SANDSTONE PRESS FICTION AND NON-FICTION
2018 JANUARY TO JUNE Dear Reader,
The astonishing success of Sky Atlantic’s German language crime series, Babylon Berlin, will not have escaped the notice of anyone who reads this catalogue. Volker Kutscher’s brilliant Gereon Rath series is now six books into a projected eight (with a ninth to follow, but that’s different as you will see in time). Sandstone published Babylon Berlin in 2016, The Silent Death in 2017 (which will also be adapted for TV), and in 2018 will publish Goldstein. We have a lot more great fiction in the first half of 2018. Our lead debut novel is by the distinguished young columnist, and co-founder of The Vagenda, Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett. Watch out for this one as The Tyranny of Lost Things is going to make quite a stir, alongside Celestial Bodies, our first translation from Arabic, by the Omani author, Jokha Alharthi. After the hugely successful first edition, we are bringing Clifton Bain’s The Ancient Pinewoods of Scotland back onto the shelves, a milestone book for Sandstone. We are also proud to welcome mountaineer and television personality Cameron McNeish into our stable of outdoor authors with his highly anticipated autobiography There’s Always the Hills. Retailers (and other fans) will note that Cameron’s foreword is provided by Outlander star Sam Heughan, his first venture into the world of print. Adding to our list of running books will be Jonny Muir’s The Mountains Are Calling, a history and personal memoir of hill running in Scotland, following his now classic and perennially selling, Isles at the Edge of the Sea. Add to these other exciting novels and narrative non-fiction, all with great covers and backed by impressive marketing campaigns, and you have one of the most dynamic first half lists in independent British publishing and… know what? We are already working on an equally exciting second half! To paraphrase Strictly Come Dancing: Ke-ee-ep Rea-ea-ding!
Robert Davidson Founder and Managing Director Sandstone Press Ltd JANUARY Clifton Bain THE ANCIENT PINEWOODS ALSO BY CLIFTON BAIN OF SCOTLAND A Traveller’s Guide THE ANCIENT PINEWOODS Scattered across the Scottish Highlands OF SCOTLAND are the last remnants of the Caledonian forest which have survived, naturally A Companion Guide seeding and growing since the last ice age. ISBN: 9781910124925 RRP: £11.99 Visiting these ancient woods provides an The companion guide to the ancient pinewoods of Scotland emotional connection to the past. There is is intended for woodland walkers and armchair planners, to also a chance to look forward, after one of accompany them in their explorations. Abridged from the original Traveller’s Guide, it provides descriptions of each the greatest conservation success stories site with full travel notes and map details. means a new future for the pinewoods and their spectacular wildlife. This journey to the pinewoods introduces a natural wonder alongside a rich cultural heritage. Lavishly illustrated with many colour photographs, maps, and drawings by wildlife artist Darren Rees. THE RAINFORESTS OF BRITAIN AND IRELAND
Clifton Bain has over 25 years of experience working with A Traveller’s Guide ISBN: 9781910124260 RRP: £24.99 the wildlife charity RSPB. Now Director of the IUCN Peatland Programme, his writing gives passionate insight into the human Following his tremendous success to date with The interventions that have shaped Scotland’s wildlife and landscape. As Ancient Pinewoods of Scotland, Clifton Bain turns his attention to the mixed oak, birch and other woodlands a firm believer that conservation relies on people enjoying nature, that line the west coasts of Scotland, Northern England, Clifton shares his experiences of the country’s natural treasures. Wales and Ireland. Correctly described as a rainforest, these trees take a higher rainfall than some areas of the Brazilian rainforest. Since the Ice Age, they have Jacketed HB 250 x 200 / 224 pages provided resource for the human population, habitat for Author location: Edinburgh animals and birds, and acted as a lung for the planet. The ‘Detailed, useful; frankly inspired.’ Pub date: 18/01/2018 Rainforests of Britain and Ireland is be illustrated with ISBN: 9781908737250 maps, original artwork and travel guidance. Jim Crumley, Scots Magazine RRP: £24.99 ‘Bain has produced another fantastic traveller’s guide to one of our most awe-inspiring yet under-celebrated habitats.’ Scottish Wildlife Magazine
‘A wonderful book that‘A standswriter without from extraordinary the crowd range’ in so many different ways...’ UndiscoveredJenn Ashworth Scotland FEBRUARY Cameron McNeish THERE’S ALWAYS THE HILLS From his home in the Cairngorms of Scotland, Cameron McNeish reflects on a life dedicated to the outdoors. For almost forty years he has written and talked about walking and climbing in Scotland. A prolific author, he has led treks in the Himalayas and Syria, edited The Great Outdoors Magazine, created long- distance walks, made television series, and contributed a monthly column to The Scots Magazine. Now he candidly recalls the ups and downs of a full life, much of it in the public eye, much of it until now unseen.
