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Contents The Youngs: The Brothers Who Built AC/DC Jesse Fink A Taste of Ashes Tony Black Tales from the Dugout: Football at the Sharp End Richard Gordon Carstairs: Hospital for Horrors David Leslie Secret Lochs and Special Places Bruce Sandison WTF: Why Parent’s Should Never Text Dogs in Snow: The Ultimate Collection F**k Up This Book (... and not your life) Fred Calhoun The Reiver Rat Julia Donaldson Translated into Scots by James Robertson Hidden Aberdeenshire: The Land Dr Fiona-Jane Brown
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Did I Mention I Need You? Estelle Maskame The Herald Diary 2015: Staggeringly Good! Ken Smith Calvin Harris: The $100 Million DJ Douglas Wight The Dundee/Doric/Orkney/Shetland Gruffalo Julia Donaldson Billionaire Bairn David Walliams Translated into Scots by Matthew Fitt SIlver Linings Millie Gray Create & Colour Scotland Yvette Walker Ursula’s Secret Mairi Wilson Spring/Summer 2015 Titles Bestselling Backlist
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Introduction 2015 has proved to be a hugely successful year at Black & White, with a number of eBook bestsellers from debut novelists uncluding The Ballroom Café, Lullaby Girl and Black Wood. Now as the nights draw in, it’s time to take a look at our fantastic autumn/ winter list, which really does have something for everyone! Our fiction list builds on our successes earlier in the year. From debut author Mairi Wilson, the winner of our collaboration with the Sunday Mail Fiction Prize, comes Ursula’s Secret, a tale of love, deceit and loyalty spanning three generations. We also have the eagerly awaited next instalment in Estelle Maskame’s DIMILY trilogy, Did I Mention I Need You?, and the return of Millie Gray with her latest novel, Silver Linings, a story of the struggles of family life in wartime Leith. Our Itchy Coo imprint continues to thrive with new and exciting Scots translations of bestselling children’s author David Walliams’ Billionaire Boy (as Billionaire Bairn) and Julia Donaldson’s The Highway Rat (as The Reiver Rat). Everyone’s favourite, The Gruffalo, is also back, but this time in Doric, Dundonian, Orcadian and Shetlandic dialects! Non-fiction fans are in for a treat with new titles for all interests. Richard Gordon returns with Tales from the Dugout, a unique insight into one of the most high-tension areas of the football pitch. David Leslie is also back with Carstairs: Hospital for Horrors, an examination of a hospital like no other – a facility for patients rated too dangerous to be held in top-security prisons. And if you’re after a more light-hearted gift, Ken Smith’s Christmas favourite, The Herald Diary, returns with Staggeringly Good! We’ve also got the perfect gift for dog lovers with Dogs in Snow: The Ultimate Collection, and an insight into the mad and accident-prone minds of parents when left alone with technology in the hilarious WTF: Why Parents Should Never Text. Alternatively, if you or someone you know needs to let off some steam, there’s always F**k Up This Book, the ultimate destruction book to make you feel good! And there’s much more: read on to find out about our full range of titles, or for more information on any of our books or authors, please visit blackandwhitepublishing.com Happy reading! BLACK & WHITE PUBLISHING
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The Youngs The Brothers Who Built AC/DC JESSE FINK
Their music has never pulled its punches. After 40 years, AC/DC might just have got the serious book it deserves.
ABOUT THE BOOK With sales of over 200 million albums, AC/DC is not just the biggest rock band in the world. It’s a family business built by three brothers: George, Malcolm and Angus Young. As with any business, some people prospered while others got hurt along the way. The Youngs: The Brothers Who Built AC/DC is unlike any AC/DC book you’ve read before. Less a biography, more a critical appreciation, it tells the story of the trio through eleven classic songs and reveals some of the personal and creative secrets that went into their making. Important figures from AC/DC’s long journey to the top open up for the very first time, while unsung heroes behind the band’s success are given the credit they are due. Accepted accounts of events are challenged while sensational new details emerge to cast a whole new light on the band’s history – especially their early years with Atlantic Records in the United States. Former AC/DC members and musicians from bands such as Guns N’ Roses, Dropkick Murphys, Airbourne and Rose Tattoo also give their perspectives on the Youngs’ brand of magic.
