KENNETH WHITE IS one of the most daring of Europe's writers, thinkers and teachers. Breaking out the bounds of a limiting culture he left Scotland for France with his wife, Marie-Claude, in 1967. There he held first the Chair of 20th Century Poetics at the Sorbonne, later founding the International Institute of Geopoetics which now has centers in various countries, including Scotland and England. This first book, On the Atlantic Edge, is the full text of his Highland lectures preceded by, in the way of introduction, his lecture to the Edinburgh International Book Festival in 2005.

On the Atlantic Edge: A Geopoetics Project (Non-fiction)

Literature & Fiction

White, Kenneth

History & Criticism

Sandstone Pr Ltd

IN GAELIC. Sgeulachdan an Da Shaogail draws liberally from a variety of narrative structures, plot devices, idioms, and folkloric motifs in Gaelic oral tradition, and makes many allusions to a cultural inheritance that was once well known to generations of Gaelic speakers. The story is written as a series of letters from an unnamed source to his foster-brother Roibeart. Each letter recounts an interview with increasingly elderly neighbors who have had memorable encounters with denizens of the Otherworld. These narratives, based on Scottish tales of the supernatural, contain something inexorably compelling about the symbolic Other that allows us to express what is otherwise inexpressible about ourselves and the human condition. The Sandstone Meanmnach Series is aimed at Advanced Gaelic learners as well as accomplished readers.

Sgeulachdan an Da Shaoghail Ann an Ceithir Litrichean (Sandstone Meanmnach) (Scots Gaelic and English Edition)

Newton, Michaël

Short Stories & Anthologies

Back in the 70s when the world lived in smock tops and flares, Eric and Ruth MacLeod took themselves and their two small daughters off to an abandoned crofthouse in the remotest quarter of the West Highlands. Rocky and windswept it was an unlikely Eden, even after they cleared the dead sheep from the living room floor. Here they remained for sixteen years, reconstructing the building and making a home, learning to shear and attending creels, introducing electricity and running small businesses. While the ethos of the world around them descended from idealism into `getting and spending' they learned real independence. They also made a life that included the wild creatures of moor and shore, accommodation with the unpredictable sea, and the friendship of many great characters, some of them fellow crofters, some escapees from the House of Lords. `Who has adventures like us?' Eric asked. Their story was played out in a landscape of hills and coast, a place of incomparable beauty that remains unspoiled to this day.

The Kerracher Man (Non-fiction)

History

MacLeod, Eric

Macleod, Ruthie

Europe

For over thirty years John Allen was an active member of the Cairngorm Mountain Rescue Team and for most of them acted as Team Leader. In `Cairngorm John' (his call sign when in contact with search and rescue helicopters) he recalls the challenges of mountain rescue and the many changes he has both witnessed and been a party to. His book is filled with exciting accounts of real-life rescues, discussions of mountain rescue topics such as hypothermia, first aid, and the use of helicopters and search and rescue dogs. Peopled with interesting characters his accounts are at all times humane and the book is laced with humor. Short listed for the Boardman Tasker Prize.

Cairngorm John: A Life in Mountain Rescue

Allen,John

Bonington, Chris, Sir

Biographies & Memoirs

`Help me, please help me.' It was a young woman's voice, pleading with him. He opened the door, certain that this was the biggest mistake of his life, and there she was, a feral creature in dirty clothes, with hollowed cheeks and scabs on her cracked lips. She told him her name and why she'd broken into his flat. Her young friend had died three years ago, she said. Her body had been fished out of the sea off the Argyll coast. She begged him not to call the police. `There's no-one else I can go to.' It's not the only unexplained death haunting Cal McGill, a part-time PhD oceanography student with a macabre interest in floating corpses. Severed feet are washing ashore on Scotland's beaches and for some reason McGill wants to know if they're wearing trainers. The answer could make all the difference between accident and murder. Then there's the tragedy of his grandfather who was lost at sea, the mystery which sparked his childhood fascination for tracking flotsam across oceans, the mystery he's never been able to solve.

