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  For the Islands I Sing

  Paperback | Pub: 27 Jun 2019

  £8.99

  George’s memory is inseparable from Orkney, where he was born the youngest child of a poor family and which he rarely left. His mother was a beautiful woman who spoke only Gaelic and his father was a wit, mimic and singer, who also doubled as...

• The Golden Bird

  Paperback | Pub: 27 Jun 2019

  £8.99

  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 island life, little changed since Viking times, was beginning to be threatened. The...