Novels from local authors from Orkney or Orkney-based.
A Neolithic whodunit. The first in the Marna Mystery Series. By B.K. Bryce. Book 2 available here
Tales of Orkney life created and related by John Brooke to his two young children, Nicholas and Catherine, on the long winter nights during his time as doctor to the Island of Shapinsay. (1994-2000). By John Brooke. Paperback.
Orkney - At the edge of darkness and light. By Gabrielle Barnby. Paperback.
Inventive, imaginative, page-turning, full of lyrical images and unexpected turns in the plot. The engaging story of three memorable characters and of unexpected love. By Peter Benson. Paperback. Author of The Stromness Dinner.
Astrid is returning home from art school on Mars, looking for inspiration. Darling is fleeing a life that never fit, searching for somewhere to hide. They meet on Deep Wheel Orcadia, a distant space station struggling for survival as the pace of change threatens to leave the community behind. A science-fiction verse-novel written in the Orkney dialect. By...
The first full survey of literary writing from and around the Orkney Islands and charts the development of this distinctively Orcadian strand within Scottish literature and shows how the archipelago, rather than the nation, can indeed be the defining locus of a compact and vibrant literary tradition. Paperback. By Simon W. Hall.
A Novel of The Scottish Independence Referendum. The year is 2037 and the world is plagued by drought, war, vast migrations of people from the arid lands and resultant social and economic meltdown... By Jim Hewitson.
By Barbara Stevenson. This collection features brand new stories, as well as "Where the Ocean Meets the Sky" and "The One-armed Bandit", finalists of the contest Beyond Realities I and II. Paperback.