London Book Fair 2020 Rights Catalogue

London Book Fair 2020

Luath Press committed to publishing well written books worth reading

Why Men Win at Work ... and how we can make inequality history GILL WHITTY-COLLINS 210x135mm 256pp 978-1-913025-62-5 Hardback August 2020 £12.99 JBFA Social Discrimation & Equal Treatment World Rights

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It’s about what happens when women make it to work, in a good job, which they do very well alongside good men. It’s about all the

invisible, unconscious things that will ultimately be what defeats most of these strong, intelligent, talented women.

Why are men still winning at work?

If women have equal leadership ability why are they so under-represented at the top in the workplace and society?

Why are we still living in a man’s world?

And why do we accept it?

In this provactive book, Gill Whitty-Collins looks beyond the facts and figures on gender bias and uncovers the invisible discrimination that continues to sabotage us in the workplace and limits our shared success. Addressing both men and women and pulling no punches, she sets out the psychology of gender diversity from the perspective of real personal experience and shares her powerful insights on how to tackle the gender equality issue.

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#MeToo has provided a huge distraction and has, frankly, given men who are not guilty of the hideous ‘bottom of the pyramid’ stuff an opportunity to feel complacent, even smug and to disengage from gender equality issues: ‘I don’t sexually harass or abuse or manipulate women so I am above all this.’ ... we lose men from the conversation – because most men don’t do these things, don’t understand them, find them irrelevant and feel they can therefore disengage themselves from the whole issue.

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GILL WHITTY-COLLINS spent 26 years with Procter & Gamble, latterly as VicePresident running leading brands such as Olay and Pantene. She was born near Liverpool, to a Scouse Catholic working-class family, as the youngest of three sisters. A love of language and steely determination took Gill to study Modern & Medieval Languages at Selwyn College, Cambridge University. After graduating and with a young son in tow, she joined P&G’s marketing department and quickly progressed through the ranks. Gill thrived in the highly competitive business environment, until she reached the senior VP level and began to see and experience gender diversity issues as she moved away from the 50:50 split to a 80:20 one (men:women). It was then she began to be affected by – and saw others negatively affected and defeated by – gender diversity problems. She now strives to drive gender equality and diversity in businesses and our society as a consultant. Gill is well-known and respected in the corporate world and has a very strong LinkedIn network. This is her first book.

Why Men Win at Work ... and how we can make inequality history GILL WHITTY-COLLINS 210x135mm 256pp 978-1-913025-62-5 Hardback August 2020 £12.99 JBFA Social Discrimation & Equal Treatment World Rights

“

It’s about what happens when women make it to work, in a good job, which they do very well alongside good men. It’s about all the

invisible, unconscious things that will ultimately be what defeats most of these strong, intelligent, talented women.

Why are men still winning at work?

If women have equal leadership ability why are they so under-represented at the top in the workplace and society?

Why are we still living in a man’s world?

And why do we accept it?

In this provactive book, Gill Whitty-Collins looks beyond the facts and figures on gender bias and uncovers the invisible discrimination that continues to sabotage us in the workplace and limits our shared success. Addressing both men and women and pulling no punches, she sets out the psychology of gender diversity from the perspective of real personal experience and shares her powerful insights on how to tackle the gender equality issue.

“

#MeToo has provided a huge distraction and has, frankly, given men who are not guilty of the hideous ‘bottom of the pyramid’ stuff an opportunity to feel complacent, even smug and to disengage from gender equality issues: ‘I don’t sexually harass or abuse or manipulate women so I am above all this.’ ... we lose men from the conversation – because most men don’t do these things, don’t understand them, find them irrelevant and feel they can therefore disengage themselves from the whole issue.

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GILL WHITTY-COLLINS spent 26 years with Procter & Gamble, latterly as VicePresident running leading brands such as Olay and Pantene. She was born near Liverpool, to a Scouse Catholic working-class family, as the youngest of three sisters. A love of language and steely determination took Gill to study Modern & Medieval Languages at Selwyn College, Cambridge University. After graduating and with a young son in tow, she joined P&G’s marketing department and quickly progressed through the ranks. Gill thrived in the highly competitive business environment, until she reached the senior VP level and began to see and experience gender diversity issues as she moved away from the 50:50 split to a 80:20 one (men:women). It was then she began to be affected by – and saw others negatively affected and defeated by – gender diversity problems. She now strives to drive gender equality and diversity in businesses and our society as a consultant. Gill is well-known and respected in the corporate world and has a very strong LinkedIn network. This is her first book.