REVIEWS “A largely untold, much more controversial story… anything but a hagiography. A fresh, incisive take on the band.” JAMES McNAIR, MOJO MAGAZINE “A captivating read – so much so that the band’s former bassist Mark Evans claims this is the best book he’s ever read about AC/DC … [The Youngs] may well be the best book out there about AC/DC. Maybe Evans is right… Jesse Fink’s work here is the number one go-to book on the subject.” UBER ROCK “One of the few genuinely good books about a hard rock band.” THE LIST
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Jesse Fink was a leading sportswriter over many years for magazines and TV networks in Australia and southeast Asia. Fink has authored several books, including the critically acclaimed memoir Laid Bare, which Australia’s biggest selling daily newspaper, the Herald Sun, called ‘an engrossing read’. He lives in Sydney, Australia.
PUBLICATION DETAILS Paperback • September 2015 ISBN 978 1 84502 966 1 Music Biography • £8.99 320pp • 198 x 129 mm eBook available
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A Taste of Ashes TONY BLACK
“Tony Black is my favourite British crime writer.” IRVINE WELSH
ABOUT THE BOOK When DI Bob Valentine returns to duty after a narrow escape with death, he is faced with the discovery of a corpse on a kitchen table with a horrific neck wound and a mystery surrounding the victim’s missing partner and her daughter. It’s all too close to his own near-fatal stabbing. When the murder investigation begins to reveal a tragic family drama, Bob Valentine struggles to deal with the rapidly unfolding events and the terrifying visions that haunt him. As he starts to uncover the illicit secrets of the family’s past, can he keep a grip on the case and on his own sanity before the body count starts to rise?
PRAISE FOR TONY BLACK “Taut, with a heart-wrenchingly honest protagonist and impressive literary style, it is among the best of the new Tartan noir.” DAILY MAIL on Artefacts of the Dead “You’re taken into a world filled with emotion, mystery and suspense. Twisty crime fiction at its best.” SHORTLIST MAGAZINE on Artefacts of the Dead “Dark. Relentless. Harrowing. Set in the shadows of evil, it’s a gripping tome that’s as chilling as the waves that lap Ayr’s shore in the dead of night.” DAILY RECORD on Artefacts of the Dead
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Tony Black is the author of twelve previous novels, including Artefacts of the Dead and His Father’s Son. An award-winning journalist, he was born in Australia and grew up in Scotland and Ireland. Tony has been described by Irvine Welsh as his ‘favourite British crime writer’. Tony was shortlisted for The Guardian’s Not the Booker Prize in 2014 and has been nominated for the Crime Writers’ Association Dagger six times.
PUBLICATION DETAILS Paperback • September 2015 ISBN 978 1 84502 964 7 Crime Fiction • £7.99 288pp • 198 x 129 mm eBook available
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Tales from the Dugout Football at the Sharp End RICHARD GORDON
As the tension rises, the dugout becomes home to some memorable football moments.
ABOUT THE BOOK The dugout was first introduced in the 1930s. Until then, football managers stood by the touchline or, more often than not, sat in the stand, but the new innovation allowed them to get closer to the action, to try to better influence the play. It also pitched them into the heat of the battle, with predictable results. Put a calm, apparently sane manager into a dugout, or technical area, for the ninety minutes of competitive action, and they are regularly distorted into irrational agitators, ready to contest and debate every decision, no matter how minor. Richard Gordon’s new book explores managers on the edge: arguing with officials, the opposing coaching staff – on occasion leading to physical confrontation – supporters, and even their own players; gesticulating wildly, often to no great purpose; making scribbled notes, bellowing opinions and bemoaning injustices to anyone who catches their eye. And as the temperature rises, there are the inevitable humorous, and at times simply unbelievable, consequences. Tales from the Dugout is a collection of memories gathered from managers, players, referees and linesmen, supporters and broadcasters which encapsulates the unique environment of the technical area and reveals how even minor exposure to it can transform characters unrecognisably. It gives an insight into the flashpoints and controversies that have erupted over the years, and explains why that small area by the side of the pitch is not a place for the faint-hearted. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Richard Gordon is the long-time presenter of BBC Radio Scotland’s Sportsound and a life-long Aberdeen FC fan. His passion for football was sparked by the 1970 Scottish Cup semi-final, his beloved Dons winning that day and going on to beat Celtic to lift the silverware. He followed the club throughout their glory years and remains a passionate supporter in these less successful times. He lives in Fintry.
