{"title":"George Mackay Brown","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGeorge Mackay Brown\u003c\/strong\u003e crafts evocative tales steeped in the landscapes and histories of Orkney. His works blend \u003cem\u003egeneral fiction\u003c\/em\u003e with poetic insight, offering readers immersive narratives that explore community, memory, and the passage of time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith a unique voice that touches on \u003cem\u003ehistory\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003earts \u0026amp; culture\u003c\/em\u003e, Brown’s stories reveal the rhythms of island life and the enduring connection between people and place. Expect richly layered prose that honours tradition while evoking universal themes.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"simple-fire-by-george-mackay-brown-9781846975172","title":"Simple Fire","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGeorge Mackay Brown was a master of the short story form and produced a steady stream of short fiction collections, starting with \u003cem\u003eA Calendar of Love\u003c\/em\u003e (1967) and including \u003cem\u003eA Time to Keep\u003c\/em\u003e (1969) and \u003cem\u003eHawkfall\u003c\/em\u003e (1974), as well as his poetry collections and novels.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this selection, edited and introduced by Malachy Tallack, we explore the author's Orkney and the ups and downs of the crofters and fishermen there.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThese magical stories, drawn from ancient lore and modern life, strip life down to the essentials.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46714761871596,"sku":"9781846975172","price":34.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/16479173482845.jpg?v=1754367221"},{"product_id":"beside-the-ocean-of-time-by-george-mackay-brown-9781399827188","title":"Beside the Ocean of Time","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eWITH A NEW FOREWORD BY AMY LIPTROT\u003c\/b\u003e\n\n\u003cb\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 1994\u003c\/b\u003e\n\n\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE SALTIRE SOCIETY LITERARY AWARD 1994\u003c\/b\u003e\n\n\u003cb\u003e‘Intimate, humorous, effortlessly combining the strands of history and folklore, the past and the present, this is a deceptively simple book, like a tale told to a child. But its echoes sound on unforgettably. A whole universe is created from a grain of Orkney sand’ \u003ci\u003eIndependent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this novel set on the fictitious island of Norday in the Orkneys, George Mackay Brown beckons us into the imaginary world of the young Thorfinn Ragnarson, the son of a crofter. In his day-dreams he relives the history of this island people, travelling back in time to join Viking adventurers at the court of the Byzantine Emperor in Constantinople, then accompanying a Falstaffian knight to the battle of Bannockburn.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThorfinn wakes to the twentieth century and a community whose way of life, steeped in legend and tradition, has remained unchanged for centuries. But as the boy grows up – and falls in love with a vivacious and mysterious stranger – the transforming effect of modern civilisation brings momentous and irreversible changes to the island. During the Second World War, Thorfinn finds himself in a German prisoner-of-war camp, and it is here that he discovers his gifts as a writer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLong afterwards he returns, now a successful novelist, to a deserted and battle-scarred island. Searching for the peace and freedom of mind he had in abundance as a child, he finds instead something he didn't even know he was looking for.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGeorge Mackay Brown intertwines myth and reality to create a novel of deceptive simplicity. 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It is not written as a continuous historical narrative but as a pattern of history, legend, and folklore.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBeautifully illustrated throughout by Sylvia Wishart, a fellow Orcadian, the illustrations show what has been won and lost in Orkney over the centuries.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eChapters discuss modern Orkney; Rackwick, the development and decline of an island community, a microcosm of Orkney life; Vikings, a study of three great Vikings: Earl Sigurd, Saint Magnus and Martyr, and Earl Rognvald the Crusader; Poets, a ballad maker and Robert Rendall, an Orkney poet; Midwinter Music and Midsummer Music, two chapters on folklore and communal art and poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette New Zealand Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47000540807404,"sku":"9781846974809","price":24.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/16475543482845.jpg?v=1763282739"},{"product_id":"carve-the-runes-by-george-mackay-brown-9781846975165","title":"Carve the Runes","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this new \u003cem\u003eSelected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e, Kathleen Jamie explores the multi-faceted world of George Mackay Brown's Orkney, the poet's lifelong home and inspiration.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGeorge Mackay Brown's concerns were the ancestral world, the communalities of work, the fables and religious stories which he saw as underpinning mortal lives. Brown believed from the outset that poets had a social role and his true task was to fulfil that role. This is not the attitude of a shrinking violet, tentatively exploring his 'voice'. Art was sprung from the community, and his role as poet was to know that community, to sing its stories. But there was also room for introspection; the poet's task was simultaneously to 'interrogate silence'.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47595934941420,"sku":"9781846975165","price":32.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781846975165-carve-the-runes.jpg?v=1777911285"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/collections\/george-mackay-brown.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}