A Basic Income Handbook

A Basic Income Pocketbook ANNIE MILLER 978-1-912147-62-5 Paperback 198x129mm 192pp April 2020 £9.99

ANNIE MILLER 234x156mm 304pp 978-1-910745-78-6 Paperback £12.99 QDTS Social & Political Philosophy World Rights

Following on from A Basic Income Handbook, Annie Miller expands on her rigorous research to put it in the context of our ever-changing political climate to give the reader an understanding of how a Basic Income could benefit anyone in a post-Brexit Britain.

ANNIE MILLER spent over 20 years lecturing Economics at Heriot-Watt University She has presented papers on Basic Income at the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN)’s biannual congresses, and is the Chair of the Citizen’s Income Trust (CIT).

The current social security system is unwieldy, complex, unjust and unfit for purpose.

Basic Income is the solution. It redefines the relationship between the state, society and the individual. This innovative book provides a new perspective on Basic Income – a regular, unconditional payment to every citizen resident in the country. This comprehensive book has been rigorously researched and thus will appeal to academics and policy-makers, as well as to the general reader who is concerned about the current state of social security in the UK and beyond. Find out how Basic Income can make a difference to your life.

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In this vital contribution to the debate about how we ground our welfare system more squarely on social justice, Annie Miller has done Scotland and the UK a service. It combines personal reflections with passion and technical adeptness, making the case for a Universal Basic Income powerfully in the process. Amongst many other achievements, this work presents the underarticulated feminist case for change – a vital component of the debate that should be more central. To be highly recommended.

Anthony Painter, Director of the Action and Research Centre, Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce

Essentials of Basic Income ANNIE MILLER 978-1-913025-58-8 Paperback 170x110mm 48pp April 2020 £4.99 Annie Miller condenses her research in a short, readable form.

A Basic Income Handbook

A Basic Income Pocketbook ANNIE MILLER 978-1-912147-62-5 Paperback 198x129mm 192pp April 2020 £9.99

ANNIE MILLER 234x156mm 304pp 978-1-910745-78-6 Paperback £12.99 QDTS Social & Political Philosophy World Rights

Following on from A Basic Income Handbook, Annie Miller expands on her rigorous research to put it in the context of our ever-changing political climate to give the reader an understanding of how a Basic Income could benefit anyone in a post-Brexit Britain.

ANNIE MILLER spent over 20 years lecturing Economics at Heriot-Watt University She has presented papers on Basic Income at the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN)’s biannual congresses, and is the Chair of the Citizen’s Income Trust (CIT).

The current social security system is unwieldy, complex, unjust and unfit for purpose.

Basic Income is the solution. It redefines the relationship between the state, society and the individual. This innovative book provides a new perspective on Basic Income – a regular, unconditional payment to every citizen resident in the country. This comprehensive book has been rigorously researched and thus will appeal to academics and policy-makers, as well as to the general reader who is concerned about the current state of social security in the UK and beyond. Find out how Basic Income can make a difference to your life.

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In this vital contribution to the debate about how we ground our welfare system more squarely on social justice, Annie Miller has done Scotland and the UK a service. It combines personal reflections with passion and technical adeptness, making the case for a Universal Basic Income powerfully in the process. Amongst many other achievements, this work presents the underarticulated feminist case for change – a vital component of the debate that should be more central. To be highly recommended.

Anthony Painter, Director of the Action and Research Centre, Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce

Essentials of Basic Income ANNIE MILLER 978-1-913025-58-8 Paperback 170x110mm 48pp April 2020 £4.99 Annie Miller condenses her research in a short, readable form.

The Glasgow Effect

Poverty Safari

A tale of class, capitalism and carbon footprint

Understanding the Anger of Britain’s Underclass

ELLIE HARRISON 978-1-912147-96-0 Paperback 198x129mm 384pp £9.99 JPA Political Science & Theory World Rights

DARREN McGARVEY 978-1-529006-34-6 Paperback 198x129mm World Rights (via Picador) Published by Picador in assocation with Luath Press

How would your career, social life, family ties, carbon footprint and mental health be affected if you could not leave the city where you live?

People from deprived communities all around Britain feel misunderstood and unheard.

