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George Mackay Brown's Greenvoe
Language: en
Pages: 70
Authors: Alan MacGillivray
Categories: Juvenile Nonfiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 1989 - Publisher: Association for Scottish Literary Studies (ASLS)

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Alan MacGillivray's SCOTNOTE study guide carefully traces Greenvoe's narrative threads and is an excellent resource for senior school pupils and students.
Greenvoe
Language: en
Pages: 243
Authors: George Mackay Brown
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004 - Publisher: Birlinn Publishers

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Greenvoe, the community on the Orkney Island of Hellya, has existed unchanged for generations. George Mackay Brown has recreated a week in its life, mixing hist
George Mackay Brown and the Philosophy of Community
Language: en
Pages: 192
Authors: Timothy C Baker
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-06-23 - Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

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In this book Timothy C. Baker situates George Mackay Brown's work within a broad literary and philosophical context to articulate how his novels engage with the
George Mackay Brown
Language: en
Pages: 328
Authors: Maggie Fergusson
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-06-21 - Publisher: John Murray

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George Mackay Brown was one of Scotland's greatest twentieth-century writers, but in person a bundle of paradoxes. He had a wide international reputation, but h
For the Islands I Sing
Language: en
Pages: 161
Authors: George Mackay Brown
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-01-23 - Publisher: John Murray

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George Mackay Brown wrote this memoir in the years before his death in 1996, but he did not want it published while he lived. Here we see the author's simple, b