ORKNEY FUTURES: a handbook Ed. Alistair Peebles & Laura Watts. Brae Editions, Orkney, 2009, 56pp. Publication supported by HI~Arts and the Scottish Arts Council. A new collection that looks ahead for Orkney and from Orkney. —Orkney Futures is a handbook like no other. For a small book, it tackles ambitious themes. Ron Ferguson. —An excellent production. The quality and variety of contributions is hugely impressive. Liam McArthur MSP. —Such books, or public-actions, bridge art and social thinking: a gentler and therefore more penetrating form of thinking seems to emerge, when we look to the future in this designated non-designated space. Alec Finlay. —I am sure this slim book is one of the most important to be published in Orkney for a long time. Howie Firth. LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS: Andrew Appleby, Pam Beasant, Mary Bichan, Anne Brundle, William Caithness, Hilary Corton, Marco Daanne, Endre Danyi, Gareth Davies, Alec Finlay, Alison Flett, Miriam Frier, Neil Gillespie, Yvonne Gray, Andrew Greig, George Gunn, Stephen Hagan, Sam Harcus, Seamus Heaney, Tim Ingold, Erland Johnston, Alan Johnston, Neil Kermode, Sandy Kerr, Colin Kirkpatrick, John Law, Neil Leask, Marianne Lien, Andro Linklater, Robert Livingston, Michael Longley, Morag MacInnes, Pradip Malde, Doreen Massey, Willie Miller, Peter Olive, Alistair Peebles, Robert Rendall, Colin Risbridger, Dorota Rychlik, Michael Schmidt, Wendy Seltzer, Catriona Shaw, Jon Side, Adalsteinn Asberg Sigurdsson, Struan Sinclair, Cameron Stout, Lucy Suchman, Peter Todd, Laura Watts, Len Wilson, Jo Winters.