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✨ Author Spotlight - Graeme Macrae Burnet ✨

Award-winning novelist Graeme Macrae Burnet will join us on Islay for a chat about his incredible body of work. www.ticketsource.co.uk/islay-book-f...

Inklings submissions open NOW with @saraband-books.bsky.social!

Make sure to read the guidelines 👇

Meet the Nature Chronicles Prize Judges 2025/26.

Linda Cracknell, nature and place writer Kevin Duffy, co-founder of Bluemoose Books Anjana Khatwa, award winning Earth Scientist, writer and presenter Matt Sowerby, writer and environmental activist, and the 2024 Nature Chronicles Prize winner Patrick Walsh, founder and agent at PEW Literary

And the judges for 2025/26 are 🥁

🍃 Linda Cracknell, nature & place writer
🍃 Kevin Duffy, co-founder @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social
🍃 @anjanakhatwa.bsky.social, award winning earth scientist
🍃 @sourbee-matt.bsky.social, writer & environmental activist
🍃 Patrick Walsh, founder & agent at PEW Literary

Inklings pitch submissions open from the 1st to 31st August 2025. More information on the Saraband website.

We’re delighted to announce that we’re now open to Inklings pitch submissions until the 31st August!

Visit our website for further information - we’re really looking forward to reading your submissions!

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Entries for the 2025/26 Nature Chronicles Prize are now open, as of 1st August 2025.

Key dates to enter the 2025/26 Nature Chronicles Prize.

We're delighted to announce that entries for the 2025/26 Nature Chronicles Prize open today!

The winner will receive £10,000 and five runners up £1,000 each. The winning and shortlisted entries will be included in The Nature Chronicles Prize: 3 anthology, published by @saraband-books.bsky.social

Waterstones 25% off pre-order offer.

Today is the last day of the @waterstones.bsky.social 25% off pre-order promotion

Enter SUMMER25 at the checkout before 23.59 today (31 July)

Saraband books included in the offer are in the image below!

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Emily Brontë Reappraised by Claire O’Callaghan, published by Saraband.

Today marks Emily Brontë's birthday 📚💙

Discover more about Emily in Emily Brontë Reappraised by @drclaireocall.bsky.social

The book conjures a new image of the great writer by looking at her afresh from the vantage point of the new millennium

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#Booksky #EmilyBronte

We are delighted to reveal the #BookerPrize2025 longlist – 13 books ‘all alive with great characters and narrative surprises’.

Huge congratulations to the authors who make up this year's Booker Dozen.

➡️ Discover the full list: thebookerprizes.com/bp2025

‪Lovely to see @writercatherine.bsky.social included in the
@booksfromscotland.bsky.social Heatwave issue!

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Keep your cool! It's Heatwave, the latest BfS issue!
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Thanks for your contributions: @florisbooks.bsky.social @canongate.co.uk @birlinn.bsky.social @edinburghup.bsky.social @luathpress.bsky.social @bwpublishing.bsky.social @saraband-books.bsky.social and more!

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The Waterstones 25% off pre-order promotion is now live!

📚 The offer will run until 23.59 on Thursday 31st July

📚 Enter SUMMER25 at the checkout to redeem the offer and receive 25% off

📚 The offer is exclusively available on the Waterstones website and app

Happy shopping!

#WPreorder #Booksky

The Nature Chronicles Prize 2025/26.

We're excited to announce that entries for the 2025/26 #NatureChroniclesPrize will open a week today!

More information to follow or keep up-to-date via our website:

www.naturechroniclesprize.com

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Wild to share that I have a book coming out with the brilliant @saraband-books.bsky.social! It stars the sea slugs, serpulid worms, scallops and other gleaming and gelatinous life I met underwater on Scotland’s coast.

It’s out on November 6 and available to pre-order! Hope you like water and light!

🌊📚 ISLAY BOOK FESTIVAL 2025 FULL LINEUP 📚🌊

We are delighted to bring you the full lineup for #IBF2025 🥳

Keep your eyes peeled for info about booking tickets, events taking place, and much more. 👀

islaybookfestival.co.uk

We're delighted to reveal the cover and announce the publication of Looking Down at the Stars: Life Beneath the Waves by @christinariley.bsky.social

More book and pre-order details here:
saraband.net/2025/07/22/s...

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Excited to be working on this beautiful book 🌊

Looking Down at the Stars: Life Beneath the Waves by Christina Riley is publishing in November from @saraband-books.bsky.social

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Saraband to publish Christina Riley's collection of 'joyous and sparkling' essays Saraband is set to publish Christina Riley’s collection of 'joyous and sparkling' essays with the 'wonder of marine life' at their heart.

Saraband is set to publish Christina Riley’s collection of "joyous and sparkling" essays with the "wonder of marine life" at their heart. The book will publish on 6th November 2025 👇

Publishing the North: Bias, Diversity and the North–South Divide in the UK Book Industry - Publishing Research Quarterly This article explores the place of writers and writing from Northern England in the contemporary UK book industry by highlighting the biases faced by these writers and the subsequent challenges of und...

My first journal article 'Publishing the North: Bias, Diversity and the North–South Divide in the UK Book Industry' out now in Publishing Research Quarterly.

It's open access, anyone can read it, and I think if you work in the UK book industry you really should.

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Bloody Scotland event listing

How's this for a power lineup? Watching the Detectives, ‪@bloodyscotland.bsky.social‬ Sept 13, 10am. Get your festival day off to a cracking start with Graeme Macrae Burnet, Alex Gray, Neil Lancaster & John Sutherland #booksky #crimefiction

BBC World Service - World Book Club, Graeme Macrae Burnet The world's great authors discuss their best-known novel.

On BBC Sounds: Harriett Gilbert speaks with Graeme Macrae Burnet about his novel HIS BLOODY PROJECT: about #C19th views of “the criminal class”; who, or what, was responsible for the murder at the heart of the novel; & why we continue to be fascinated by murder…
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His bloody project book cover

It’s almost 10 years since this modern classic by Graeme Macrae Burnet was first published! His Bloody Project: Bloody brilliant! #bookerprize #booksky #anniversary

Thanks, Helen x

Very sad to hear @404ink.bsky.social are closing, but they deserve a massive congratulations - they’ve been a shining light in the industry and have worked with unending passion. I’m delighted @saraband-books.bsky.social are taking on Inklings. A HUGE well done to Laura & Heather for everything!

Great, though, that the excellent @saraband-books.bsky.social have stepped in to help maintain the @404ink.bsky.social legacy.

Thanks Alastair!

Inklings submissions open from 1st to 31st August - Saraband Inklings submissions open from 1st to 31st August

In case you miss it amongst the news, we're delighted that @saraband-books.bsky.social will be continuing the Inklings series and they open for submissions in August! The process is very similar to our own but check out the guidelines and get your pitches ready.

saraband.net/2025/07/11/i...

404 Ink: closure announced ahead of 10th anniversary

The co-founders and publishers of 404 Ink, the reigning British Book Awards’ Small Press of the Year winner for Scotland, have exclusively revealed to us their decision to close the business as it reaches its 10th anniversary in July 2026 👇 #BookSky

Following the announcement of 404 Ink's closure, we're delighted to announce that we'll be taking forward a significant portion of the Inklings series!

Read more here:
saraband.net/news-events

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