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 | Letters from Hamnavoe
by George Mackay Brown Sample Reviews |
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| ISBN 978 1 904246 01 5 | 192 pages | paperback | £7.50 |
| For many years George Mackay Brown wrote a weekly column in The Orcadian, and this book is the first of four selections from the column which have been published in book form. Letters from Hamnavoe was published in hardback in 1975, and this is the first paperback edition. | |
| George Mackay Brown was born in Stromness in 1921. He was at Newbattle Abbey College when Edwin Muir was Warden. He read English at Edinburgh and did post-graduate work on Gerard Manley Hopkins. He was known for his poetry, short stories, plays and novels, and won many prizes including in 1987 the James Tait Black prize for his novel The Golden Bird. He died in 1996. | |
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