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SANDSTONE PRESS

2018JANUARY TO JUNE

FICTION AND NON-FICTION

Dear Reader,

The astonishing success of Sky Atlantic’s German language crime series, Babylon Berlin, will not have escaped the notice of anyone who reads this catalogue. Volker Kutscher’s brilliant Gereon Rath series is now six books into a projected eight (with a ninth to follow, but that’s different as you will see in time). Sandstone published Babylon Berlin in 2016, The Silent Death in 2017 (which will also be adapted for TV), and in 2018 will publish Goldstein.

We have a lot more great fiction in the first half of 2018. Our lead debut novel is by the distinguished young columnist, and co-founder of The Vagenda, Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett. Watch out for this one as The Tyranny of Lost Things is going to make quite a stir, alongside Celestial Bodies, our first translation from Arabic, by the Omani author, Jokha Alharthi.After the hugely successful first edition, we are bringing Clifton Bain’s The Ancient Pinewoods of Scotland back onto the shelves, a milestone book for Sandstone. We are also proud to welcome mountaineer and television personality Cameron McNeish into our stable of outdoor authors with his highly anticipated autobiography There’s Always the Hills. Retailers (and other fans) will note that Cameron’s foreword is provided by Outlander star Sam Heughan, his first venture into the world of print.Adding to our list of running books will be Jonny Muir’s The Mountains Are Calling, a history and personal memoir of hill running in Scotland, following his now classic and perennially selling, Isles at the Edge of the Sea.Add to these other exciting novels and narrative non-fiction, all with great covers and backed by impressive marketing campaigns, and you have one of the most dynamic first half lists in independent British publishing and… know what? We are already working on an equally exciting second half! To paraphrase Strictly Come Dancing: Ke-ee-ep Rea-ea-ding!

Robert Davidson Founder and Managing Director Sandstone Press Ltd

Scattered across the Scottish Highlands are the last remnants of the Caledonian forest which have survived, naturally seeding and growing since the last ice age. Visiting these ancient woods provides an emotional connection to the past. There is also a chance to look forward, after one of the greatest conservation success stories means a new future for the pinewoods and their spectacular wildlife. This journey to the pinewoods introduces a natural wonder alongside a rich cultural heritage. Lavishly illustrated with many colour photographs, maps, and drawings by wildlife artist Darren Rees.

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Clifton Bain

THE ANCIENT PINEWOODS OF SCOTLAND

A Traveller’s Guide

Jacketed HB 250 x 200 / 224 pages

Author location: Edinburgh

Pub date: 18/01/2018

ISBN: 9781908737250

RRP: £24.99

‘A writer with extraordinary range’ Jenn Ashworth

‘Detailed, useful; frankly inspired.’ Jim Crumley, SCotS magazine

Clifton Bain has over 25 years of experience working with the wildlife charity RSPB. Now Director of the IUCN Peatland Programme, his writing gives passionate insight into the human interventions that have shaped Scotland’s wildlife and landscape. As a firm believer that conservation relies on people enjoying nature, Clifton shares his experiences of the country’s natural treasures.

‘A wonderful book that stands out from the crowd in so many different ways...’ Undiscovered scotlAnd

ALSO BY CLIFTON BAIN

THE ANCIENT PINEWOODS OF SCOTLAND

A Companion Guide ISBN: 9781910124925 RRP: £11.99

The companion guide to the ancient pinewoods of Scotland is intended for woodland walkers and armchair planners, to accompany them in their explorations. Abridged from the original Traveller’s Guide, it provides descriptions of each site with full travel notes and map details.

THE RAINFORESTS OF BRITAIN AND IRELAND

A Traveller’s Guide ISBN: 9781910124260 RRP: £24.99

Following his tremendous success to date with The Ancient Pinewoods of Scotland, Clifton Bain turns his attention to the mixed oak, birch and other woodlands that line the west coasts of Scotland, Northern England, Wales and Ireland. Correctly described as a rainforest, these trees take a higher rainfall than some areas of the Brazilian rainforest. Since the Ice Age, they have provided resource for the human population, habitat for animals and birds, and acted as a lung for the planet. The Rainforests of Britain and Ireland is be illustrated with maps, original artwork and travel guidance.

