Toby Ferris

George Mackay Brown spent the first five years of his life at 80, Victoria Street, Stromness. His front door gave on to a narrow side street running down to Clouston’s pier, named

I have long since lost track of the number of rooms in which I lodged in the long interval between leaving university and settling down. I can rapidly tick off eighteen on my

Orkney is the mythological heartland of the selkie, shape-shifting seals which drag themselves up on to beaches at night, can shed their seal skin, translate themselves into human form. They are benign or

The first ravens I ever knowingly saw were on Orkney, on the northern isle of Westray. I was driving back from the town of Pierowall to the ferry, having walked up to the