Thorfinn Ragnarson is the daydreaming son of a tenant farmer, avoiding both work and school despite the best efforts of family, friends and neighbours. Instead, the boy dreams up elaborate historical fantasies of himself as a Viking traveller, a freedom-fighter for Bonnie Prince Charlie and the colleague of a Falstaffian knight who participates in the Battle of Bannockburn.

A Calendar of Love is George Mackay Brown’s first collection of short stories set in Orkney.

In this, his first novel (1972), George MacKay Brown recreates a week in the life of an island community as they come to terms with the destructiveness of a sinister military/industrial project, Operation Black Star.

This collection of eleven stories demonstrates the full range of George MacKay Brown’s literary talent.

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.

Northern Lights presents George Mackay Brown’s writings on many of the places, people, legends and seasons that formed his vision and work.

A Time to Keep is George Mackay Brown’s second volume of short stories inspired by both ancient and modern life on the island of Orkney.

Winter Tales is a superb collection of tender and compassionate tales, focussing on light and darkness, winter and its festivals, by one of the greatest story-tellers of the 20th century.