Beside the Ocean of Time by George Mackay Brown
Set in the Orkneys on the fictitious island of Norday, a young poet daydreams the history of the island and its people. He travels back in time to Viking adventures at the court of the Byzantine Emperor in Constantinople. Part of the 1995 Scottish Book Fortnight promotion.
George MacKay Brown was born in Stromness in the Orkney Islands in 1921. He studied at Newbattle Abbey under Edwin Muir and read English at Edinburgh University. He has published many books including plays, poems, novels and collections of short stories. Edwin Muir described his work as possessing ‘a strangeness and magic rare anywhere in literature today’. George Mackay Brown has seldom left Orkney since he completed his academic studies, and the imagery and history of the islands has been the inspiration for all his work. His novel Beside the Ocean of Time was shortlisted for the 1994 Booker Prize.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780006548621 |
| ISBN 10 | 0006548628 |
| Title | Beside the Ocean of Time |
| Author | George Mackay Brown |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding type | Paperback |
| Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Year published | 1995-08-07 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for Booker Prize for Fiction 1994 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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