Winter Tales

Name: Winter Tales
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by George Mackay Brown

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Winter Tales

by George Mackay Brown

1 rating • 1 review • 1 shelved

This is a superb collection of stories, focusing on light and darkness, winter and its festivals, by one of the greatest story-tellers of the twentieth century. Through a variety of characters from shipwrecked Scandinavians to an Edinburgh gentleman, George Mackay Brown looks at the impact of new ways of thinking on the traditional way of life of Orkney.

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ISBN13 9781904598879
Publish Date 11 October 2006 (first published 14 September 1995)
Publish Status Out of Print
Out of Print 29 March 2021
Publish Country GB
Publisher Birlinn General
Imprint Polygon An Imprint of Birlinn Limited

Format Paperback
Pages 240
Language English

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This wonderful collection of winter-themed short stories is one that sat unread on my shelf for too long. The stories, all set in Orkney, deal with a variety of topics, including change and traditions, many infused with spiritual and biblical themes, sometimes subtle, other times not so much. This is probably not GMB's finest work, but well worth the read nonetheless.