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Scottish and international independent publisher based in Edinburgh. Publishing fiction, poetry, biography and history.

Three times finalist for British Book Awards Small Press of the Year, 2019, 2020, and 2021. Long-listed for Republic of Consciousness Prize 2021. Committed to publishing diverse voices, women and first-time authors.

01/12/2024

Brilliant review from in « Evans is a wonderful writer and observer, a stylist as gloriously free-wheeling as the late Jonathan Raban. Each paragraph has a lapidary charm »

24/11/2024

HERE is The People's Book Prize NON-FICTION Collection for 2024/2025!

The PUBLIC are the judges - THE READERS decide who the 2025 award winners will be. Go to our website to vote for your favourite FICTION, NON-FICTION and CHILDREN's books!

1. 10 Scotland Street by Leslie Hills (published by Scotland Street Press)
2. A Bookshop of One’s Own by Jane Cholmeley (published by HarperCollins Publishers UK Mudlark)
3. Are You Ready? How To Build A Legacy To Die For by Dr Kimberley Harms (published by Muse Literary)
4. Brutal, My Autobiography by Iwan Thomas (published by Bloomsbury Sport)
5. Coach Yourself Confident by Julie Smith (published by Practical Inspiration Publishing)
6. Do I Bark Like a Dog? By Michael Volpe OBE (published by Renard Press)
7. Killing Thatcher by Rory Caroll (published by HarperCollins Publishers UK Mudlark)
8. Listening, Laughing and Learning by Neil Tuson (published by Filament Publishing Ltd)
9. Migrant Magic by Elham Fardad (published by Practical Inspiration Publishing)
10. Once Upon A Time In Uppsala by Shirin Amani Azari (published by The Book Guild
11. One Garden Against The World by Kate Bradbury (published by Bloomsbury Wildlife - Bloomsbury Publishing UK)
12. Peace Between Breaths by Feroze Dada (published by Filament Publishing Ltd)
13. Potholes and Pavements: A Bumpy Ride On Britain’s National Cycle Network by Laura Laker (published by Bloomsbury Sport)
14. Renegotiating Patriarchy by Naila Kabeer (published by LSE Press)
15. Story You Don’t Want to Read by Aleksandra Osman (published by Austin Macauley Publishers)
16. The Alchemy by Anna Vaught (published by Renard Press)
17. The Future is Rosie by Carolyn Mayling (published by Alliance Publishing Press Ltd)
18. The Getting Of Resilience From The Inside Out by Sally Baker (published by Hammersmith Books)
19. The Walnut Tree by Kate Morgan (published by HarperCollins Publishers UK Mudlark)
20. Trails And Tribulations: The Running Adventures of Susie by Susie Chan (published by Bloomsbury Sport)
21. Unfolding Consciousness by Edi Bilimoria (published by Shepheard-Walwyn Publishers)
22. Working Mother: Simple Coaching Strategies by Rachel Morris (published by Practical Inspiration Publishing)

18/10/2024

Lots of exciting events to come before the end of the year!

7th November: Jenni Daiches will be in conversation with playwright David Neville as part of the New College festival of books and belief.

11th December: Daoud Sarhandi-Williams, Sepideh Jodeyri and Ali Sobati will be at Scottish Poetry Library for the launch of HAIRAN.

Tickets available through the link in our bio 🔗

10/09/2024

📢 CHANGE OF VENUE 📢

The launch event for Jenni Daiches new book ‘Somewhere Else’, will now be held at the Golden Hare Bookshop, Edinburgh (NOT St Vincent’s chapel).

The date and time of the event, 12th September at 6:30pm, has not changed.

Tickets are still available through the link in our bio 🔗

We look forward to seeing you there!

24/08/2024

Join us on 12th September at Golden Hare Books to hear Jenni Daiches, in conversation with Dr Bashi Fraser, for the launch of her new book ‘Somewhere Else’!

Rosa Roskin is five years old when her family are murdered in a pogrom and she is forced to leave behind everything she knows with only a suitcase of clothes and her father‘s violin. An epic generational novel about womanhood and Judaeo-Scottish experience across two world wars, the creation of Israel and the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Somewhere Else explores today’s most difficult and urgent questions, not least of which: how to find identity in displacement.

‘I wept and laughed and wished I had written it.’ MIRIAM MARGOLYES

Dr Bashabi, CBE is an award winning poet, children’s writer, editor, translator and academic.

Where: St Vincent’s Chapel, Edinburgh
When: Thursday 12th September 2024, 6:30pm

✨Order your copy of the book and receive a free ticket to the event! ✨

15/08/2024

Great to see Miriam Margolyes in the flesh and thanking her for recommending our next book Someehere Else “ I wept and laughed and wished I had written it…” Miriam

11/08/2024

There’s still time to get your ticket to see Val McDermid in conversation with Leslie Hills to discuss her debut 10 Scotland Street, an opinionated history of one Edinburgh Home over two centuries.

𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞: 𝐄𝐅𝐈 𝐕𝐞𝐧𝐮𝐞 𝐓, 𝐄𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐛𝐮𝐫𝐠𝐡 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐅𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥
𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐧: 𝐅𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝟏𝟔𝐭𝐡 𝐀𝐮𝐠𝐮𝐬𝐭, 𝟏𝟎:𝟑𝟎 𝐚𝐦.

