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Storm’s Edge
- Life, Death and Magic in the Islands of Orkney
- Narrated by: Kenny Blyth
- Length: 22 hrs and 44 mins
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Publisher's Summary
'A surprising page-turner, full of humour and startling details' THE TIMES
'If I read a better history this year, I will be lucky' TOM HOLLAND
'An astonishing tour de force’ SPECTATOR
From Peter Marshall, winner of the Wolfson Prize 2018, Storm’s Edge is a new history of the Orkney Islands that delves deep into island politics, folk beliefs and community memory on the geographical edge of Britain.
Peter Marshall was born in Orkney. His ancestors were farmers and farm labourers on the northern island of Sanday – where, in 1624, one of them was murdered by a witch. In an expansive and enthralling historical account, Marshall looks afresh at a small group of islands that has been treated as a mere footnote, remote and peripheral, and in doing so invites us to think differently about key events of British history.
With Orkney as our point of departure, Marshall traverses three dramatic centuries of religious, political and economic upheaval: a time when what we think of as modern Scotland, and then modern Britain, was being forged and tested.
Storm's Edge is a magisterial history, a fascinating cultural study and a mighty attestation to the importance of placing the periphery at the centre. Britain is a nation composed of many different islands, but too often we focus on just one. This book offers a radical alternative, encouraging us to reorient the map and travel with Peter Marshall through landscapes of forgotten history.
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Critic Reviews
'A surprising page-turner, full of humour and startling details… In Storm’s Edge, Marshall set out to ‘make the peripheral central’, and so he has'
The Times
'Engrossing and near-faultless… Orkney already boasts a roll call of distinguished writers. The list has just got longer'
Literary Review
'Peter Marshall’s new, very readable history of the archipelago is a wonderful corrective to our tendency to see Scottish history through a lowland lens… I have, I am ashamed to say, never been to Orkney. But reading Marshall’s book might just tempt me to make the journey'
The Herald
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- Tracee
- 13-05-2024
Excellent telling of Orkney history
A very enjoyable listen. I had no knowledge of Orkney's history so I found this to be very good. At times, it was very name heavy and I did get a bit confused as to who was who but in the end, I am very glad I purchased this and listened to it in full. I would love to visit one day. Many thanks to the author and to the narrator for an excellent job done.
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