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 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 © Richard Else FOREWORD BY SAM HEUGHAN MARCH FEBRUARY 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).