Murray; Ed. Archie Bevan · ISBN 9780719568848
Julkaistu 2006 Kieli englanti pokkari
George Mackay Brown is recognised as one of Scotland's greatest twentieth-century lyric poets. Admired by many fellow poets, including Seamus Heaney and Douglas Dunn, his poems...
Short Stories of George Mackay Brown
Linden Bicket · ISBN 9781906841225
Julkaistu 2014 Kieli englanti pokkari
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 studen...
Seasons Greetings From George
George Mackay Brown · ISBN 9781915530073
Julkaistu 2023 Kieli englanti sidottu
Beside the Ocean of Time
George Mackay Brown · ISBN 9780006548621
Julkaistu 1995 Kieli englanti pokkari
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 at the court...
Vinland, George Mackay Brown's fourth novel, follows the turbulent life of Ranald Sigmunson, a young boy born into the Dark Ages, when Orkney was torn between its Viking past an...
Six Lives of Fankle the Cat
George Mackay Brown · ISBN 9780863159824
Julkaistu 2012 Kieli englanti pokkari
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: liv...
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. Originally commissioned by his publisher a...
In the end Operation Black Star fails, but not before it has ruined the island; but the book ends on a note of hope as the islanders return to celebrate the ritual rebirth of He...
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 sain...
Vinland follows the turbulent life of Ranald Sigmundson, a young boy born into the Dark Ages when Orkney was torn between its Viking past and its Christian future. Struggling to...
Beside the Ocean of Time
George Mackay Brown · ISBN 9781846975103
Julkaistu 2019 Kieli englanti pokkari
In this beautiful and haunting novel, Brownâ??s lyrical descriptions and gift for local colour capture, as ever, the myth-drenched magic of his native islands. Shortlisted for t...