Beside the Ocean of Time by George Mackay Brown - ISBN: 9781399827188
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Island dreams unlock history, love, and a writer’s soul.

Beside the Ocean of Time

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  • Paperback

    240 pages

  • Release Date

    25 November 2025

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Summary

WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY AMY LIPTROT

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 1994

WINNER 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

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Book Details

ISBN-13:9781399827188
ISBN-10:1399827189
Author:George Mackay Brown, George Mackay-Brown
Publisher:John Murray Press
Imprint:John Murray Publishers Ltd
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:240
Release Date:25 November 2025
Weight:180g
Dimensions:196mm x 128mm x 20mm
About The Author

George Mackay Brown

George Mackay Brown was one of the greatest Scottish writers of the twentieth century. A prolific poet, admired by such fellow poets as Ted Hughes and Seamus Heaney, he was also an accomplished novelist and a master of the short story. He died at the age of 74 on 13 April 1996.

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