Darren McGarvey aka Loki gives voice to their feelings and concerns, and the anger that is spilling over. Anger he says we will have to get used to, unless things change.

Artist Ellie Harrison sparked a fast-and-furious debate about class, capitalism, art, education and much more, when news of her year-long project The Glasgow Effect went viral at the start of 2016.

Named after the term used to describe Glasgow’s mysteriously poor public health and funded to the tune of £15,000 by Creative Scotland, this controversial ‘durational performance’ centred on a simple proposition – that the artist would refuse to travel beyond Glasgow’s city limits, or use any vehicles except her bike, for a whole calendar year.

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Harrison’s mix of occupational skills, community activism, education and self-expression – and her enthusiastic interest in how all these elements fit together – is going to be more and more the mainstream experience of ‘work’ in our societies. We should learn from her, and from the new wave of socially-engaged artists like her.

Pat Kane, The National

He invites you to come on a safari of sorts. A Poverty Safari. But not the sort where the indigenous population is surveyed from a safe distance for a time, before the window on the community closes and everyone gradually forgets about it.

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Winner of the Orwell Prize 2018 Nothing less than an intellectual and spiritual rehab manual for the progressive left.

Irvine Welsh

Part memoir, part polemic, this is a savage, wise and witty tour-deforce. An unflinching account of the realities of systemic poverty, Poverty Safari lays down challenges to both the left and right. It is hard to think of a more timely, powerful or necessary book.

J.K. Rowling

The Glasgow Effect

Poverty Safari

A tale of class, capitalism and carbon footprint

Understanding the Anger of Britain’s Underclass

ELLIE HARRISON 978-1-912147-96-0 Paperback 198x129mm 384pp £9.99 JPA Political Science & Theory World Rights

DARREN McGARVEY 978-1-529006-34-6 Paperback 198x129mm World Rights (via Picador) Published by Picador in assocation with Luath Press

How would your career, social life, family ties, carbon footprint and mental health be affected if you could not leave the city where you live?

People from deprived communities all around Britain feel misunderstood and unheard.

Darren McGarvey aka Loki gives voice to their feelings and concerns, and the anger that is spilling over. Anger he says we will have to get used to, unless things change.

Artist Ellie Harrison sparked a fast-and-furious debate about class, capitalism, art, education and much more, when news of her year-long project The Glasgow Effect went viral at the start of 2016.

Named after the term used to describe Glasgow’s mysteriously poor public health and funded to the tune of £15,000 by Creative Scotland, this controversial ‘durational performance’ centred on a simple proposition – that the artist would refuse to travel beyond Glasgow’s city limits, or use any vehicles except her bike, for a whole calendar year.

“

Harrison’s mix of occupational skills, community activism, education and self-expression – and her enthusiastic interest in how all these elements fit together – is going to be more and more the mainstream experience of ‘work’ in our societies. We should learn from her, and from the new wave of socially-engaged artists like her.

Pat Kane, The National

He invites you to come on a safari of sorts. A Poverty Safari. But not the sort where the indigenous population is surveyed from a safe distance for a time, before the window on the community closes and everyone gradually forgets about it.

“

Winner of the Orwell Prize 2018 Nothing less than an intellectual and spiritual rehab manual for the progressive left.

Irvine Welsh

Part memoir, part polemic, this is a savage, wise and witty tour-deforce. An unflinching account of the realities of systemic poverty, Poverty Safari lays down challenges to both the left and right. It is hard to think of a more timely, powerful or necessary book.

J.K. Rowling

Barnhill A Novel NORMAN BISSELL

198x129mm 256pp 978-1-913025-51-9 978-1-912147-87-8 Paperback Hardback May 2020 £12.99 £8.99 FBA Modern & Contemporary Fiction World Rights

George Orwell left post-war London for Barnhill, a remote farmhouse on the Isle of Jura, to write what became Nineteen Eighty-Four. He was driven by a passionate desire to undermine the enemies of democracy and make plain the dangers of dictatorship, surveillance, doublethink and censorship.

Typing away in his damp bedroom overlooking the garden he created and the sea beyond, he invented Big Brother, Thought Police, Newspeak and Room 101 – and created a masterpiece.

Barnhill tells the dramatic story of this crucial period of Orwell’s life. Deeply researched, it reveals the private man behind the celebrated public figure – his turbulent love life, his devotion to his baby son and his declining health as he struggled to deliver his dystopian warning to the world.

