Astrid is returning home from art school on Mars, looking for inspiration. Darling is fleeing a life that never fit, searching for somewhere to hide. They meet on Deep Wheel Orcadia, a distant space station struggling for survival as the pace of change threatens to leave the community behind. A science-fiction verse-novel written in the Orkney dialect. By...
The first full survey of literary writing from and around the Orkney Islands and charts the development of this distinctively Orcadian strand within Scottish literature and shows how the archipelago, rather than the nation, can indeed be the defining locus of a compact and vibrant literary tradition. Paperback. By Simon W. Hall.
The Gruffalo translated into Orcadian Scots by Simon W. Hall. Paperback.
The Gruffalo's Bairn translated into Orcadian Scots by Simon W. Hall. Paperback.
This dictionary is based on a collection of Orkney dialect words and phrases brought together by the author in the 1980s, to which has been added Orkney Norn. The 3rd edition of the Wordbook, produced due to popular demand. By Gregor Lamb.
More comic tales in dialect from the pen of Gregor Lamb. Paperback.
A collection of more than forty articles by Gregor Lamb, covering language, history, folklore and placenames. Hardback.
A detailed account of Orkney dialect words and sayings, their origins and meanings. By Margaret Flaws and Gregor Lamb. New edition, paperback.
Discovering Orkney's forgotten writer Christina M. Costie. By Rgnhild Ljosland.
A compilation of the work of the distinguished Orcadian writer and folklorist, Ernest Walker Marwick. Volume 2 of 2. Hardback.