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A collection of posts about Scotland Street Press from around the web, featuring our books, authors, artists and translators and more. From reviews in some of the leading journals to discussions on indie literature sites.

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Alindarka’s Children and Singapore's Language Politics
Miriam Yeo
July 30, 2023
Last week, a book club from Singapore gathered around a feast of Belarusian delicacies (stew, draniki, pelmeni) and chocolate cake to discuss Alindarka’s Children, the politics of language and Singapore’s "Speak Good English" campaign.
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James McBey was the artist who went from a north-east village to painting Lawrence of Arabia
Neil Drysdale
January 8, 2023
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Alan Massie reviews Dilys Rose for the Scotsman
Alan Massie
May 12, 2022
A review of Dilys Rose's new collection of short stories by Alan Massie for the Scotsman Newspaper, 'the author’s eye is so sharp, her hearing so acute, her imagination so lively, that they illuminate these moments and characters flicker into life'.
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The Thorny Politics of Translating a Belarusian Novel
Sophie Pinkham
June 21, 2022
The New York Times Review of Alindarka's Children by Alhierd Bacharevič. 'Bacharevic’s rich, provocative novel offers a kaleidoscopic picture of language as fairy-tale forest, as Gulag, as monument, as tomb, as everlasting life.'
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Publishing Scotland interview Bashabi Fraser and Vibha Pankaj
March 25, 2022
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Alan Riach: Poetry books to bring pleasure amid self-serving politics
February 11, 2022
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Rosemary Kaye stellar review of The Queen's Lender
February 2, 2022
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Ant by C.K. Scott Moncrieff, an Anthology Collected and Edited by the Author’s Great-Great Niece, Jean Findlay
David Garyan
January 6, 2022
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Review of The Purified Undiscovered Scotland
Ken Lussey
September 29, 2021
A review of 'The Purified' by Ken Lussey from 'Undiscovered Scotland' praising it as a high-octane thriller that sets off at speed and never relents until it reaches its conclusion, numerous entertaining twists and turns later.
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Price Beyond Rubies - Jean Findlay discusses writing a Scottish Novel
Jean Findlay
March 28, 2021
Jean Findlay discusses her new Scottish Novel ‘The Queen's Lender’ to be released in December 2021 by Scotland Street Press. The historical fiction is based around the court of James VI, his wife Anne of Denmark and jeweller George Heriot.
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David Garyan interviews Jean Findlay, Head of Publishing at Scotland Street Press
David Garyan
April 27, 2021
David Garyan from Interlitq interviews Jean Findlay about how Scotland Street Press came into being and the about Jean’s inspirations and hopes for the company going forward.
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TLS review Burds in Scots
March 13, 2020
Name four eminent Scots who emigrated to America in the eighteenth or nineteenth centuries and found fame. We propose Alexander Wilson, the ornithologist, poet and artist who left Paisley for Philadelphia in 1794 and never returned.
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Edward Kane in The Sunday Post
Maggie Ritchie
December 7, 2020
Ross Macfarlane's Christmas Edward Kane Serial, to be published every day over the Christmas Season. This is a murder mystery featuring advocate sleuth, Edward Kane, and his manservant.
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Scotland Street Press Gift £1000’s worth of books to local libraries
December 12, 2020
Scotland Street Press have given £1,000 of books to Edinburgh Children’s Libraries.The new books will be distributed to the ten libraries which have opened in Edinburgh since the easing of pandemic restriction and any child visiting these libraries will be able to choose one of the four titles.
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Spotlight on Traci O’Dea from Gallery Magazine
Lucy Sanderson
June 28, 2021
Traci’s latest book, ‘Restricted Movement’ is a story told through poetry and letters to her father, Tommy. It is a collaboration of creativity and a kind of testament to lives lived intertwined but sometimes physically and emotionally distant.
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Podcast, Traci O Dea with Matthew Buckley Smith
June 29, 2021
Traci O'Dea talks to Matthew Buckley Smith about Form vs. free verse, Casual Britishisms, Art vs. artists, Metaphysical sex poetry, Pandering to the patriarchy, A doting New York Times piece on Billie Eilish, The HBO of influencers, and her new collection, Restricted Movement.
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‘Poetry is the main thing that keeps my brain clear’ Traci O’Dea on ‘Restricted Movement’
Elodie Redoules
July 6, 2021
Jersey-based poet Traci O’Dea spent twelve months in the midst of the pandemic supporting her father, who lives in the US, as he was struggling with mild dementia and a relapse into substance abuse. As she has done since as long as she can remember, she turned to poetry to help process the events.
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Review of 'Declarations on Freedom for Writers and Readers' by Liz Niven
Liz Niven
April 30, 2020
The publication of Declarations on Freedom for Writers and Readers is both a timeous and note-worthy achievement. In the midst of isolations and restrictions, the written word has remained free.
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'Fox' and the 'What if's' of surveillance
February 21, 2019
What if . . . the British government struck a deal with the People’s Republic of China? And acquired new and ground-breaking technology enabling them to implant a surveillance microchip in every British citizen under the guise of having a routine injection against fox flu?
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Highland Jaunt: An essay by author Rupert Wolfe-Murray in The Scottish Review of Books
October 20, 2016
Author profile for Rupert Wolfe Murray as he discusses his book '9 Months in Tibet'. How he came to be there and the adventures that unfolded. 9 Months in Tibet was published by Scotland Street Press in 2016.
Author Hamish MacDonald against a collage of Alexander Wilson's ornithological drawings
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Hamish MacDonald and ‘Burds in Scots’, an outdoors lockdown
April 15, 2020
Margaret Chrystall from 'What’s On North' talks to Hamish MacDonald about his love of birds, the outdoors and his celebration of the Scots language in his book 'Burds in Scots'.
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Republic of Consciousness Prize 2021 longlist. An Interview with Jean Findlay
March 8, 2021
Alindarka’s Children has been longlisted for the Republic of Consciousness Prize for 2021. In this interview, Jean Findlay, Head of Publishing at Scotland Street Press, discusses the journey of the novel from pitch, to translation, to publication. Read the full interview here.
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‘Rewriting Colonial Past Through Culture’ An Interview with Bashabi Fraser, CBE
July 15, 2021
In this interview Bashabi talks about her experience as a Scottish-Bengali poet and academic, exploring the themes of racism and integration. Bashabi has collaborated with artist Vibha Pankaj to publish a collection of poems and paintings, published by Scotland Street Press in July.
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The Selfish Giant, Amazon’s role in the book industry
Jean Findlay, Scotland Street Press Editorial
July 7, 2017
In and article for Product Magazine, Jean Findlay explores the role of Amazon in the book business and the necessity of supporting small publishers and indie bookshops.
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C.K. Scott Moncrieff: A Man Out of Italian Time (Review of ‘Chasing Lost Time’, a Biography by Jean Findlay)
David Garyan
July 28, 2021
A fantastic article in the Interlitq featuring Founder, Jean Findlay’s book ‘Chasing Lost Time, The Life of C. K. Scott Moncrieff: Soldier, Spy, and Translator’. David Garyan provides a thorough review which pays particular attention to the Italian dimension of Scott-Moncrieff’s life.