Welcome to Saraband, award-winning independent publisher

Welcome to Saraband, where ideas grow

Saraband is “a small but brilliant independent press” (Guardian): publisher of outstanding fiction, absorbing nature writing, pressing environmental issues and compelling life stories. Our books inspire, inform, intrigue, stimulate and entertain.

About us

NEW

Nature’s Almanac

A Gift for Every Day of the Year

by Susie White

Earthworks

Land and Nature in Uncertain Times

by Karen Lloyd

The Loch of the Bees

by Donald S Murray

Symphonic

Harmony in Nature and Why It Matters

by Jim Crumley

COMING SOON

Swimming the Seasons

A Freshwater Almanac

by Polly Atkin

Badger

by Jim Crumley

Barn Owl

by Jim Crumley

Hare

by Jim Crumley

AWARD WINNERS

What Doesn’t Kill Us

Winner: Fiction Book of the Year, Scotland's National Book Awards

by Ajay Close

Castles from Cobwebs

by J.A. Mensah

As the Women Lay Dreaming

As the Women Lay Dreaming

A novel of the Iolaire disaster

by Donald S Murray

His Bloody Project

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2016

by Graeme Macrae Burnet

LATEST NEWS

Q&A with Kingfisher author, Rozie Kelly

Posted on April 28, 2026

We spoke to Women’s Prize shortlisted, and winner of the 2024 NorthBound Book Award, Rozie Kelly about her debut novel K…

Rozie Kelly shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2026

Posted on April 22, 2026

Rozie Kelly has been shortlisted for the 2026 Women’s Prize for Fiction for her debut novel, Kingfisher. Rozie Kelly sai…