Hawkfall - Softcover

Incantatory but down-to-earth, profound and often funny --Sunday Telegraph

At his best, Brown is Brown is a prose Hopkins, concerned with inscape, landscape turned inside-out, the rhythms informing the shape of things we see. --The Guardian

What illuminates and pleases, apart from the speech of his characters and the poetic imagery, is the insight into people. --The Scotsman

George Mackay Brown is one of the major Scottish literary figures of the twentieth century. A prolific poet and novelist, he took much of his inspiration from the myths and landscape of Orkney, and also from his deep Catholic faith. His collection of short stories 'A Time to Keep' (1971) won the Katherine Mansfield Mentor short story prize and his novel 'Beside the Ocean of Time' was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1994. He died in 1996. Andrew Greig (b. 1951) is one of the leading Scottish writers of his generation. He has published six collections of poetry, including 'Men on Ice' and 'The Order of the Day' (Bloodaxe). He has written two books on his expeditions to the Himalayas and four novels, including 'Electric Brae' and 'That Summer'. He divides his time between Orkney and Sheffield.