PUBLICATION DETAILS Paperback • September 2015 ISBN 978 1 84502 989 0 Sport • £9.99 256pp • 234 x 156 mm eBook available
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Carstairs Hospital for Horrors DAVID LESLIE
Carstairs is no ordinary hospital. It is effectively a prison holding the most seriously demented and dangerous men in our society.
ABOUT THE BOOK It is a hospital like no other. A home to patients so unpredictable they are rated too dangerous to be held even in top security prisons. Carstairs, the State Hospital in Lanarkshire, Scotland. A name conjuring nightmare images of terror and mystery. It guards men with mental illnesses sent by courts in Scotland and Northern Ireland for crimes ranked among the most horrific, frightening and vile imaginable. What happens to its inmates has been a closed book. Because like its high walls and fences, intense secrecy surrounds what happens there. Now Carstairs: Hospital for Horrors reveals how brave and dedicated nurses, doctors and psychiatrists daily risk their lives striving to help even the most dangerously disturbed patients back on the path towards sanity. This story will shock as it delves into the nightmare minds of men who, for no clear reason, kill, rape and attack leaving victims either dead or severely traumatised. David Leslie examines the crimes that have led them to Carstairs; investigates cases where those set free have struck again, reveals the ordeal of some trapped there with fading hopes of freedom and tells, through the words of one of the participants, the story of the bloody escape that shocked a nation and left three dead. And he traces the history not just of Carstairs but of the often savage and inhumane treatment of lunatics in the past that saw many cast into hellish prisons to suffer starvation, whippings, cruelty and deprivation. It is an important and often shocking history.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR David Leslie was a senior journalist with the News of the World for over forty years, latterly as Scottish Crime Editor. He is the author of several books including Crimelord and The Happy Dust Gang. He has appeared in TV documentaries giving unique insights into notorious crimes and criminals and is a regular contributor to radio stations and newspapers.
PUBLICATION DETAILS Paperback • September 2015 ISBN 978 1 84502 998 2 True Crime • £9.99 288pp • 234 x 156 mm eBook available
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Secret Lochs and Special Places BRUCE SANDISON
Takes the angler on a journey through some of Scotland’s most wonderful areas and little‐known lochs. ABOUT THE BOOK Secret Lochs and Special Places takes the angler on a journey through some of Scotland’s most wonderful areas to discover little-known lochs and others that are outstanding simply because of their extraordinary beauty. This book is not about huge trout, although they are there, but rather about the supreme joy that is fishing. Your guide is Bruce Sandison, one of Scotland’s most respected anglers. It is an account of one man’s love affair with his native land, with its history and culture, its people and places. Secret Lochs and Special Places celebrates all that is best about wild fishing in Scotland.
PRAISE FOR BRUCE SANDISON “The book is absolutely loaded with tales of fishing and shooting days and the author has ensured that every page delivers.” SHOOTING GAZETTE on Glorious Gentlemen “Life in loch and glen is a world that many non-Scots only think they know. Glorious Gentlemen puts them straight in fine style.” JEFFREY PREST, TROUT FISHERMEN on Glorious Gentlemen
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Bruce Sandison is one of Scotland’s best-known writers and journalists. He has twice won the prestigious Highland and Islands Media Award Feature Writer of the Year and his work has appeared in a wide range of journals and magazines. He has published twelve books celebrating Scotland’s precious landscape and environment. Bruce lives in Tongue in north Scotland.
PUBLICATION DETAILS Hardback • September 2015 ISBN 978 1 84502 786 5 Non-fiction • £14.99 256pp • 226 x 155 mm eBook available
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OCTOBER 2015
WTF Why Parents Should Never Text
If you wince every time you see your parents attempt to text, this is the perfect gift for you.