Cameron McNeish is an established figure on the Scottish and British outdoor scene. As editor of TGO he increased circulation and established the magazine as Britain’s premier walking publication. He is the author of many books and presenter of numberous outdoor television programmes. He contributes a monthly column to The Scots Magazine.
Royal Jacketed HBK 234 x 153 / 352 pages ‘The most highly respected Author location: Newtonmore, Scotland voice now speaking for and from Pub date: 15/02/2018 ISBN: 9781910985953 Scotland’s mountains...’ RRP: £19.99 Sam Heughan
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FOREWORD BY SAM HEUGHAN MARCH FEBRUARY Rob Palk Paul MacAlindin ANIMAL LOVERS UPBEAT The Story of the National Youth Orchestra of Iraq
When Stuart marries Marie after a The story of the National Youth Orchestra serious illness, he doesn’t foresee her of Iraq is here told by its musical director leaving him within four months of their from its inception to its eventual end. The honeymoon. She becomes passionately NYOI came through the most difficult involved in protesting the badger cull, and dangerous of times to produce fine abandoning him to join fellow activists in music not only in Iraq but also in Britain, the Gloucestershire woods. Stuart refuses Germany and France. A beacon of hope to admit it’s over, feigning an interest in and achievement the young musicians badgers in order to win her back. Though and their tutors made bridges across he’s accounted for her attachment their own ethnic divisions, made great to the badgers, he hasn’t considered music in the most trying and tragic her burgeoning interest in Henry, a of circumstances, and became their handsome protester. As tensions rise and country’s best ambassadors in 5000 new relationships form, secrets bubble to years. the surface – including some which may have been best left hidden.
Paul MacAlindin discovered from an early age that he loved being Rob Palk wrote his first book while recovering from a nearly fatal an artist leading artists. As a musician, dancer and all-round illness and the collapse of his marriage. This book was written in performer, he found his voice through conducting, a passionate London, Burgundy and Haifa but the author now lives in Leicester journey that has led him to work with orchestras and ensembles all with several other writers and a cat. over the world, from the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra to the Armenian Philharmonic to the Düsseldorf Symphoniker.
B Format PBK 198 x 128 / 288 pages B Format PBK 198 x 128 / 336 pages Author location: Leicester Author location: Glasgow ‘Rob Palk has a fine eye for a ‘Fragile, precarious, quixotic and punch-line and a poignant turn Pub date: 15/02/2018 Pub date: 15/03/2018 ISBN: 9781912240036 almost insanely heroic.’ ISBN: 9781912240012 of phrase. A bitterly funny book.’ RRP: £8.99 BBC Music Magazine RRP: £9.99 Mark Watson, Comedian
‘I didn’t resent the badgers. ‘An amazing and deeply inspiring story.’ I just didn’t see why they made her stop loving me…’ The Bookseller MARCH Tom McCulloch THE ACCIDENTAL RECLUSE ALSO BY TOM McCULLOCH
A PRIVATE HAUNTING Johnny Jackson has just turned 75. ISBN: 9781910985151 RRP: £8.99 He used to be famous, but his dead Jonas Mortensen wants to be liked. Adam Fletcher wants to brother Duke was a hero. Self-made and be forgotten. unmade, film director and tycoon, all Jonas, a freewheeling Norwegian, has been living in a people remember about Johnny is the quiet English village for years, an eccentric everyone has Music Hall monkey. Exiled for years, he’s an opinion about. Then the real owner of his house turns heading home from his Japanese bunker, up. Fletcher, a traumatised veteran of the Afghan War, has come to claim his inheritance. The two men live side by side reluctantly - one last blockbuster and a in an increasingly bizarre standoff, until a teenage girl goes civic honouring. But forget the adulation, missing and suspicion falls on Jonas. As the hunt intensifies, the protests about his company and the it’s clear both men are concealing past lives that won’t stay concern of his security that he may be a hidden much longer. target: Johnny just can’t shake Duke. ‘A captivating triumph that confirms the arrival of a blistering new talent on the Scottish literary scene.’ The Daily Record
