All about Orkney Life, people and places - then and now.
Subcategories
Dialect and Language.
Gavin Francis examines our collective fascination with islands. In hardback.
A Duty Clerk at 10 Downing Street, 1983 to 1985. By Orkney based writer Cameron Taylor. Paperback.
Following a rural school, it's teachers and its pupils. By Kathleen Keldie. Paperback.
Bill and Sylvia Dennison's stories of their travels and life aboard their coaster Elwick Bay.
Duncan Cameron Mackenzie's recollections of his post-war childhood on Burray.
Alison Gray has written No Separation first and foremost as a faith story, opening up the Catholicism of George Mackay Brown that hitherto has remained quiet, unexplored and not greatly understood.
Audio documentaries on life as it was on Fair Isle, on CD and mp3 Flash Drive.
Memories of a vibrant Rousay childhood in the 1920s and 40s. Enter the childhood world of Phebe Marwick, who grew up in the Wasbister district of Rousay in the inter-war years. Formerly 'Rousay Remembered', freshly updated with additional stories, photos and poetry. Paperback.
A memoir of art, family and mental health' from an Orkney based author. By Samantha Clark. Paperback.
Life in the Post Human Landscape. Exploring ghost towns, no man's lands, exclusion zones and islands including Swona, Orkney Islands and the islands in the Firth of Forth, Scotland. By Cal Flyn. Hardback,
An Oral History. Ann Marwick spent many hours in the 1980/90s chatting to folk in North Ronaldsay and learning about the dialect, customs and lifestyles of the island in a bygone age... she has now harvested the best bits into North Ronaldsay Voices. Paperback.