The Best New Sports Gift Books
16 Dec '22
In the past few years, we’ve published some unique and interesting sports books through Arena Sport, our dedicated sports imprint. If you’re...
New Writing
Landfall on South Georgia – an extract from The Two-Headed Whale
06 Oct '22
The story of whaling is a sensitive subject. Sandy Winterbottom handles it beautifully in her mix of historical narrative, the fictionalised, tragic...
The Best Autumnal Books to Read This Season
03 Oct '22
As the evenings grow darker and a distinctly autumnal chill lingers in the air, it’s only natural to start looking for the ideal fireside book to...
Author Ian Williams Warns that Scottish Universities are Dangerously Dependent on Chinese Funding
29 Sep '22
China has been making global headlines recently with its increasingly hostile actions towards Taiwan, a topic covered at length in Former Channel 4...
Four Outriders to Cast New Light on Our World
21 Sep '22
The Edinburgh International Book Festival today announced the launch of the third phase of Outriders, an exciting project that will...
The Palace of Holyroodhouse
14 Sep '22
An extract from Homecoming: The Scottish Years of Mary Queen of Scots by Rosemary Goring A great many of the thousands lining the Royal Mile in...
A Day in September by Alexander McCall Smith
12 Sep '22
A Poem on Loss ‘A Day in September’ is a poem, written by Alexander McCall Smith, to mark the the occasion of the death of Queen...
‘This is Where You Want to Aim’– An Extract from Hindsight by Jenna Watt
25 Aug '22
Early Autumn is the peak period for deer stalking in the Highland estates of Scotland, a practice that is both controversial and inaccessible to most...
Excerpt from Talking at the Gates: A Life of James Baldwin
07 Jun '22
“I never had a childhood,” James Baldwin told a French interviewer in 1974. To a journalist ten years earlier, he proclaimed, “I did not have...
The Case of the Missing Pound Note: A Daniella Coulstoun Short Story
06 Jun '22
The following short story plunges readers into the gritty crime and blazing sun of the Daniella Coulstoun series, and offers a taster of what to...
‘Lone Seal Travelling South’ from Other Worlds, An Anthology of Scottish Island Poems
17 May '22
Other Worlds is a captivating collection of poems devoted to the sights, sounds, and feelings of Scotland’s islands. Editor Stewart Conn has...
An Extract from Of Blood Descended by Steven Veerapen
09 May '22
Steven Veerapen’s thrilling new book, Of Blood Descended, was published just this past week. Set in the summer of 1522, this book follows the...