ABOUT THE BOOK When parents get hold of a mobile phone for the first time, the results can be hilarious. Now, in WTF: Why Parents Should Never Text, the extent of their unbelievable lack of street cred is fully exposed. This laugh-out-loud collection will make you laugh until you cry, either just because they’re hilariously funny or, more tragically, because you know someone just like this. It’s time to share their funniest blunders with the world!
PUBLICATION DETAILS Paperback • October 2015 ISBN 978 1 84502 992 0 Humour • £5.99 96pp • 198 x 129 mm
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Dogs in Snow The Ultimate Collection
Dogs. In Snow. What could be better? The perfect Christmas gift for dog lovers.
ABOUT THE BOOK When winter snows arrive, dogs are always happy. They just love the snow! In this fantastic new collection of Dogs in Snow, we’ve got the cutest and most fabulous selection of dogs doing what they do best – enjoying themselves and looking outrageously happy. Whether they’re diving into snowdrifts, rolling around until they look like they’re covered in icing sugar or playing with their friends, these dogs in snow will delight anyone who loves their canine companions. And we’ve even left a few pages blank so that you can add in some favourites of your own four-legged friends. It’s the perfect stocking filler!
PUBLICATION DETAILS Hardback • October 2015 ISBN 978 1 78530 000 4 Humour • £9.99 144pp • 193 x 173 mm
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F**k Up This Book (... and not your life) FRED CALHOUN
The ultimate destruction book to make you feel good!
ABOUT THE BOOK Life is stressful. Breaking things is sometimes the only answer. But that’s not always considered ‘acceptable’ for an adult, but at last here is something it is ok to destroy. In fact, it’s actively encouraged. F**k Up This Book is the ultimate feel-good activity book for grown-ups of all ages to take out at least some of their rage on. Conveniently on hand before you reach the end of your tether, you’ll get to punch it, kick it, hit it with a hammer, cut it into pieces and explore some of your deepest desires, fears and darkest impulses. Whether you’re stressed out, or just want any old excuse to destroy something, F**k Up This Book is the perfect antidote to the stresses and strains of the modern world. If you complete it properly, you’ll end up with a book that you’ll never EVER want to show another human being, except maybe your therapist . . .
PUBLICATION DETAILS Paperback • October 2015 ISBN 978 1 78530 002 8 Humour • £8.99 192pp • 210 x 135 mm
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The Reiver Rat The Highway Rat in Scots JULIA DONALDSON, illustrated by AXEL SHEFFLER Translated into Scots by JAMES ROBERTSON A new Scots translation of bestselling children’s author Julia Donaldson’s The Highway Rat
ABOUT THE BOOK
PRAISE FOR ITCHY COO
Gie’s yer toffee and tablet, Yer sookers, choaclits and chews! For I am the Reiver Rat o the Road, And I’ll tal a tellin fae youse.
“It’s fascinating and educational to see this familiar text written in such an unfamiliar way, and a great reminder of our cultural heritage for those reading it in Scotland.” THE LIST on The Gruffalo in Scots
Life is not safe for the other animals, as the villainous Reiver Rat gallops along the highway, stealing their food. Clover from a rabbit; nuts from a squirrel - he even steals his own horse’s hay. Will he finally meet his comeuppance, in the form of a cunning duck? A fabulous, rollicking rhyme, in the style of the famous Alfred Noyes poem, ‘The Highwayman’, from the authors of The Gruffalo and Zog.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR & TRANSLATOR Julia Donaldson, the 2011–2013 Children’s Laureate, is the outrageously talented, prize-winning author of the world’s most-loved picture books including The Gruffalo. James Robertson is the General Editor of Itchy Coo and a contributing author to many Itchy Coo books. He has translated classics by Roald Dahl and A.A. Milne into Scots. He also writes for adults and has published four novels, including the bestselling Testament of Gideon Mack.
