2012 01
Fiction and Non-Fiction Sandstone Press
Welcome ‘Follow that!’ is what many readers said to us after the successes of 2011. James McGonigal had won the Saltire Society Research Book of the Year with Beyond the Last Dragon, his brilliant biography of Edwin Morgan, Jane Rogers had been longlisted for the Man Booker Prize with The Testament of Jessie Lamb, Zoe Strachan shortlisted for the Green Carnation Prize with Ever Fallen in Love, and Site Works had attracted a series of admiring reviews. In addition to those we had published the unique and beautiful 18 Bookshops and a succession of fiction, outdoor and political titles that turned heads in bookshops everywhere. To strengthen this year’s list we travelled, for the first time, abroad to sign up the latest title in the Charlie Hood series from Southern California’s T. Jefferson Parker, The Jaguar, Incidents in the Life of Markus Paul from distinguished Canadian author David Adams Richards, and Me and Mr Booker from Australia’s Cory Taylor. These are wonderful titles which we believe you will love, and which will enhance your book shelves.
We are bringing out the paperback of James McGonigal’s classic, now with a refreshed cover featuring a characterful portrait of Edwin Morgan. In fact, we have been working especially hard on our covers. Alison Fell has joined us, as has outdoor writer Chris Townsend, and we have strong tales of family life, difficult youth, and humour from all over Britain and Ireland, and from the medical profession. No point publishing great books though, if we can’t actually get them to you. Our selling has moved forward dramatically with joining Faber Factory Plus (aka: Alliance 2) and Repforce Ireland, and the Trade can look forward to being contacted by these professional, friendly representatives. Their contact details can be found at the back of this catalogue. Please do watch out for our launches and other marketing events and, however you buy your books and wherever from, read deeply and pleasurably.
Contents
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Fiction David Adams Richards – Lynne Alexander – Alison Fell – Kevin Smith – Frederick Lightfoot – Zoë Strachan – Robert Davidson – Jane Rogers – Cory Taylor
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Crime T. Jefferson Parker – Jörn Lier Horst – Ron McMillan – Mark Douglas-Home
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Fiction Rosy Thornton – Janice Brown – Zöe Venditozzi – Bobbie Darbyshire – Julian Lees – Moira Forsyth
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Outdoor Chris Townsend – John Allen – Hamish Brown – Craig Weldon – Martin Moran – Eric MacLeod – Leslie Symons
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Biography James McGonigal – Wencke Mühleisen – Urszula Muskus – Remzije Sherifi – Anne Scott
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Non-fiction Mitch Miller & Johnny Rodger – Gerard Carruthers & Johnny Rodger – Stuart Campbell – Kenneth White – Tony McManus – Antony Kamm
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Humour John Larkin
Gaelic Iain MacLean – Catriona Lexy Campbell – Michael Newton – Floraidh MacDonald – Alison Lang
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Ordering
Travel Chris McIvor – Jonny Muir – Stuart Campbell – Ron McMillan – Simon Varwell – Joseph Murphy – Liz Ashworth
Contact & Sales
Fiction
1
David Adams
Richards
JUN
Incidents in the Life of Markus Paul
When Hector Penniac, a promising young Micmac man, is killed in a shipping yard in New Brunswick in 1985, halftruths, political machinations and outright lies lead to the unfair incrimination of one man, Roger Savage, who lives close to the First Nations Reserve. Searing, brilliant, and tension-filled, this is a foreboding tale about truth, lies and justice – quintessential David Adams Richards. When a terrible accident unsettles the peace in a small, tight-knit community, who will pay the price?
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‘Sparks
David Adams Richards is one of Canada’s most distinguished and popular novelists. He is the author of the celebrated Miramichi trilogy: Nights Below Station Street, winner of the Governor General’s Award; Evening Snow Will Bring Such Peace, winner of the Canadian Authors Association Award; and For Those Who Hunt the Wounded Down. His books have been nominated for many other awards.
with
an immediacy and power that is rare to find in contemporary fiction. One of Canada’s finest writers.’ Robert J. Wiersema, Victoria Times-Colonist
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Fiction
Lynne
Alexander The Sister William James, the psychologist… Henry James, the writer… Alice James, the sister?
MAR
Alice James spends most of her short life in bed. Henry calls it her solution to the ‘practical problem of life’, and William is too busy and too far away to pay much attention. Her lifelong companion, Katharine Loring, is a constant support, but in the midst of coping with Alice’s pain and frustration, the two women are faced with the shock of discovering Henry has made use of them in his fiction.
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Lynne Alexander was born in Brooklyn, New York and moved to Britain in 1970. She became a professional harpsichordist before turning to writing in l980. She has since published five novels including the widely praised and translated Safe Houses. Her work as writerin-residence at three hospices is recounted in two volumes of poems.
