Hawkfall

George Mackay Brown

John Murray Press, Mar 13, 2014 - Fiction - 224 pages

This collection of sharply-etched fables, dealing with death, legend, love and violence create an Orcadian world that spanning myth and reality - a world set firmly between the sea and the sky - a collection of islands which are life-sustaining and soul refreshing.

About the author

George Mackay Brown was one of the greatest Scottish writers of the twentieth century. A prolific poet, admired by such fellow poets as Ted Hughes and Seamus Heaney, he was also an accomplished novelist and a master of the short story. He died at the age of 74 on 13 April 1996.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Hawkfall
• Author: George Mackay Brown
• Publisher: John Murray Press, 2014
• ISBN: 1848549504, 9781848549500
• Length: 224 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / General; Fiction / Historical / General; Fiction / Literary; Fiction / Sea Stories; Fiction / Short Stories (single author)