“James’s version of my story is a gem and I chuckled away to myself when I read the first draft. The witch and her crew all lend themselves well to Scots.” JULIA DONALDSON on Room on the Broom in Scots
PUBLICATION DETAILS Paperback • October 2015 ISBN 978 1 84502 996 8 Children’s • £6.99 32pp • 268 x 249 mm
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Hidden Aberdeenshire The Land DR FIONA-JANE BROWN
Explore the rich heritage and stories from Aberdeenshire’s inland areas.
ABOUT THE BOOK
REVIEWS
Following on from Hidden Aberdeenshire: The Coast, this new volume moves inland to tell the stories of the countryside, from the fertile farmland of Buchan to the high peaks of the Cairngorm Mountains.
“A fascinating and entertaining collection of forgotten history.” BUCHAN OBSERVER on Hidden Aberdeenshire:The Coast
Visit Macbeth’s reputed grave at Lumphanan, where he was supposedly buried by his supporters after being killed by Malcolm Canmore, later Malcolm III of Scotland. Meet the Maiden Stone’s forgotten companion, the larger-than-life Persephone sculpture, near the foot of Bennachie and learn the significance of the Kintore Arms public house to a terrible murder back in 1863. Come and visit the two most fascinating burials in Braemar cemetery, of poor crofter, Peter Grant, who fought at Culloden and outlived Bonnie Prince Charlie, and the Black Colonel, John Farquharson of Inverey, who made his bed in the rocks above his castle, but did not lie peaceful in his grave after death. Learn about Trooper Smart of Kintore who died in South Africa as a result of a lion attack, the hidden stone circle discovered in Methlick Wood by a local dowser and Wormy Hillock, an early site of Pagan worship near Rhynie. Join historian and guide Dr Fiona-Jane Brown for these and many more quirky, forgotten and hidden tales, this time from Aberdeenshire’s landward districts.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Dr Fiona-Jane Brown, folklorist, educator and storyteller, began Hidden Aberdeen Tours as a response to the deep concern of locals about the increasing industrial and business development situation in the city. Dr Brown holds a PhD in Ethnology, gained in 2010 after studying at the Elphinstone Institute, Aberdeen’s unique centre for the study of NorthEast Scottish folklore. She has volunteered with the Aberdeen Urban Studies Trust and now assists at the Old Torry Community Centre.
PUBLICATION DETAILS Hardback • October 2015 ISBN 978 1 84502 990 6 Local History • £9.99 128pp • 150 x 202 mm
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Did I Mention I Need You? ESTELLE MASKAME
As Tyler and Eden’s feelings for each other grow, can their family accept it? BOOK 2 IN THE INCREDIBLE DIMILY SERIES
ABOUT THE BOOK Stepsiblings Tyler Bruce and Eden Munro have spent two years ignoring their love for each other for the sake of their family, but when he invites her to spend the summer with him in New York, how long can they keep pretending? Alone together, away from their parents and friends, and caught up in the excitement of life in the Big Apple, they can’t deny their feelings any more. As their summer fling turns into something much more serious, Tyler and Eden must face up to reality and make some life-changing decisions. But how will their family react when they confess their secret romance and is their relationship strong enough to survive the devastating fallout?
THE DID I MENTION I LOVE YOU? TRILOGY
DIMILY IN THE PRESS “A viral, literary hit! A clever modern twist on the age-old tale of star-crossed lovers.” THE HERALD “It’s a safe bet the films will be out by 2017.” THE OBSERVER “Like Zoella, [Estelle] knows a thing or two about self promotion... [the books have] received pretty much universal acclaim from her 126,000 followers.” THE TIMES
JULY 2015
JANUARY 2016 ABOUT THE AUTHOR Estelle Maskame started writing at the age of 13 and completed her DIMILY trilogy when she was 16. She has already built an extensive and loyal fanbase for her writing around the world by sharing her work in instalments on the digital platform Wattpad. Estelle’s trilogy will now be available for the first time in book and eBook formats. www.estellemaskame.com
PUBLICATION DETAILS Paperback • October 2015 ISBN 978 1 84502 985 2 Young Adult Fiction • £7.99 424pp • 198 x 129 mm eBook available
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The Herald Diary 2015 Staggeringly Good! KEN SMITH
Back for another year, this Christmas favourite serves up some of the best stories from 2015.
