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We have three fantastic books lined up for 2021, including the first original work of fiction for eight years by a Saltire-shortlisted author, a collection of protest writing and photography by those involved in the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong, and a book of Scots translations by a poet dubbed ‘the foremost translator from ChineseContinue reading “Books of 2021”

The Other Side of Stone began twenty years ago when Linda was awarded a bursary by the late Gavin Wallace of Creative Scotland, a close friend of my family whose essay in The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Literature first inspired the name of this press. Three years before the Creative Scotland bursary, Linda’s firstContinue reading “Pre-orders now available for Linda Cracknell’s ‘The Other Side of Stone’”