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
KEEPING IN TOUCH WITH OUR READERS - 02/10/2008
The Sandstone Press FACEBOOK is gathering more FRIENDS every day. If you have your own facebook, or are a reading group, or another publisher, or a record company or theatre group, why not pay a visit and befriend us? Along with this web site and the occasional e-bulletin we will be using it to keep people informed of new and coming publications and other events.
Speaking of which the fourth print run of THE KERRACHER MAN will be with our distributor on Monday, and A BEND IN THE NILE is on schedule for November 1st. We expect to be announcing an exciting new book in the following couple of weeks.
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 ]