‘It is a warm and accomplished work of sympathetic imagination. I felt myself, as I read, wholly absorbed into Alice’s painful but
fascinating interior life.’ Hilary Mantel
Fiction
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Alison Fell the element –inth in Greek
MAY
In a small Cretan village, Ingrid Laurie researches a biography of the neglected linguist Alice Kober, who laid the basis for the decipherment of the ancient Cretan script Linear B. While Meanwhile, policeman Yiannis Stephanoudakis discovers a bizarre naked corpse covered in honey and dead bees. When their paths cross erotic sparks fly. Mingling detective fiction and biography, modern romance and prehistoric marriage ritual. Alison Fell probes the mysteries of love and language in this luminous novel.
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Born in 1944, Alison Fell is the author of the novel Mer de Glace (1991), joint winner of the Boardman Tasker Prize in 1991. Other novels include The Pillow Book of the Lady Onogoro (1994), The Mistress of Lilliput (1999), and Tricks of the Light (2003), a powerful portrayal of love in middle age. She has written for many publications, including Spare Rib, is a founder of women’s street theatre group Monstrous Regiment, and has held a number of academic fellowships.
‘Ancient signs and symbols of sex and death re-erupt in a burning Greek landscape...a
compelling
chase through patterns of desire.’ Michele Roberts
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Fiction
Kevin
Smith JAMMY DODGER
AUG
Safe at the helm of his subsidised magazine Artie Conville is content to linger over long lunches and flirt with the lovely Rosie McCann. When his cushy number is threatened, Artie hatches a plan to keep the funds coming and, before long, he is up to his ears in a bizarre fraud. Can he avert disaster? Will he get the girl? The cast includes a gun-toting playwright, a jealous police chief, a drunken actor and a giant white rabbit in 1980s Belfast.
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Kevin Smith was born in London and grew up in Northern Ireland. A former journalist, he worked for a number of years as a foreign correspondent in Eastern Europe. He currently lives in Dublin with his wife and two children. Jammy Dodger is his first novel.
‘A novel that is by turns darkly ironic and laugh out loud funny.’
Fiction
5
Frederick Lightfoot
Zoë Strachan
MY NAME IS E
EVER FALLEN IN LOVE
In the last year of the Second World War three deaf girls are born in the same north of England village. As children they discover each other on the shore and call each other sisters. One of them, Judith Salt, returns to the village aged sixty to tell the story of that first meeting, and her later return, aged twenty-five, pregnant, and determined that someone was going to die.
Richard fell for Luke at university and did things that Richard has spent the last decade trying to forget. Now his career is on the brink of success, but his younger sister Stephie’s life is in pieces. Her invasion of Richard’s remote west coast sanctuary forces Richard to confront the tragedy and betrayal of his past, and face up to his own role in what happened back then. www.zoestrachan.com
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Robert Davidson SITE WORKS On a wind lashed coast in the far north a group of men assemble on a construction site. The Ness and Struie Drainage Project will dominate their lives for the next few months as they toil through the daylight hours and into the night, endure hardship and conflict and – mostly - survive. ‘Nothing short of revelatory, beautiful and profound.’ Alan Bisset B Format PBK 198 x 128mm 256 pages £7.99 978-1-905207-63-3 Ebook £7.16 978-1-905207-70-1 Rights held: World
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Short Listed: Green Carnation Award
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Fiction
Jane Rogers THE TESTAMENT OF JESSIE LAMB Set just a few months in the future, The Testament of Jessie Lamb is a powerful examination of the cost of an epidemic on one young woman’s life. With the eerie prescience of The Handmaid’s Tale and Never Let Me Go, and with the cross-over appeal of Gemma Malley’s The Resistance, it asks how the children of today will react to the world we leave them. The Testament of Jessie Lamb was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize and was one of the most talked about books of 2011. Rogers has been listed for such prestigious awards as the Guardian Fiction Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award and the Orange Prize. From June 2012 this sparkling new edition will be published in partnership with Canongate. www.janerogers.org
LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2011 shortlisted for The Arthur C Clarke Prize 2012
photo © Sarah Eyre
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Jane Rogers has written eight novels including Her living Image (Somerset Maugham Award), Mr Wroe’s Virgins, Promised Lands (Writers Guild Best Novel Award), Island (Orange longlisted), and The Voyage Home. Both Island and Mr Wroe’s Virgins were selected as New York Times ‘Notable Books’. Her novels have been translated into German, Dutch, French, and Hebrew. She has written drama for radio and TV, including an award-winning adaptation of Mr Wroe’s Virgins, directed by Danny Boyle.
‘The scary thing about this is that the questions it raises are so
close to home.’
The Independent
Fiction
Cory
Taylor
7
JUL
ME AND MR BOOKER Martha could’ve said no when Mr Booker first tried to kiss her. Martha is sixteen, she lives in a small dull town and she’s waiting for the rest of her life to begin. Of course Martha kissed the charming Englishman who brightened her world, but she didn’t count on the consequences. Me and Mr Booker is a story about feeling old when you’re young and acting young when you’re not.
