In Orcadia: An exhibition by the Royal Scottish Academy
In Orcadia: An exhibition by the Royal Scottish Academy -
Established artists respond anew to the Orkney landscape
bylines.scot
February 12, 2025 at 4:50 PM
In Orcadia: An exhibition by the Royal Scottish Academy
For #WorldOceanDay tomorrow I’m giving #Orcadia a little trip out! dirigibleballoon.org/poem/Orcadia #poetry #poetryforkids #whales #kidlit @northernjim.bsky.social #SkySurfing
June 7, 2026 at 6:33 PM
For #WorldOceanDay tomorrow I’m giving #Orcadia a little trip out! dirigibleballoon.org/poem/Orcadia #poetry #poetryforkids #whales #kidlit @northernjim.bsky.social #SkySurfing
#WorldWhaleDay seems the right time for #Orcadia 🐋 #skysurfing #poetryforchildren #poetryforkids @northernjim.bsky.social
February 16, 2025 at 11:43 AM
#WorldWhaleDay seems the right time for #Orcadia 🐋 #skysurfing #poetryforchildren #poetryforkids @northernjim.bsky.social
The Skara Brae “Buddo” whalebone figure, Stromness Museum, Orkney 11.05.22
More info here www.orkney.com/news/orcadia...
#AnimalArtTuesday #ArtYear
#MuseumArt #photography
#PhotographersofBlueSky
#SkaraBrae #Orkney
More info here www.orkney.com/news/orcadia...
#AnimalArtTuesday #ArtYear
#MuseumArt #photography
#PhotographersofBlueSky
#SkaraBrae #Orkney
December 2, 2025 at 9:19 AM
The Skara Brae “Buddo” whalebone figure, Stromness Museum, Orkney 11.05.22
More info here www.orkney.com/news/orcadia...
#AnimalArtTuesday #ArtYear
#MuseumArt #photography
#PhotographersofBlueSky
#SkaraBrae #Orkney
More info here www.orkney.com/news/orcadia...
#AnimalArtTuesday #ArtYear
#MuseumArt #photography
#PhotographersofBlueSky
#SkaraBrae #Orkney
THE HIGH ISLAND - Introducing Book 1 in the Orcadia Mysteries series, a gripping offshoot of Lin Anderson's Rhona MacLeod series. DI Erling Flett is pulled back to Orkney to unravel the mystery of a chilling discovery on Hoy.
https://bit.ly/4pzBB4H #TheHighIsland #LinAnderson
https://bit.ly/4pzBB4H #TheHighIsland #LinAnderson
September 27, 2026 at 6:20 AM
THE HIGH ISLAND - Introducing Book 1 in the Orcadia Mysteries series, a gripping offshoot of Lin Anderson's Rhona MacLeod series. DI Erling Flett is pulled back to Orkney to unravel the mystery of a chilling discovery on Hoy.
https://bit.ly/4pzBB4H #TheHighIsland #LinAnderson
https://bit.ly/4pzBB4H #TheHighIsland #LinAnderson
The exhibition is taking place at room 7, The Royal Scottish Academy, The Mound, Edinburgh EH2 3EL , from January 25 to March 2, 2025.
#Arts
#Orkney
#Edinburgh
#Orcadia
#Arts
#Orkney
#Edinburgh
#Orcadia
In Orcadia: An exhibition by the Royal Scottish Academy -
Established artists respond anew to the Orkney landscape
bylines.scot
February 18, 2025 at 2:06 PM
The exhibition is taking place at room 7, The Royal Scottish Academy, The Mound, Edinburgh EH2 3EL , from January 25 to March 2, 2025.
#Arts
#Orkney
#Edinburgh
#Orcadia
#Arts
#Orkney
#Edinburgh
#Orcadia
Deep Wheel Orcadia by Harry Josephine Giles
An epic poem written in Orcadian Scots, with an unconventional English translation that gives you a lot of context too. And it's set on a space station!!! Seriously!!!
www.panmacmillan.com/authors/harr...
An epic poem written in Orcadian Scots, with an unconventional English translation that gives you a lot of context too. And it's set on a space station!!! Seriously!!!
www.panmacmillan.com/authors/harr...
Deep Wheel Orcadia by Harry Josephine Giles
Find out more about Deep Wheel Orcadia by Harry Josephine Giles
www.panmacmillan.com
March 28, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Deep Wheel Orcadia by Harry Josephine Giles
An epic poem written in Orcadian Scots, with an unconventional English translation that gives you a lot of context too. And it's set on a space station!!! Seriously!!!
www.panmacmillan.com/authors/harr...