‘Bain has produced another fantastic traveller’s guide to one of our most awe-inspiring yet

under-celebrated habitats.’ ScottiSh Wildlife Magazine

From his home in the Cairngorms of Scotland, Cameron McNeish reflects on a life dedicated to the outdoors. For almost forty years he has written and talked about walking and climbing in Scotland. A prolific author, he has led treks in the Himalayas and Syria, edited The Great Outdoors Magazine, created long-distance walks, made television series, and contributed a monthly column to The Scots Magazine. Now he candidly recalls the ups and downs of a full life, much of it in the public eye, much of it until now unseen.

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Cameron McNeish

THERE’S ALWAYS THE HILLS

Cameron McNeish is an established figure on the Scottish and British outdoor scene. As editor of TGO he increased circulation and established the magazine as Britain’s premier walking publication. He is the author of many books and presenter of numberous outdoor television programmes. He contributes a monthly column to The Scots Magazine.

‘The most highly respected voice now speaking for and from

Scotland’s mountains...’ Sam HeugHan

Royal Jacketed HBK 234 x 153 / 352 pages

Author location: Newtonmore, Scotland

Pub date: 15/02/2018

ISBN: 9781910985953

RRP: £19.99

FOREWORD BY SAM HEUGHAN

© Richard Else

When Stuart marries Marie after a serious illness, he doesn’t foresee her leaving him within four months of their honeymoon. She becomes passionately involved in protesting the badger cull, abandoning him to join fellow activists in the Gloucestershire woods. Stuart refuses to admit it’s over, feigning an interest in badgers in order to win her back. Though he’s accounted for her attachment to the badgers, he hasn’t considered her burgeoning interest in Henry, a handsome protester. As tensions rise and new relationships form, secrets bubble to the surface – including some which may have been best left hidden.

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Rob Palk

ANIMAL LOVERS

‘Rob Palk has a fine eye for a punch-line and a poignant turn of phrase. A bitterly funny book.’

mark WatSon, Comedian

B Format PBK 198 x 128 / 288 pages

Author location: Leicester

Pub date: 15/02/2018

ISBN: 9781912240036

RRP: £8.99

‘I didn’t resent the badgers. I just didn’t see why they made her stop loving me…’

Rob Palk wrote his first book while recovering from a nearly fatal illness and the collapse of his marriage. This book was written in London, Burgundy and Haifa but the author now lives in Leicester with several other writers and a cat.

The story of the National Youth Orchestra of Iraq is here told by its musical director from its inception to its eventual end. The NYOI came through the most difficult and dangerous of times to produce fine music not only in Iraq but also in Britain, Germany and France. A beacon of hope and achievement the young musicians and their tutors made bridges across their own ethnic divisions, made great music in the most trying and tragic of circumstances, and became their country’s best ambassadors in 5000 years.

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UPBEAT The Story of the National Youth Orchestra of Iraq

Paul MacAlindin discovered from an early age that he loved being an artist leading artists. As a musician, dancer and all-round performer, he found his voice through conducting, a passionate journey that has led him to work with orchestras and ensembles all over the world, from the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra to the Armenian Philharmonic to the Düsseldorf Symphoniker.

‘Fragile, precarious, quixotic and almost insanely heroic.’

BBC muSiC magazine


Author location: Glasgow

Pub date: 15/03/2018

ISBN: 9781912240012

RRP: £9.99

‘An amazing and deeply inspiring story.’ the Bookseller

Johnny Jackson has just turned 75. He used to be famous, but his dead brother Duke was a hero. Self-made and unmade, film director and tycoon, all people remember about Johnny is the Music Hall monkey. Exiled for years, he’s heading home from his Japanese bunker, reluctantly - one last blockbuster and a civic honouring. But forget the adulation, the protests about his company and the concern of his security that he may be a target: Johnny just can’t shake Duke.

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Tom McCulloch

THE ACCIDENTAL RECLUSE


Author location: Oxford

Pub date: 15/03/2018

ISBN: 9781912240180

RRP: £8.99


‘Ok, so you get to be the hero. What do I get?’

‘You get the monkey,’ said the old man. ‘The monkey?’

‘Sure. Everyone loves the monkey.’

Tom McCulloch has published poetry and short stories in various journals including Other Poetry, Northwords, Northwords Now, Eildon Tree, Markings, Buzzwords, and Wilderness magazine (New Zealand). He was long-listed for the Herald/Imagining Scotland short story competition 2011. With his first novel, The Stillman, he became an Amazon Rising Star.

