George Mackay Brown: An Appreciation

“There was once an island in the north, between two oceans.” In The Man on the Shore, Brown returns to his beloved Orkney in an unpublished short story showing him at his best. William Sharpton’s interview discussing influential elements and people dates from just before Brown’s death. Tributes from Stewart Conn, Margaret Tait, Esther Garke and Gerry Cambridge. New poems bring to life tinkers and fisherman as local characters. And a special ‘minding’ of Brown by story-teller Stanley Robertson, written as only Stanley can write.