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Author: Miranda Barnes Publisher: EndeavorMedia.ORIM ISBN: 1839010711 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 169
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“[A] lovely, gentle romance wrapped in a mystery” set on Scotland’s Orkney Islands from the author of The Time of the Flood (Dear Author). Freda Nicholson was always an aloof and mysterious character within her family. So much so, that Emma Mason knows nothing of this distant great-aunt and neither do her relatives. This is all about to change when Freda dies and leaves her home, Broch House, to Emma. Mystified, Emma travels to the northernmost stretches of the United Kingdom, to the Orkney Islands, so she can get her aunt’s property back into shape and sell it. Upon her arrival, Emma sets to find out some information about her long-lost aunt, hoping to learn why Freda left Broch House to her, of all the relatives, and why a woman of ninety was living in such a large house by herself. As Emma delves into her aunt’s life, she becomes increasingly charmed by the ancient and untouched landscape—and by wildlife photographer Gregor McEwan, the local who helps her piece together parts of the puzzle. The closer Emma gets to unraveling the truth about her mysterious aunt, the harder it will be to forget Orkney . . . and the man who has helped her the most. Praise for Miranda Barnes “Another well told story in compact novella length.” —Dear Author (starred review) on The Stranger Next Door
Author: Miranda Barnes Publisher: EndeavorMedia.ORIM ISBN: 1839010711 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 169
Book Description
“[A] lovely, gentle romance wrapped in a mystery” set on Scotland’s Orkney Islands from the author of The Time of the Flood (Dear Author). Freda Nicholson was always an aloof and mysterious character within her family. So much so, that Emma Mason knows nothing of this distant great-aunt and neither do her relatives. This is all about to change when Freda dies and leaves her home, Broch House, to Emma. Mystified, Emma travels to the northernmost stretches of the United Kingdom, to the Orkney Islands, so she can get her aunt’s property back into shape and sell it. Upon her arrival, Emma sets to find out some information about her long-lost aunt, hoping to learn why Freda left Broch House to her, of all the relatives, and why a woman of ninety was living in such a large house by herself. As Emma delves into her aunt’s life, she becomes increasingly charmed by the ancient and untouched landscape—and by wildlife photographer Gregor McEwan, the local who helps her piece together parts of the puzzle. The closer Emma gets to unraveling the truth about her mysterious aunt, the harder it will be to forget Orkney . . . and the man who has helped her the most. Praise for Miranda Barnes “Another well told story in compact novella length.” —Dear Author (starred review) on The Stranger Next Door
Author: Amy Sackville Publisher: Catapult ISBN: 1619022087 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 146
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“A haunting novel” about sex and obsession, set off the coast of Scotland and “full of otherworldly emotion and strange impulses” (Marie Claire). A professor marries his prize student, a woman forty years his junior, and at her request, he takes her to the sea for their honeymoon. His life’s work is a book about enchantment–narratives in literature, most of them involving strange girls and women—but soon he finds himself distracted by his own enchantment with his new white–haired young wife. They travel to the Orkney Islands, the ancient Mesolithic and Neolithic site north of the Scottish coast, a barren place of extraordinary beauty known as “the Seal Islands.” And as the days of their honeymoon pass, his desire and his constant, yearning contemplation become his normality. His mysterious bride becomes his entire universe. He is consumed . . . From the author of The Still Point, a winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize, this is a novel that “will appeal to literature aficionados: a Lolita–esque love, a romance born out of academia, and folklore come to life” (Booklist). “What begins as a familiar, almost fairytale–like narrative ends as something more fragmented, unsettling, and odd . . . Providing a brooding, bruised, ever–changing backdrop to all this is Orkney, the book’s most compelling character of all. In a tribute to Virginia Woolf’s experimental masterpiece, The Waves, the sea in Orkney functions as a kind of rhythmic talisman, its ebb and flow mirrored in the actions, ideas, and themes of the book. More than anything, Sackville’s Orkney is a breathtaking place in the most literal of senses.” —The Scotsman
Author: Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 9780140443837 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 260
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Written around AD 1200 by an unnamed Icelandic author, the Orkneyinga Saga is an intriguing fusion of myth, legend and history. The only medieval chronicle to have Orkney as the central place of action, it tells of an era when the islands were still part of the Viking world, beginning with their conquest by the kings of Norway in the ninth century. The saga describes the subsequent history of the Earldom of Orkney and the adventures of great Norsemen such as Sigurd the Powerful, St Magnus the Martyr and Hrolf, the conqueror of Normandy. Savagely powerful and poetic, this is a fascinating depiction of an age of brutal battles, murder, sorcery and bitter family feuds. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Author: Tom Muir Publisher: The History Press ISBN: 0750955333 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 226
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The Orkney Islands are a place of mystery and magic, where the past and the present meet, ancient standing stones walk and burial mounds are the home of the trows. Orkney Folk Tales walks the reader across invisible islands that are home to fin folk and mermaids, and seals that are often far more than they appear to be. Here Orkney witches raise storms and predict the outcome of battles, ghosts seek revenge and the Devil sits in the rafters of St Magnus Cathedral, taking notes! Using ancient tales told by the firesides of the Picts and Vikings, storyteller Tom Muir takes the reader on a magical journey where he reveals how the islands were created from the teeth of a monster, how a giant built lochs and hills in his greed for fertile land, and how the waves are controlled by the hand of a goddess.
