A memoir of intense physical and personal experience, exploring how swimming with seals, gulls and orcas in the cold waters off Orkney provided an escape from a series of life crises and help to deal with intolerable loss. By Victoria Whitworth. Shortlisted for the PEN Ackerley Prize. Paperback.
And the eccentric Sheriff Thoms. How one man's disputed fortune saved a Cathedral from ruin. By Paul Sutherland.
Life in a 1950s School Hostel as remembered by Bertha M Fiddler. Paperback.
Selected poems, newspaper and magazine articles, plays, short stories, children's stories, essays and observations: 1966-2007. From Papa Westray-based writer Jim Hewitson.
A great book for all Cloustons and Clouston relations and all those interested in family history. By J. Storer Clouston. Hardback.
Autobiography written for Laing's family in the 19th century. Edited and Supplemented by R. P. Fereday. Hardback.
Who would have thought that plain Mary Balfour, born and bred in the far Orkney's, would become Mary Brunton, best selling novelist, rival in her time to Jane Austen, and a leading light in Edinburgh's then flourishing and sophisticated literary circles?... By Mary McKerrow. Foreword by Fay Weldon. Hardback.
A true people's digest to be read and enjoyed by Orcadians, and lovers of the Orkney Islands, wherever they may be around the world. Compiled by Howard Hazell. Large format hardback.
Discovering Orkney's forgotten writer Christina M. Costie. By Rgnhild Ljosland.
A second volume of stories from Orcadian life-long farmer. By B M Baikie.