An epic poem written in Orcadian Scots, with an unconventional English translation that gives you a lot of context too. And it's set on a space station!!! Seriously!!!
www.panmacmillan.com/authors/harr...
Deep Wheel Orcadia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Wh...
Deep Wheel Orcadia - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 16, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Deep Wheel Orcadia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Wh...
Orcadia is in print! 🐋 @adamcrowther.bsky.social Thanks for broadcasting it on BBCUpload.
Sky Surfing is a wonderfully illustrated anthology of children’s poetry, edited by @northernjim.bsky.social All proceeds go to Juvenile Arthritis Research. Available at dirigibleballoon.org #poetry #kidlit
Sky Surfing is a wonderfully illustrated anthology of children’s poetry, edited by @northernjim.bsky.social All proceeds go to Juvenile Arthritis Research. Available at dirigibleballoon.org #poetry #kidlit
December 30, 2024 at 8:55 AM
Orcadia is in print! 🐋 @adamcrowther.bsky.social Thanks for broadcasting it on BBCUpload.
Sky Surfing is a wonderfully illustrated anthology of children’s poetry, edited by @northernjim.bsky.social All proceeds go to Juvenile Arthritis Research. Available at dirigibleballoon.org #poetry #kidlit
Sky Surfing is a wonderfully illustrated anthology of children’s poetry, edited by @northernjim.bsky.social All proceeds go to Juvenile Arthritis Research. Available at dirigibleballoon.org #poetry #kidlit
In 2019, @hjosephinegiles.bsky.social’s #scifi verse novel DEEP WHEEL ORCADIA was a work-in-progress, & we were delighted to feature an extract. Published in 2021, DEEP WHEEL ORCADIA won the 2022 Arthur C. Clarke Award for Science Fiction Book of the Year
www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2019/07/the-...
www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2019/07/the-...
The New Orkney Language Literature - an excerpt from 'Deep Wheel Orcadia: a Future Fantasy' - The Bottle Imp
“Space station V morning” by Les Chatfield is licensed under CC BY 2.0 Deep Wheel Orcadia is a space station orbiting a gas giant, a few hundred years in the future and a few light years from Earth. A...
www.thebottleimp.org.uk
February 20, 2026 at 2:32 PM
In 2019, @hjosephinegiles.bsky.social’s #scifi verse novel DEEP WHEEL ORCADIA was a work-in-progress, & we were delighted to feature an extract. Published in 2021, DEEP WHEEL ORCADIA won the 2022 Arthur C. Clarke Award for Science Fiction Book of the Year
www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2019/07/the-...
www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2019/07/the-...
Playing now: Rural District Lo-Fi Recording Project - The Ring Of Brodgar
Orcadia. Chapter One - Megalithic Tapes & Neolithic Soundscapes
ruraldistrictlofirecordingproject.bandcamp.com/album/orcadi...
Orcadia. Chapter One - Megalithic Tapes & Neolithic Soundscapes
ruraldistrictlofirecordingproject.bandcamp.com/album/orcadi...
Orcadia. Chapter One - Megalithic Tapes & Neolithic Soundscapes, by Rural District Lo-Fi Recording Project
8 track album
ruraldistrictlofirecordingproject.bandcamp.com
November 28, 2024 at 10:22 PM
Playing now: Rural District Lo-Fi Recording Project - The Ring Of Brodgar
Orcadia. Chapter One - Megalithic Tapes & Neolithic Soundscapes
ruraldistrictlofirecordingproject.bandcamp.com/album/orcadi...
Orcadia. Chapter One - Megalithic Tapes & Neolithic Soundscapes
ruraldistrictlofirecordingproject.bandcamp.com/album/orcadi...
Have you read Deep Wheel Orcadia by Harry Josephine Giles?
Otherwise, A Granite Silence by Nina Allan.
Otherwise, A Granite Silence by Nina Allan.
September 23, 2026 at 8:47 PM
Have you read Deep Wheel Orcadia by Harry Josephine Giles?
Otherwise, A Granite Silence by Nina Allan.
Otherwise, A Granite Silence by Nina Allan.
And lo, Deep Wheel Orcadia & Feersum Endjinn
June 23, 2026 at 1:54 PM
And lo, Deep Wheel Orcadia & Feersum Endjinn
"In Orcadia brings together six established artists, (one with an archaeologist), with recent responses to the sea, land and skies, emerging from a long engagement with Orkney."
