Editing Barra (section)

===Books===
The specialist in [[mystical theology]] and author [[Rayner Torkington]] wrote a novel concerning [[Christian Mysticism]] featuring a character based on his late brother Peter Torkington called Peter Calvay, whom in the novel had lived on the island of [[Hellisay]] for a number of years in the first half of the twentieth century.<ref name="Torkington1991">{{cite book|author=Rayner Torkington|title=Peter Calvay, Hermit: A Personal Rediscovery of Prayer|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3rzjAAAACAAJ|year=1991|publisher=Mercier|isbn=978-0-85342-969-2}}</ref> The book, titled ''Peter Calvay, Hermit: A Personal Rediscovery of Prayer'', was first published in 1977 and has had at least eleven reprintings.

Torkington's novel ''Wisdom from the Western Isles: The Making of a Mystic'', published in 2008, also describes the author's meetings with Peter Calvay whilst he was staying on Barra.<ref name="Torkington2015">{{cite book|author=David Torkington|title=Wisdom from the Western Isles: The Making of a Mystic|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Mp9SBgAAQBAJ|date=30 January 2015|publisher=John Hunt Publishing|isbn=978-1-78535-017-7}}</ref>