Sandstone Press

20/06/2023

99p Kindle deal alert!

The Health of Strangers by Lesley Kelly is only 99p on Kindle today - Ian Rankin's compared the series to Mick Herron's Slough House, so you know it's going to be good!

The Virus is spreading. Monthly health checks are mandatory.Enter the Health Enforcement Team, an uneasy mix of police and health service staff. Stuck with colleagues they don't like, politicians they don't trust and civil servants undermining them, Mona and Bernard are fighting more th...

16/06/2023

99p Kindle deal alert!

Kim Hawes' memoir of the grit and glamour of life on the road with the world's most notorious rock stars is on offer.

Get your copy now: https://amzn.to/3N9zsKd

Lipstick & Leather is a must-read for fans of the bands Kim worked with, including Motörhead, Chumbawamba, Rush and Black Sabbath, as well as for those who enjoy stories of badass women blazing their own trail.

12/06/2023

Morning, folks! What did you read over the weekend? Would you recommend it to a friend?

10/06/2023

📚📢Flash sale!📢📚

We're offering 50% off our backlist books this weekend - it's a great excuse to stock up on books for summer reading.

All books on our online shop published by the end of 2022 are half price using the code Summer50.

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08/06/2023

It’s Publication Day! 🎉

Let us introduce you to the one, the only, the fabulous Ms Dorothy Wellesley!

‘Blue Eyes and a Wild Spirit’ tells the eventful life story of Dorothy Wellesley, a poet, gardener, traveller and heiress. A woman ahead of her time, she became the lover of Vita Sackville-West, wrecking her marriage to the Duke of Wellington. She was an intimate friend of W.B. Yeats in his final years. On the fringes of the Bloomsbury Group, she had a unique view of its iconic writers and artists.

07/06/2023

Going on any holidays this year?
Where to? 🌎

Of course if you’re looking to travel the world from the comfort of your own home, you can always pick up a copy of ‘Pages from my Passport’ by Amelia Dalton.

06/06/2023

Who else is obsessed with this cover? 😆

‘Dracula Park’ by Dana Grigorcea is a poetically dizzying horror novel that is sure to set your fangs on edge! 🦇

05/06/2023

As the subject of Artificial Intelligence moves out of the realm of science-fiction and into real world...
I’m reminded of books such as ‘The Actuality’ by Paul Braddon.

How do you feel about the development of AI?

01/06/2023

Happy Publication Day!

The new edition of Jamie Mollart’s ‘The Zoo’ is now available to purchase!

Advertising director James Marlowe has a gift for selling people things they don’t need. As he strives to meet the demands of rival colleagues, amoral clients and his young family, James has to raise his game. A cocktail of co***ne and alcohol fuels his ambition, but when body and mind can’t take anymore, he plunged into a surreal world darker than the one he’s fallen from.

31/05/2023

Who else is excited for the next instalment of the ‘Health of Strangers’ series?!

Swipe for a sneak peak 😉

30/05/2023

‘Lipstick and Leather’ is full of crazy story after crazy story 🎸

Kim Hawes will be at Waterstones Liverpool on the 6th of June to tell her crazy stories in person!

Have you got your ticket yet?

29/05/2023

The love for Ike Anya’s ‘Small by Small’ just keeps getting Bigger and Bigger!

In honour of all the lovely praise ‘Small by Small’ has been receiving from our readers, we’d thought we’d share some of our favourite feedback about this miracle of a memoir!

28/05/2023

If you use a Kindle and love historical fantasy novels, Angie Spoto's stellar debut novel, set on a private Scottish island in a world where the rich can be free of all their negative feelings, is only 99p this weekend: https://amzn.to/42HKw89

This beautifully written genre-buster has been selected as Scottish book of the month by The Courier, and a Scottish book of the year by The Herald.

26/05/2023

Long listed for the Highland Book Prize 2022!

‘Daughters is the North’ is a captivating, detailed and deeply researched look into the life of Jean Gordon, the Earl of Borthwell’s first wife.

Follow Jean’s journey from extricating herself from her marriage and surviving the Queen’s to becoming the Countess of Sutherland and the most powerful woman in the north.

26/05/2023

Just decades ago women were unable to compete in traditional mountain races, yet today we see female runners winning ultra distance events outright. But without knowledge of the pioneers, how can...

25/05/2023

‘Voices from the Hills’
is the story of the barriers encountered by the first female fell runners who fought to participate in the early days of this male dominated sport.

Told predominantly through interviews with pioneering female athletes who recount their lives and running careers, this is the story of a fight for equality of opportunity and reward.

Have you picked up a copy yet? 🏃‍♀️

24/05/2023

‼️Attention‼️

You can get ‘The Posthumous Adventures of Harry Whittaker’ ebook on Kindle for 99p
FOR ONE MORE WEEK!

Offer ends June 1st!
Don’t miss out

23/05/2023

‘The Grief Nurse’ Appreciation Post! 💙

Imagine you could be rid of your sadness, your anxiety, your heartache, your fear.

Imagine you could take those feelings from others and turn them into something beautiful.

‘The Grief Nurse’ is a beautiful exploration of love and mourning. With intricate world building and engaging imagery, this debut novel by Angie Spoto is a marvel.

Be sure to get your copy from the Sandstone Press Webshop today!