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‘A
Cory Taylor is an award-winning screenwriter who has also published short fiction and children’s books. She lives in Brisbane. Already a success in her native Australia, the searingly honest, and funny, Me and Mr Booker is her first novel.
beautifully paced and endlessly witty book about love and growing up.’ Isla Dewar
crime
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T. Jefferson
Parker THE JAGUAR
MAY
A New York Times bestselling author Erin McKenna, a beautiful songwriter married to a crooked Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy, is kidnapped by Benjamin Armenta, the ruthless leader of the powerful Gulf Cartel. His demands turn out to be as unusual as the crumbling castle in which Erin is kept. She is ordered to compose a unique narcocorrido, a folk ballad that records the exploits of the drug dealers, gunrunners, and outlaws who have populated Mexican history for generations. Under threat of death, Armenta orders Erin to tell his life story—in music. www.tjeffersonparker.com
photo © Rebecca Lawson
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T. Jefferson Parker was born in Los Angeles and has lived all his life in Southern California. He took a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of California, Irvine, in 1976 and was honoured as a distinguished alumnus in 1992. He wrote his first novel, Laguna Heat, while working as a journalist covering crime and culture for the Newport Ensign. Laguna Heat received rave reviews, was produced as a movie and made the New York Times Best Seller list.
‘A snarling, teeth-baring, rip-snorter called The Jaguar.’ Mike Downey, Los Angeles Times
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crime
Jørn Lier Horst
Ron McMillan
Dregs
Yin Yang Tattoo
Translated by Anne Bruce
Alec Brodie kicked around South Korea for years, making his name as a photojournalist but blowing his money. A decade later things are no better but, just as the creditors are closing in, a fat commercial assignment arrives from the K-N Group in Korea. Brodie finds the Seoul low life as congenial as ever. As he is part of an enormous corporate scam he receives a ghoulish package.
A police report gives the place and time of the discovery of a training shoe washed up on the sand, still containing a severed foot from the victim’s body. Soon a second shoe is washed up, but it is another left. Chief Inspector Wisting gradually gets to the bottom of the mystery with the help of his all too human colleagues and his journalist daughter, Line.
www.ronmcmillan.com
www.jlhorst.com
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Mark Douglas-Home The Sea Detective
FEB
‘Help me, please help me.’ Cal McGill opened the door, certain this was the biggest mistake of his life, and there she was, a feral creature in dirty clothes, with hollowed cheeks and scabs on her cracked lips. Her closest friend died three years ago, her body fished out of the sea off the Argyll coast, and she believes that only Cal can help her find out what happened. ‘Technologically advanced, internationally minded, liberal Scotland battles parochial, reactionary Caledonia,’ Chris Dolan, The Herald B Format PBK 198 x 128mm 288 pages £8.99 978-1-905207-82-4 Royal HBK 235 x 154mm 288 pages £17.99 978-1-905207-65-7 Ebook £7.99 978-1-905207-83-1 Rights held: World
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Fiction
Rosy
Thornton NINEPINS
JUL
Laura lives alone with her 12-year-old daughter Beth, in the old tollhouse known as Ninepins. Usually she rents out the pumphouse, once a fen drainage station, to students, but this year she’s been persuaded to take in Willow, a care-leaver with a dubious past, on the recommendation of her social worker, Vince. It’s possible Willow is guilty of arson, but her mother’s hippy life is gradually revealed as something more sinister; and Beth is in trouble at school and out of it. Laura’s world is getting out of control. www.rosythornton.com
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Rosy Thornton is the author of four previous novels: More Than Love Letters (2007), Hearts and Minds (2008), Crossed Wires (2009) and The Tapestry of Love (2010). In addition to writing fiction, she lectures in law at the University of Cambridge, where she is a Fellow of Emmanuel College. Married with two daughters, she lives in a village in the Cambridgeshire fens.
‘Thornton is skilled at drawing out the poignancy of ordinary life.’ The Guardian
Fiction
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Janice
Brown HARTSEND
SEP
At the turn of the year, in a village in Central Scotland, several people come together at the funeral of Mrs Crosthwaite, a dominating woman famed for her fruit scones. Her middle-aged daughter Lesley now has a chance to break out – if it’s not too late. Lesley’s virtuous neighbour Ruby Robertson, the Scourge of E-numbers, conjures up conspiracy where none exists. Her faithful friend Duncan at the age of fifty is suddenly susceptible to romance, but has an awful lot to learn about women.
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Janice Brown lives with her long-term husband in Central Scotland. She has written several books of teenage fiction including A Dangerous Place. When not writing, her chief delights are travelling, knitting Alpaca scarves, attempting to learn Mandarin and adoring her five grandchildren.
‘She is wonderfully original yet leads us like a friend.’ Michael Schmidt
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Fiction
Zöe
Venditozzi ANYWHERE’S BETTER THAN HERE SEP
Laurie’s life is going nowhere. She lives with a computer game-obsessed boyfriend and has a meaningless job. The highlight of her week has become finding a new snack food on the supermarket shop. When Laurie meets an older, mysterious man things veer suddenly out of control, and she needs a plan - fast. For anyone who’s ever got stuck with a hopeless partner and a dead end life – this is not the way to go….