‘The author knows how to peer into the lives of his characters with an unsparing eye, finding the warmth and horror that surrounds us all.’ AlAn Bissett

ALSO BY TOM McCULLOCH

A PRIVATE HAUNTINGISBN: 9781910985151 RRP: £8.99

Jonas Mortensen wants to be liked. Adam Fletcher wants to be forgotten.

Jonas, a freewheeling Norwegian, has been living in a quiet English village for years, an eccentric everyone has an opinion about. Then the real owner of his house turns up. Fletcher, a traumatised veteran of the Afghan War, has come to claim his inheritance. The two men live side by side in an increasingly bizarre standoff, until a teenage girl goes missing and suspicion falls on Jonas. As the hunt intensifies, it’s clear both men are concealing past lives that won’t stay hidden much longer.

‘A captivating triumph that confirms the arrival of a blistering new talent on the Scottish literary scene.’

the daily RecoRd

THE STILLMANISBN: 9781908737670 RRP: £8.99

Jim Drever is a man apart, his closest relationship with the machinery he monitors in the distillery where he’s worked for twenty years. He treats everything else with bleakly humorous contempt: his fading marriage, the increasingly bizarre behaviour of his teenage son; his daughter’s impending wedding. He can deal with all that in his own way. It’s the emails from Cuba, made up of letters from his dead mother, that threaten to bring down Jim’s ordered world.

‘The mystery turns into a powerful depiction of a man struggling to come to terms with his past and

to live in his present.’ the heRald

In Bump, Bike & Baby, Moire O’Sullivan charts her journey from happy, carefree mountain runner to reluctant stay-at-home mother of two. With her sights set on winning Ireland’s National Adventure Racing Series, she manages to maintain her post-natal sanity, and slowly learns to become a loving and occasionally functioning mum.

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Moire O’Sullivan

BUMP, BIKE & BABYMummy’s Gone Adventure Racing

‘A fun, light-hearted and insightful account of the

challenges competitive mums are faced with.’

liz yelling


Author location: Co. Down, Northern Ireland

Pub date: 15/03/2018

ISBN: 9781912240067

RRP: £8.99

‘Honest, humorous and insightful...’ soniA o’sUllivAn, world chAmpion rUnner And olympiAn

Moire O’Sullivan is an accomplished mountain runner and adventure racer. In 2009, she became the first person to complete the Wicklow Round, a 100km circuit of Ireland’s Wicklow Mountains run within twenty-four hours. She is married to Pete and is the proud mother of their two young sons, Aran and Cahal. Moire won Ireland’s National Adventure Race Series in 2014 and 2016.

Helen Bellany, twice married to the artist John Bellany, recalls their lives together in Scotland, London, and Italy, John’s rise from rebellious art student to worldwide recognition, and the human cost inherent in creating great art. The Restless Wave reflects the mystery, poetry and passion that was at the core of the inner life John and Helen shared. The couple had great friendships with such fellow artists as David Bowie, and John painted such internationally known figures as Billy Connelly, Sean Connery and Peter Maxwell Davis, as well as many portraits of his muse, Helen.

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THE RESTLESS WAVE My Two Lives with John Bellany

Helen Bellany was the partner and muse of the artist John Bellany, with whom she fell in love in art school. They were married twice and had three children together. Helen Bellany is also an accomplished artist.

‘Painting to John was akin to breathing. It came before everything. It always would.’

Royal HBK 234 x 156 / 416 pages

Author location: Edinburgh and Essex

Pub date: 19/04/2018

ISBN: 9781912240029

RRP: £19.99

A moving and affecting love story

When Scotland’s leading virologist goes missing, Mona and Paterson from the Health Enforcement Team are dispatched to London to find him. In a hot and unwelcoming city, Mona has to deal with a boss who isn’t speaking to her, placate the Professor’s over-bearing assistant, and outwit the people who will stop at nothing to make sure the academic stays lost. Meanwhile, back in Edinburgh, Bernard searches for a missing prostitute, while Maitland tries to keep the Chair of the Parliamentary Virus Committee from finding out quite how untidy the HET office is.