The Sea Detective

Mark Douglas-Home

Literary

`Help me, please help me.' It was a young woman's voice, pleading with him. He opened the door, certain that this was the biggest mistake of his life, and there she was, a feral creature in dirty clothes, with hollowed cheeks and scabs on her cracked lips. She told him her name and why she'd broken into his flat. Her young friend had died three years ago, she said. Her body had been fished out of the sea off the Argyll coast. She begged him not to call the police. `There's no-one else I can go to.' It's not the only unexplained death haunting Cal McGill, a part-time PhD oceanography student with a macabre interest in floating corpses. Severed feet are washing ashore on Scotland's beaches and for some reason McGill wants to know if they're wearing trainers. The answer could make all the difference between accident and murder. Then there's the tragedy of his grandfather who was lost at sea, the mystery which sparked his childhood fascination for tracking flotsam across oceans, the mystery he's never been able to solve.

Douglas-Home, Mark

Hospital consultant and award-winning medical text-book writer John Larkin tells you what's going through a doctor's brain, and how to use that to your mutual advantage - and he doesn't pull many punches. Learn the things that annoy doctors most and how (usually) to avoid them. Learn helpful medical know how - it's easier to talk with your doctor if you have an idea what he's rambling on about. Everyone who's ever had to see a doctor needs this hilarious book.

How to Keep Your Doctor Happy

Larkin, John

Health, Fitness & Dieting

First published in 2007, Jamie Whittle's account of the River Findhorn and his journey to its source enthralled and inspired all who read it. Beautifully written, it places this famous river in a world context of ecology, economy, and natural beauty. Sandstone Press is now proud to present a new production of this great book, one that will be enjoyed for many years to come.

White River: A Journey Up and Down the River Findhorn

Sports & Outdoors

Whittle, Jamie

Water Sports

Cal McGill watches the young woman through the dirty windshield of his Toyota. There's something compelling about her stillness, about the length of time she has been standing, staring out to sea. What has brought her to this remote beach, he asks himself. Is she a kindred spirit who finds refuge by the shore? Idle curiosity soon turns into another investigation for oceanographer and loner McGill as he embarks on a quest to discover why, 26 years earlier, another young woman walked into these same waves. According to the police, she killed herself and her unborn baby. McGill, the Sea Detective, questions this version of events and confronts the jealousies, tensions, and threats of a coastal community determined to hold on to its secrets. ""Douglas-Home's sophomore series entry for his oceanographer sleuth is simply intoxicating. The young protagonist has a romantic streak that complements his typical scientific method.""--Library Journal Nov. 1, 2013 ""Douglas-Home has done a truly superb job of portraying both the Scottish Countryside and the memorable characters he peoples it with.""-I Love a Mystery

The Woman Who Walked into the Sea (The Sea Detective)

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

In 2018, Manchester is a rotten city propped up by a few bad men. The first industrial city is dying - its people left to fend for themselves. Now, the only currency is trust and Brian Meredith - addict, depressive, wheelchair-bound - has new trouble with old problems. It doesn't help that Brian is a mermaid. Born with sirenomelia to Jehovah's Witnesses, his legs are fused from thigh to foot. His mother brought him up as a myth - hiding the truth, or otherwise helping him to repress it. And in this decaying city, where grey morals match grey skies, Brian's condition is something both friends and enemies will use. Sitting somewhere between literary fiction, crime and sci-fi, it's an exhilarating, challenging and wildly daring debut novel that addresses the fears of now through an idea of tomorrow. The Folded Man was given second place in the fiercely competitive Dundee International Book Prize by judges Stephen Fry and Philip Pullman. ""Hill's frightening dystopian vision of Britain's near future. . . Some combination of Raymond Chandler, Trainspotting, and Philip K. Dick, Hill's unsettling novel is not an escapist fantasy, but rather a call to arms, a plea to change the future.""--Publishers Weekly, Aug. 26, 2013

The Folded Man

HIll, Matt

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On the Atlantic Edge: A Geopoetics Project (Non-fiction)

Sgeulachdan an Da Shaoghail Ann an Ceithir Litrichean (Sandstone Meanmnach) (Scots Gaelic and English Edition)

The Kerracher Man (Non-fiction)

Cairngorm John: A Life in Mountain Rescue

The Sea Detective

The Sea Detective

How to Keep Your Doctor Happy

White River: A Journey Up and Down the River Findhorn

The Woman Who Walked into the Sea (The Sea Detective)

The Folded Man