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‘In Laurie, Zöe Venditozzi has created a
Zöe Venditozzi grew up in a small village in North East Fife. After graduating with an honours degree in English from the University of Glasgow, she worked in a variety of jobs including selling answerphones, nannying and editing the letters page on The People’s Friend. Zöe took her M Litt in Creative Writing from the University of Dundee and has had short stories and poems published in various magazines and books. Anywhere’s Better Than Here is her first novel.
protagonist who is funny, believable and all too human.’ Kirsty Gunn
Fiction
13
Bobbie Darbyshire
Julian Lees
LOVE, REVENGE & BUTTERED SCONES
THE FAN TAN PLAYERS
Antagonistic London brothers, Henry and Peter, each rush to Inverness after receiving mysterious letters. Henry hopes for love. Peter is on the trail of genius Gaelic bard Calum Calum, believed by the world to be dead. Troubled Elena is also drawn to the Highlands, seeking revenge on El Malo, the Scottish gunrunner who betrayed her family during the Spanish Civil War. B Format PBK 198 x 128mm 320 pages £7.99 978-1-905207-37-4 Ebook £7.16 978-1-905207-44-2 Rights held: World
Moira Forsyth TELL ME WHERE YOU ARE The three Douglas sisters were all expected to do well. Now, as they approach middle age, Gillian has her career and Frances is bringing up her sons on her own. Then comes the phone call from Alec, who left her for her sister. Susan was always the problem, and now she has disappeared, abandoning Alec and her daughter Kate. ‘Moira Forsyth writes with warmth and sensitivity.’ The Times B Format PBK 198 x 128mm 288 pages £8.99 978-1-905207-35-0 Ebook £4.99 978-1-905207-52-7 Rights held: World
Nadia Shashkova, now in her late twenties, but originally a child refugee from prerevolutionary Russia, is contemplating her diminishing marital prospects in 1928 Macao. Independent, astute, an outsider, Nadia is haunted by secrets from her childhood, memories of violence and rupture, and one terrible secret above all others will not let her go. Enter Iain Sutherland, an enigmatic Scot who is, officially, a British Consular representative. B Format PBK 198 x 128mm 320 pages £7.99 978-1-905207-31-2 Ebook £4.99 978-1-905207-53-4 Rights held: World
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outdoor
Chris
Townsend GRIZZLY BEARS AND RAZOR CLAMS
JUN
Walking America’s Pacific Northwest Trail The 1200 mile Pacific Northwest Trail, which runs for 1200 miles from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean through the states of Montana, Idaho and Wyoming, a wilderness route with much challenging terrain and remote country inhabited by bears and wolves. The trail is in its infancy; a mix of signed footpaths, abandoned old trails, dirt roads and animal tracks that make route finding and hiking difficult and sometimes hazardous. www.christownsendoutdoors.com
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‘Grizzly
Chris Townsend writes regularly for TGO magazine and has written 22 other books on the outdoors, including the award winning The Backpacker’s Handbook (now in its fourth edition); Scotland in Cicerone’s World Mountain Ranges series; Crossing Arizona, the story of an 800 mile walk along the Arizona Trail; Walking the Yukon, the story of a 1000 mile walk through the Yukon Territory; The Munros and Tops, the story of his continuous round; and A Year In The Life of The Cairngorms, a photographic study.
Bears and Razor Clams is for anyone who hankers for
remote country and
endless days of primo walking.’ Ron Strickland, author of the Pacific Northwest Trail Guidebook
outdoor
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John Allen CAIRNGORM JOHN Introduced by Sir Chris Bonington For over thirty years John Allen was an active member of the Cairngorm Mountain Rescue Team and for most of them acted as Team Leader. In ‘Cairngorm John’ (his call sign when in contact with search and rescue helicopters) he recalls the challenges of mountain rescue and the many changes he has both witnessed and been a party to. His book is filled with exciting accounts of real-life rescues, discussions of mountain rescue topics such as hypothermia, first aid, and the use of helicopters and search and rescue dogs. www.cmrt.org.uk
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Short Listed: The Boardman Tasker Prize for mountain literature 2009
‘I had to put on several layers just to read this book. It makes Touching the Void seem like a pretty routine day on the hill.’ Iain MacWhirter, Sunday Herald
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outdoor
Hamish
Brown CLIMBING THE CORBETTS
AUG
A love of the Scottish hills doesn’t depend on the height of any summit but on an indefinable quality which the 2500ft plus hills have in abundance, even more than the Munros perhaps. This book describes one well-known mountaineer’s compact with the Corbetts, rich with anecdote, historical connections, and written with companiable enthusiasm As with Hamish’s Mountain Walk and Hamish’s Groats End Walk, Sandstone’s superb production includes two sections of fabulous colour photographs.