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Bissell fills out and explores more deeply the Orwell’s character and his relationships with those around him. It’s a very believable portrayal, digging beneath the surface of a man who could be awkward, opinionated and intransigent in an attempt to see what made him tick.

Alastair Mabbott, The Herald on Sunday

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Through a literary lens, Bissell does for Orwell what Johnny Depp did for J.M. Barrie in Finding Neverland. He brings the man most vibrantly alive.

Alistair McIntosh

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NORMAN BISSELL’s work has been widely published in newspapers, books and journals, and he has spoken at many festivals and cultural events, including Aye Write! Glasgow’s Book Festival and Edinburgh International Book Festival.

He has also written a feature length film script about George Orwell’s last years.

He received a Creative Scotland artist’s bursary for research and professional development to write this novel.

Norman Bissell… offers a highly credible, fictionalized account of Orwell’s last few years.

Brian Palmer, The Ileach

Barnhill is a fascinating and original new addition to the canon of books about Orwell and brings a distinctly Scottish perspective to one of the great backstories in literature.

Angus McKinnon

A rich absorbing narrative that draws an authentic picture of the life of a great writer.

Leela Soma

This is a remarkably compelling yet profound study of the Jura days ...

I was fascinated and gripped.

Lord George Robertson of Port Ellen

Barnhill A Novel NORMAN BISSELL

198x129mm 256pp 978-1-913025-51-9 978-1-912147-87-8 Paperback Hardback May 2020 £12.99 £8.99 FBA Modern & Contemporary Fiction World Rights

George Orwell left post-war London for Barnhill, a remote farmhouse on the Isle of Jura, to write what became Nineteen Eighty-Four. He was driven by a passionate desire to undermine the enemies of democracy and make plain the dangers of dictatorship, surveillance, doublethink and censorship.

Typing away in his damp bedroom overlooking the garden he created and the sea beyond, he invented Big Brother, Thought Police, Newspeak and Room 101 – and created a masterpiece.

Barnhill tells the dramatic story of this crucial period of Orwell’s life. Deeply researched, it reveals the private man behind the celebrated public figure – his turbulent love life, his devotion to his baby son and his declining health as he struggled to deliver his dystopian warning to the world.

“

Bissell fills out and explores more deeply the Orwell’s character and his relationships with those around him. It’s a very believable portrayal, digging beneath the surface of a man who could be awkward, opinionated and intransigent in an attempt to see what made him tick.

Alastair Mabbott, The Herald on Sunday

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Through a literary lens, Bissell does for Orwell what Johnny Depp did for J.M. Barrie in Finding Neverland. He brings the man most vibrantly alive.

Alistair McIntosh

“

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NORMAN BISSELL’s work has been widely published in newspapers, books and journals, and he has spoken at many festivals and cultural events, including Aye Write! Glasgow’s Book Festival and Edinburgh International Book Festival.

He has also written a feature length film script about George Orwell’s last years.

He received a Creative Scotland artist’s bursary for research and professional development to write this novel.

Norman Bissell… offers a highly credible, fictionalized account of Orwell’s last few years.

Brian Palmer, The Ileach

Barnhill is a fascinating and original new addition to the canon of books about Orwell and brings a distinctly Scottish perspective to one of the great backstories in literature.

Angus McKinnon

A rich absorbing narrative that draws an authentic picture of the life of a great writer.

Leela Soma

This is a remarkably compelling yet profound study of the Jura days ...

I was fascinated and gripped.

Lord George Robertson of Port Ellen

A Killing in Van Diemen’s Land

Death of a Chief

Book 1

978-1-913025-27-4 Paperback 198x129mm 256pp £8.99 World Rights

Book 5 DOUGLAS WATT

978-1-913025-45-8 Paperback 198x129mm 224pp May 2020 £8.99 FFH Historical Crime & Mysteries World Rights

Scotland, 1686. Mystery surrounds the murder of Sir Lachlan MacLean, an impoverished Highland laird with many enemies. Lawyer John MacKenzie and scribe Davie Scougall turn investigator to try to track down the murderer.