ABOUT THE BOOK So what did Scots have to smile about this year? Well there were the politicians charging around the country looking for votes in a nail-biting general election. There was the continuing struggles at Glasgow Rangers which made half the city laugh and the other half weep. And the finest golfers descended on the country for the Open at St Andrews. All these and more provided readers of The Herald with the funniest stories of the year which were published every day in the newspaper’s Diary column. And now the very best have been gathered in this book to make you laugh all over again.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Ken Smith is the award-winning Glasgow journalist who gathers together the wit of the country in the Diary every day for Herald readers. He says it beats working for a living.
PUBLICATION DETAILS Paperback • October 2015 ISBN 978 1 84502 993 7 Humour • £9.99 256pp • 234 x 156 mm eBook available
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Calvin Harris The $100 Million DJ DOUGLAS WIGHT
He’s worth $100 million, is the richest DJ in the world and has worked with all of the top names in pop. But just who is Calvin Harris?
ABOUT THE BOOK Calvin Harris has come a long way since the days when he was simply humble Adam Wiles, stacking shelves in a supermarket in his native Dumfries. Since bursting onto the music scene with ‘Acceptable in the 80s’ in 2007, he has broken Michael Jackson’s record for most hits from one album, become the first British artist to have one billion plays on Spotify and turned hit-maker for stars like Kylie Minogue, Rihanna, Cheryl Cole and Dizzee Rascal. In 2014, Forbes listed Calvin Harris as the world’s highest-paid DJ for the second year running and he has just scored his fifth number one hit – his third in 2014 alone. From where does he draw his inspiration and what makes him the globe’s most desirable DJ? Calvin Harris: The $100 Million DJ is the first definitive biography of the chart-topping sensation, following Harris’s astonishing journey from struggling musician to international superstar. Looking closely at the singer’s background and his remarkable rise to fame, it reveals a side to the star never seen before.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Douglas Wight has been a journalist for twenty years, covering news, features, politics and investigations. He is the author, ghost- or co-writer of seven books, including Leonardo DiCaprio: The Biography and Unforgivable by Collette Elliott, which became a Sunday Times top ten bestseller in May 2014.
PUBLICATION DETAILS Paperback • October 2015 ISBN 978 1 84502 967 8 Music Biography • £9.99 256pp • 234 x 156 mm eBook available
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The Gruffalo JULIA DONALDSON, ILLUSTRATED BY AXEL SCHEFFLER Now available in regional Scots dialects: Doric, Dundonian, Orcadian and Shetlandic
The Doric Gruffalo Translated into Doric by Sheena Blackhall ISBN 978 1 78530 004 2
Thi Dundee Gruffalo Translatit intil Dundonian beh Matthew Fitt ISBN 978 1 78530 005 9
The Orkney Gruffalo Translated into Orcadian Scots by Simon Hall ISBN 978 1 78530 006 6
The Shetland Gruffalo Translated into Shetland Scots by Laureen Johnson ISBN 978 1 78530 007 3
ABOUT THE BOOK
PRAISE FOR ITCHY COO
Everybody loves The Gruffalo and now you can enjoy this children’s classic for the very first time in regional Scots dialects! The original Scots translation by Itchy Coo was a bestseller, and these localised editions will delight both children and adults alike.
“It’s fascinating and educational to see this familiar text written in such an unfamiliar way, and a great reminder of our cultural heritage for those reading it in Scotland.” THE LIST on The Gruffalo in Scots
Come a wee bit further intae the deep, mirk widd, and find oot whit happens when the sleekit moose comes face tae face wi a hoolet, a snake and a hungry gruffalo...
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Julia Donaldson, the 2011–2013 Children’s Laureate, is the outrageously talented, prize-winning author of the world’s most-loved picture books including The Gruffalo, The Gruffalo’s Child, Room on the Broom, and What the Ladybird Heard, all of which have been translated into Scots by James Robertson at Itchy Coo.
