The Seed Beneath the Snow: Remembering George MacKay Brown (Ramsey Joanna)(Paperback)

The Seed Beneath the Snow: Remembering George MacKay Brown (Ramsey Joanna)(Paperback)

This tender and personal memoir by poet Joanna Ramsey gives an account of the last eight years in the life of George Mackay Brown, one of the greatest Scottish poets of the 20th century. It also provides a background to his poem A New Child: ECL 11 June 1993, ' which he wrote for Joanna's

Carve the Runes - Selected Poems (Brown George Mackay)(Paperback / softback)

Beside the Ocean of Time (Brown George Mackay)(Paperback / softback)

George MacKay Brown: The Life (Fergusson Maggie)(Paperback)

George Mackay Brown was one of Scotland s most prolific and acclaimed writers, but hewas also a handful of paradoxes. He holds a wide international reputation despite rarely leaving his native Orkney. He never married, but some of his most poignant letters and poems were written to Stella

For the Islands I Sing - An Autobiography (Brown George Mackay)(Paperback / softback)

Interrogation of Silence - The Writings of George Mackay Brown (Murray Rowena)(Paperback / softback)

Vinland (Brown George Mackay)(Paperback / softback)

Greenvoe (Brown George Mackay)(Paperback / softback)

Golden Bird - Two Orkney Stories (Brown George Mackay)(Paperback / softback)

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 Golden Bird tells the story of the slow decline of

Under Brinkie's Brae (Brown George Mackay)(Paperback / softback)

Letters from Hamnavoe (Brown George Mackay)(Paperback / softback)

Rockpools and daffodils (Brown George Mackay)(Paperback / softback)

Time in a Red Coat (Brown George Mackay)(Paperback / softback)

Simple Fire - Selected Short Stories (Brown George Mackay)(Paperback / softback)

George MacKay Brown and the Scottish Catholic Imagination (Bicket Linden)(Paperback)

This lively new study is the very first book to offer an absorbing history of the uncharted territory that is Scottish Catholic fiction. For Scottish Catholic writers of the twentieth century, faith was the key influence on both their artistic process and creative vision. By focusing on one of the

Six Lives of Fankle the Cat (MacKay Brown George)(Paperback)

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, danger, fortune and poverty. He's stared down angry pirates, started a blood feud, won a war, advised an

Short Stories of George Mackay Brown - (Scotnotes Study Guides) (Bicket Linden)(Paperback / softback)

Lonely Skier (Innes Hammond)(Paperback / softback)

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY STELLA RIMINGTONIt lies somewhere beneath the snow, high in the Dolomites: Nazi gold, tainted with the blood of murdered men. A tense battle of wits leads to an explosive finale in Innes' classic tale of revenge and deadly

Royal Affair - George III and his Troublesome Siblings (Tillyard Stella)(Paperback / softback)

The young George III was a poignant figure, humdrum on the surface yet turbulent beneath: hiding his own passions, he tried hard to be a father to his siblings and his

Evil Seed (Harris Joanne)(Paperback / softback)

It's never easy to face the fact that a man you once loved passionately has found the girl of his dreams, as Alice discovers when Joe introduces her to his new girlfriend. Then Alice finds an old diary and reads about two men and the mysterious woman who bewitched them both, buried in Grantchester

The Wanting Seed (Burgess Anthony)(Paperback)

Tristram Foxe and his wife, Beatrice-Joanna, live in their skyscraper world where official family limitation glorifies homosexuality. Eventually, their world is transformed into a chaos of cannibalistic dining-clubs, fantastic fertility rituals, and wars without anger. It is a novel both

Among the Wolves of Court: The Untold Story of Thomas and George Boleyn (MacKay Lauren)(Paperback)

The tragic story of Anne Boleyn has been retold over the centuries, yet two key figures in Anne's life-her father Thomas and brother George- are often relegated to the margins of the history of Henry VIII's turbulent reign. Well before Anne's coronation in 1533, Thomas was regarded as one of

Among the Wolves of Court - The Untold Story of Thomas and George Boleyn (Mackay Lauren (Independent Historian UK))(Pevná vazba)

Alone with the Horrors: The Great Short Fiction of Ramsey Campbell 1961-1991 (Campbell Ramsey)(Paperback)

Ramsey Campbell is perhaps the world's most honored author of horror fiction. He has won four World Fantasy Awards, ten British Fantasy Awards, three Bram Stoker Awards, and the Horror Writers' Association's Lifetime Achievement Award. Three decades into his career, Campbell paused to review his