All about Orkney Life, people and places - then and now.
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Dialect and Language.
Fascinating glimpses of the links and tales of connections between Orkney and Australia. By Frank Foden. Paperback.
An Orkney family reunited after 200 years separated by distance and culture. By Kim Twatt. Paperback booklet.
Life, Death and Magic in the Islands of Orkney. A new history of the Orkney Islands that delves deep into island politics, folk beliefs and community memory on the geographical edge of Britain. By Peter Marshall. Hardback.
An autobiography covering the six years Chris and his wife spent in Orkney in the 1980s. This volume follows him through days on large ships and then getting trapped in the rat race in London. With his family, he escapes to the Orkney and Shetland Islands and pioneers new ferry services. By Chris Marrow. Paperback.
Stronsay tales of shipwrecks and strandings. By Ian Cooper. Paperback.
A photographic and written experience of the Puffins time ashore on the island of Stronsay. By Bill Hodgson. Paperback.
In the first half of the 19th century, thousands of women and girls were employed throughout Orkney plaiting straw. 'The Strawplaiters of Orkney' reveals the forgotten history of the working lives of women and girls in the islands. By Fiona Grahame. Paperback.
Selected works of 'Countrywoman' Bessie Skea. George Mackay Brown Fellowship. Paperback.
Knight of Baháʼu'lláh to the Orkney Islands. By Dr Keith Munro. Paperback.
A biography of Captain Cromarty (hailing from South Ronaldsay, Orkney), and his extraordinary life as mariner, pioneer settler, farmer, harbour pilot, navigator and explorer and respected citizen in colonial New South Wales. By Leslie Kilmartin. Paperback.
..sets out the context and issues that make the Fair Isle case-study such a compelling one, and attempts to capture and convey what drives this community's determination to protect Fair Isle waters. By Nick J Riddiford and Kerri Whiteside. Paperback booklet.