
"The Island of the Women" is George Mackay Brown's posthumously published collection of short stories, released in 1998, two years after the author's death. Like his previous collections, "A Time to Keep" and "A Calendar of Love", this volume explores Brown's concerns with history,...

These six stories lead back to Orkney's past and to fables. To break a siege of the Broch of Guirness, unlikely champions come forward for single combat. Njalsay is seen through the eyes of a poor idiot laird misunderstood by his people, and a poet becomes laureate by embracing...