Saraband Books

26/08/2024

It’s a wrap! A wonderful first in its new home at !
Congratulations to and team, and shoutout to (especially Caron!) for keeping the books flowing 📚📚📚

26/08/2024

Before (event prep) … during (raconteur mode) and after (celebration time) a fantastic pre-launch outing for with at to introduce

A brilliant performance - huge congratulations Graeme! 🎉📚🎉

22/08/2024

Very exciting to catch a glimpse inside before tomorrow’s grand opening - and even to help move a box or two into place 📚📚📚
It’s a wonderful space and an exciting new chapter! Congratulations Marie and colleagues! 🥳

15/08/2024

We're excited to see 's included in Dua Lipa's fiction recommendations

https://service95.com/books/how-we-named-the-stars/

And as one of 's best books of 2024

https://marieclaire.co.uk/entertainment/books/best-new-books-2024

01/08/2024

Looking for something to read during your Summer break? We've got the perfect stack ☀️

Discover more about each book on our website.

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Swipe to see the view from the Saraband office ☀️

29/07/2024

Enjoying the weather and in need of some tips and ideas for your garden? Second Nature by is filled with inspiration and practical advice🌻

24/07/2024

We're excited to announce
's events! Join Graeme at:







The Mallaig Book Festival

Please visit individual websites for tickets - we hope to see you there!

Graeme will also be taking part in pre-publication events at:





Tickets are on sale now!

23/07/2024

Join in conversation with at the stop on the Summer tour ✨

More information and ticket details available via

11/07/2024

Interested in learning more about permaculture? has put together 5 tips for beginner permaculturists.

Maya's new book, Permaculture: Planting the seeds of radical regeneration, is available now!

13/06/2024

We're excited to announce a new date on 's How We Named the Stars bookshop tour ✨

Join Andrés at:
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Visit the bookshop website for tickets and more information 🎟️

22/05/2024

We've had a very exciting proof delivery in the office!

by is publishing in October.

03/05/2024

Our New York City sales conference held at Poets House, downtown overlooking Rockefeller Park. What a lovely venue and a glorious day for it, finishing up with a sunset picnic 📚😎

11/04/2024

Congratulations Rozie!

Congratulations to the winner of this year's NorthBound Book Award, Rozie Kelly! 🎉

Rozie wins publication with Saraband Books for her novel Kingfisher, described by judge Sara Hunt as "original, startling, beautifully written and often darkly funny". Look out for the book's publication in 2025!

She also receives a £5000 advance on royalties and access to the network of career support opportunities.

A huge thank you to Saraband Books and University of York for making this award possible 🙏

Read more: https://newwritingnorth.com/rozie-kelly-wins-northbound/

05/04/2024

Congratulations Sue Lawrence on the publication of Lady’s Rock 🎉 It’s the third of Sue’s ‘Scotland’s Leading Ladies - seen and now heard’ titles, which show how women had no rights at all prior to the 20th century, even if they were apparently wealthy and privileged.

In this novel, though, the protagonist, Catherine, fights back. It’s been described as ‘a medieval Gone Girl’.

04/04/2024

Join us in York next week to celebrate the achievement of this year's winner of the NorthBound Book Award. We'll be celebrating the award and the achievements of northern writers during our panel session. The panel includes former winner Adam Farrer, whose writing career has really taken off since he won the prize. 🎉

Are you joining us in York next week to celebrate the NorthBound Book Award winner?

It's free to attend, and we'll also hear a brilliant panel discussion from the award judges:

📚 Sara Hunt, founder of independent publisher Saraband Books

📚 Adam Farrer, author of 2021 NorthBound Book Award-winner Cold Fish Soup

📚 Shaun Wilson, author and Northern Writers' Award-winner, published in the Common People anthology

📚 Maya Caspari, lecturer in the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York

It's all happening on Wednesday 10 April 6pm, at the University of York. Reserve your place: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/northbound-book-award-celebration-tickets-846019626477

18/02/2024

Great to see Ajay Close’s What Doesn’t Kill Us in the Sunday Times. It’s a superb, fast-paced novel, and as the Times critic says, uncompromising 🙌

08/02/2024

This is a brilliant chat!

08/02/2024

Great to see Andrés N. Ordorica included in this 2024 preview!

📚💕 The latest SNACK magazine Scotland is out now, with a pick of 10 Books for 2024 featuring...
Ali Millar (White Rabbit Books), Durre Shahwar + Nasia Sarwar-Skuse (404 Ink), Elle Machray (HarperCollins), Hollie Poetry (Little, Brown Book Group), Andrew O’Hagan (Faber Books), Philip Miller (Polygon Books), Genevieve Jagger (404 Ink), Val McDermid (Polygon Books), Andres Ordorica (Saraband Books), and Rodge Glass (Taproot Press),
+ reviews of Ajay Close's 'What Doesn't Kill Us' (Saraband Books) & Colin Burnett's 'Who's Aldo?' (Tippermuir Books).

Read all about it 👉 bit.ly/3w44Ogx

07/02/2024

This is a great interview and Q+A. Listen now on BBC Sounds!

Graeme Macrae Burnet discusses his novel, His Bloody Project.

28/01/2024

Meditative … tender … touching … powerful

The review of How We Named the Stars is in. And it’s a cracker! Congrats once again Andrés!

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25/01/2024

2024 reading lists! 👇

If January's been getting you down, we have just the thing to raise your spirits: a bumper issue of BooksfromScotland!

Immerse yourself in reviews, Q&As and extracts from some of the most exciting Scottish books coming out in the near future. We've got you covered on fiction, non-fiction and poetry, with even a wee Burns twist to mark the special day.

Happy reading!

https://booksfromscotland.com/issue/wake-up/

25/01/2024

Last week Donald S Murray was due to launch The Salt and the Flame at but the weather gods intervened and he couldn’t travel from his blizzard-bound island home to the mainland.

We hope this can be rearranged sometime soon. Meanwhile, the novel has been picking up accolades from critics. The Times historical fiction reviewer Antonia Senior named it Book of the Month. The Scotsman’s Allan Massie said that it’s Murray’s best novel yet.

If you were moved by the prize-winning As the Women Lay Dreaming, this one’s for you. It follows the fate of young Hebrideans who left the Isle of Lewis just a few years after the Iolaire disaster to try their luck in Canada and the US. The themes of love and longing, hope and resilience are universal. This is a story of migrants who followed their dreams but still felt the pull of home and the need to stay connected to family and culture left behind.

If you’re in Glasgow, visit Waterstones in Sauchiehall Street where you will see this display.

17/01/2024

This stunning portrait was taken by for the feature on the 10 most exciting debut novels for 2024.

We fully expect to see Andrés and his book How We Named the Stars ✨ to achieve supernova status. Can’t wait for you all to read it!

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13/01/2024

This is the cover of the Observer magazine (the Sunday version of The Guardian, for folk outside the uk) for Jan 14: it’s the annual feature on new novelists to watch. Over the years they’ve picked global phenomena like Sally Rooney and Caleb Azuma Nelson, and Booker winners including Douglas Stuart for this highly exclusive feature. This year, standing on the left in the cover shot: Andrés N. Ordorica, whose debut novel we’re publishing in July.

How We Named the Stars is a beautiful and devastating love and grieving story with a coming-of-age q***r protagonist you’ll root for from page 1. It’s an unforgettable and timeless story.
Proofs will be available soon!

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