In 2011, The Testament of Jessie Lamb by Jane Rogers was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. At that time, the idea of a business such as Sandstone, located in the Highlands, was so outlandish that we were asked for interviews by news outlets in countries across the world.

By 2013, when we had a similar success with The Marrying of Chani Kaufman by Eve Harris, we were so sufficiently established that attention moved from us to the author and the book itself. Sandstone Press had become an accepted part of the publishing landscape.

In 2017 we added the Betty Trask Prize for fiction to a list of many awards that includes the Petrona Prize for translated Scandinavian crime and the Saltire Society Scottish Publisher of the Year.

The Sky Atlantic series, Babylon Berlin, now a popular and prestigious international success, is an adaptation of the German language bestsellers by Volker Kutscher, published by Kiepenheuer & Witsch in Cologne. Sandstone Press is the English language publisher, and has sold rights to Picador USA and Allen & Unwin in Australia, and audio rights to Audible for worldwide distribution. The translation process had financial support from the Goethe Institut in London and XPONorth here in the Highlands.

We value such successes but never forget that we serve a wide reading public across the world.

Sandstone Press publishes between twenty-five and thirty new titles each year. At least two will be translations of overseas successes. Many of our non-fiction titles are inspired by our Highland environment: mountaineering, conservation, hill running and so on. We also publish literary biography, including definitive biographies of Edwin Morgan and Josephine Tey, the Tey biography having been written by Inverness author Jennifer Morag Henderson. We also publish A Broken Hallelujah by Liel Leibovitz, a significant book on Leonard Cohen, and the autobiography of Ronnie Browne of The Corries.

We take pride in maintaining the high quality of our cover design and production values, while actively extending the range of our list and increasing our establishment. In the past year we have taken on new premises and new staff, while strengthening our network of connections, not least being our own Inverness Chamber of Commerce.

The world’s view of Scotland is changing and by operating internationally as effectively as we do, from our base in Dingwall, we bring positive attention to the Highlands and Islands, and to the country, and make a significant contribution to the economies of both.