Tippermuir Books is a publisher based in Perth whose aims and objectives are to produce worthwhile, educational and popular books, be they fiction, non-fiction or poetry, in English, Scots and Gaelic. We publish books of primarily Scottish themes including children’s books in Scots.
Tippermuir’s strength is its smallness and love of the written word. Our published titles are purposefully broad in topic. We publish books that appeal to us and/or we feel are important culturally and socially.
These include our brilliantly successful The Tale of the Wee Mowdie, Fat Girl Best Friend: ‘Claiming Our Space’: Plus Size Women in Film & Television and A Most Unsuitable Game: Celebrating Scottish Women’s Football Fifty Years After the Ban, which Kirsty Wark described as, ‘A wonderful celebration of the pioneering women footballers who campaigned so hard to take their rightful place in the beautiful game’.
In 2023, we published Guid Mornin! Guid Nicht! – the first LGBT+ children’s book in Scots (and Gaelic as Madainn Mhath! Oidhche Mhath!) – which was named ‘Scots Language Children’s Book of the Year’. Tippermuir’s forthcoming The Lass & The Quine will be the first original LGBT+ inclusive children’s book published in the Scots language. It is an illustrated storybook for children written by Ashley Douglas and illustrated by Kate Osmond. The book is a new Scots fairy tale that challenges those you know in a clever and enjoyable way.
Noel Chidwick,
Co-founder Shoreline of Infinity
Founder/Editor-in-Chief SF Caledonia
Shoreline of Infinity is an independent science fiction publisher based in Edinburgh. We published Issue 1 of Shoreline of Infinity Science Fiction Magazine in 2015, with issue 39 launching at Cymera Festival in June.
We also publish science fiction-related non-fiction and anthologies. These include Scotland in Space, Once Upon a Biofuture: Tales for a New Millennium, Biopolis: Tales of Urban Biology, Multiverse: an international anthology of science fiction poetry, and Alba ad Astra: Scotland’s forgotten history of space exploration.
We have just launched SF Caledonia Anthology One – a collection of stories, poetry, and articles by Scottish writers of science fiction from our latest project, SF Caledonia.
SF Caledonia is a showcase of Scottish writers of science fiction, speculative fiction, and fantasy (SFF). It’s a free-to-access website of stories to celebrate Scottish SFF writers past, present, and future. Do you know who wrote the first Scottish science fiction book, published in 1817?
SF Caledonia is a living resource. We publish SFF stories, poems, and articles every month; our aim is to find every published Scottish SFF writer we can and publish an example of their work. We want to include Scottish SFF writers, no matter where in the world they live.
SF Caledonia Anthology One is our first published paperback collection, but our main focus is the website. Here we can go beyond the printed word to explore other ways to tell SFF stories, and hear from SFF writers in all formats; film, music, audio, games – whatever can be shared in digital format, and on whatever device you favour.
We’re exploring other ways to tell stories, and to highlight writers who might not otherwise have that chance. We’ve released a serial you can read online, on your phone, for example: The Pocketbook Guide to Scottish Superheroes, by Kirsti Wishart. If this mode of publication was good enough for Walter Scott…
Under the banner of Event Horizon, Shoreline of Infinity has hosted live science fiction events in Edinburgh ever since 2015 when we launched Issue One in a lively event featuring an alien MC. SF Caledonia will continue to run events to give voice to Scottish SFF writers wherever they happen to be, in Scotland or beyond.
SF Caledonia is only beginning. It’s an open model: open to ideas and suggestions, in content and delivery.
We’re volunteer-led, and we’re inviting people with skills to share their time and energy to help us grow SF Caledonia. Many writers have already shared their work, but we need more folk to nurture its growth. People with skills in editing, writing, multimedia, publishing, technical, marketing, publicity for example. Check the website for details, or drop us an email or a message on our website. We aim to keep it free to access, but we are looking at funding models to ensure it is self-sustaining.
SF Caledonia should be a resource for everyone; for students to explore, for readers to enjoy, and be a place to stimulate the imagination.
All books are available from the Shoreline of Infinity shop.