#ScottishArts
#Culture
#Orkney
#ScottishArts
#Culture
#Orkney
In Orcadia: An exhibition by the Royal Scottish Academy -
Established artists respond anew to the Orkney landscape
bylines.scot
February 10, 2025 at 9:03 PM
"In Orcadia brings together six established artists, (one with an archaeologist), with recent responses to the sea, land and skies, emerging from a long engagement with Orkney."
#ScottishArts
#Culture
#Orkney
#ScottishArts
#Culture
#Orkney
Established artists respond anew to the Orkney landscape | Amanda Wheatley
@awheatley24.bsky.social
@awheatley24.bsky.social
In Orcadia: An exhibition by the Royal Scottish Academy -
Established artists respond anew to the Orkney landscape
bylines.scot
February 10, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Established artists respond anew to the Orkney landscape | Amanda Wheatley
@awheatley24.bsky.social
@awheatley24.bsky.social
Join us to celebrate the launch of The High Island, 1st in a new series of Orcadia Mysteries from Scottish crime writing legend Lin Anderson.
Lin will be in conversation with D.V. Bishop, author of the Cesare Aldo series of historical mysteries set in Renaissance Italy : https://bit.ly/4fPlsEZ
Lin will be in conversation with D.V. Bishop, author of the Cesare Aldo series of historical mysteries set in Renaissance Italy : https://bit.ly/4fPlsEZ
August 3, 2026 at 8:00 AM
Join us to celebrate the launch of The High Island, 1st in a new series of Orcadia Mysteries from Scottish crime writing legend Lin Anderson.
Lin will be in conversation with D.V. Bishop, author of the Cesare Aldo series of historical mysteries set in Renaissance Italy : https://bit.ly/4fPlsEZ
Lin will be in conversation with D.V. Bishop, author of the Cesare Aldo series of historical mysteries set in Renaissance Italy : https://bit.ly/4fPlsEZ
Just finished Deep Wheel Orcadia by Harry Josephine Giles, which is a demanding read, but a poetic telling of a wonderfully fresh sci-fi world.
March 29, 2026 at 8:03 AM
Just finished Deep Wheel Orcadia by Harry Josephine Giles, which is a demanding read, but a poetic telling of a wonderfully fresh sci-fi world.
“Just as, after reading Heinlein, a door is no longer quite the same thing, so, after reading DEEP WHEEL ORCADIA, a dialect is no longer quite the same thing either”
– @catfitzpatrick.net reviews DEEP WHEEL ORCADIA for @strangehorizons.bsky.social
#sciencefiction
strangehorizons.com/non-fiction/...
– @catfitzpatrick.net reviews DEEP WHEEL ORCADIA for @strangehorizons.bsky.social
#sciencefiction
strangehorizons.com/non-fiction/...
Deep Wheel Orcadia by Harry Josephine Giles
At the same time, I want to argue, what is really electrifying about it is the way it does something distinctly science-fictional, not only at the levels of worldbuilding and plot, but at the level…
strangehorizons.com
February 20, 2026 at 2:32 PM
“Just as, after reading Heinlein, a door is no longer quite the same thing, so, after reading DEEP WHEEL ORCADIA, a dialect is no longer quite the same thing either”
– @catfitzpatrick.net reviews DEEP WHEEL ORCADIA for @strangehorizons.bsky.social
#sciencefiction
strangehorizons.com/non-fiction/...
– @catfitzpatrick.net reviews DEEP WHEEL ORCADIA for @strangehorizons.bsky.social
#sciencefiction
strangehorizons.com/non-fiction/...
THE HIGH ISLAND - Introducing Book 1 in the Orcadia Mysteries series, a gripping offshoot of Lin Anderson's Rhona MacLeod series. DI Erling Flett is pulled back to Orkney to unravel the mystery of a chilling discovery on Hoy.
https://bit.ly/4pzBB4H #TheHighIsland #LinAnderson
https://bit.ly/4pzBB4H #TheHighIsland #LinAnderson
September 25, 2026 at 5:25 AM
THE HIGH ISLAND - Introducing Book 1 in the Orcadia Mysteries series, a gripping offshoot of Lin Anderson's Rhona MacLeod series. DI Erling Flett is pulled back to Orkney to unravel the mystery of a chilling discovery on Hoy.
https://bit.ly/4pzBB4H #TheHighIsland #LinAnderson
https://bit.ly/4pzBB4H #TheHighIsland #LinAnderson
Join us to celebrate the launch of The High Island, 1st in a new series of Orcadia Mysteries from Scottish crime writing legend Lin Anderson.