Tom McCulloch has published poetry and short stories in various journals including Other Poetry, Northwords, Northwords Now, THE STILLMAN Eildon Tree, Markings, Buzzwords, and Wilderness magazine (New ISBN: 9781908737670 RRP: £8.99 Zealand). He was long-listed for the Herald/Imagining Scotland Jim Drever is a man apart, his closest relationship with the short story competition 2011. With his first novel, The Stillman, he machinery he monitors in the distillery where he’s worked became an Amazon Rising Star. for twenty years. He treats everything else with bleakly humorous contempt: his fading marriage, the increasingly bizarre behaviour of his teenage son; his daughter’s B Format PBK 198 x 128 / 320 pages ‘Ok, so you get to be the hero. impending wedding. He can deal with all that in his own Author location: Oxford way. It’s the emails from Cuba, made up of letters from his What do I get?’ Pub date: 15/03/2018 dead mother, that threaten to bring down Jim’s ordered ‘You get the monkey,’ said the old man. ISBN: 9781912240180 world. ‘The monkey?’ RRP: £8.99 ‘The mystery turns into a powerful depiction of a ‘Sure. Everyone loves the monkey.’ man struggling to come to terms with his past and to live in his present.’ The Herald
‘The author knows how‘A to writer peer intowith the extraordinary lives of his charactersrange’ with an unsparing eye, finding the warmth andJenn horror Ashworth that surrounds us all.’ Alan Bissett APRIL MARCH Moire O’Sullivan Helen Bellany BUMP, BIKE & BABY THE RESTLESS WAVE Mummy’s Gone Adventure Racing My Two Lives with John Bellany
In Bump, Bike & Baby, Moire O’Sullivan Helen Bellany, twice married to the artist charts her journey from happy, carefree John Bellany, recalls their lives together mountain runner to reluctant stay-at- in Scotland, London, and Italy, John’s rise home mother of two. With her sights set from rebellious art student to worldwide on winning Ireland’s National Adventure recognition, and the human cost inherent Racing Series, she manages to maintain in creating great art. The Restless Wave her post-natal sanity, and slowly learns reflects the mystery, poetry and passion to become a loving and occasionally that was at the core of the inner life functioning mum. John and Helen shared. The couple had great friendships with such fellow artists as David Bowie, and John painted such internationally known figures as Billy Connelly, Sean Connery and Peter Maxwell Davis, as well as many portraits of his muse, Helen.
Moire O’Sullivan is an accomplished mountain runner and adventure racer. In 2009, she became the first person to complete the Wicklow Helen Bellany was the partner and muse of the artist John Bellany, Round, a 100km circuit of Ireland’s Wicklow Mountains run within with whom she fell in love in art school. They were married twenty-four hours. She is married to Pete and is the proud mother of twice and had three children together. Helen Bellany is also an their two young sons, Aran and Cahal. Moire won Ireland’s National accomplished artist. Adventure Race Series in 2014 and 2016.
B Format PBK 198 x 128 / 304 pages Royal HBK 234 x 156 / 416 pages ‘A fun, light-hearted and Author location: Co. Down, Northern Ireland Author location: Edinburgh and Essex ‘Painting to John was akin insightful account of the Pub date: 15/03/2018 Pub date: 19/04/2018 challenges competitive mums ISBN: 9781912240067 to breathing. It came before ISBN: 9781912240029 are faced with.’ RRP: £8.99 everything. It always would.’ RRP: £19.99 Liz Yelling
‘Honest, humorous and insightful...’ A moving and affecting love story Sonia O’Sullivan, World Champion runner and Olympian APRIL Lesley Kelly SONGS BY DEAD GIRLS ALSO BY LESLEY KELLY A Health of Strangers Thriller THE HEALTH OF STRANGERS When Scotland’s leading virologist goes ISBN: 9781910985663 RRP: £8.99 missing, Mona and Paterson from the Nobody likes the North Edinburgh Health Enforcement Health Enforcement Team are dispatched Team, least of all the people who work for it. An uneasy mix to London to find him. In a hot and of seconded Police and health service staff, Mona, Bernard and their colleagues stem the spread of the Virus, a mutant unwelcoming city, Mona has to deal with strain of influenza, by tracking down people who have a boss who isn’t speaking to her, placate missed their monthly health check. the Professor’s over-bearing assistant, Now two young female students are missing, raising and outwit the people who will stop question after question for the HET. Why were they drinking at nothing to make sure the academic in a bikers’ bar? Who are the mysterious Children of Camus stays lost. Meanwhile, back in Edinburgh, cult? And why is the German government interfering in the Bernard searches for a missing prostitute, investigation? while Maitland tries to keep the Chair of the Parliamentary Virus Committee from finding out quite how untidy the HET office is.