Testament of a Witch Book 2

Edinburgh, 1690. The body of a wealthy merchant is discovered in his home in the city centre. Was his killing the result of a robbery gone wrong? The vicious mode of his death seems to suggest otherwise. Scotland is in upheaval as political and religious tensions boil, and there is mystery concealed behind the walls of Van Diemen’s Land.

Investigative lawyer John MacKenzie and his assistant Scougall investigate.

The Unnatural Death of a Jacobite Book 4

978-1-912147-61-8 Paperback 198x129mm 200pp £8.99 World Rights It’s 1689 and the body of a young lawyer has been discovered near Craigleith Quarry, Edinburgh.

MacKenzie and Scougall search for the truth.

978-1-913025-28-1 Paperback 198x129mm 256pp £8.99 World Rights 1687. The nation is gripped by fear of witches. In Edinburgh, a young woman is accused of witchcraft, tortured with pins and sleep deprivation. MacKenzie and Scougall investigate her suspicious death.

Pilgrim of Slaughter Book 3 978-1-913025-29-8 Paperback 198x129mm 192pp £8.99 World Rights Scotland in 1688 – a nation bitterly divided by religion and politics. When a nobleman is assassinated by a Catholic fanatic, MacKenzie and Scougall must investigate the killing, but they find themselves on opposing sides of the political divide.

A Killing in Van Diemen’s Land

Death of a Chief

Book 1

978-1-913025-27-4 Paperback 198x129mm 256pp £8.99 World Rights

Book 5 DOUGLAS WATT

978-1-913025-45-8 Paperback 198x129mm 224pp May 2020 £8.99 FFH Historical Crime & Mysteries World Rights

Scotland, 1686. Mystery surrounds the murder of Sir Lachlan MacLean, an impoverished Highland laird with many enemies. Lawyer John MacKenzie and scribe Davie Scougall turn investigator to try to track down the murderer.

Testament of a Witch Book 2

Edinburgh, 1690. The body of a wealthy merchant is discovered in his home in the city centre. Was his killing the result of a robbery gone wrong? The vicious mode of his death seems to suggest otherwise. Scotland is in upheaval as political and religious tensions boil, and there is mystery concealed behind the walls of Van Diemen’s Land.

Investigative lawyer John MacKenzie and his assistant Scougall investigate.

The Unnatural Death of a Jacobite Book 4

978-1-912147-61-8 Paperback 198x129mm 200pp £8.99 World Rights It’s 1689 and the body of a young lawyer has been discovered near Craigleith Quarry, Edinburgh.

MacKenzie and Scougall search for the truth.

978-1-913025-28-1 Paperback 198x129mm 256pp £8.99 World Rights 1687. The nation is gripped by fear of witches. In Edinburgh, a young woman is accused of witchcraft, tortured with pins and sleep deprivation. MacKenzie and Scougall investigate her suspicious death.

Pilgrim of Slaughter Book 3 978-1-913025-29-8 Paperback 198x129mm 192pp £8.99 World Rights Scotland in 1688 – a nation bitterly divided by religion and politics. When a nobleman is assassinated by a Catholic fanatic, MacKenzie and Scougall must investigate the killing, but they find themselves on opposing sides of the political divide.

Blood City

Devil’s Knock

Book 1

Book 3

DOUGLAS SKELTON 978-1-910021-24-8 Paperback 198x129mm 232pp £7.99

FF Crime & Mystery Fiction World Rights Davie McCall has a troubled past. Under the guidance of Glasgow’s Godfather, Joe the Tailor, he hopes to rid himself of the demons that fuelled his father’s murderous rage. But, Davie must learn the hard way that you cannot change what you are. Set in Glasgow’s underworld, this is a tale of violence, corruption and betrayal, tested loyalties and broken friendships.

DOUGLAS SKELTON 978-1-910021-81-1 Paperback 198x129mm 224pp £9.99 FF Crime & Mystery Fiction World Rights When Dickie Himes is killed, it sparks a chain of events that Davie knows can only lead to widespread gang war on the streets of mid-’90s Glasgow. When justice is so easily bought or corrupted, Davie needs to take matters into his own hands. When he finds a target on his back, will he be able to suppress the darkness inside him…Or will the devil’s knock be too tempting?

Crow Bait Book 2 DOUGLAS SKELTON 978-1-910021-82-8 Paperback 198x129mm 224pp £7.99 FF Crime & Mystery Fiction World Rights It’s 1990, there are new kings in the West of Scotland underworld, and Glasgow is awash with drugs.