Lin will be in conversation with D.V. Bishop, author of the Cesare Aldo series of historical mysteries set in Renaissance Italy:- https://bit.ly/4fPlsEZ
Lin will be in conversation with D.V. Bishop, author of the Cesare Aldo series of historical mysteries set in Renaissance Italy:- https://bit.ly/4fPlsEZ
August 3, 2026 at 7:40 AM
Join us to celebrate the launch of The High Island, 1st in a new series of Orcadia Mysteries from Scottish crime writing legend Lin Anderson.
Lin will be in conversation with D.V. Bishop, author of the Cesare Aldo series of historical mysteries set in Renaissance Italy:- https://bit.ly/4fPlsEZ
Lin will be in conversation with D.V. Bishop, author of the Cesare Aldo series of historical mysteries set in Renaissance Italy:- https://bit.ly/4fPlsEZ
The exhibition is taking place at room 7, The Royal Scottish Academy, The Mound, Edinburgh EH2 3EL , from January 25 to March 2, 2025.
#Art
#Orkney
#Scotland🏴
#Art
#Orkney
#Scotland🏴
In Orcadia: An exhibition by the Royal Scottish Academy -
Established artists respond anew to the Orkney landscape
bylines.scot
February 15, 2025 at 11:11 AM
The exhibition is taking place at room 7, The Royal Scottish Academy, The Mound, Edinburgh EH2 3EL , from January 25 to March 2, 2025.
#Art
#Orkney
#Scotland🏴
#Art
#Orkney
#Scotland🏴
Some of my favourite books of 2024.
January 1, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Some of my favourite books of 2024.
💥COVER REVEAL💥
THE HIGH ISLAND by Lin Anderson
Book 1 in a new spin-off ORCADIA MYSTERIES SERIES featuring Orkney based DI Erling Flett.
Having appeared in Books 9, 11, 16 and 19 of the RHONA MACLEOD SERIES, Erling now has his own Series
More info: https://tinyurl.com/HighIslandCR
THE HIGH ISLAND by Lin Anderson
Book 1 in a new spin-off ORCADIA MYSTERIES SERIES featuring Orkney based DI Erling Flett.
Having appeared in Books 9, 11, 16 and 19 of the RHONA MACLEOD SERIES, Erling now has his own Series
More info: https://tinyurl.com/HighIslandCR
April 22, 2026 at 6:20 AM
💥COVER REVEAL💥
THE HIGH ISLAND by Lin Anderson
Book 1 in a new spin-off ORCADIA MYSTERIES SERIES featuring Orkney based DI Erling Flett.
Having appeared in Books 9, 11, 16 and 19 of the RHONA MACLEOD SERIES, Erling now has his own Series
More info: https://tinyurl.com/HighIslandCR
THE HIGH ISLAND by Lin Anderson
Book 1 in a new spin-off ORCADIA MYSTERIES SERIES featuring Orkney based DI Erling Flett.
Having appeared in Books 9, 11, 16 and 19 of the RHONA MACLEOD SERIES, Erling now has his own Series
More info: https://tinyurl.com/HighIslandCR
Beautiful!
"The Scottish islands, notably Orkney have a sort of mythological charm, encouraging preconceptions, maybe from images of a simpler life, or familiar paintings of Scottish islands or even camera work in TV dramas."
#Culture
#Arts
#Scotland🏴
"The Scottish islands, notably Orkney have a sort of mythological charm, encouraging preconceptions, maybe from images of a simpler life, or familiar paintings of Scottish islands or even camera work in TV dramas."
#Culture
#Arts
#Scotland🏴
In Orcadia: An exhibition by the Royal Scottish Academy -
Established artists respond anew to the Orkney landscape
bylines.scot
February 10, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Beautiful!
"The Scottish islands, notably Orkney have a sort of mythological charm, encouraging preconceptions, maybe from images of a simpler life, or familiar paintings of Scottish islands or even camera work in TV dramas."
#Culture
#Arts
#Scotland🏴
"The Scottish islands, notably Orkney have a sort of mythological charm, encouraging preconceptions, maybe from images of a simpler life, or familiar paintings of Scottish islands or even camera work in TV dramas."
#Culture
#Arts
#Scotland🏴