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The latest Orkney books at The Orcadian Bookshop.
Join Orkney Uncovered Tour Guide Kinlay Francis on this hilarious virtual tour around the Orkney Islands and discover that not only are there some bonkers questions but some cracking answers too! By Kinlay Francis. Paperback.
Told by The Trow Maker. Book 1 in The Peedie Hands series. Paperback.
Tim Dean and Anne Bignall have devoted the last eight years to compiling The Wildlife of Orkney’s Coasts and Seas. Anne has created 64 plates depicting 11 different habitats and numerous additional illustrations. Over 500 species have been painted and described many of which sit within readily identifiable and sometimes iconic Orkney locations. By Tim...
A brand new suite of music arranged for fiddle with harmonies, bowing, ornaments and chords. Includes FREE Live Album download. By Jennifer Wrigley. A4 paperback booklet.
An Orkney Heritage Society Oral History Project. Tom Rendall, Annie Thuesen and Spencer Rosie. Foreword by Lord Wallace. Paperback.
The Story of the Isle of Sanday Knitters. By Sandra Towrie. Paperback.
Kirkwall evolved after the invading Norse established an earldom in Orkney... This fascinating insight has been gleaned from the Norse Sagas, and first-hand accounts preserved among the records of the Royal Burgh. Enjoy tales of an eccentric Sheriff, a riotous election, earls and bishops, smugglers and shop-keepers, slavers, ministers, pirates and much...
Ingrid has created and sold pictures. She has written and had her work published in a variety of places. But until now, she has never shown them together. This beautiful book presents her paintings and poetry side by side in all the intensely felt moods of Orkney. By Ingrid Grieve. Gloss soft bound.
Poems based on fieldwork by the University of Aberdeen's School of Biological Sciences researching seabird and marine mammal populations in Orkney and off the coast of North-East Scotland.
This calendar features photos of wildlife that Raymond has photographed in Orkney over the past year, including Orca, Grey Seal, Brown Hare and Redshank in some of the beautiful light we find throughout the year. The photo pages are A4 but opens to A3 with date boxes to write in.
2025 Bold Figure calendar with tearable pages for each month. 30x21cm
The earliest recorded Irvine in Orkney was a William de Irwyn in 1369. This book draws on copious contemporary records that survive in Edinburgh, Kirkwall and elsewhere, together with implications of genetic genealogy, to develop fourteen lineages of William's alleged descendants. By James M Irvine Soft cover