Non-Fiction
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.[ READ 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.[ READ 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.[ READ 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.[ READ 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.[ READ MORE ]
SHADOW BEHIND THE SUN
Remzije Sherifi
SHADOW BEHIND THE SUN is a book that has already 'made a difference'. Praised in the Scottish parliament Sandstone's most influential book has been widely discussed in both press and radio including Remzije Sherifi's remarkable appearance on BBC RADIO 4's MIDWEEK.[ READ MORE ]
THE RADICAL FIELD
Tony McManus
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. But if the influence of White’s work has been spreading, and will continue to do so, relatively few people even yet have a sense of its complete range.[ READ MORE ]
ON THE ATLANTIC EDGE
Kenneth White
Kenneth White is one of the most daring of Europe’s writers, thinkers and teachers. Breaking out the bounds of a limiting culture he left Scotland for France with his wife, Marie-Claude, in 1967. There he held first the Chair of 20th Century Poetics at the Sorbonne, later founding the International Institute of Geopoetics which now has centres in various countries, including Scotland and England.[ READ MORE ]