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brilliantly recreated ‘A
production of the third of Hamish Brown’s classic outdoor trio.’
outdoor
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The Oldest Post Office APR in the World Nobody knows the length and breadth of Scotland better than Hamish Brown and from his decades of wandering he has stitched together this collection to intrigue visitors. Furniture made of coal, monstersized iris, a milestone showing 0 miles, a half-buried eco-house made of tyres, a church that flitted from one town to another, and a home with walls covered in shells, from Hamish’s local Fife area alone, yet this collection takes in the Hebrides, Orkney and Shetland and every corner of the Highlands and Lowlands. Hamish Brown was born in Sri Lanka and has wandered the world ever since. With schooling in Dollar, holidays were spent cycling and wandering Scotland, RAF National Service took him to Egypt and Kenya, mountaineering has given climbing from Alps to Andes and Atlas to Himalaya. He was a pioneer in developing Outdoor Education and, throughout, a dedicated writer and photographer. He has written or edited twenty five books, including poems and short stories, guides (Scotland, Morocco) and narratives of notable expeditions. He has been writing on Scottish themes in the Scots Magazine for forty years and it is this wide knowledge of Scotland that makes this collection so entertaining. Hamish has been given honorary doctorates by St Andrews and the Open University, is a FRSGS and was awarded an MBE in 2001. Large PBK 140 x 165 192 pages illustrated £11.99 978- 1-905207-95-4 Rights held: world
‘With this beautiful, fully illustrated book Hamish Brown presents another side of himself (and Scotland) to add to the outdoor adventurer of Hamish’s Mountain Walk, Groats End Walk and Climbing the Corbetts.’
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outdoor
Hamish Brown
Hamish Brown
HAMISH’S MOUNTAIN WALK
HAMISH’S GROATS END WALK
Hamish Brown was the first walker and climber to complete the Munros in a single round. By his own rules he did it selfpowered except where ferries were required, and with the aid of his trusty fold away bike. The year was 1974, and the roads of Scotland carried only a fraction of the traffic they do today, wind farms were unheard of, crofting more vibrant, and a strong Scottish mountaineering was already established.
Hamish’s Groats End Walk appears with a new introduction, appendices and two sections of colour pictures taken during the marathon venture. With his faithful companion, the Shetland collie Storm, Hamish wandered from John O’Groats to Land’s End over 175 days in 1979, taking in the first ever walk between the highest summits of Scotland, England, Wales and Ireland.
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Craig Weldon THE WEEKEND FIX In this light-hearted tale Craig Weldon wanders the hills of Scotland, Wales and England. This delightful book is a lively account of hill-walking in all weathers and up and down every possible terrain, braving Welsh farmers, Knoydart rain, the terrors of the Cuillin, and the real ales of Yorkshire. From Sutherland in the Far North to the rolling downs of Gloucestershire, Craig and his friends search out their Weekend Fix. www.loveofscotland.com
‘Described with humour, controlled pathos and an astute eye for detail, populated by a cast of people that are as important to the story as the hills.’ Carey Davis, Great Outdoors Magazine Demy PBK 216 x 139mm 240 pages illustrated £11.99 978-1-905207-26-8 Rights held: World
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outdoor
Martin Moran
Eric MacLeod
THE MUNROS IN WINTER
THE KERRACHER MAN
In 1985 mountain guide Martin Moran achieved the first completion of all 277 Munros in a single winter with the support and companionship of his wife Joy. Martin’s account of the winter journey became a classic mountain narrative, combining his passionate enthusiasm for the mountains with humorous insights into a marriage put to the test.
Back in the 70s when the world lived in smock tops and flares, Eric and Ruth MacLeod took themselves and their two small daughters off to an abandoned crofthouse in the West Highlands. It was an unlikely Eden, even after they cleared the dead sheep from the living room floor. Here they remained for sixteen years, reconstructing the building, learning to shear, attending creels, and running small businesses.
www.moran-mountain.co.uk Royal PBK 235 x 154mm 240 pages illustrated £14.99 978-1-905207-69-5 Rights held: World
Leslie Symons TO RIDE THE MOUNTAIN WINDS To Ride the Mountain Winds, possibly the first history of aerial mountaineering to span the whole period from the 18th century to the present day, is written for everyone interested in the history of mountaineering and also those interested in the history of aviation and the limits to which pilots have pushed their machines and their skills. ‘Wonderful! Highly relevant and a pleasure to read.’ Brian Canfer, RAF Mountain Rescue Magazine Royal HBK 235 x 154mm 336 pages illustrated £21.99 978-1-905207-60-2 Rights held: World
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travel
Chris
McIvor
MAR
IN THE OLD CHIEF’S COUNTRY
In the second volume of his African memoirs Chris McIvor recalls his first stint in Zimbabwe, the many great characters he met, the poverty, the enormous job of repair required to European – African relations and, through it all, the hope. www.savethechildren.org.uk
‘Chris McIvor’s second volume of African memoirs brings Zimbabwe to life in mid-80s and early 90s.’ B Format PBK 198 x 128mm 320 pages £8.99 978-1-905207-91-6 Ebook £7.99 978-1-905207-93-0 Rights held: world
A BEND IN THE NILE
Chris and Romana McIvor
Troubled by poverty and the dislocation of its people after the construction of Africa’s largest dam, Nubia’s landscape is harsh and uncompromising, mostly desert negotiable only by the hardiest of nomads, but the thin strip of land beside the Nile provides conditions for survival. Dongola is one such settlement, and it was here that the author arrived as a teacher in the early 1980s.
