WELCOME TO SANDSTONE
Sandstone Press is a publisher of books. Based in the Highlands of Scotland the company established its reputation in adult literacy with the Sandstone Vista Series. Its non-fiction list has collected many nominations and short-listings for national literary awards. The company is characterised by high editorial standards, internationalism, and a strong engagement with the contemporary world using modern methods.
NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
Another Edinburgh gone by, roll on Boat of Garten - 25/08/2008
Congratulations to Catherine Lockerbie and her team after another successful Edinburgh International Book Festival. These Festivals are becoming more popular with new events springing up all across the Highlands. The Kerracher Man (Eric MacLeod) has already appeared at Nairn and The Big Tent, and on Saturday 27th September will appear at Boat of Garten. Jamie Whittle will be gigging on ‘White River’ on the same day so BofG is a Festival not to miss. On Friday 3rd October Sandstone Press, in association with the Neil Gunn Trust, will host the Neil Gunn Lecture as part of the Inverness Book Fsetival in the new Eden Court Theatre. This year’s lecture will be given by super-journalist Leslie Riddoch. Tickets for all three events are going fast so if you are in the area on holiday, or a book loving resident, you had best move quickly.
SCOTTISH PRINTED BOOKS 1508-2008
Antony Kamm
2008 is the 500th anniversary of printing in Scotland. To celebrate this important event the National Library of Scotland will present their exhibition Imprentit at their premises at George IV Bridge in Edinburgh, home of the marvellous John Murray Archive.[ FIND OUT MORE ]
BETWEEN WEATHERS Travels in 21 st Century Shetland
Ron McMillan
The Shetland Islands sit where the North Atlantic Ocean and the North Sea meet, closer to the Arctic Circle than to London. Over the centuries they have been a vital staging post for Vikings, Hanseatic traders and merchant sailors from faraway lands. Yet somehow, the same islands remain ‘off the map’ of British consciousness.[ FIND OUT MORE ]
THE KERRACHER MAN
Eric Macleod
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 remotest quarter of the West Highlands. Rocky and windswept it was an unlikely Eden, even after they cleared the dead sheep from the living room floor.[ FIND OUT MORE ]
WHITE RIVER: A journey up and down the River Findhorn
Jamie Whittle
The new kind of environmental book that is WHITE RIVER introduces a startling talent in the literature of the Earth. Still a young man Jamie Whittle has already quartered the globe, visiting wild places in the Pacific, Central and Southern America, Africa, the Yukon and Highland Scotland, living and working for a period with a family in Ladakh and sharing their lives.[ FIND OUT MORE ]