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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
MEDIA MEGAPHONE - 20/11/2008
This week we have an exciting new development that we believe is a ‘first’. Moira Forsyth’s interview with Chris McIvor, author of A BEND IN THE NILE, was recorded by Jim McAuslan of Hi-Arts and is about to appear as a podcast. You can access it through iTunes, My Yahoo, or Google Reader, by clicking on the link, here, just as soon as it is up.
We have two new reviews in their respective Hinterlands. The SHETLAND NEWS http://www.shetland-news.co.uk reviewer James Mackenzie has delivered probably the most perceptive reading yet of Ron McMillan’s BETWEEN WEATHERS. At the same time Annie Brown of the DAILY RECORD http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk has provided a thoughtful study of both Chris McIvor and A BEND IN THE NILE.
Just go to the books’ description pages and click on the word Hinterland at the bottom. That will take you to a new page of interest for each book. You’ll know Annie first time. She’s the one sitting on a tank.
Anna Craig of SAVE THE CHILDREN http://www.savethechildren.org.uk is in process of putting some interesting material about A BEND IN THE NILE on the charity’s web site. We’ll give you the connection just as soon as it’s made.
A BEND IN THE NILE: My Life in Nubia and Other Places
Chris McIvor
In this absorbing account Chris McIvor discovers Africa, finds love – and loses it – travels through the desert, along the Nile, and finally visits the war-locked region of Chad . Often in danger, and reliant on the kindness of strangers, he comes to love the wide territory known as Nubia and takes the first steps of his life’s work in overseas aid.[ FIND OUT MORE ]
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 ]