Chris McIvor has worked in emergency response and development in countries as diverse as Sudan, Morocco, Algeria, Cuba, Haiti, Jamaica, Zimbabwe and Mozambique. He has published many articles about development in poorer countries, was a frequent correspondent for the Irish Times between 1983 and 1986, and was Zimbabwe correspondent for New Africa and Africa Now magazines between 1986 and 1993.
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travel
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Jonny Muir
Stuart Campbell
ISLES AT THE EDGE OF THE SEA
BOSWELL’S BUS PASS
Off the western seaboard of Scotland are hundreds of islands. Jonny Muir sets out to explore these places with a single ambition: to reach the St Kilda archipelago. On the way he attempts to find peace on Holy Island, takes part in a foot race across the hills of Jura, confronts the Inaccessible Pinnacle on Skye and walks the white sands of Berneray. Complete with twenty five beautiful colour plates. B Format PBK 198 x 128mm 320 pages £7.99 978-1-905207-31-2 Ebook £4.99 978-1-905207-53-4 Rights held: World
Ron McMillan BETWEEN WEATHERS Ron McMillan spent weeks on the unbeaten Shetland tourist path, braving the weathers to explore scenic landmarks, archaeological treasure troves and remote islands so under populated that for centuries they have lived with the threat of abandonment. The journey that inspired the coming film of the same name, Between Weathers. www.ronmcmillan.com B Format PBK 198 x 128mm 320 pages £8.99 978-1-905207-67-1 Ebook £4.99 978-1-905207-79-4 Rights held: World (English language)
Illustrated by Colin Milne Armed with a bus pass and supported by a relay team of equally eccentric companions, Stuart Campbell follows the bus routes that Dr Johnson and Boswell would have used had they delayed their journey to the Western isles of Scotland by 238 years. The narrative includes an astonishing set of previously unpublished love letters from Boswell’s servant, Joseph Ritter, to his master’s long suffering wife, Margaret. Royal HBK 235 x 154mm 350 pages £17.99 978-1-905207-62-6 Illustrated Rights held: World
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travel
Simon Varwell
Joseph Murphy
UP THE CREEK WITHOUT A MULLET
AT THE EDGE
After acquiring a fascination with the dubious 1980s haircut while travelling around Eastern Europe, Simon Varwell discovered a village in Albania called Mullet, and a mission was born. ‘Up The Creek Without a Mullet’ charts the first three legs of the mission, in Albania, Ireland and Australia. www.simonvarwell.co.uk B Format PBK 198 x 128mm 224 pages £7.99 978-1-905207-34-3 Ebook £7.16 978-1-905207-38-1 Rights held: World
Liz Ashworth ORKNEY SPIRIT Illustrated by Selena Kuzman This unique publication conceived by Liz Ashworth, one of Scotland’s leading food writers, combines the startlingly beautiful art of Selena Kuzman with Liz’s stories of Orkney people and food to give you a taste of the islands, in every sense, that will make you want to visit and keep on returning. You have never seen a book quite like this.
‘A generous helping of mouth-watering Orcadian life.’ Northern Scot Large HBK 230 x 216mm 128 pages illustrated £15.99 978-1-905207-32-9 Rights held: World
At the Edge tells the story of a 1500 kilometre walk from the southwest corner of Ireland to the northwest corner of Scotland. By following the Atlantic coast all the way, Joseph links the most vibrant Gaelic communities. Reflections on identity, culture and sustainability, and use of Gaelic in the text, make this a unique and memorable book. Demy PBK 216 x 139mm 384 pages illustrated £11.99 978-1-905207-22-0 Rights held: World
biography
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James
McGonigal BEYOND THE LAST DRAGON
SALTIRE SOCIETY RESEARCH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2011
MAY
A life of Edwin Morgan Beyond the Last Dragon, written with Edwin Morgan’s full support, explores hitherto unknown archive resources and creative work. It recounts an amazing and sometimes troubled career, using the poet’s own letters, poems and plays from the 1930s to the present day to uncover the origins of his remarkable inventiveness and flair. All this is set against Edwin Morgan’s moving struggle against ‘the last dragon’ of cancer. James McGonigal adds a new chapter to the paperback to describe events since the poet’s death. B Format PBK 198 x 128mm 494 pages illustrated £11.99 978-905207-89-3 Royal HBK 235 x 154mm 462 pages £24.99 978-1-905207-23-7 Ebook £10.99 978-1-905207-90-9 Rights held: world
‘My
book of the year; lucid, James McGonigal was a research student with Edwin Morgan in the 1970s, a friend thereafter, and now one of his literary executors. He has combined professional work in schools and teacher education with editing and publications in British modernism and literary relations between Scotland and Ireland. His own poetry has won prizes in both countries.