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Lesley Kelly

SONGS BY DEAD GIRLSA Health of Strangers Thriller



Pub date: 19/04/2018

ISBN: 9781912240081

RRP: £8.99


‘Lesley Kelly has a knack of leaving you wanting more...’

love BookS group

Lesley Kelly has worked in the public and voluntary sectors for the past twenty years, dabbling in poetry and stand-up comedy along the way. She has won several writing competitions, including the Scotsman’s Short Story award in 2008. She can be followed on Twitter where she post lively tweets about her novels, and lots of other topics.

‘An intriguing tale of crime in a post viral Edinburgh, told with panache.’ lin Anderson, AUthor of the rhonA mAcleod series

ALSO BY LESLEY KELLY

THE HEALTH OF STRANGERSISBN: 9781910985663 RRP: £8.99

Nobody likes the North Edinburgh Health Enforcement Team, least of all the people who work for it. An uneasy mix of seconded Police and health service staff, Mona, Bernard and their colleagues stem the spread of the Virus, a mutant strain of influenza, by tracking down people who have missed their monthly health check.

Now two young female students are missing, raising question after question for the HET. Why were they drinking in a bikers’ bar? Who are the mysterious Children of Camus cult? And why is the German government interfering in the investigation?

A FINE HOUSE IN TRINITYISBN: 9781910124956 RRP: £8.99

‘I enjoyed my first day at primary school. Of course, I didn’t know then that this was the first day of a suffocating friendship with a psychopath, a friendship I’d still be trapped in thirty years later. ‘

Joseph Staines left town with a stolen tallybook, but two suspicious deaths and a surprise inheritance have lured him back home to Edinburgh. No-one is pleased to see him. The debtors want him gone. The Police have some questions for him. And a mysterious stranger has been asking about him in the pub. To survive, Staines has to sober up, solve the murders, and stay one step ahead of the man who wants him dead.

LONGLISTED FOR THE MCILVANNEY PRIZE 2016

The Mountains Are Calling is the exhilarating story of the runners who go to high places, featuring illustrations and maps. Jonny Muir explores the history and culture of the sport, and meets the legends of hill running who are revered for their extraordinary endurance.

As he discovers the insatiable lure of the hills, a calling leads him to the supreme test of mountain running: Ramsay’s Round – a continuous loop of 23 of Scotland highest mountains, to be completed within 24 hours.

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Jonny Muir

THE MOUNTAINS ARE CALLING

Running in the High Places of Scotland

Jonny Muir is an adventurer, runner, writer and proponent of UK-inspired travel. Born in Birmingham in 1981, he grew up and was educated in north Worcestershire, before studying history at the University of Exeter. Jonny visited the UK’s 91 historic county tops in a continuous 5000-mile cycling and walking adventure over a three-month period in 2006.

‘A paean of praise for the mountains and the runners who go there.’

alaStair HumpHreyS, autHor of miCroadventureS and grand adventureS

Royal HBK 234 x 156 / 350 pages


Pub date: 17/05/2018

ISBN: 9781912240104

RRP £19.99

FOREWORD BY ALEX STANIFORTH ‘A wonderful, inspiring book…’ Undiscovered scotlAnd

ISLES AT THE EDGE OF THE SEAISBN: 9781905207619 RRP £9.99

Off the western seaboard of Scotland are hundreds of islands. Beginning on Arran, Jonny Muir sets out to explore these places with a single ambition: to reach the St Kilda archipelago, the islands at the edge of the world. On the way he attempts to finds his inner peace on Holy Island, takes part in a punishing foot race across the mountains of Jura, confronts the Inaccessible Pinnacle on Skye and walks the white-sand beach on Berneray.

He encounters sharks and whales, discovers gory histories and follows in the footsteps of Boswell and Johnson, but island life is not without its challenges. ‘Man-eating’ midges live up to their reputation on Rum. An Atlantic storm threatens to rip his tent to shreds on Barra. Wicked weather lashes the Outer Hebrides, leaving his prospects of reaching St Kilda balanced on a knife-edge. An intensely personal account of a journey through some of Britain’s most extraordinary landscapes.

ALSO BY JONNY MUIR

Berlin, 1931. A power struggle is taking place in Berlin’s underworld. American gangster Abraham Goldstein is in residence at the Hotel Excelsior. As a favour to the FBI, the police put him under surveillance with Detective Gereon Rath on the job. As Rath grows bored and takes on a private case for his seedy pal Johann Marlow, he finds himself in the middle of a Berlin street war.

