The Orcadian File

Author : Mauro Martone
Publisher : Austin Macauley Publishers
Page : 667 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781398442450

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The Orcadian File by Mauro Martone Pdf

Stephen “Monty” Montgomery is a lonely city-based defence lawyer; who, despite being skilled in legal debate, is nowhere near to being offered a partnership by his firm when he is faced with compelling evidence of an age-old supernatural struggle between celestial entities and their arcane human disciples, forcing him to rapidly adjust his theological beliefs. Monty soon finds himself called upon to represent ex-police officer Christopher Forsyth. Forsyth had been involved in investigating an alleged paedophile ring among the Edinburgh establishment which resulted in his commanding officer being gunned down in the street. Monty’s new client has since been railroaded out of the police and finds himself in their custody on a trumped-up murder charge. Finding themselves opposed by a faceless conspiracy that is politically ambitious and prepared to destroy anything that gets in its way, the defence team will need every gram of their ability to get Forsyth off the hook. What Monty hasn’t reckoned upon, however, is being brought face to face with an immortal enemy – one more diabolical, cunning, and dangerous than any human conspirator. Martone revives his haunting Kertamen tale with this vividly compelling and politically astute thriller, which is littered with moral complexity and legal intrigue. Told with ceaseless imagination through a rapid and intense narrative, The Orcadian File effortlessly meanders between ancient and contemporary judicial mischief.

Author : G J. MARTIN
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0995532079

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ORCADIAN TRILOGY. by G J. MARTIN Pdf

Author : W.S. Hewison
Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781788852692

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This Great Harbour by W.S. Hewison Pdf

Known by mariners since Viking times as a safe anchorage in notoriously savage waters, Scapa Flow is the seaway that runs between the Orkney mainland and the island of Hoy. As the northern base of the Royal Navy and Allied fleets in two world wars, it witnessed some of the most seminal events in modern naval history. It was from here that The Grand Fleet set off in 1916 to do battle at Jutland; it was from that Lord Kitchener sailed to his death aboard the Hampshire; it was here that the surrendered German fleet was scuttled in May 1919; and it was here that 800 sailors lost their lives in October 1939 when HMS Royal Oak was torpedoed by a German submarine. The late W.S. Hewison's book is the ultimate history of this remarkable place. In addition to the military story, he also tells about the impact war had on the native island community as their remote archipelago was transformed into the hub of Britain's naval war machine.

Author : George Mackay Brown
Publisher : Hyperion Books
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Fiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105040381712

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Under Brinkie's Brae by George Mackay Brown Pdf

Author : Mauro Martone
Publisher : Austin MacAuley
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1788483995

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Kertamen by Mauro Martone Pdf

A front-line game of cat and mouse between cops as tough and cunning as the conspirators - a murderous, satanic cabal intent on influencing the 2014 Scottish referendum. Kertamen is a fast-paced thriller involving recurrent darkness, some moral dilemma and portal-stepping into Jerusalem in 30 AD, seen primarily through the eyes of Detective Inspector Chuck Kean of the Drug Squad. Kean is running a deniable investigation into a masonic cabal among the Edinburgh establishment, who are allegedly linked to child abuse. His team soon experience various unanticipated twists including the discovery that the background on the faction is an intricate one with links to Rosslyn Chapel and a migrant Templar, Adam de Gordon. The clandestine investigation quickly becomes entangled within the foundation roots of a much bigger political conspiracy encased within the 2014 Scottish Referendum. Martone resurrects the political climate, passions and concerns of the voters, whilst cannily revealing a conspiracy, akin to that of Dallas in 1963, lurking within the shadows. Connections to the oil and the arms industries, whose peripheral strategies are somehow aligned with the cabal, develop while Kean discovers that he is involved in an age-old supernatural struggle between seraphs and fallen angels. One angel - Dai, mentors Kean in what develops into his own moral quest, after revealing to him that the referendum, along with other events around the globe, are all the chess games of the divine.

Author : Christopher D. Morris
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789256109

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The Birsay Bay Project Volume 3 by Christopher D. Morris Pdf

The Brough of Birsay was the power-center of the Viking earldom of Orkney and is one of Historic Environment Scotland’s key monuments and visitor attractions on the islands. This publication is the culmination of 60 years of investigations that took place on the site between 1954 and 2014. This new volume incorporates comprehensive accounts of work undertaken by Dr Ralegh Radford and Mr Stewart Cruden between 1954 and 1964, excavations by the Viking and Early Settlement Research Project under the direction of the author on site between 1974 and 1981, a rescue excavation in 1993, a geophysical survey in 2007 and archival research up to 2014. Specialist artefactual and palaeobiological studies of metallurgical material, ogham inscriptions and a gilt-bronze mount of Insular origin are included, together with re-analysis of the radiocarbon dates from all sites in Birsay Bay, and a re-assessment of the architecture and dating of the church and related buildings on the Brough itself. The final two chapters put the Brough, as both a Pictish power-center and the hub of the Viking earldom, in the overall context of Birsay Bay and Viking and late Norse Orkney, and the wider world between the Pictish and late Norse/Medieval periods. As well as being the author’s third and final volume reporting on work for the Birsay Bay Project, this volume completes a trilogy of studies of the Brough itself, alongside Mrs Cecil Curle’s and Prof John Hunter’s earlier monographs.