A FINE HOUSE IN TRINITY Lesley Kelly has worked in the public and voluntary sectors for the past twenty years, dabbling in poetry and stand-up comedy along ISBN: 9781910124956 RRP: £8.99 the way. She has won several writing competitions, including the ‘I enjoyed my first day at primary school. Of course, I didn’t Scotsman’s Short Story award in 2008. She can be followed on know then that this was the first day of a suffocating Twitter where she post lively tweets about her novels, and lots of friendship with a psychopath, a friendship I’d still be trapped in thirty years later. ‘ other topics. Joseph Staines left town with a stolen tallybook, but two suspicious deaths and a surprise inheritance have lured B Format PBK 198 x 128 / 320 pages him back home to Edinburgh. No-one is pleased to see Author location: Edinburgh him. The debtors want him gone. The Police have some questions for him. And a mysterious stranger has been ‘Lesley Kelly has a knack of leaving Pub date: 19/04/2018 asking about him in the pub. To survive, Staines has to you wanting more...’ ISBN: 9781912240081 sober up, solve the murders, and stay one step ahead of Love Books Group RRP: £8.99 the man who wants him dead. LONGLISTED FOR THE MCILVANNEY PRIZE 2016
‘An intriguing tale of‘A writercrime inwith a post extraordinary viral Edinburgh, range’ told with panache.’ Lin Anderson, authorJenn of A shworththe Rhona MacLeod series MAY Jonny Muir THE MOUNTAINS ARE ALSO BY JONNY MUIR CALLING Running in the High Places of Scotland The Mountains Are Calling is the ISLES AT THE EDGE OF THE SEA exhilarating story of the runners who go to high places, featuring illustrations and ISBN: 9781905207619 RRP £9.99 maps. Jonny Muir explores the history Off the western seaboard of Scotland are hundreds of islands. Beginning on Arran, Jonny Muir sets out to explore and culture of the sport, and meets the these places with a single ambition: to reach the St Kilda legends of hill running who are revered archipelago, the islands at the edge of the world. On the for their extraordinary endurance. way he attempts to finds his inner peace on Holy Island, takes part in a punishing foot race across the mountains of As he discovers the insatiable lure of Jura, confronts the Inaccessible Pinnacle on Skye and walks the hills, a calling leads him to the the white-sand beach on Berneray. supreme test of mountain running: He encounters sharks and whales, discovers gory histories Ramsay’s Round – a continuous loop of and follows in the footsteps of Boswell and Johnson, but 23 of Scotland highest mountains, to be island life is not without its challenges. ‘Man-eating’ midges completed within 24 hours. live up to their reputation on Rum. An Atlantic storm threatens to rip his tent to shreds on Barra. Wicked weather lashes the Outer Hebrides, leaving his prospects of reaching St Kilda balanced on a knife-edge. An intensely personal account of a journey through some of Britain’s most extraordinary landscapes.
Jonny Muir is an adventurer, runner, writer and proponent of UK-inspired travel. Born in Birmingham in 1981, he grew up and was educated in north Worcestershire, before studying history at the University of Exeter. Jonny visited the UK’s 91 historic county tops in a continuous 5000-mile cycling and walking adventure over a three-month period in 2006.
Royal HBK 234 x 156 / 350 pages ‘A paean of praise for the mountains Author location: Edinburgh and the runners who go there.’ Pub date: 17/05/2018 ISBN: 9781912240104 Alastair Humphreys, author of RRP £19.99 Microadventures and Grand Adventures
‘A wonderful, inspiring book…’ FOREWORD BY ALEX STANIFORTH Undiscovered Scotland MAY Volker Kutscher GOLDSTEIN A Gereon Rath Mystery
Berlin, 1931. A power struggle is taking place in Berlin’s underworld. American gangster Abraham Goldstein is in residence at the Hotel Excelsior. As a favour to the FBI, the police put him under surveillance with Detective Gereon Rath on the job. As Rath grows bored and takes on a private case for his seedy pal Johann Marlow, he finds himself in the middle of a Berlin street war.