‘As a writer of fiction, I found myself itching to lift some of these characters from the page into the fertile fields of my own imagination’ - VAL MCDERMID

Ticket details at the link in our bio 🔗

01/08/2024

Jean Findlay spent the morning signing copies of her book ‘The Queen’s Lender’ at Toppings Booksellers today!

If you love a bit of court intrigue this one is definitely for you 📖

Tap the link in our bio to get your copy now 🔗

25/07/2024

We have just released a new edition of Stewart Conn’s Aspects of Edinburgh!

Immerse yourself in the spirit of the city through Stewart’s poems, complemented and enhanced by John Knight’s beautifully detailed illustrations, featured above.

Click the link in our bio to get yourself a copy now! 🔗

11/07/2024

Author of MacSonnetries, Petra Reid, will be launching a new collection: ‘My Diabetes Type 2 - an A to Z in Limericks’ at Belladrum Festival 2024!

Don’t miss Petra’s live performance; Twenty six limericks, a toy piano and Bonnie Prince SugarBucks recently discovered crown - what could possibly go right?

Let Petra take you on a short, bumpy ride from the A to Z of UPF’s, Type 2 Diabetes and Man’s expulsion from the Garden of Eden.

Click the link in our bio and select this post to get your tickets 🔗

🍬(P.S. we hear there’s free sweets for everyone 👀) 🍬

17/05/2024

On this day, 434 years ago... Anne of Denmark was crowned Queen of Scotland.

So what do we know about Anne?

She married James VI Scotland, later to become James I, best remembered for uniting the four kingdoms and persecuting witches.

Unlike Queen Elizabeth, Anne produced many heirs, securing the Stuart line. And her love of theatre later led to the formation of The King’s Men, giving Shakespeare lifelong security as court playwright under the patronage of King James.

To find out more about the secret life of Queen Anne, check out Jean Findlay's "seamless...court intrigue" The Queen's Lender which casts a light on this hitherto overlooked, remarkable woman.

09/05/2024

‘From Vilnius with Love’

This week, Scotland Street Press travelled to Vilnius for the largest Literary Congress in the Baltic States —

Early Monday morning, we boarded a plane at Edinburgh, hopped off at Helsinki Airport where we were greeted by life size Moomins, before boarding a second, tiny aircraft with only two propellers — gazing out over the Baltic Sea towards St Petersburg — arriving in Vilnius in the evening.

The weather in Vilnius has been 'baltic' and bright, clear blue skies providing the backdrop to some breath-taking architecture.

Highlights from the conference so far include…the Palace housing the Writers' Union, St Anne's brick gothic church, and a drum captured from the Ottoman Turks in the 17th century.

08/05/2024

It’s the moment we’ve all been waiting for!

Leslie Hills’s stunning debut 10 Scotland Street is now available to pre-order in paperback.

Click on the link in our bio, and select this post to bag a copy 🔗

02/05/2024

‘Books have been my companions from earliest memory.’

Jenni Daiches author of Somewhere Else (Sept, 2024) talks reading habits and why Elizabeth Strout inspires with Scottish Field magazine.

Click on the link in our bio, and select this post to read the full article 🔗

30/04/2024

We are absolutely chuffed to bits that Betrothal and Betrayal by Janet McGiffin has made the Historical Association’s Young Quills 2024 shortlist.

Click on the link in our bio, and select this post to read the full announcement 🔗

To find out more about Janet McGiffin’s coming-of-age Byzantine caper, head to scotlandstreetpress.com

Many congratulations to the other shortlisted books and their wonderful authors!

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Mona McLeod, A Land Girl's Tale

To mark International Women’s Day 2024, we revisit 'A Land Girl’s Tale' by Mona McLeod: a forthright account of the Women’s Land Army in WW2 Britain, published by Scotland Street Press in 2014. The main action of the book takes place on a dairy farm in Kirkubrightshire where Mona was stationed for the majority of the war in government issue leaky boots and ill-fitting dungarees, nothing like the ruddy-cheeked women in well cut corduroy breeches on the recruitment posters! With a heavy dose of humour, Mona recalls the matter of fact realities of pre-mechanised farm labour in the 1940s: turnip-hoeing and ‘tattie holidays’, early Fordson tractors with unpadded metal seats, harvest time working alongside Italian POWs who sang opera on shift. On one occasion, Mona remembers cycling a casual 60 miles to a distant cousin’s to celebrate VE Day. 'A Land Girl’s Tale' offers us both a valuable record of a unique period of history, and an intimate memoir, brimming with heart, humour and endurance. **Video provided by BBC World Service, originally published March 2023** #ww2 #internationalwomensday #bbc #bbcworldservice #WomensHistoryMonth #BeBoldForChange #landgirl

Happy New Year one and all! If your diary for January and February is looking a little spartan, why not come along to one of our events... 15th January: Typewronger Books presents 10 Scotland Street, an opinionated history of one Edinburgh home over two centuries. 18th January: Edinburgh World Heritage welcomes film producer Leslie Hills to discuss her debut book 10 Scotland Street. 15th February: Learn about the 'Forgotten Scot' who co-founded the Scottish Labour Party at the AK Bell Library in Perth. Find all the information you need on our website: https://www.scotlandstreetpress.com/events