Author : Bill Ellis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Child sexual abuse
ISBN : IND:30000047816495

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The Orkney Islands SRA Case by Bill Ellis Pdf

Author : Prabir Rai Chaudhuri
Publisher : PRABIR RAI CHAUDHURI
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-17
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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10,000 GK Questions With Answers by Prabir Rai Chaudhuri Pdf

10,000 GK Questions With Answers General Knowledge has always been a fascinating topic. It allows students to broaden their understanding of various national and international events around the world. General Knowledge (GK) is important in every student's life because most competitive exams ask general knowledge-based questions. This subject can be very rewarding if answered correctly. However, many students struggle to identify the critical GK topics that must be covered. As a result, we've included answers to some of the most important General Knowledge questions in this article. These questions are framed from various sections such as History, Geography, General Science, Politics, Economics, Sports, Agriculture, and a variety of other global current events. In this book you will able to learn about 10,000 GK Questions With Answers.

Author : Julian Meldon D'Arcy
Publisher : John Donald
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015038539899

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Scottish Skalds and Sagamen by Julian Meldon D'Arcy Pdf

"Scottish Skalds and Sagamen explores a previously neglected but important aspect of Scotland's literary history: the influence of Viking culture on modern Scottish literature. The book illustrates, firstly, how the Viking invasions and settlements have made a lasting impact on the history, languages and cultures of Scotland and how, from the very beginning, Scotsmen made a distinct and important contribution to the dissemination of Old Norse culture in Britain and played a significant role in the creation of the notion of a Norse ethos." "Secondly, and more importantly, the book illustrates in detail how a consciousness of this Norse heritage has influenced nine major Scottish writers of this century: Hugh MacDiarmid, Lewis Grassie Gibbon, Neil Gunn, John Buchan, Naomi Mitchison, David Lindsay, Eric Linklater, Edwin Muir and George Mackay Brown, throwing new light on aspects of Scottish identity and literary trends, especially in the period of the Scottish Renaissance 1920-50. Scottish Skalds and Sagamen provides a new and stimulating contribution to the ongoing debate on the nature and sources of modern Scottish identity and Scottish literature." [4ème de couverture].

Author : Nancy Baxter
Publisher : Random House Digital, Inc.
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345479143

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Norma Ever After by Nancy Baxter Pdf

Baxter's brilliant debut novel is a grown-up fairy tale with modern sensibility that will leave readers laughing out loud at antics they won't find in a tale by the brothers Grimm.

Author : Innes McCartney
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472828958

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Scapa 1919 by Innes McCartney Pdf

The German High Seas Fleet was one of the most powerful naval forces in the world, and had fought the pride of the Royal Navy to a stalemate at the battle of Jutland in 1916. After the armistice was signed, ending fighting in World War I, it surrendered to the British and was interned in Scapa Flow pending the outcome of the Treaty of Versailles. In June 1919, the entire fleet attempted to sink itself in the Flow to prevent it being broken up as war prizes. Of the 74 ships present, 52 sunk and 22 were prevented from doing so by circumstance and British intervention. Marine archaeologist and historian Dr Innes McCartney reveals for the first time what became of the warships that were scuttled, examining the circumstances behind the loss of each ship and reconciling what was known at the time to what the archaeology is telling us today. This fascinating study reveals a fleet lost for nearly a century beneath the waves.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Orkney (Scotland)
ISBN : 1902957415

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The Orcadian Book of the 20th Century by Anonim Pdf

This second volume is a collection of stories about people who featured both in Orkney and around the world in what was regarded as the people s century.It focuses on the momentous, the quirky and the everyday achievements of ordinary folk. It is a collection of heroes and villains, saints and sinners, the magnificent and the mundane. It is a true people's digest to be read and enjoyed by Orcadians, and lovers of the Orkney Islands, wherever they may be around the world."

Author : Howard Hazell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Orkney (Scotland)
ISBN : 1902957032

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The Orcadian Book of the 20th Century by Howard Hazell Pdf

Author : Alexandra Livarda,Richard Madgwick,Santiago Riera Mora
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781785708312

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The Bioarchaeology of Ritual and Religion by Alexandra Livarda,Richard Madgwick,Santiago Riera Mora Pdf

The Bioarchaeology of Ritual and Religion is the first volume dedicated to exploring ritual and religious practice in past societies from a variety of ‘environmental’ remains. Building on recent debates surrounding, for instance, performance, materiality and the false dichotomy between ritualistic and secular behavior, this book investigates notions of ritual and religion through the lens of perishable material culture. Research centering on bioarchaeological evidence and drawing on methods from archaeological science has traditionally focused on functional questions surrounding environment and economy. However, recent years have seen an increased recognition of the under-exploited potential for scientific data to provide detailed information relating to ritual and religious practice. This volume explores the diverse roles of plant, animal, and other organic remains in ritual and religion, as foods, offerings, sensory or healing mediums, grave goods, and worked artifacts. It also provides insights into how archaeological science can shed light on the reconstruction of ritual processes and the framing of rituals. The 14 papers showcase current and new approaches in the investigation of bioarchaeological evidence for elucidating complex social issues and worldviews. The case studies are intentionally broad, encompassing a range of sub-disciplines of bioarchaeology including archaeobotany, anthracology, palynology, micromorphology, geoarchaeology, zooarchaeology (including avian and worked bone studies), archaeomalacology, and organic residue analysis. The temporal and geographical coverage is equally wide, extending across Europe from the Mediterranean and Aegean to the Baltic and North Atlantic regions, and from the Mesolithic to the medieval period. The volume also includes a discursive paper by Prof. Brian Hayden, who suggests a different interpretative framework of archaeological contexts and rituals.

Author : M. M. Charleson,Malcolm Mackenzie Charleson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1905
Category : Birds
ISBN : NYPL:33433006611663

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Orcadian Papers by M. M. Charleson,Malcolm Mackenzie Charleson Pdf