“James’s version of my story is a gem and I chuckled away to myself when I read the first draft. The witch and her crew all lend themselves well to Scots.” JULIA DONALDSON on Room on the Broom in Scots PUBLICATION DETAILS Paperback • October 2015 Children’s Fiction • £6.99 32pp • 270 x 215 mm
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Billionaire Bairn Billionaire Boy in Scots DAVID WALLIAMS, translated into Scots by MATTHEW FITT A new Scots translation of David Walliams’ bestseller, Billionaire Boy
ABOUT THE BOOK Hiv ye ever wunnered whit it wid be like tae hae a million poond? Or a billion? Hoo aboot a trillion? Or even a gazillion?
BBC TV adaptation of Billionaire Boy due to air Christmas 2015
A hilarious, touching and extraordinary new fable from David Walliams, number one bestseller and fastest growing children’s author in the country. Joe has a lot of reasons to be happy. About a billion of them, in fact. You see, Joe’s rich. Really, really rich. Joe’s got his own bowling alley, his own cinema, even his own butler who is also an orang-utan. He’s the wealthiest twelve-year-old in the land. Yes, Joe has absolutely everything he could possibly want. But there’s just one thing he really needs: a friend!
ABOUT THE AUTHOR & TRANSLATOR David Walliams is one of the world’s most successful children’s authors, with sales in excess of 4 million copies and books translated into more than 25 languages, the latest of which is Scots in this exciting new translation by Matthew Fitt.
PRAISE FOR ITCHY COO “This translation into the ‘mither tongue’ will have you chucking out loud.” THE SCOTS MAGAZINE on Asterix and the Pechts “It’s fascinating and educational to see this familiar text written in such an unfamiliar way, and a great reminder of our cultural heritage for those reading it in Scotland.” THE LIST on The Gruffalo in Scots
PUBLICATION DETAILS Paperback • October 2015 ISBN 978 1 84502 995 1 Children’s Fiction • £6.99 288pp • 198 x 129 mm eBook available
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Silver Linings MILLIE GRAY
Set at the height of World War II, this is the tale of a working-class family in Leith torn between a better life and the guilt of broken promises.
ABOUT THE BOOK Based in the shipyards of Leith, Silver Linings follows the ups and downs of the Anderson family through the darkest days of the Second World War as they struggle to survive. When war breaks out in 1939 the Anderson family ready themselves for the worst, but nothing can prepare them for the death of matriarch Sandra while giving birth to surprise baby Rosebud. Promising her mother that she will take care of her newborn sister, pampered fifteen-year-old Kitty must abandon her dreams of a career to become the family drudge. And Sandra’s heartbroken husband, Johnny, swears never to remarry and instead finds solace in his work, becoming a respected trade union activist in the shipyards. Yet with the help of Johnny’s domineering mother Jenny and spinster sister Kate, the family find the strength to carry on. And when life throws new opportunities at them, Kitty and Johnny are sorely tempted to pursue happiness where they can find it. But can they live with the guilt of breaking the solemn promises they made to Sandra on her deathbed?
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Millie Gray is a writer and professional storyteller. Her humorous plays attract audiences from all over Scotland and she is much in demand to do workshops and talks about her work. Millie Gray was born and raised in Leith and lives in Edinburgh. Millie Gray’s novels include In a Class of Their Own, In a League of their Own, Eighteen Couper Street, Crystal’s Song, The Tangling of the Web and When Sorry is Not Enough.
PUBLICATION DETAILS Paperback • October 2015 ISBN 978 1 84502 997 5 Fiction • £7.99 240pp • 198 x 129 mm eBook available
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Create & Colour Scotland YVETTE WALKER The first ever completely handcrafted activity book with a uniquely Scottish twist!