Davie can handle himself. But now his father is back in town and after blood and there are people in his way.

And Davie is one of them.

Open Wounds Book 4 DOUGLAS SKELTON 978-1-910745-33-5 Paperback 198x129mm 232pp £9.99

FF Crime & Mystery Fiction World Rights Davie is tired. Tired of violence, tired of the Life. He’s always managed to stay detached from the brutal nature of his line of work, but recently he has caught himself enjoying it.

Old friends clash and secrets are unearthed as McCall investigates a brutal crime. The final instalment in the Davie McCall series.

Blood City

Devil’s Knock

Book 1

Book 3

DOUGLAS SKELTON 978-1-910021-24-8 Paperback 198x129mm 232pp £7.99

FF Crime & Mystery Fiction World Rights Davie McCall has a troubled past. Under the guidance of Glasgow’s Godfather, Joe the Tailor, he hopes to rid himself of the demons that fuelled his father’s murderous rage. But, Davie must learn the hard way that you cannot change what you are. Set in Glasgow’s underworld, this is a tale of violence, corruption and betrayal, tested loyalties and broken friendships.

DOUGLAS SKELTON 978-1-910021-81-1 Paperback 198x129mm 224pp £9.99 FF Crime & Mystery Fiction World Rights When Dickie Himes is killed, it sparks a chain of events that Davie knows can only lead to widespread gang war on the streets of mid-’90s Glasgow. When justice is so easily bought or corrupted, Davie needs to take matters into his own hands. When he finds a target on his back, will he be able to suppress the darkness inside him…Or will the devil’s knock be too tempting?

Crow Bait Book 2 DOUGLAS SKELTON 978-1-910021-82-8 Paperback 198x129mm 224pp £7.99 FF Crime & Mystery Fiction World Rights It’s 1990, there are new kings in the West of Scotland underworld, and Glasgow is awash with drugs.

Davie can handle himself. But now his father is back in town and after blood and there are people in his way.

And Davie is one of them.

Open Wounds Book 4 DOUGLAS SKELTON 978-1-910745-33-5 Paperback 198x129mm 232pp £9.99

FF Crime & Mystery Fiction World Rights Davie is tired. Tired of violence, tired of the Life. He’s always managed to stay detached from the brutal nature of his line of work, but recently he has caught himself enjoying it.

Old friends clash and secrets are unearthed as McCall investigates a brutal crime. The final instalment in the Davie McCall series.

Memory & Straw

Constabal Murdo

ANGUS PETER CAMPBELL 978-1-912147-41-0 978-1-912147-08-3 Paperback Hardback 198x129mm 210x142mm 256pp 256pp £8.99 £12.99 FBA Modern & Contemporary Fiction World Rights

ANGUS PETER CAMPBELL 978-1-912147-49-6 Paperback 210x135mm 168pp £8.99 FB Fiction World Rights A precious golden souvenir has disappered from Kismuil Castle on the Island of Barra. The local constable, P.C. Murdo set outs to find who dunnit. But in his search for the truth he discovers that suspicion and prejudice make poor detectives.

Help comes from smart officers from the mainland, whose most difficult challenge is Murdo himself.

Winner of the Saltire Society Fiction Book of the Year Award 2017 Gavin and Emma live in Manhattan. She’s a musician. He works in Artificial Intelligence.

But when his work turns personal he’s forced to ask whether his own life is an artificial mask. Delving into his roots in the Highlands of Scotland, he embarks on a quest to discover his own true face.

The Girl on the Ferryboat

Archie and the North Wind ANGUS PETER CAMPBELL

ANGUS PETER CAMPBELL 978-1-910021-18-7 978-1-908373-77-9 Paperback Hardback 198x129mm 210x142mm 224pp 224pp £7.99 £12.99 FBA Modern & Contemporary Fiction World Rights

978-1-906817-38-1 Paperback 210x135mm 192pp £8.99 FBA Modern & Contemporary Fiction World Rights

A Vividly evoked Scottish novel of chance encounters and of family memories, regret, love and loss.

Combines myth, music and linguistics to recount the memory of a hazy summer’s day on the Isle of Mull.

After finally acknowledging to himself that he is an a hopeless rut, Archie decides to set off on a quest for knowledge and selfimprovement as he seeks the source of the North Wind.

