Triad Panther

P ROLOGUE It was 2 p.m. on the afternoon of May 7th, 1915. The Lusitania had been struck by two torpedoes m succession and was sinking rapidly, while the boats were being launched with all possible speed. The women and children were being lined up awaiting their turn. Some still clung...

Fedlapja kopottas. This collection of eleven stories, first published by The Hogarth Press in 1974, demonstrates the full range of George Mackay Brown's literary talent. George Mackay Brown was steeped in the life and traditions of Orkney, a world set firmly between the sea and the sky, where time...

A Note on the Sources My principal sources have been my notebooks, diaries and letters written to my parents, during the period 1941-1947. I have also drawn on a daily journal which I have kept from 1950 to the present day, as well as scrap-books, many personal letters, and in particular a...