Author: Margot Wadley Publisher: Minotaur Books ISBN: 1429982012 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 210
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Winner of the Malice Domestice Award for Best First Traditional Mystery Novel In Northern Scotland The Gripping Beast introduces readers to a land full of ancient history and modern day intrigue. Orkney Island was first inhabited by the Picts and then the Vikings and the residents now believe that witches live among them. Margot Wadley uses the dramatic background to debut her heroine, Isabel Garth, a young American woman who has come to the island to illustrate her deceased father's notebooks. As soon as Isabel steps off the ferry she is accosted by a beautiful young woman who warns her to leave. Andrew, a young boy she met on the ferry, proudly announces that the woman, Thora, is a witch. Isabel doesn't know what to think and as she continues her vacation she starts to feel that maybe Thora was right--maybe she is in danger. She is puzzled by the behavior of two men who seem to be following her and by the rash of accidents that are plaguing her. Then, while out sketching one day, Isabel finds Thora's body--apparently murdered. In a dramatic climax, a life is lost, a life is saved, and the treasure at the root of all the violence disappears forever.
Author: Clare Carson Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1784080934 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 362
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All families have secrets. But some have more secrets than others. Jim is a brilliant raconteur whose stories get taller with each glass of whisky. His daughter Sam thinks it's time she found out the truth about her dad. On holiday in Orkney, Sam spies on Jim as he travels across the island. What has he hidden in the abandoned watchtower? Who is he meeting in the stone circle at dusk? And why is he suddenly obsessed with Norse myths? As Sam is drawn into Jim's shadowy world, she begins to realise that pursuing the truth is not as simple as it seems... Set against the harsh beauty of the remote Scottish islands of Orkney, inspired by the author's own childhood, this is a gripping first novel from an astonishing new talent.
Author: George Mackay Brown Publisher: Polygon ISBN: 9781846974809 Category : Orkney (Scotland) Languages : en Pages : 304
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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 to the Orkney Islands, Brown approached the writing from a unique perspective and went on to produce a rich fusion of ballad, folk tale, short story, drama and environmental writing. The book, written at an early stage in the author's career, explores themes that appear in his later work and was a landmark in Brown's development as a writer. Above all, it is a celebration of Orkney's people, language and history. This edition reproduces Sylvia Wishart's beautiful illustrations, commissioned for the original hardback.Made available again for the first time in over 40 years, this new edition sits alongside Nan Shepherd's The Living Mountain as an important precursor of environmental writing by the likes of Kathleen Jamie, Robert Macfarlane, Malachy Tallack and, most recently, Amy Liptrot.
Author: Doug Johnstone Publisher: Faber & Faber ISBN: 0571330878 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 236
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An adrenaline-charged thriller from the Kindle-bestselling author of Gone Again and Hit and Run. 'An unnerving tale of what happens to ordinary lives when the wheels come off.' VAL MCDERMID 'A haunting, unforgettable page-turner that ticks every excellence box in crime writing.' ALANNA KNIGHT Sitting in the departure lounge of Kirkwall Airport, Finn Sullivan just wants to get off Orkney. But then he meets the mysterious and dangerous Maddie Pierce, stepping in to save her from some unwanted attention, and his life is changed forever. Set against the brutal, unforgiving landscape of Orkney, CRASH LAND is a psychological thriller steeped in guilt, shame, lust, deception and murder.
Author: Philip Paris Publisher: Black & White Publishing ISBN: 1845026144 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 330
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Orkney's Italian Chapel was built by Italian POWs held on the island during the Second World War. In the sixty-five years since it was built it has become an enduring symbol of peace and hope around the world. The story of who built the chapel and how it came into existence and survived against all the odds is both fascinating and inspiring. Author Philip Paris's extensive research into the creation of the Italian Chapel has uncovered many new facts, and this comprehensive new book is the definitive account of the chapel and those who built it. It is a book that has waited to be written for sixty-five years.
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