A crofter’s son living on the remote island of Norday escapes into the limitless world of his imagination, in George Mackay Brown’s lyrical saga
George Mackay Brown
George Mackay Brown was one of the 20th century’s most distinguished and original writers
His birthplace, and lifelong inspiration, was Stromness in Orkney. In 1941 he was diagnosed with pulmonary tuberculosis and lived an increasingly reclusive life on the island, but he produced a regular stream of publications from 1954 onwards. These included A Calendar of Love (1967), A Time to Keep (1969), Greenvoe (1972), Hawkfall (1974), and, notably, Beside the Ocean of Time (1994), which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the Saltire Book of the Year.
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