Saraband – where ideas grow. We are an award-winning, women-led independent publisher of outstanding and compelling fiction, nature and environmental writing, memoir, essays and history. We publish authors with deep knowledge of their community, culture, landscapes, wildlife, and local traditions, from works with extraordinary breadth and depth such as Jim Crumley’s sweeping study of climate chaos – Seasons of Storm and Wonder – to Chitra Ramaswamy’s intimate and revealing literary essays in her prize-winning debut Expecting, and compact books on mindful, planet-friendly themes within the In The Moment series. Our fiction includes literary, historical and contemporary stories reflecting UK and international perspectives – all with unforgettable voices, from the double Booker-listed Graeme Macrae Burnet and Costa-winning A.L. Kennedy, and the surreal humour of Olga Wojtas, to new talents Rozie Kelly, J.A. Mensah and Andrés N. Ordorica. Established in 1994, we have published books to inspire, intrigue, inform and entertain readers for more than thirty years.
Kingfisher by Rozie Kelly
The Zen of Climbing by Francis Sanzaro
There She Goes edited by Esa Aldegheri
It Came From the Closet edited by Joe Vallese, foreword by Kirsty Logan
While the Earth Holds its Breath by Helen Moat
Stromness, Orkney Islands
Orkneyology Press is the passion project of husband and wife team, Tom and Rhonda Muir of the Okney
Islands. The press evolved naturally from our heritage and social history website, Orkneyology.com.
Curating remarkable stories by means of an independent press has been our ultimate goal since we began
the website in 2017, and we’re well on our way.
Our aim with Orkneyology Press is to give voice to quieter kinds of stories that deserve to be known.
While we are particularly interested in Orkney-themed works, we plan to publish good stories of any
cultural character. We’re particularly interested in authentic folklore and tales from around the world, and
we love unusual memoirs that are deeply place-oriented. Though we’re not currently able to accept new
submissions, we will continue to publish unique titles throughout 2025 and after.
Along with memoir, Orcadian and Scottish history will take a prominent place among our titles, especially
the lesser-known human stories that usually go unnoticed. We’re fascinated by “small” social histories –
small only in the sense that they perhaps lie in the shadows of better-known issues, people and events.
And of course, living in Orkney as we do, we plan to indulge in a bit of archaeology.
Other than folk tales, fiction isn’t at the top of our list for now, though our parameters are still in a happy
state of flux. We’re making it up as we go along, and having a lot of fun.
The Podcast: If you like lovely, meandering blethers, you might enjoy our podcast, The Orkneyology
Podcast ~ Ower wi’ the Moon. Every month on the night of the full moon, we enjoy a good talk with
interesting friends centered around our favorite themes. You’re most welcome to join us!
About Tom and Rhonda: Tom Muir, MBE, is a native Orcadian historian, author and storyteller, who
received his MBE for services to Orkney folklore. Rhonda is an American expat, writer, nature-walker
and mother of four who moved to Orkney to marry Tom in 2016. Along with publishing the works of
others, we will be creating our own series of books around Orkney life: folklore, history, walking in and
exploring our beautiful islands, breathing to life the stories that reside in the landscape. You can find more
about living in Orkney as well as our personal story on our website.
Our books: We make our books available in hardback, paperback and ebook versions. Buying directly
from our online shop gives our authors, and our good selves, the best return for our investment of time
and energy. However you decide to purchase, we heartily thank you.
A Letter from North Ronaldsay: 1990–1999 by Ian Scott
The Madman’s Window & Other Tales of the Antrim Coast by Colin Urwin
A–Z of Orkney Placenames by Gregor Lamb
Story Harvest by David Campbell
An Orcadian Odyssey – A Memoir by Bryce Wilson
Leamington Books publishes a variety of fiction, poetry and non-fiction titles under our ethos, Transformative Publishing.
Ours is a relatively large publishing list, given that we started as a part-time occupation in November 2020, and have published nearly sixty books since then, an average of 14 titles a year. We currently work with one full time staff member, and four interns, and will take on a new full time staff member in the summer of 2025.
In 2025 we are publishing the eighth novel by multi-award winning author Ewan Morrison, a commercial venture and our foray into the larger global book markets. We have sold the rights to this novel across world markets. We are publishing debut novelist Luca Serra, the debut poetry collection by award winning Gaelic writer and singer Ceitidh Chambeuil; and a collection of poetry by Mohammad Moussa, written from within Gaza in the last year, a shocking and beautiful collection written within the active and ongoing genocide.