22/05/2023

It’s Monday once again!
Its almost as if this happens every week...

For those of us who always feel that little bit more tired on a Monday, I give you ‘Sleepless’ by Anders Bortne.

Anders Bortne enjoys a good life in Oslo.
Happily married with two delightful children, he works as a speechwriter and has a cartoon strip in the newspaper. But Anders has been sleepless for sixteen years and it’s taking a toll. No remedy has gone untested; not one has worked. Perhaps the solution is closer than he thinks....

18/05/2023

Happy publication day to Ike Anya and Small By Small!

https://sandstonepress.com/books/small-by-small

We're so proud to publish Ike's wonderful memoir of becoming a doctor in 90s Nigeria.

We knew we had something special on our hands when the manuscript arrived in our inbox, and it's been a joy to see other early readers find the same. The book's had an incredible response ahead of publication, and we can't wait for you to fall in love with it too!

17/05/2023

Day 3 of Mental Health Awareness Week

And today we’re talking about the dynamic and engaging novel by R.L. McKinney...

‘The Angel in the Stone’

All Callum wants is a quiet life, but the past is haunting him. He as his mother Mary still don’t talk about the death of his younger brother Finn, more than twenty years ago. Then Callum’s estranged daughter Catriona arrives with troubles of her own.
Simmering resentments rise to the surface, and a family driven apart by silence confronts is secrets.

16/05/2023

Day 2 of Mental Health Awareness week!

Today we’re going to talk about ‘Finding True North’ by Linda Gask

‘Finding True North’ is a wise and powerful memoir about recovery and the healing power of place. An award-winning Professor of Psychiatry, Linda Gask writes with startling honesty about her struggles with depression and anxiety. In this unvarnished account as both patient and physician she describes her search for the ‘right’ place in the world.

15/05/2023

It’s mental health awareness week!

This week Sandstone Press is highlighting the amazing books that tackle the difficult and crucial matter of mental health.

Kicking off with ‘The Disassembly of Doreen Durand’ by Ryan Collet.

From her apartment window, Doreen Durand witnesses a horrific accident.

The police want to know what she saw. Doreen doesn’t want to tell them - or anyone. But when she runs away it’s straight into the fantastic world of the wealthy and mysterious Violet Cascade. 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.

12/05/2023

We have been loving all the rave reviews about Angie Spoto’s debut novel ‘The Grief Nurse’!

What was your favourite part of this fantasy thriller?

If you’d like to hear more from you can catch her at the Aye Write festival in Glasgow on May 27th!

11/05/2023

Andy Howard is a leading wildlife photographer located in the Scottish Highlands.

‘The Secret Life of the Cairngorms’ follows him deep into Cairngorms National Park and is illustrated with a stunning selection of his nature photography.

10/05/2023

It’s National Walking Month! 🚶‍♂️

And to celebrate, Sandstone Press is offering 20% off on selected books!
Including Cameron McNeish’s ‘There’s always the Hills’ and ‘Come by the Hills’. 🏔

Get your copy here:
https://sandstonepress.square.site/s/search?q=Cameron%20mcNeish

You can also catch Cameron talking about his new book ‘An Eye to the Hills’ at the Aye Write festival in Glasgow on the 21st of May.
Get your tickets while you can!

05/05/2023

Happy Friday!

We hope everyone enjoys the long weekend, whether you’re out and about, watch the coronation or snuggled up with a good book.

For any nostalgic readers out there, Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett’s novel ‘The Tyranny of Lost Things’ is an excellent choice.

A coming-of-age novel about a young adult returning to the house she grew up in.
Will harmony be able to come to terms with her past and move into her future?

04/05/2023

Pack your bags and say goodbye to your pets! 🧳 ✈️ 🏝

Amelia Dalton’s gripping memoir ‘Pages from my Passport’ is out now!

From Norway to Madagascar, by camper van, taxi, boat and small plane, Amelia Dalton hunted down remote archipelagos, deserted beaches and tiny local museums to create expedition holidays with a difference. On the way she was abandoned on an unpopulated island and escaped a hotel fire - and worse.

‘Pages from my Passport’ is a memoir of Adventures, disasters and occasional triumphs, all infused with Amelia’s unquenchable enthusiasm.

03/05/2023

‼️Kindle Monthly Deal ‼️
For the month of May, ‘The Posthumous Adventures of Harry Whittaker’ is available for £0.99 on Amazon Kindle!

When much loved star of stage and screen, Harry Whittaker, dies suddenly of a heart attack, he finds himself still in his world. Trapped in a bizarre afterlife, he struggles to free himself. Meanwhile, his estranged son Richard is also trying to escape - from his failing cafe, his dotty mother and the wrong girlfriend. Perhaps what they all need is a guardian angel.... 👼 👻

02/05/2023

Where are you from?... 🌎

Is it where your parents were born?
Where you grew up?

This tricky question stumps a lot of people nowadays.
With the world becoming smaller, where we are from isn’t always where we hang our hats.

Anissa M. Bouzaine confronts this matter in her novel ‘Dune Song’. After witnessing the collapse of the world trade centre, Jeehan Nathaar leaves her New York life and returns to Morocco to find her identity amongst a family that is not her own.
Where the Dunes sing of death, love and forgiveness.