Berlin is a divided city where two worlds are about to collide: the world of the American gangster and the expanding world of Nazism.

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Volker Kutscher

GOLDSTEIN A Gereon Rath Mystery

Volker Kutscher was born in 1962 in Lindlar, West Germany. He is the author of the enormously successful Gereon Rath crime series which, in addition to compelling narrative, is notable for its scrupulous accuracy on Germany in the years leading up to the approach of the Second World War.

The Silent Death, like its predecessor, Babylon Berlin, owes much to its author’s commitment to historical accuracy and

the cynical feel of the times.’ peter JameS

The third Gereon Rath mystery brings a New York hit man to the streets of Berlin.


Author location: Germany

Pub date: 17/05/2018

ISBN: 9781912240128

RRP: £8.99

NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES

BABYLON BERLIN ISBN: 9781910124970 RRP £8.99

Berlin, 1929. After inadvertently killing a man, Detective Inspector Rath finds himself transferred to the Vice Squad in Berlin, a job he detests. As police and civilians clash over the ban on May Day demonstrations, Berlin descends into a state of emergency while Rath and police stenographer Charlotte Ritter become entangled in a communist conspiracy over White Russian gold.

‘Kutscher successfully conjures up the dangerous decadence of the Weimar years, with blood on the Berlin streets and the Nazis lurking menacingly in the wings.’

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THE SILENT DEATHISBN: 9781910985649 RRP £8.99

Berlin 1930. Sound film is conquering the big screen, leaving many by the wayside: producers, cinema owners – and silent film stars. Investigating the violent on-set death of actress Betty Winter, Inspector Gereon Rath becomes trapped in the machinations of rival film producers, pushing him ever closer to the edge of legality. When his father requests that he help a friend, and his ex-girlfriend Charly makes a renewed attempt at rapprochement, things start to get out of hand

‘Wonderfully atmospheric... a novel that offers vivid insights into the cultural upheavals of the late Weimar republic.’

the Sunday tiMeS

ALSO BY VOLKER KUTSCHER

© Monika Sandel

‘Every day we put fire and swords and electricity into our bodies, throw knives at them, contort them, wrap them in snakes, and every day we wake up sure those things won’t harm us but also sure that there is so much else that will.’

When her mother had a series of strokes, Tessa Fontaine couldn’t stand to watch her mother disappear. The Electric Woman tells Tessa’s story of joining America’s last travelling freak show, and learning to perform death-defying acts in order to come to terms with her mother’s illness. In her life-affirming memoir, Tessa finds hope and companionship among sword swallowers and snake charmers.

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Tessa Fontaine

THE ELECTRIC WOMANA Memoir in Death-Defying Acts

‘I have never read a book more tender or more true.’

melanie rae tHon


Author location: Utah, USA

Pub date: 17/05/2018

ISBN: 9781912240203

RRP: £8.99

‘A beautiful and ferocious book… I loved every page.’ Annie hArtnett, AUthor of rABBit cAke

Tessa Fontaine’s work has appeared in journals such as PANK and Seneca Review. Tessa holds an MFA from the University of Alabama and is currently a PhD student in creative writing at the University of Utah.

Set in the village of al-Awafi in Oman, Celestial Bodies introduces us to three sisters: Mayya, who marries after a heartbreak; Asma, who marries from a sense of duty; and Khawla who rejects all offers while waiting for her beloved. These three women and their families witness Oman evolve from a traditional, slave-owning society, to the crossroads of its complex present. Elegantly structured and taut, Celestial Bodies is a coiled spring of a novel, telling of Oman’s coming-of-age through the prism of one family’s losses and loves.

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CELESTIAL BODIES

Jokha Alharthi is the author of two previous collections of short fiction, a children’s book, and three novels in Arabic. Fluent in English, she completed a PhD in Classical Arabic Poetry in Edinburgh, and teaches at Sultan Qaboos University in Muscat. She has been shortlisted for the Sahikh Zayed Award for Young Writers and her short stories have been published in English, German, Italian, Korean, and Serbian.

