2022 was our second full year as a publisher, and the busiest so far by a distance. We published five books in total, with work ranging from Scots translations of Ancient Chinese poetry to lost essays by one of Scotland’s most remarkable women, to an anthology of work on home and homelessness by some ofContinue reading “What 2023 Holds In Store at Taproot Press”
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Femke has been pushed back to March 2023
We are sorry to say that the publication of Femke by David Cameron has been pushed back to March 2023. Originally scheduled for November 17, we have made the difficult decision of delaying this to allow us the proper space to do the book justice. Femke is a special text, and we will spend theContinue reading “Femke has been pushed back to March 2023”
Taproot Press to publish long-awaited second novel by Saltire Award-winner Eleanor Thom
Taproot Press have acquired world rights to Connective Tissue, an illuminating and intensely moving intergenerational Holocaust novel based on the real family history of author and former Saltire Award-winner Eleanor Thom. The novel will be published in August 2023. A tale of parallel mothers both in search of family that has been taken from them,Continue reading “Taproot Press to publish long-awaited second novel by Saltire Award-winner Eleanor Thom”
Taproot Press sign latest book by award-winning author Donald S. Murray
Following our open call for submissions in July, it is with real pleasure that we can now announce our first title of 2023. Red Star Over Hebrides is the latest book by prize-winning writer Donald S. Murray, author of As the Women Lay Dreaming and In a Veil of Mist, and reasserts him as oneContinue reading “Taproot Press sign latest book by award-winning author Donald S. Murray”
Peak Beyond Peak: The Unpublished Scottish Journeys of Isobel Wylie Hutchison
September 14 2022 sees the voice of Isobel Wylie Hutchison return to print in Peak Beyond Peak. Pre-order now.
‘When he goes into orbit I stop breathing’, from Relativism by Mary Ford Neal
Listen to Mary Ford Neal read ‘When he goes into orbit I stop breathing’, from Relativism, available July 9.
Femke 15/03/23
Watch the exclusive cover reveal for David Cameron’s Femke and listen to an excerpt from the novel.
‘My mother’s pronoun was not ‘it’, from Relativism by Mary Ford Neal
A reading from Relativism by Mary Ford Neal.
Relativism by Mary Ford Neal Readings & Pre-Orders
As July approaches we find ourselves less than one month away from the publication of Relativism, the outstanding second collection by poet and academic Mary Ford Neal. Artfully confronting themes of attachment, (be)longing, certainty, doubt, and our connections to places, times, people, and ideas, Relativism uses different voices and the lens of our most intimateContinue reading “Relativism by Mary Ford Neal Readings & Pre-Orders”
Skjelv Du På Handa, Vladimir? / Does Your Hand Shake, Vladimir?
Does your hand shake/today, Vladimir,/as you lift the cup/to your mouth,/when they tell you/thousands upon thousands have died/at your command/on the nineteenth day of the war. Odveig Klyve, translated from Norwegian by Kenneth Steven On March 14 2022, Norwegian poet Odveig Klyve posted a powerful, spontaneous poem on her personal Facebook page condemning Vladimir PutinContinue reading “Skjelv Du På Handa, Vladimir? / Does Your Hand Shake, Vladimir?”