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How nice not to have to wait for a trip to the north to stock up on these good things!

Jenny Swanson, Kent, UK

Non-Fiction

If you want to know anything about Orkney, from its prehistory to what it's like today, you're almost certain to find a book about it. There can be very few parts of the country that are so well documented. Orkney is fortunate enough to have local firms who publish books of local interest.

Click on the titles below to read short extracts from the books.

The Orkney Book Price: £9.99	Orkney From Old Photographs Price: £14.50	Orkney and the Sea Price: £15.00
Between the Wind and Water Price: £18.99	The World of Orkneyinga Saga Price: £20.00	Orkney in the Sagas Price: £12.00
A Celebration of Sunrise at the Tomb of the Eagles Price: £18.00	The Shorter Orkneyinga Saga Price: £10.50	Blaeu's Orkneys and Schetland Price: £14.95
This Great Harbour Scapa Flow Price: £12.99	Scapa Price: £9.99	North Atlantic Front Price: £9.99
Scapa Flow in War and Peace Price: £8.95	Jutland to Junkyard Price: £7.99	Sky Over Scapa Price: £25.00
The Grand Scuttle Price: £9.99	Stanley Cursiter - a life of the artist Price: £20.00	Jo Grimond - Towards the Sound of Gunfire Price: £20.00
The Autobiography of Samuel Laing of Papdale 1780-1868 Price: £16.95	Almost An Island - The Story of an Orkney Parish Price: £14.95	Hoy - The Dark Enchanted Isle Price: £11.95
Orkney Price: £9.99	Always Something Doing Price: £10.50	Bloody Orkney? Price: £20.00
Bombay To Elwick Bay Price: £7.95	Letters From Hamnavoe Price: £7.50	Under Brinkies Brae Price: £7.50
Rockpools and Daffodils Price: £14.95	The First Wash of Spring Price: £17.50	The Unknown Cathedral Price: £14.95
The Little General and The Rousay Crofters Price: £9.99	Not Born to be Drowned Price: £14.95	Twelve Light Years Price: £6.99
Profit Not Loss Price: £8.50	Connections - Orkney and Australia Price: £4.50	Full Circle Price: £6.00
The Family of Clouston Price: £27.50	Simmans, Sookans and Straw Backed Chairs Price: £6.50	Whit Like The Day? Price: £16.95
Orcadiana Price: £14.95	Churchill's Prisoners Price: £3.25	Dead Weird Price: £9.99
Does Anyone Like Midges Price: £7.99	Scottish Miscellany Price: £9.99	The Sea Road Price: £5.99
Two Millennia of Church and Community in Orkney Price: £3.50