Memory & Straw

Constabal Murdo

ANGUS PETER CAMPBELL 978-1-912147-41-0 978-1-912147-08-3 Paperback Hardback 198x129mm 210x142mm 256pp 256pp £8.99 £12.99 FBA Modern & Contemporary Fiction World Rights

ANGUS PETER CAMPBELL 978-1-912147-49-6 Paperback 210x135mm 168pp £8.99 FB Fiction World Rights A precious golden souvenir has disappered from Kismuil Castle on the Island of Barra. The local constable, P.C. Murdo set outs to find who dunnit. But in his search for the truth he discovers that suspicion and prejudice make poor detectives.

Help comes from smart officers from the mainland, whose most difficult challenge is Murdo himself.

Winner of the Saltire Society Fiction Book of the Year Award 2017 Gavin and Emma live in Manhattan. She’s a musician. He works in Artificial Intelligence.

But when his work turns personal he’s forced to ask whether his own life is an artificial mask. Delving into his roots in the Highlands of Scotland, he embarks on a quest to discover his own true face.

The Girl on the Ferryboat

Archie and the North Wind ANGUS PETER CAMPBELL

ANGUS PETER CAMPBELL 978-1-910021-18-7 978-1-908373-77-9 Paperback Hardback 198x129mm 210x142mm 224pp 224pp £7.99 £12.99 FBA Modern & Contemporary Fiction World Rights

978-1-906817-38-1 Paperback 210x135mm 192pp £8.99 FBA Modern & Contemporary Fiction World Rights

A Vividly evoked Scottish novel of chance encounters and of family memories, regret, love and loss.

Combines myth, music and linguistics to recount the memory of a hazy summer’s day on the Isle of Mull.

After finally acknowledging to himself that he is an a hopeless rut, Archie decides to set off on a quest for knowledge and selfimprovement as he seeks the source of the North Wind.

Language of My Choosing

Why Gardens Matter JOANNA GEYER-KORDESCH with DONALD SMITH

The candid life memoir of an Italian Scot

978-1-912147-94-6 Hardback 202x153mm 176pp April 2020 £20.00 WM Gardening World Rights

ANNE PIA 978-1-912147-39-7 Paperback 210x135mm 256pp £9.99 DNBA Autobiography World Rights

How do you choose your nationality?

Tackling themes such as growing up, romantic love and motherhood, Pia’s memoir traces her journey as she discovers her place in the world.

Keeping Away the Spiders ANNE PIA 978-1-913025-72-4 Paperback 210x135mm 256pp September 2020 £9.99 This is a book about identity, self determination and self-making. In a series of honest, often humorous essays on sexuality and gender identity, reluctant feminism, food, the power of music and learning, fashion and her daughter’s disability, Anne asks the question: Who am I and who do I want to be?

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With an exceptional academic career in natural history and medicine, Joanna GeyerKordesch found ‘reflection, consolation and healing’ in the soothing, healing powers of gardens after suffering from a major stroke. Sharing profound reflections on how gardening has helped her regenerate, Why Gardens Matter is as enlightening as it is inspirational. With contributions from Donald Smith, this is a powerful plea for us to reflect on our gardens and to acknowledge the life-affirming values of our green spaces.

So many gardening books tell you what to plant and where and when. But how often do they tell you to just sit and enjoy them? And when you do, you can find yourself thinking of things in a different way.

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JOANNA GEYER-KORDESCH has a distinguished academic career bridging the disciplines of history of medicine and cultural history as embodied in our landscapes. After becoming the first woman to direct The Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine at Glasgow University from 1990 to 2001, she became Professor of European Natural History and History of Medicine at that University where, after retiring in 2006, she remains a Professor Emerita.

Language of My Choosing

Why Gardens Matter JOANNA GEYER-KORDESCH with DONALD SMITH

The candid life memoir of an Italian Scot

978-1-912147-94-6 Hardback 202x153mm 176pp April 2020 £20.00 WM Gardening World Rights

ANNE PIA 978-1-912147-39-7 Paperback 210x135mm 256pp £9.99 DNBA Autobiography World Rights

How do you choose your nationality?

Tackling themes such as growing up, romantic love and motherhood, Pia’s memoir traces her journey as she discovers her place in the world.