measured and deeply moving.’ Liz Lochhead
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biography
Wencke Mühleisen
Urszula Muskus
I SHOULD HAVE LIFTED YOU CAREFULLY OVER
THE LONG BRIDGE
Translated by Anne Bruce From the doctor’s records, 2006: ‘She attended an outpatient appointment today with her daughter. She has no need to talk to a clergyman, but wishes to see the sea from Jæren beach once more before she dies.’ I Should Have Lifted You Carefully Over is Wencke Mühleisen’s account of the distance and intimacy between two women who have come to very different terms with life. B Format PBK 198 x 128mm 144 pages £7.99 978-1-905207-64-0 Rights held: English language World Other rights: Gyldendal, Norway
Remzije Sherifi SHADOW BEHIND THE SUN Remzije Sherifi worked as a journalist in Kosova, but lost her job, and almost her life, as the Milosevic regime steadily tightened its grip. In Shadow Behind the Sun she recounts her family’s history to shine a new light on the terrible events of the 1990s. Now a British citizen she has made her commitment to Asylum Seekers and other refugees, working with the Maryhill Integration Network in Glasgow. SHORT LISTED: Saltire Society First Book of the Year 2007 SHORT LISTED: Creative Scotland/ Royal Mail First Book of the Year 2007
B Format PBK 198 x 128mm 256 pages £7.95 978-1-905207-13-8 Ebook £8.03 978-1-905207-47-3 Rights held: World
Out of the Gulags Urszula Muskus (1903-1972) spent sixteen years as a prisoner of Stalinist Russia. Torn from her industrious, middle class life following her husband’s arrest, she was packed into a rail wagon and sent eastwards into Kazakhstan and Siberia. Cast into an alien world of political prisoners and depraved criminals she had to learn to survive to the best of her ability. www.hiddenglen.co.uk B Format PBK 198 x 128mm 352 pages illustrated £8.99 978-1-905207-55-8 Rights held: World
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Anne
Scott 18 BOOKSHOPS Anne Scott has never housed her books in order of theme or author yet she knows where each of them is and the kind of life it has led. Some of the shops become partners as her life changes, observers of discovery, decisions, and marvels. In one way, this book is a sequence about writing. But first it is a map of books and a life.
B Format HBK 198 x 128mm 160 pages £11.99 978-1-905207-71-8 Rights held: world
‘This beautiful book, the gateway to so Anne Scott lectures in literature and has also been a BBC Scotland broadcaster and occasional writer for The Scotsman and The Herald in the 1990s. She studied at Edinburgh and married there, and her son, Mike, is a successful song-writer and musician.
many other worlds.’ Cornflower Bookblog
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non-fiction
Mitch Miller & Johnny Rodger
Gerard Carruthers & Johnny Rodger
THE RED COCKATOO
FICKLE MAN
James Kelman and the art of commitment
Robert Burns in the 21st Century
The Red Cockatoo is the first full length study of the work of James Kelman to take full cognisance of the author’s political commitments and activism throughout his career. This book is published in partnership with The Drouth Magazine and traces the history and details of Kelman’s political writing and activism.
Royal PBK 235 x 154mm 256 pages illustrated £15.99 978-1-905207-68-8 Ebook £11.99 ISBN 978-1-905207-76-3 Rights held with ‘The Drouth’: World
Stuart Campbell RLS IN LOVE The love poetry of Robert Louis Stevenson R.L.S. in Love makes a powerful argument for recognising Stevenson as a love poet. This unique anthology reveals a restless man constantly struggling with love and lust, invariably attracted to unobtainable or unsuitable partners, including distant relatives, older married women, servants, and prostitutes.
Fascinating.’ The Scotsman B Format HBK 198 x 128mm 192 pages illustrated £14.99 978-1-905207-28-2 Rights held: World
21st century Burns scholarship is making some unexpected and exciting discoveries about the poet and his work. Robert Burns has also become an inspiration for a new generation of artists - not only poets and literary artists, but visual and installation artists, sculptors, and architects. Fickle Man is a new volume of essays by international writers and scholars published to mark the 250th anniversary of the poet’s birth. Royal HBK 235 x 154mm 336 pages illustrated £23.99 978-1-905207-27-5 Rights held with ‘The Drouth’: World
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Kenneth White
Tony McManus
ON THE ATLANTIC EDGE
THE RADICAL FIELD
Kenneth White is one of the most daring of Europe’s writers, thinkers and teachers. In 2005 he became the first Hi-Arts International Arts Fellow, presenting a series of three lectures in Wester Ross, Inverness and Orkney. On the Atlantic Edge, is the full text of his Highland lectures preceded by, in the way of introduction, his lecture to the Edinburgh International Book Festival in 2005. B Format PBK 198 x 128mm 118 pages £7.95 978-1-905207-08-4 Rights held: World
Antony Kamm Scottish Printed Books Printing in Scotland became 500 years old in 2008. Working, and publishing, in partnership with the National Library we are proud to present this colourful, succinct, delightfully designed account of the first five centuries. The author, the late Antony Kamm, wrote in and of Scotland for many years. Scottish Printed Books will be a treasured memento to hand down through the next five centuries. Large PBK 260 x 175mm 52 pages illustrated £5.99 978-1-905207-21-3 Rights held Rights held with the National Library of Scotland: World
Kenneth White and Geopoetics That the work of Kenneth White is a landmark not only in Scottish literature but in the field of world writing and thought, is something that many people have known for a long time. The aim of the late Tony McManus, writer, musician and educationalist, who went deeply into White’s work in French and English over many years, is to describe its complete range. B Format PBK 198 x 128mm 216 pages £8.99 978-1-905207-14-5 Rights held: World
