News & Events: Women

Celebrating International Women’s Day 2022
Our authors are at the heart of everything we do at Saraband. This International Women’s Day, while …

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 …

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 …

A thoroughly 21st-century take on Charlotte Brontë
Charlotte Brontë Revisited, by young academic Sophie Franklin, shows clearly why the classic English …

Saraband authors at Edinburgh International Book Festival
Six of Saraband’s authors will be appearing at this year’s Edinburgh International Book Festival, ta …

Reappraising Emily Brontë
Emily Brontë’s incomparable Wuthering Heights is, for many of us, one of our most cherished novels, …