Berlin is a divided city where two worlds are about to collide: the world of the NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES American gangster and the expanding world of Nazism. ALSO BY VOLKER KUTSCHER BABYLON BERLIN ISBN: 9781910124970 RRP £8.99 Berlin, 1929. After inadvertently killing a man, Detective Inspector Rath finds himself transferred to the Vice Squad in Berlin, a job he detests. As police and civilians clash over the ban on May Day demonstrations, Berlin descends into a Volker Kutscher was born in 1962 in Lindlar, West Germany. He state of emergency while Rath and police stenographer Charlotte Ritter become is the author of the enormously successful Gereon Rath crime entangled in a communist conspiracy over White Russian gold. series which, in addition to compelling narrative, is notable for its ‘Kutscher successfully conjures up the dangerous decadence of the Weimar years, scrupulous accuracy on Germany in the years leading up to the with blood on the Berlin streets and the Nazis lurking menacingly in the wings.’ approach of the Second World War. The Sunday Times
© Monika Sandel THE SILENT DEATH B Format PBK 198 x 128 / 528 pages ISBN: 9781910985649 RRP £8.99 The Silent Death, like its predecessor, Author location: Germany Berlin 1930. Sound film is conquering the big screen, leaving many by the Babylon Berlin, owes much to its author’s Pub date: 17/05/2018 wayside: producers, cinema owners – and silent film stars. Investigating commitment to historical accuracy and ISBN: 9781912240128 the violent on-set death of actress Betty Winter, Inspector Gereon Rath the cynical feel of the times.’ RRP: £8.99 becomes trapped in the machinations of rival film producers, pushing Peter James him ever closer to the edge of legality. When his father requests that he help a friend, and his ex-girlfriend Charly makes a renewed attempt at rapprochement, things start to get out of hand ‘Wonderfully atmospheric... a novel that offers vivid insights into the cultural upheavals of the late Weimar republic.’ The third Gereon Rath mystery brings a New York hit man to the streets of Berlin. The Sunday Times JUNE MAY Tessa Fontaine Jokha Alharthi THE ELECTRIC WOMAN CELESTIAL BODIES A Memoir in Death-Defying Acts
‘Every day we put fire and swords and Set in the village of al-Awafi in Oman, electricity into our bodies, throw knives Celestial Bodies introduces us to three at them, contort them, wrap them in sisters: Mayya, who marries after a snakes, and every day we wake up sure heartbreak; Asma, who marries from a those things won’t harm us but also sure sense of duty; and Khawla who rejects that there is so much else that will.’ all offers while waiting for her beloved. These three women and their families When her mother had a series of strokes, witness Oman evolve from a traditional, Tessa Fontaine couldn’t stand to watch slave-owning society, to the crossroads of her mother disappear. The Electric Woman its complex present. Elegantly structured tells Tessa’s story of joining America’s last and taut, Celestial Bodies is a coiled travelling freak show, and learning to spring of a novel, telling of Oman’s perform death-defying acts in order to coming-of-age through the prism of one come to terms with her mother’s illness. family’s losses and loves. In her life-affirming memoir, Tessa finds hope and companionship among sword swallowers and snake charmers.
Jokha Alharthi is the author of two previous collections of short fiction, a children’s book, and three novels in Arabic. Fluent Tessa Fontaine’s work has appeared in journals such as PANK and in English, she completed a PhD in Classical Arabic Poetry in Seneca Review. Tessa holds an MFA from the University of Alabama Edinburgh, and teaches at Sultan Qaboos University in Muscat. She and is currently a PhD student in creative writing at the University has been shortlisted for the Sahikh Zayed Award for Young Writers of Utah. and her short stories have been published in English, German, Italian, Korean, and Serbian. © Claire Marika
B Format PBK 198 x 128 / 244 pages B Format PBK 198 x 128 / 320 pages Author location: Utah, USA ‘Jokha Alharthi poses the question Author location: Oman ‘I have never read a book more Pub date: 17/05/2018 of consciousness in the most Pub date: 21/06/2018 tender or more true.’ ISBN: 9781912240203 fundamental and inescapable of ways.’ ISBN: 9781912240166 Melanie Rae Thon RRP: £8.99 RRP: £8.99 Mufid Nijm
‘A beautiful and ferocious book… I loved every page.’ WINNER OF THE BEST OMANI NOVEL PRIZE Annie Hartnett, author of Rabbit Cake JUNE Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett THE TYRANNY OF LOST THINGS
Having dropped out of university, Harmony returns to the site of the urban commune where she lived as a child, now divided into flats. She rents a room in the hope of uncovering the source of her nightmares about a redheaded woman who haunts the house and her obsession with lost objects from her childhood. As the London riots explode in the streets, past and present converge, and Harmony begins to discover what really happened at Longhope twenty years ago. Can she grow up at last, and build her own future?
Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett is a columnist, feature writer and editor for the Guardian newspaper, contributing mainly to Opinion and Features sections, and the Weekend magazine. In 2012 she co-founded the Vagenda, a funny feminist blog which was published in book form by Vintage. This is her first novel.
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