Novels based in Orkney, by authors from far and wide.
'Orkney is a masterpiece. It is seductive, beguiling, lureful - like a mermaid calling us into darker, deeper waters' - Scarlett Thomas Paperback. By Amy Sackville.
'A beautiful, heart-breaking tale of grief, love and the bond between sisters.' A fictional novel set at the Italian prisoner-of-war camp on a remote Orkney island. By Caroline Lea. Paperback.
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.
Set amidst the spectacular scenery of the Orkney Islands, Gabrielle Barnby's skilfully plotted first novel is a beautifully understated story of deception and forgiveness, love and redemption.
Orkney's Neolithic Epic - Skara - The Fourth Wave. Written and illustrated by Andrew Appleby. Paperback.
Novel set in Stromness, Ed Beech is one half of Beech Building Services. He's based in Bermondsey but no job's too small, no distance too great. So when he's asked to do some work on a house in Orkney, he... takes off. By Peter Benson. Paperback.
Can you imagine a different Scotland, a Scotland where women are commemorated in statues and streets and buildings - even in hills and valleys? This is a guidebook to that alternative nation, where the cave on staffa is named after Malvina rather than Fingal...The West Highland Way ends at Fort Mary. The Old Lady of Hoy is a prominent Orkney landmark.
A fire brought them together. Did Mary Ann make the right decision? This fictional saga unfolds from notes left by Mary Ann's son and covers a period spanning the 19th and 20th centuries at a time of great change in the world. By Gregor Lamb. Paperback.
Orkney's Neolithic Epic - Skara - The Third Wave. Written and illustrated by Andrew Appleby. Paperback.
Set in eleventh century Orkney. A young man, Thorfinn, launches a bid to be ruler of a united Scotland in a time of war. By Dorothy Dunnett