‘Jokha Alharthi poses the question of consciousness in the most

fundamental and inescapable of ways.’ mufid niJm


Author location: Oman

Pub date: 21/06/2018

ISBN: 9781912240166

RRP: £8.99

WINNER OF THE BEST OMANI NOVEL PRIZE

© Claire Marika

Having dropped out of university, Harmony returns to the site of the urban commune where she lived as a child, now divided into flats. She rents a room in the hope of uncovering the source of her nightmares about a redheaded woman who haunts the house and her obsession with lost objects from her childhood. As the London riots explode in the streets, past and present converge, and Harmony begins to discover what really happened at Longhope twenty years ago. Can she grow up at last, and build her own future?

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Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

THE TYRANNY OF LOST THINGS

Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett is a columnist, feature writer and editor for the Guardian newspaper, contributing mainly to Opinion and Features sections, and the Weekend magazine. In 2012 she co-founded the Vagenda, a funny feminist blog which was published in book form by Vintage. This is her first novel.

‘London in the summertime. I’ve always loved it, maybe because it’s the only time when the city truly

feels like itself.’


Author location: London

Pub date: 21/06/2018

ISBN: 9781912240142

RRP: £8.99

CO-FOUNDER AND CO-AUTHOR OF THE VAGENDA

‘It strips away a lot of the myth surrounding Mackintosh; and it also tells the moving story of a major leading Scots writer.’ the oBserver, Best BiogrAphies 2015

The Lasag Gaelic readers’ series offers young

adults a range of engaging, easy-to-read fiction,

with English chapter summaries and glossaries.

From comedy and romance, to historical fiction

and sci-fi, the Lasag titles have something to offer

every Gaelic learner.

BESTSELLING LASAG TITLESAN TAISTEALACH

Iain Fionnlagh MacLeòidISBN 9781910985991 RRP: £7.99

A’ CHOILLE FHIADHAICH

Kenny LindsayISBN 9781910985755 RRP: £7.99

‘Bha mi air bhioran...’ david WalkeR

AN LÀMH A BHEIR Seonaidh Charity

ISBN 9781910985465 RRP: £7.99

‘Eirmseachd is doimhneachd…’ MàRtainn Mac an t-SaoiR

CHO SNOG ’S A THA THU Alison Lang

ISBN 9781910124802 RRP: £7.99

‘Furasta a leughadh agus gad ghlacadh bho thùs.’

debbie nicaoidh

SAOGHAL EILE Màiri E. NicLeòid

ISBN 9781910985977 RRP: £7.99

BANAIS NA BLIADHNA Maureen MacLeod

ISBN 9781910124840 RRP: £7.99

‘Leabhar cho èibhinn ’s a leugh mi sa Ghàidhlig.’

catRìona lexy chaiMbeul

AN UINNEAG DON IAR Michael Klevenhaus

ISBN 9781910124864 RRP: £7.99

‘Nobhail ùr ionmholta, a’ togail cheistean mu dhachaigh, cuimhne

agus càirdeas.’ dòMhnall uilleaM StiùbhaRt

AN CREANAICHE Roddy Maclean

ISBN 9781910124789 RRP: £7.99

‘Eloquent, interesting, historic and thought provoking.’

MaRgaRet Macleod (na h-oganaich)

WALKING THE SONG Hamish Brown

ISBN 9781910985588 RRP: £8.99

‘Eloquent and evocative.’ keith PaRtRidge,

the adventuRe gaMe

CAIRNGORM JOHN John Allen

ISBN 9781905207572 RRP: 8.99

‘A fascinating account of a man of great humility and

remarkable courage.’ annie bRoWn

HAMISH’S MOUNTAIN WALK

Hamish Brown

ISBN 9781905207336 RRP: £14.99

‘This is one of the books that inspired me...’chRiS toWnSend

BESTSELLING OUTDOOR TITLES BESTSELLING MEMOIRS AND BIOGRAPHIES

DOWNHILL FROM HERE

Gavin BoyterISBN 9781910985625 RRP: £9.99

‘Real triumph, written with wit and personal depth.’

