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Sandstone Press
Sandstone Press is an independent publisher based in Scotland, with an international outlook. We aim to publish thoughtful, intelligent and emotionally engaging narratives, both fiction and non-fiction, from unique voices, which engage strongly with the contemporary world.
Award-winning literature from an award winning publisher Sandstone Press was selected as Saltire Society Scottish Publisher of the year in 2014 and 2019, the first company to win the award twice, Nibbies Small Press of the Year in 2019, and short listed as IPG Trade Independent Publisher of the Year in 2020.
Sandstone Press employees and authors have won or been listed for many prizes including Saltire Society Emerging Publisher of the Year, the International Booker and Booker Prizes.
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The Actuality
£12.99
Evie is a near-perfect bioengineered human. In a broken-down future England where her kind has been outlawed, her 'husband' Matthew keeps her hidden. When her existence is revealed, she must take her chances on the dark and hostile streets.
Women Hold Up Half the Sky: Selected Speeches of Nicola Sturgeon
£15.99
Selected speeches given by Nicola Sturgeon between 2014 and 2020.
Love is an Ex-Country
£14.99
Queer. Muslim. Arab American. A proudly Fat woman. Randa Jarrar is all these things. In this provocative memoir of a cross-country road trip, she explores how to claim joy in an unravelling and hostile world.
The Snow and the Works on the Northern Line
£8.99
Offbeat and darkly funny, The Snow and the Works on the Northern Line is about things lost and found. It is also a story about love, grief and forgiveness: letting go and moving on.
The Secret Life of the Mountain Hare
£14.99
This beautifully crafted paperback takes readers through the four seasons and the life of the mountain hare. Featuring stunning photography by Andy Howard, a leading expert on the subject.
The Disassembly of Doreen Durand
£14.99
The police want to know what she saw. Doreen doesn't want to tell them - or anyone. With one rogue police officer in pursuit, and life becoming more bizarre by the day, Doreen is caught up in a surreal game of cat and mouse.
A Soldier's Best Friend: The Canine Heroes of Afghanistan
£9.99
Military working dogs are silently winning the war against the world's deadliest insurgents; day after day saving soldiers' lives in the most dangerous country on the planet. Many have been rescue animals, neglected or mistreated by their owners before being given a new lease of life on the front line.
A'Choille Fhiadhach
£7.99
Ostracised at school because of her parents' eccentricity, Anna coped by inventing an imaginary friend called Pipkin. She eventually forgot her childhood companion, but suddenly Pipkin is back and this time he's real and more sinister than she ever dreamt he could be.
Acts of Allegiance
£8.99
Senior Irish diplomat, Marty Ransom, is torn between duty to his country and loyalty to the Anglo-Irish tradition in which he was raised. When he meets Alison, a Home Office employee now transferred to the British embassy in Dublin, Marty's fidelities are once again split.
Along the Amber Route: St Petersburg to Venice
£16.99
Following the Amber Route from the Baltic to the Mediterranean, C.J. Schuler charts the origins of amber, the myths and legends that have grown around it, and the dazzling artefacts crafted from it and traded along the way.
An Lamh a Bheir
£7.99
A trip to Namibia changes a young banker's priorities.
An Taistealach
£7.99
Sci-fi adventure. A space traveller seeks a new planet for her species.
An Uinneag don Iar
£7.99
A daring escape from East Berlin lets a mother and daughter start a new life in the west, but at what cost?
Animal Lovers
£8.99
Following serious illness, Stuart Block marries his girlfriend Marie. His marriage is short-lived as she soon develops a passion for protesting the badger cull, as well as for Henry, a handsome protestor.
Around the Coast in Eighty Waves
£8.99
Thousands of people in Britain surf, few of them have surfed all the way round