Fiction, folklore and poetry set in, or about, Orkney.
Subcategories
Novels from local authors from Orkney or Orkney-based.
Novels based in Orkney, by authors from far and wide.
Poets from, and inspired by, Orkney.
Explore the rich folklore and mythology of Orkney.
Being Traits of Old Orkney Life. Written partly in Orkney Dialect. By Walter Traill Dennison. Transcription and translations by Eddie Sinclair and illustrations by Cassie Sinclair. Hardback.
A collection of nursery rhymes from Orkney. Compiled by Margaret T Flaws. Hardback.
By Myra Shearer. This collection of poems was written over a period of many years. They have been divided into two sections; 1. Miscellaneous poems of various topics and 2. Poems dedicated to the many pet cats I have homed and loved (written after they died). Paperback booklet.
Ten writers from the Orkney Voices group staged a show at the 2022 St Magnus Festival exploring the Orkney witch trials and surrounding events and culture. By Orkney Voices. Paperback booklet.
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.
'Orkney is a masterpiece. It is seductive, beguiling, lureful - like a mermaid calling us into darker, deeper waters' - Scarlett Thomas Paperback. By Amy Sackville.
An anthology of Scottish Island Poems. In Other Worlds editor Stewart Conn has sought poems to set readers' hearts racing through a sharpening of memory or in opening new vistas and evoking new worlds and states of mind from the Orkney and Shetlands to the Hebridies, to Mull and Iona, Arran and Ailsa Craig and more. Edited by Stewart Conn. Paperback.
From the dawn of the world to the twilight of the gods, this is a thrilling, vivid retelling of the Norse myths from the award-winning, bestselling Neil Gaiman. Paperback.
'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.