Canongate’s Helena Gonda specializes in acquiring narrative nonfiction that might ‘help us understand ourselves or the world.’
Scotland’s Highland Book Prize Goes to Jen Hadfield’s ‘The Stone Age’
‘Our neurodiversity is a gift,’ as Pan Mac/Picador’s commentary about Jen Hadfield’s ‘The Stone Age’ positions her ‘visionary panpsychism.’
Visit Scotland Features’ ‘Braw Beginnings’; Publishing Scotland Opens Applications
Publishing Scotland will award ‘Go-Digital’ and translation-rights grants in their current rounds with August deadlines.
London Book Fair Exhibitor: Publishing Scotland, ‘Facilitating Rights Sales’
‘Channels for voices in Scottish literature,’ says Alan Bett, are enhanced by Publishing Scotland’s international fellowship.
Awards: Scotland’s Highland Book Prize Names Its 2021 Shortlist
The five-year-old Highland Book Prize Names four titles to its shortlist from university, independent, and major publishers.
Edinburgh University Press Sees Sales Surpass £4 Million in 2021
Digital acceleration: Growth outlined in Edinburgh University Press’ annual report includes a 49-percent gain in ebook sales, year over year.
Scotland Opens ‘A Year of Stories,’ Publishing Scotland Aligns Its Programming
The Visit Scotland tourism theme ‘Year of Stories” is to be coupled with Publishing Scotland’s ‘Shaping Scottish Stories’ program.
Exact Editions Partners with IPA and Save the Children on a COP26 Showcase
The new showcase of books on the climate crisis has the participation of dozens of publishers, echoing a COP26 goal: working together.
In-Person, Online: Edinburgh International Book Festival’s Business of Books
Amid some 250 events in August’s hybrid edition of the Edinburgh International Book Festival, a group of programs welcomes industry players.
Publishing Scotland’s BookSource To Handle MMS Distribution
Specialized in handling children’s literature from Walker Books, Hogs Back Books, and others, MMS signs on with BookSource for distribution.