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  • Beside the Ocean of Time

    by George Mackay Brown, George Mackay-Brown ...
    WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY AMY LIPTROTSHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 1994WINNER OF THE SALTIRE SOCIETY LITERARY AWARD 1994'Intimate, humorous, effortlessly combining the strands of history and folklore, the past and the present, this is a deceptively simple book, like a tale told to a child. But its echoes sound on unforgettably. A whole universe is created from a grain of Orkney sand' Independent< ... Read more

    Was $9.99 CAD Now $4.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Greenvoe

    by George Mackay Brown ...
    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 Brown's first novel describes a week in the life of the islanders as the come to terms with the repercussions of Operation Black Star in a masterful mix of prose and poetry from one of Scotland's greatest ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Magnus

    by George Mackay Brown ...
    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 of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German theologian imprisoned and executed by the Nazis during World War Two. A fascinating meditation on the eternal questions of guilt, goodness and sacrifice from one of ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Beside the Ocean of Time

    by George Mackay-Brown, George Mackay Brown ...
    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 he relives the history of this island people, travelling back in time to join Viking adventurers at the court of the Byzantine Emperor in Constantinople, then accompanying a Falstaffian knight to the ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Six Lives of Fankle the Cat

    by George Mackay Brown ...
    Series series Classic Kelpies
    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 empress and leapt onto the moon. Fankle tells Jenny tales of his former lives -- with the king of ... Read more

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  • Following A Lark

    by George Mackay Brown, George Mackay-Brow ...
    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 treasure, and cut runes in its massive stones. And the famous Iceland poet Thorbjorn leaves his farm to join the group of poets whose lyrics stud like gems that famous pilgrimage. The ancient northern ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • The Great Book of Witchcraft

    Trials, Demonology, Folklore, and Gothic Tales of Magic, Persecution, and Social Panic

    by Howard Williams, Frederick George Lee, Walter Scott, Jules Michelet, M. Schele de Vere, John Ashton, William Godwin, W. H. Davenport Adams, Charles Mackay, George Moir, Margaret Murray, St. John D. Seymour, John G. Campbell, John Maxwell Wood, Bram Stoker, E. Lynn Linton, Wilhelm Meinhold, Cotton Mather, Increase Mather, Charles Wentworth Upham, M. V. B. Perley, James Thacher, William P. Upham, Samuel Roberts Wells, John M. Taylor, Allen Putnam ...
    Translated by Jane Wilde, Lucie Duff-Gordon, Lionel James Trotter ...
    The Great Book of Witchcraft gathers a capacious archive of superstition, persecution, folklore, theology, and Gothic imagination. Its selections range from clerical and legal inquiry to antiquarian description, historical narrative, ethnographic speculation, and supernatural fiction, revealing "witchcraft" as a changing cultural category rather than a single belief. Accounts of Salem and European ... Read more

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  • WITCHCRAFT & MAGIC - Ultimate Collection

    Salem Trials, European Folklore, Demonology, and Gothic Tales of the Supernatural

    by Cotton Mather, William Godwin, Howard Williams, Frederick George Lee, Walter Scott, Jules Michelet, M. Schele de Vere, John Ashton, W. H. Davenport Adams, Charles Mackay, George Moir, Margaret Murray, St. John D. Seymour, John G. Campbell, John Maxwell Wood, Bram Stoker, E. Lynn Linton, Wilhelm Meinhold, Increase Mather, Charles Wentworth Upham, M. V. B. Perley, James Thacher, William P. Upham, Samuel Roberts Wells, John M. Taylor, Allen Putnam ...
    Translated by Jane Wilde, Lucie Duff-Gordon, Lionel James Trotter ...
    WITCHCRAFT & MAGIC - Ultimate Collection surveys the shifting meanings of sorcery, superstition, demonology, folk belief, and occult inquiry across several centuries. Combining trial narratives, historical studies, theological polemic, antiquarian scholarship, fiction, and cultural commentary, it reveals witchcraft as both a social accusation and a durable imaginative resource. Accounts of Salem ... Read more

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  • An Orkney Tapestry

    by George Mackay Brown ...
    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 ... Read more

    $10.89 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Winter Tales

    by George Mackay Brown ...
    This collection celebrates winter and its festivals, light and darkness. It includes the tales of Lieutenant William Bligh at the port of Hamnavoe, an Edinburgh man rediscovering his roots in Shetland, Baltic-men shipwrecked on the Orkney coast, and Norse warriors setting out for the Holy Land.Through these stories George Mackay Brown explores the effects of new ways of thinking and working on the ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • The History of Witchcraft in Europe

    Darkness & Sorcery Collection: Lives of the Necromancers, The Witch Mania, Magic and Witchcraft, Glimpses of the Supernatural, Witch Stories…

    by John Ashton, William Godwin, Howard Williams, Frederick George Lee, Walter Scott, Jules Michelet, M. Schele de Vere, W. H. Davenport Adams, Charles Mackay, George Moir, Margaret Murray, St. John D. Seymour, John G. Campbell, John Maxwell Wood, Bram Stoker, E. Lynn Linton, Wilhelm Meinhold ...
    Translated by Jane Wilde, Lucie Duff-Gordon, Lionel James Trotter ...
    The History of Witchcraft in Europe' is a compelling anthology that traverses the murky waters of witchcraft's past through a diverse array of literary styles. This collection encapsulates a wide-ranging chronicle from medieval superstitions and the horrors of the witch hunts to the Romantic reinterpretation of witch folklore within a modern scholarly framework. The anthology highlights not only ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • An Orkney Tapestry

    by George MacKay Brown ...
    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 ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus