Download or read book The Island of the Women and Other Stories written by George Mackay Brown and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2014-03-27 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these six stories George Mackay Brown leads us back along the sweep of Orkney's past and beyond even that to the remoteness of fable. He reveals the timelessness of the lived moment and the constants of island life in the harvest of sea and land and the compulsions of voyage and homecoming.