The Orcadian Bookshop - Orkney Book Reviews

The number of local interest books and publications relating to the Orkney Islands continues to grow each month.

Where possible, The Orcadian reviews these new publications, thus keeping our readers up to date with the titles available.

New reviews will appear in this section - the most recent titles are shown at the top of the list.

Please note: As this is an archive of book reviews, it may still list titles that are out of print or unavailable.

Orkney from Old Photographs by Gordon Wright
George Mackay Brown, The Life - Maggie Fergusson.
The Collected Poems of George Mackay Brown - Edited by Archie Beaven and Brian Murray
A Celebration of Sunrise at the Tomb of the Eagles - Ilse Babette Barthelmess
Interrogation of Silence: The Writings of George Mackay Brown - Rowena Murray and Brian Murray.
Trace your Orkney Ancestors - James Irvine.
The Family of Clouston - J. Storer Clouston
Fine That - an Orkney Island Life - Julia Welstead
'The Shore' and roond aboot - Dave Tinch
Trawler: A Journey Through the North Atlantic - Redmon O' Hanlon
The Orkney Poll Taxes of the 1690s - compiled by James Irvine
A Creek to a Haven:Fifty years of the Orkney Fishermen's Society - compiled by Capt R. L. Sutherland and Stewart Crichton
The Cruise of the Betsey & Rambles of a Geologist - by Hugh Miller
Sea Change - edited by Jane Downes and Anna Ritchie
Orkney Family Names - by Gregor Lamb
Will your Anchor Hold? - By Capt Robbie Sutherland
Fae Quoy to Castle - The Buildings of Westray
The Papar in the North Atlantic: Environment and History - by Barbara E. Crawford
Delving into the history of Papa Stour - Edited by Barbara E. Crawford
St Magnus Festival: A Celebration - Compiled by Pam Beasant
Orkney and the Sea - Edited and compiled by Kate Towsey
BEAline to the Islands - by Iain Hutchison
A Jar of Seed-Corn, Portrait of an Island Farm - by Jocelyn Rendall
The New History of Orkney - by William P. L.Thomson
Reminiscences of the Cathedral Church of St Magnus since 1846 by an Eye Witness
A Brief History of the Orkneys - by J. N. Sinclair
Arthur Dearness and the Mermaid and other Orkney Plays - by Bryce Wilson
In My Small Corner: Memories of an Orkney Childhood - by Margaret Aitken
Scar - A Viking Boat Burial in Sanday, Orkney - by Olwyn Owen and Magnar Dalland
The Bard of Ballarat - Read and hear Geordie Corrigal Live
The Little General and the Rousay Crofters - by W.P.L. Thomson
A More Enterprising Spirit: The Parish and People of Holm in 18th Century Orkney - by Sheena Wenham
Costa Heritage - by Alistair Marwick
Not Born to be Drowned - by W. S. Hewison
The Autobiography of Samuel Laing of Papdale - edited by Dr R. P. Fereday
The Islands of Orkney - by Liv Kjorsvik Schei and Gunnie Moberg
The Orcadian's Guide to the 20th Century - complied by Howard Hazell
Travellers - by George Mackay Brown
The Unknown Cathedral - edited by Steve Callaghan and Bryce Wilson