We have published the debut novels of five writers, all of whom have gone on to publish work with other presses; we have published poetry collections in English, Scots and Gaelic, including an award winning Gaelic collection and the first full collection written by a transgender writer in Scotland; we have re-printed most of the fiction and some of the non-fiction of Scottish writer John Herdman, whose works which date back to 1968, were completely out of print; we have reprinted what we consider to be valuable public domain works, using this practice as a method of training young publishers; and we have published a series of novellas, sourced from around the world, including new works from South Korea, United States, and other countries.
We have also published six anthology titles, including an anthology of the long-standing Scottish political blog Bella Caledonia, and the popular Edinburgh literary freesheet, The One O’Clock Gun.
Our authors are chosen for their unique perspectives and one-of-a-kind stories to tell.
We are an independent publisher who fund each title or set of titles on a project basis. Leamington’s work is driven by a wish to bring these concepts into reality with drive and support.
We have prioritised new writers, introducing many to publication for the first time and securing them on their career journey by among many other things, concentrating on national distribution of their titles.
Peter Burnett is the publishing director, taking lead on most decisions as the founder and long-term employee. The process is values-led and democratic, meaning all publishing assistants / interns and people involved via commissioned work have a say that leads to the final decision.
Decisions are based upon the following principles.
The company employs a wide range of contractors including designers, public relations, researchers, editors, social media support and readers and takes a lead from Inklusion Guide, Scottish BAME Writers and Publishing Scotland on how to phrase submissions, public-facing policies and manage professional relationships.
We employ as per the Freelancers Guide and freelancer guidance materials issued by Literature Alliance Scotland and we receive updates on all these matters and do not a make a public submissions request without consulting them.
The company is a member of Publishing Scotland and a member of Literature Alliance Scotland, and we purchase annual membership of the Society of Young Publishers for all of our of our staff and interns without exception.
Publishing director Peter Burnett is a board member and editor of the north of Scotland-based magazine Pushing Out The Boat, which has been running for twenty five years – – not to be confused with the much more recent ‘Pushing The Boat Out’ festival that is run in Edinburgh, but which ‘borrowed’ its name; and he is a board member of Literature Alliance Scotland.
For Emma by Ewan Morrison
Inspired by the real-life Brain Chip Implant experiments (Musk/Neuralink) and the technogothic tradition (Frankenstein, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, The Island of Dr Moreau), For Emma is a tale of possession by a new force unleashed by science. It is a warning for the future but also an intimate, heart-breaking study of the love between a father and daughter and of the madness that grief can drive us to.
Pure Mania by Stewart Home
Set in an almost fictional anarcho-punk milieu around the squats and council estates of East London the cult pulp novel takes the form of a blatantly falsified tour of eighties youth trends and is a fearless exploration of the sexual underground.
“A good deal of sexual bigotry is still sanctioned by law. It should go without saying that consent is only possible when all those partaking in a sexual act enjoy social equality.”
Stewart Home
The Broken Pane by Charlie Roy
“Harrowing, tragic, yet ultimately uplifting, The Broken Pane breaks your heart then puts it back together before the end.”
The Skinny
Polaris by Marcas Mac an Tuiarneir
Polaris is the fourth collection from award-winning Gaelic- and English-language poet Marcas Mac an Tuairneir. Named for the North Star, the collection builds on intersecting notions of ‘northness’ and linguistic and cultural identities – ‘Polaris’ means ‘languages’ in the gay cryptolect Polari. This ground-breaking new body of work harvests from a cross-section of folk narratives, historical accounts and current affairs, spanning the length and breadth of these islands – the Atlantic Archipelago.
It’s About Time by Lesley Storm
“I’m a woman. I support them. I’m bisexual. I support them. I’m a feminist. I support them. I endure regular abuse for being trans. I support them. I am called a “poof” by the unenlightened. I support them. My name is Lesley, and I’m a woman ― that is to say that I am human, just like you, and you like me.”
The Black Vampyre by Uriah Derrick D’Arcy
An anti-capitalist horror fable from 200 years hence, The Black Vampyre vilified the worst financial predation the capitalist world would ever see, decades before Karl Marx ― the enslavement of Africans in the New World. One dead man said no. And this is his story.