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Hardcover:
9780750510905 | Large print edition (Magna Large Print Books, November 1, 1997), cover price $35.50 | About this edition: Winter and its festivals predominate in this collection of short stories by George Mackay Brown, who looks at the effect of new ways of thinking and working on the ancient patterns of Orkney life.
9780719554353 | John Murray Pubs Ltd, February 1, 1996, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: These stories celebrate winter and its festivals, in a northern setting.
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9781904598879 | Birlinn Ltd, December 30, 2006, cover price $10.00 | About this edition: This is a superb collection of stories, focusing on light and darkness, winter and its festivals, by one of the greatest story-tellers of the twentieth century.
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9781896209128 | Bayeux Arts Inc, March 1, 1996, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: In 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.
9781856952491 | Large print edition (Isis Large Print Books, February 1, 1996), cover price $32.50 | About this edition: Set in the Orkneys on the fictitious island of Norday, a young poet daydreams the history of the island and its people.
9780719553684 | Trafalgar Square, June 1, 1994, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: In 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.
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9781904598299 | Polygon, June 15, 2006, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Thorfinn Ragnarson is the daydreaming son of a tenant farmer, avoiding both work and school despite the best efforts of family, friends and neighbours.
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9780719551499 | John Murray Pubs Ltd, June 1, 1993, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: This novel of the North Atlantic in the Viking age tells the story of Ranald Sigmundson, who turns his back on a successful life of political intrigues and battles to design a ship to take him on a journey even greater than the first great voyage of his life, the one to Vinland.
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9781904598336 | Birlinn Ltd, October 30, 2005, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: This book takes the reader on a journey from Orkney, over to Norway, into Iceland and Ireland, recreating with historical accuracy the customs and landscapes of the time while bringing the age to life through a large cast of engaging characters.
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9781904598183 | Birlinn Ltd, April 30, 2005, cover price $12.95
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9780860098096 | Large print edition (G K Hall & Co, April 1, 1986), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Greenvoe, the tight-knit community on the Orcadian island of Hellya, has existed unchanged for generations.
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9781904598176 | Birlinn Ltd, November 30, 2004, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Greenvoe, the tight-knit community on the Orcadian island of Hellya, has existed unchanged for generations.
9780072434040, titled "Essentials of Psychology" | McGraw-Hill, July 1, 2001, cover price $53.44 | also contains Essentials of Psychology | About this edition: Lahey has built a superior reputation of student success through a sound pedagogical system.
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9780719560231 | Trafalgar Square, March 1, 2001, cover price $19.99 | About this edition: "Travellers" offers a new selection of George Mackay Brown's poems collected here for the first time and edited by Archie Bevan and Brian Murray.
Hardcover:
9780814909294 | Vanguard Pr, January 1, 1987, cover price $19.50 | About this edition: Twelve short stories set in the isolated Orkney Islands where life has changed very little over the years
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9780719560224 | John Murray Pubs Ltd, September 1, 2000, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: The second collection of stories published by George Mackay Brown, this volume includes 12 stories arising from both ancient and modern life on the island of Orkney.
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9780719560217 | John Murray Pubs Ltd, September 1, 2000, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: The first collection of stories published by George Mackay Brown, this volume includes 14 stories arising from both ancient and modern life on the island of Orkney.
Hardcover:
9780903065764 | Wright Gordon Pub Ltd, May 1, 1999, cover price $30.00
Hardcover:
9780719558696 | John Murray Pubs Ltd, May 1, 1998, cover price $27.00 | About this edition: These six stories lead back to Orkney's past and to fables.
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9780715207550 | St Andrew Pr, March 1, 1998, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: In 1966 the Livingston Ecumenical Experiment was launched by the induction of the Revd James Maitland, Church of Scotland, and the Revd Brian Hardy, Episcopal Church, to the new ecumenical charge of Livingston, West Lothian.
Hardcover:
9780719556289 | John Murray Pubs Ltd, February 1, 1998, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: George Mackay Brown wrote this memoir in the years before his death in 1996, offering a simple, bardic honesty turned on himself.
Paperback:
9780719558894 | John Murray Pubs Ltd, March 1, 1998, cover price $22.99
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9780948877087 | Assn for Scottish Literary Studies, January 10, 1998, cover price $9.20 | About this edition: George Mackay Brown's sparkling, fable-like novel Greenvoe depicts the sudden, destructive intrusion of brute modernity into a tight-knit and unchanging community, as witnessed by an eclectic host of local characters.
Hardcover:
9781896209005 | Bayeux Arts Inc, July 1, 1997, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Beautifully illustrated Homeric poems of love and longing by one of Scotland's greatest poets
Paperback:
9780719556203 | John Murray Pubs Ltd, December 1, 1996, cover price $19.99 | About this edition: This is a collection of poems from George Mackay Brown, the Orkney-based poet.
Product Description: This text offers a collection of poems by George Mackay Brown.
Paperback:
9780614208191 | Univ of Iowa Pr, October 1, 1996, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: This text offers a collection of poems by George Mackay Brown.
9780877455554 | Univ of Iowa Pr, October 1, 1996, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Poems describe life on a remote island off the coast of northern Scotland and discuss the seasons, rural life, and religious themes
In this title, a writer who is deeply rooted in the island of Orkney and his friend, a photographer who has lived amongst these islands for 20 years have brought their work together to create a personal evocation of the people and their way of life.
Hardcover:
9781900455077 | Gardners Books, June 1, 1996, cover price $35.20 | About this edition: In this title, a writer who is deeply rooted in the island of Orkney and his friend, a photographer who has lived amongst these islands for 20 years have brought their work together to create a personal evocation of the people and their way of life.
Paperback:
9781870314275 | North & South, January 1, 1996, cover price $8.00
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9781896209241 | Bayeux Arts Inc, July 1, 1995, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: This book represents one of the finest collection of poems by the great Scottish poet, George Mackay Brown, who died in 1996.
Product Description: An incident from the Viking period in the Northern Isles of Scotland inspired the story from which this collection takes its title. The stories range from the first century, to the 1920s - when the author was a child - to one which ends a hundred years from now.
Hardcover:
9780719547003 | John Murray Pubs Ltd, January 1, 1990, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: An incident from the Viking period in the Northern Isles of Scotland inspired the story from which this collection takes its title.
Paperback:
9780719545399 | John Murray Pubs Ltd, May 1, 1989, cover price $15.95
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