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humour
John
Larkin
OCT
HOW TO KEEP YOUR DOCTOR HAPPY Top Tips for Perfect Patients Everyone who’s ever had to see a doctor needs this book. Your doctor is the person you tell your secrets to, the person who decides what’s wrong with you, what treatment you need, and what potentially dangerous drugs you’ll be given. So this is where you can learn the things that annoy doctors most and how to avoid them. Avoid them and help both the doctor and yourself. B Format PBK 198 x 128mm 180 pages £7.99 978-1-905207-11-3 Ebook £4.99 978-1-905207-12-0 Rights held: World
John Larkin grew up in Lanarkshire before studying medicine in Glasgow where he continues to work as a consultant physician. Publications include 101 Top Tips in Medicine (Radcliffe, 2010), and his award-winning quirky textbook Cynical Acumen (Radcliffe, 2006) which went some way towards achieving its goal of alienating the medical establishment. With How to Keep Your Doctor Happy he plans to repeat the feat for the general population.
‘This is bedside teaching done by a stand-up comic… It is full of personality.’ British Medical Journal
gaelic
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Iain MacLean
Catriona Lexy Campbell
COGADH RUARIDH
CLEASAN A’BHAILE MHÒIR
Iain Maclean’s Cogadh Ruairidh (Rory’s War) is an account of the first day of the Battle of the Somme through the eyes and the experience of a Highland soldier.
Jessie is an aspiring actress who has moved to London to try to make a breakthrough into the big time but is finding the going tough.
B Format PBK 198 x 128mm 120 pages £7.99 978-1-905207-30-5 Ebook £7.99 978-1-905207-43-5 Rights held: World
Michael Newton SGEULACHDAN AN DÀ SHAOGHAIL ANN AN CEITHIR LITRICHEAN
B Format PBK 198 x 128mm 120 pages £7.99 978-1-905207-29-9 Ebook £7.99 978-1-905207-42-8 Rights held: World
B Format PBK 198 x 128mm 128 pages £7.99 978-1-905207-12-1 Rights held: World
A series of letters crosses supernatural bounds between two brothers.
Floraidh MacDonald
Alison Lang
LITIR À AMEIREAGAIDH
San Duthaich Uir
Letter from America tells of the life of Donald John who, in the years after the Great War, leaves Uist to work as a policeman, initially in Glasgow and later in New York.
Anna looks up to both her mother and her Aunt Marguerite although they live very different lives. Her mother’s is one of work and duty but Marguerite’s ways are quite different and Anna’s father does not approve.
B Format PBK 198 x 128mm 128 pages £7.99 978-1-905207-11-4 Rights held: World
B Format PBK 198 x 128mm 112 pages £7.99 978-1-905207-75-6 Ebook £4.99 978-1-905207-84-8 Rights held: World
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Ever Fallen in Love
Zoe Strachan
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Site Works
Robert Davidson
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Me and Mr Booker
Cory Taylor
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Janice Brown
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Anywhere’s Better Than Here
Zöe Venditozzi
978-1-908737-06-9
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Tell Me Where You Are
Moira Forsyth
978-1-905207-35-0
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978-1-905207-49-7
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Love, Revenge & Buttered Scones
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978-1-905207-37-4
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978-1-908737-04-5
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978-1-908737-10-6
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The Oldest Post Office in the World
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978-1-905207-95-4
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Hamish Brown
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Jonny Muir
978-1-905207-61-9
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Martin Moran
978-1-905207-69-5
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Eric MacLeod
978-1-905207-15-2
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John Allen
978-1-905207-24-4
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John Allen
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Leslie Symons
978-1-905207-60-2
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The Weekend Fix
Craig Weldon
978-1-905207-26-8
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In the Old Chief’s Country
Chris McIvor
978-1-905207-91-6
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A Bend in the Nile
Chris McIvor
978-1-905207-25-1
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Boswell’s Bus Pass
Stuart Campbell
978-1-905207-62-6
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Between Weathers
Ron McMillan
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Up the Creek without a Mullet
Simon Varwell
978-1-905207-34-3
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At the Edge
Joseph Murphy
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978-1-905207-32-9
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Anne Scott
978-1- 905207-71-9
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I should have lifted you carefully over
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978-1-905207-64-0
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The Long Bridge
Urszula Muskus
978-1-905207-55-8
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Shadow Behind the Sun
Remzije Sherifi
978-1-905207-13-8
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RLS in Love
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978-1-905207-28-2
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How To Keep Your Doctor Happy
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