Sunday Mail

OUT THERE Chris Townsend

ISBN 9781910124727 RRP: £8.99

‘Townsend has achieved his aim of inspiring others with

this book’ the ScotS Magazine

RUNNING HARD Steve Chilton

ISBN 9781910985946 RRP: £9.99

‘This is a fine account of their fierce, but friendly, rivalry.’

bookS cuMbRia

AROUND THE COAST IN EIGHTY WAVES

Jonathan BennetISBN 9781910124888 RRP: £8.99

‘A warm and honest account of the cold, wet challenges of the

surfers’ path.’ chRiS nelSon

THE ADVENTURE GAME

Keith PartridgeISBN 9781910124314 RRP: £24.99

‘Frightening and beautiful.’ libby PuRveS, bbc Radio 4 MidWeek

JOSEPHINE TEY: A LIFE Jennifer Morag Henderson

ISBN 9781910985373 RRP: £9.99

‘The life of one of the great golden age crime writers is

granted a forensic examination in Josephine Tey.’

the indePendent

MISTRESS AND COMMANDER

Amelia DaltonISBN 9781910985175 RRP: £8.99

‘exuberant, heart-warming and inspiring, a captivating read.’

lee duRRell

A BROKEN HALLELUJAH

Liel Leibovitz

ISBN 9781910124673 RRP: £8.99

‘Provokes thought and emotion on every page.’

RichaRd holloWay

THE GUY FAE THE CORRIES

Ronnie BrowneISBN 9781910985069 RRP: £9.99

‘One of the most significant voices in 20th century Scottish folk music.’

the national

GREENPEACE CAPTAINPeter Willcox

ISBN 9781910985526 RRP: £9.99

‘There is warmth and excitement in Peter Willcox’s thrilling account

of his adventures as Greenpeace Captain.’

gRace o’Sullivan, iRiSh enviRonMentaliSt and gReen PaRty SenatoR

18 BOOKSHOPS Anne Scott

ISBN 9781905207718 RRP: £11.99

‘An indispensable guide to bookshops lost and living’

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THE SEED BENEATH THE SNOW

Joanna RamseyISBN 9781910124512 RRP: £8.99

‘Refreshingly, Ramsey reveals a kind and relaxed private man.’

the Skinny

THE ENGLISH DAUGHTER Maggie Wadey

ISBN 9781910985137 RRP: £8.99

‘A luminous act of love and memory.’ MaRina WaRneR

BESTSELLING NON FICTION

THE WORLD IS ELSEWHERE

Chris McIvorISBN 9781910124345 RRP: £8.99

‘Superb read and a must for all of us.’

the bookbag

DANIEL DEFOE’S RAILWAY JOURNEY

Stuart Campbell ISBN 9781910985700 RRP: £8.99

‘A fascinating insight into the lives of ordinary - and not-

so-ordinary - travellers’ the Sunday PoSt

CHINA IN DRAG Michael Bristow

iSbn 9781910985908 RRP: £8.99

‘A finely observed tale of one man and modern China.

Fascinating and lovely.’ MiShal huSain

THE SUNLIT SUMMITRobin Lloyd-Jones

ISBN 9781910124185 RRP: £9.99

‘There need never be another account of Murray’s life.’

RobeRt MacfaRlane

THE GREAT HORIZONJo Woolf

ISBN 9781910985885 RRP: £24.99

‘A thoroughly worthwhile book…’ undiScoveRed Scotland

JANE AND DOROTHY Marian Veevers

ISBN 9781910985779 RRP: £17.99

‘An unusual but interesting account.’

the bookbag

A SOLDIER’S BEST FRIEND

Stephen Paul Stewart ISBN 9781910124574 RRP: £9.99

‘A Soldier’s Best Friend is a harrowing, moving and

engrossing read’ niall edWoRthy, authoR of

Main battle tank

BOSWELL’S BUS PASS Stuart Campbell

ISBN 9781908737304 RRP: £8.99

‘I did most of this journey in a boat with Griff Rhys Jones and

Dara O’Brien. This book is much more fun!’

RoRy McgRath

BESTSELLING SCOTTISH TITLES

THE MAKING OF MICKEY BELL Kellan MacInnes

ISBN 9781910985274 RRP: £8.99

‘A triumphant journey of discovery.’ alex Roddie

THE TAILOR OF INVERNESS Matthew Zajac

ISBN 9781908737458 RRP: £8.99

‘Mesmerising and lyrical.’ annie bRoWn, Sunday Mail

THE PASSION OF HARRY BINGO

Peter RossISBN 9781910985816 RRP: £8.99

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