Recognising that no book stands alone, that a notion of where it comes from and where it is going is of great interest to the reader, we present behind each book a context of experience and culture, a Hinterland.

The Sandstone Meanmnach Series

The Sandstone Meanmnach Series is aimed at Advanced Gaelic learners as well as accomplished readers. Recognising that most readers come from an English language background the books open with an introduction that will contextualise and lead into the story.

Letter from America

Litir à Ameireagaidh

Flòraidh NicDhòmhnaill

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.

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Michael Newton

Sgeulachdan an Dà Shaoghail ann an Ceithir Litrichean

Michael Newton

Sgeulachdan an Dà Shaogail draws liberally from a variety of narrative structures, plot devices, idioms, and folkloric motifs in Gaelic oral tradition, and makes many allusions to a cultural inheritance that was once well known to generations of Gaelic speakers.

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