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[He] finds more diversity of subject and mood in these islands than most writers would see in a city street ... He is a precise, poetic and dazzling writer. - Guardian

A brilliant writer ... he combines great imagination, ... with a firm rooting in reality and a deep understanding of humanity. Kate Grimond. - Spectator

George MacKay Brown was born in Orkney in 1921 and died there in 1996. His The Golden Bird was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Book Prize in 1988, and in 1994 Beside the Ocean of Time was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and judged Scottish Book of the Year by the Saltire Society.

Celia; a time to keep; a treading of grapes; Icarus; the story teller; the wireless set; the five of spades; the whaler's return; the bright spade; tartan; a carrier of stones; the eye of the hurricane.