ABOUT THE BOOK Create & Colour Scotland is the first ever completely handcrafted activity book with a uniquely Scottish twist, jam-packed with fantastic, creative things to do. There are iconic designs and images of people and places in Scotland to colour in, exciting ideas for things to draw and guides on how to draw them, as well as a wealth of innovative craft activities and tips about design and how to get the best results. It will both inspire and relax as you let your imagination run free. This book will show you how to: • Make the Loch Ness Monster from your own fingerprints • Draw a range of Scottish animals, starting from simple shapes, including Scottish wildcats, Highland stags and the pandas from Edinburgh Zoo • Take inspiration from Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s approach to design • Create your own tartan • Draw a variety of Scottish celebrities and comic book characters Create & Colour Scotland was produced by Scottish artist and teacher Yvette Walker. The craft activities inside are all carefully tested and are firm favourites with her pupils. They give both adults and children the opportunity to let their artistic side go wild, and to create a beautiful, personal, and completely unique book.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Yvette Walker was born in Leeds and moved to Scotland with her family when she was 9. She studied Fine Art Drawing and Painting at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art. After graduating she won an art scholarship for her paintings, exhibited widely throughout Scotland and trained to be a primary teacher in Dundee. For the past 10 years she has been involved in teaching Art in schools in Clackmannanshire, Scotland.
PUBLICATION DETAILS Paperback • October 2015 ISBN 978 1 78530 017 2 Gift • £9.99 128pp • 297 x 210 mm
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Ursula’s Secret MAIRI WILSON
Winner of the Sunday Mail Fiction Prize 2015
ABOUT THE BOOK In just a few heartbreaking days, Lexy Shaw’s world has fallen apart. After her mother is killed in a tragic hit-and-run, her mother’s childhood guardian, Ursula, also dies suddenly, leaving everything to Lexy. But as Lexy reads through Ursula’s hidden papers, what she discovers raises doubts about her own identity and if she really is now all alone in the world. Desperate to find out if she has any surviving family, Lexy travels to Africa hoping she can unravel the mystery she’s now tormented by, only to find that she’s stumbled into a past full of lies and deceit and that her life is in grave danger.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Mairi Wilson was born in Scotland but brought up in England, Turkey, Denmark and Spain. She now divides her time between Edinburgh and Ullapool, and continues to travel further afield when she can. She has worked in marketing and education but now works part-time in a card and gift shop to stay in touch with the real world while she writes about imaginary ones.
PUBLICATION DETAILS Paperback • November 2015 ISBN 978 1 78530 008 0 Fiction • £7.99 384pp • 198 x 129 mm eBook available
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SPRING/SUMMER 2015 TITLES
Black Wood £7.99 / 978 1 84502 953 1
The Ballroom Café £7.99 / 978 1 84502 952 4
Lullaby Girl £8.99 / 978 1 84502 950 0
Set Me Free £7.99 / 978 1 84502 951 7
The Secret Life and Curious Death of Miss Jean Milne £8.99 / 978 1 84502 982 1
The Photographer’s Wife £8.99 / 978 1 84502 955 5
Telling Tales £7.99 / 978 1 84502 954 8
Did I Mention I love You? £7.99 / 978 1 84502 984 5
Whit the Clockleddy Heard £6.99 / 978 1 84502 957 9
Liverpool: Gangs,Vice and Packet Rats £9.99 / 978 1 84502 962 3
Keeping in Paradise £9.99 / 978 1 84502 959 3
Mr Mingin £6.99 / 978 1 84502 958 6
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Watch Over Me DANIELA SACERDOTI £7.99 / 978 1 84502 528 1
Take Me Home DANIELA SACERDOTI £7.99 / 978 1 84502 746 9
His Father’s Son TONY BLACK £7.99 / 978 1 84502 736 0
The Half-Life of Hannah NICK ALEXANDER £7.99 / 978 1 84502 719 3
No.1 KINDLE BESTSELLER Over 550,000 copies sold as an eBook.
Heartbreaking and uplifting, Take Me Home is a beautiful story of love, loss and never forgetting who you really are.
His Father’s Son is a touching and beautiful story of a family struggling to come to terms with their past, their present and an uncertain future.
No. 1 KINDLE BESTSELLER Over 300,000 downloads sold as an eBook.
An ethereal and beautifully written debut novel, Watch Over Me is a poignant story about letting go and moving on – with a little bit of help from beyond the grave.
“Soulful and stunningly written, this reads like a future classic.” LISA JEWELL
If your first love came back to offer you everything you ever dreamed of, what would you do?
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