We are absolutely delighted to announce that our first fiction title of 2022 will be Femke by David Cameron, a Glasgow-born poet and novelist and winner of the 2014 Hennessy Literary Award. An author of poetry, non-fiction and fiction, this is his third novel and first since 2019’s Prendergast’s Fall. This manuscript came to usContinue reading “Books of 2022: Femke by David Cameron”
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Update on the Edinburgh Launch of ‘All the Way Home’
We are sorry to say that due to circumstances outwith our control, we have had to rearrange the Edinburgh launch for All the Way Home with Golden Hare at St Vincent’s Chapel. The event will now take place at 6:30pm on Wednesday March 30. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause, and assure youContinue reading “Update on the Edinburgh Launch of ‘All the Way Home’”
Two Launches Announced for ‘All the Way Home: 30 Years of Rock Trust’
We are so pleased to announce two launch events for our upcoming anthology All the Way Home (more on that here), one of which marks our first venture over to the West of Scotland. Across both events we’ll be joined by outstanding authors as well as Rock Trust CEO Kate Polson, who will be readingContinue reading “Two Launches Announced for ‘All the Way Home: 30 Years of Rock Trust’”
Peak Beyond Peak: Unpublished Scottish Journeys of Isobel Wylie Hutchison
Collected and Transcribed by Hazel Buchan Cameron Have you ever heard the name Isobel Wylie Hutchison? If the answer is no, it’s little surprise, but her relative obscurity in Scottish history remains one of the country’s biggest cultural oversights. Isobel was born near the turn of the century and was many things: a botanist, aContinue reading “Peak Beyond Peak: Unpublished Scottish Journeys of Isobel Wylie Hutchison”
Books of 2022: Relativism by Mary Ford Neal
This is the first book we signed off on after opening for submissions back in July 2021, and we are just as excited about it now as we were back then. Relativism, the second poetry collection by Mary Ford Neal, a writer and academic from the West of Scotland, is a frank and poignant seriesContinue reading “Books of 2022: Relativism by Mary Ford Neal”
Deadlines, Delays and Delight: A Year in Independent Publishing
In case the rule-of-three title didn’t tip you off, I’m quite fond of sequences. Not in a mathematical sense so much as a rhythmic one, the way sounds and words come together to create wholes. It’s little wonder, then, that when we first started Taproot Press in the summer of 2020, we had a runningContinue reading “Deadlines, Delays and Delight: A Year in Independent Publishing”
Two poems from Hard Roads an Cauld Hairst Winds
Last month you might have heard the news that we were awarded a Scots Language Publication Grant to produce our upcoming book, Hard Roads an Cauld Hairst Winds: Li Bai an Du Fu in Scots by Brian Holton. This means that we’ll now be able to push ahead with our plans to publish a realContinue reading “Two poems from Hard Roads an Cauld Hairst Winds”
Scots Language Publication Grant Success!
We are absolutely chuffed to announce that we have been awarded a Scots Language Publication Grant by the Scottish Book Trust to produce our upcoming book Hard Roads an Cauld Hairst Winds: Li Bai an Du Fu in Scots by Brian Holton – read more here. This fantastic news means that we will be ableContinue reading “Scots Language Publication Grant Success!”
‘The Other Side of Stone’ in Paperback!
We are so excited to announce that at the end of June, a paperback edition of Linda Cracknell’s The Other Side of Stone will be available for purchase in shops and online for just £8.99! Pre-orders are up and running and can be placed here. Support for the hardback has been incredible – we areContinue reading “‘The Other Side of Stone’ in Paperback!”
A Recording of the Launch for ‘The Other Side of Stone’
We were delighted to see over 100 people join the Zoom launch of The Other Side of Stone on March 31, hosted by The Watermill bookshop in Aberfeldy. During the event I chatted with Linda about the origins of the book and her own personal connection to it, and we got the chance to hearContinue reading “A Recording of the Launch for ‘The Other Side of Stone’”