{"product_id":"9781399827188","title":"Beside the Ocean of Time","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn his day-dreams, Thorfinn Ragnarson, the son of a crofter, relives the history of this island people, travelling back in time to join Viking adventurers at the court of the Byzantine Emperor in Constantinople, then accompanying a Falstaffian knight to the battle of Bannockburn. Thorfinn wakes to the 20th century and a community whose way of life, steeped in legend and tradition, has remained unchanged for centuries. But as the boy grows up - and falls in love with a vivacious and mysterious stranger - the transforming effect of modern civilization brings momentous and irreversible changes to the island. During the Second World War Thorfinn finds himself in a German prisoner-of-war camp, and it is here that he discovers his gifts as a writer. Long afterwards he returns, now a successful novelist, to a deserted and battle-scarred island.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Murray","offers":[{"title":"Brown, George \/ Mackay","offer_id":55767729275253,"sku":"9781399827188","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0289\/5334\/6096\/files\/9781399827188.jpg?v=1754993214","url":"https:\/\/goldenharebooks.live\/products\/9781399827188","provider":"Golden Hare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}