| Beside the Ocean of Time | |
| Author: | George Mackay Brown |
| Country: | Scotland |
| Language: | English |
| Genre: | Novel |
| Publisher: | John Murray |
| Pub Date: | 1994 |
| Pages: | 217 |
| Isbn: | 1-896209-12-2 |
| Oclc: | 31767769 |
Beside the Ocean of Time (1994) is a novel by Scottish writer George Mackay Brown. It was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and judged Scottish Book of the Year by the Saltire Society.[1] The plot follows Thorfinn Ragnarson from Norday in the Orkney Islands of the 1930s.[2] The son of a tenant farmer, he regularly daydreams about historical fantasies. After foreseeing his own future, he begins to see a correlation between history, daydreaming and fate.[3]