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In My Way
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The House with the Green Shutters
Immerse yourself in a painstakingly recreated depiction of Scottish rural life at the turn of the twentieth century. Regarded as a groundbreaking literary work upon its publication, The House With the Green Shutters takes an unflinching look at the growing conflict between socioeconomic classes during the period, rather than idealizing rustic living, as many writers of the era chose to do.
Ringmain
A US state visit in the diplomatic diaries, a labour MP freelancing as an IRA fixer; and a mole at the top of the British intelligence worth lorry-loads of Armalites to the dangerous men in Dublin...the high-explosive ringman circuit is falling into place. Its last connection is the world’s most expensive death dealer who kills the highest placed for the highest price. Code-named Siegfried, he’s in London to earn three-quarters of a million pounds with a job on the side. Between the steel toe-cap going in and the ringman triggering to detonate, the kill-master will find out which side...
Tired and Emotional
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Vinland
'Vinland' follows the turbulent life of Ranald Sigmunson, a young boy born into the Dark Ages, when Orkney was torn between its Viking past and its Christian future.
Beside the Ocean of Time
In this novel set on the fictitious island of Norday in the Orkneys, George Mackay Brown beckons us into the imaginary world of the young Thorfinn Ragnarson, the son of a crofter. In his day-dreams he relives the history of this island people, travelling back in time to join Viking adventurers at the court of the Byzantine Emperor in Constantinople, then accompanying a Falstaffian knight to the battle of Bannockburn. Thorfinn wakes to the twentieth century and a community whose way of life, steeped in legend and tradition, has remained unchanged for centuries. But as the boy grows up - and falls in love with a vivacious and mysterious stranger - the transforming effect of modern civilization...
