George MacKay Brown

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  • Bibliography:
    15 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1990
  • Latest Book:
    October 2021
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Book List in Order: 15 titles

  • Masked Fisherman

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  • Magnus

    This is the story of the saintly Earl Magnus of Orkney who walked calmly, knowingly and completely unarmed to a terrible death at the hands of his cousin Hakon Paulson. Even the hardened Vikings who were at the fateful meeting in 1116 turned away in ...

  • 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, danger, fortune and poverty. He's stared down angry ...

  • Hawkfall: And Other Stories

    This collection of stories demonstrates the full range of George Mackay Brown's literary talent. All of these sharply-etched fables deal with his perennial themes - love, violence, death and rebirth - and are set in an Orcadian world that spans myth ...

  • Greenvoe

    A Time to Keep

    First published in 1969, "A Time to Keep" has a vast cast of characters drawn from Orkney's past and present. The stories offer a range of emotions and incidents, exploring how the new and old collide and crash in a community as deeply rooted as Orkn...

  • The Island of the Women

    "The Island of the Women" is George Mackay Brown's posthumously published collection of short stories, released in 1998, two years after the author's death. Like his previous collections, "A Time to Keep" and "A Calendar of Love", this volume explore...

  • Winter Tales



  • A Calendar of Love

    In this, George Mackay Brown’s first collection of short stories, the themes he would develop over his career are set out â€" an obsession with his home Orkney, its dark and violent Viking past, the cycle of the seasons, and the struggle of its inh...

  • The Golden Bird

    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 ...

  • Time in a Red Coat

  • A Winter Feast

    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 Mansfield Menton Short Story Prize, 1971; Hon. LLD fr...

  • Simple Fire

  • Christmas Stories

    Christmas Stories gathers together some of the previously unpublished winter themed and Christmas stories that Mackay Brown either published separately in newspapers, or included in limited edition book printings, together with some of his previously...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

George MacKay Brown has published 15 books.

George MacKay Brown does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Christmas Stories, was published in October 2021.

The first book by George MacKay Brown, Masked Fisherman, was published in January 1990.

No. George MacKay Brown does not write books in series.
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