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The Nature of Spring is BBC Radio 4’s Book of the Week
The latest in Jim Crumley’s “Seasons” series of books, The Nature of Spring, is Radio 4’s Book of th …
Saraband secures Creative Scotland funding
Saraband has been awarded funding from Creative Scotland in support of our aim to publish a series o …
Overlander: Bikepacking coast to coast across the heart of the Highlands
Bikepacking is an up-and-coming trend in cycling. Freedom. Nature. Time well spent. What could be be …
The Amber Seeker: (pre-)historical fiction in an ancient world
Mandy Haggith’s new novel, The Amber Seeker, published on 21 March 2019, plunges us into a world sel …
Runaway: Aberdeen’s answer to Happy Valley
Claire MacLeary’s Runaway, published by Contraband on 14 March, is the third novel in her hit Harcus …
Down to the Sea: a dark Victorian Scottish mystery
Down to the Sea, the latest historical thriller by Sue Lawrence and published by Contraband on 14 Ma …
As the Women Lay Dreaming shortlisted for Authors’ Club award
Award-winning author and poet Donald S Murray has been shortlisted for the Authors’ Club Best First …
Two Saraband books longlisted for Highland Book Prize
Donald S Murray’s As the Women Lay Dreaming and Mandy Haggith’s The Walrus Mutterer have both made t …
Commemorating the Iolaire disaster
As the Women Lay Dreaming, the debut novel by acclaimed Hebridean writer Donald S Murray, tells the …
Celebrating traditional Scots words about nature
In A Scots Dictionary of Nature, published on 20 September 2018, artist Amanda Thomson curates and p …