Kirsteen Mc Cue is Professor of Scottish Literature & Song Culture and Co-Director of the Centre for Robert Burns Studies at the University of Glasgow. She has published widely on song culture and is co-editor with Pam Perkins of Women's Travel Writings in Scotland (Taylor & Francis, 2016). She teaches an undergraduate course called 'Scottish Journeys', featuring An Orkney Tapestry.
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George Mackay Brown: Six Lives of Fankle the Cat
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: lives of adventure, dange …
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George Mackay Brown & George Mackay-Brown: Beside the Ocean of Time
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. In his day-dreams h …
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George Mackay Brown: Masked Fisherman and Other Stories
An incident from the Viking period in the Northern Isles of Scotland inspired the story from which this collection takes its name. The stories range from the first century, to the 1920s – when the au …
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George Mackay Brown & George Mackay Brown: Wreck of the Archangel
This collection of the poetry of George Mackay Brown centres on the theme of journeys – including an ill-fated 19th century trip ending off the Orkney island of Westray, from which the book takes its …
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George Mackay Brown: Calendar of Love
The author’s beloved Orkney is brought vividly to life in this classic collection, peopled with crofters, fishermen, ferrymen and tinkers. History plays a part too, for Norse and Scottish legend are …
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George Mackay Brown & George Mackay-Brow: Following A Lark
A country boy creeps unwillingly to school on a lark-filled summer morning. Norse crusaders, preparing to sail on Earl Rognvald’s crusade in 1151 break into the burial chamber at Maeshowe seeking tre …
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George Mackay Brown & George Mackay Brown: For the Islands I Sing
George Mackay Brown wrote this memoir in the years before his death in 1996, but he did not want it published while he lived. Here we see the author’s simple, bardic honesty turned on himself.In part …
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George Mackay Brown: Travellers
These unknown and sometimes unexpected poems by the Orcadian master have all his characteristic simplicity and power.In these poems readers will find new ideas previously unexplored, but they will al …
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George Mackay Brown: Magnus
This profound and poetic novel has been described as George Mackay Brown’s most innovative work. He recounts the tale of the murder of the Earl of Orkney in the 12th century and links it to the story …
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George Mackay Brown: Greenvoe
The small Orcadian community of Greevoe has remained unchanged for generations. Now a shady government project, Operation Black Star, threatens to destroy the islander’s way of life. George Mackay Br …
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George Mackay Brown: Christmas Stories
George Mackay Brown was born in Stromness, Orkney, on 17 October 1921. He died there in 1996. His many awards include a Society of Authors Travel Award, 1968; SAC Literature Prize, 1969; Katherine Ma …
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George Mackay Brown: An Orkney Tapestry
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 as an introduction …
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George Mackay Brown: Carve the Runes
In this new Selected Poems, Kathleen Jamie explores the multi-faceted world of George Mackay Brown’s Orkney, the poet’s lifelong home and inspiration. George Mackay Brown’s concerns were the ancestra …
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George Mackay Brown: Simple Fire
George Mackay Brown was a master of the short story form and produced a steady stream of short fiction collections, starting with A Calendar of Love (1967) and include A Time to Keep (1969) and Hawkf …
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