Keeping Away the Spiders ANNE PIA 978-1-913025-72-4 Paperback 210x135mm 256pp September 2020 £9.99 This is a book about identity, self determination and self-making. In a series of honest, often humorous essays on sexuality and gender identity, reluctant feminism, food, the power of music and learning, fashion and her daughter’s disability, Anne asks the question: Who am I and who do I want to be?

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With an exceptional academic career in natural history and medicine, Joanna GeyerKordesch found ‘reflection, consolation and healing’ in the soothing, healing powers of gardens after suffering from a major stroke. Sharing profound reflections on how gardening has helped her regenerate, Why Gardens Matter is as enlightening as it is inspirational. With contributions from Donald Smith, this is a powerful plea for us to reflect on our gardens and to acknowledge the life-affirming values of our green spaces.

So many gardening books tell you what to plant and where and when. But how often do they tell you to just sit and enjoy them? And when you do, you can find yourself thinking of things in a different way.

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JOANNA GEYER-KORDESCH has a distinguished academic career bridging the disciplines of history of medicine and cultural history as embodied in our landscapes. After becoming the first woman to direct The Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine at Glasgow University from 1990 to 2001, she became Professor of European Natural History and History of Medicine at that University where, after retiring in 2006, she remains a Professor Emerita.

Revolution

Hut/Hytte

A short sharp history of Scottish wind power – and where it goes in the future

The Hamespun Source of Happiness

TODD WESTBROOK 978-1-913025-52-6 Paperback 198x129mm 224pp April 2020 £9.99 RN The Environment World Rights

Having written for a decade and a half on the renewable energy revolution, seasoned journalist Todd Westbrook now provides a potted history of Scottish wind power in the past, the present and the future and examines its potential to revolutionise power production across the world. Revolution takes readers on a fascinating journey from the industry’s origins in the 1950s to contemporary developments. At the same time he provides insight from industry experts and dispells some of the common myths and misconceptions associated with wind power. In this climate emergency, we must do anything we can to lessen our environmental impact. This is an accessible, inspirational guide to how Scotland can and must achieve change.

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This book is different. It is a personal, narrative history of a part of modern Scottish life that was centre stage for much of my professional career.

The words that follow are about making sense of the milestones, roadblocks and wider achievements that make up one of more remarkable social and economic events of the last 25 years… The book begins with a revolutionary experiment on Orkney at the start of the 1950s. It ends with profound questions about the sort of Scotland we want to live in, questions that would not have been asked 20 years ago.

LESLEY RIDDOCH 978-1-913025-63-2 Paperback 198x129mm 256pp July 2020 £9.99 JP Politics & Government World Rights

Huts. Wee wooden huts. Why would half a million cabins sprinkled throughout the woodlands of Scotland, transform our health, happiness and our democracy?

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These are the questions Lesley Riddoch addresses while exploring our relationship with both our country and our countryside through the tradition of hutting. She relates both Scotland’s and Norway’s history of the wooden hut and how it is still relevant in the modern world where nature is so often ignored.

Reading Lesley Riddoch’s Blossom is like inhaling fjord air after being trapped in a sweaty backroom. Just brilliant.

Pat Kane, The National

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LESLEY RIDDOCH is an award-winning broadcaster, writer and journalist. She writes weekly columns for The Scotsman and Sunday Post and is a regular contributor to The Guardian, Newsnight Scotland, Scotland Tonight and Any Questions. She is founder and Director of Nordic Horizons, a policy group that brings Nordic experts to the Scottish Parliament.

Revolution

Hut/Hytte

A short sharp history of Scottish wind power – and where it goes in the future

The Hamespun Source of Happiness

TODD WESTBROOK 978-1-913025-52-6 Paperback 198x129mm 224pp April 2020 £9.99 RN The Environment World Rights

Having written for a decade and a half on the renewable energy revolution, seasoned journalist Todd Westbrook now provides a potted history of Scottish wind power in the past, the present and the future and examines its potential to revolutionise power production across the world. Revolution takes readers on a fascinating journey from the industry’s origins in the 1950s to contemporary developments. At the same time he provides insight from industry experts and dispells some of the common myths and misconceptions associated with wind power. In this climate emergency, we must do anything we can to lessen our environmental impact. This is an accessible, inspirational guide to how Scotland can and must achieve change.

“

This book is different. It is a personal, narrative history of a part of modern Scottish life that was centre stage for much of my professional career.

The words that follow are about making sense of the milestones, roadblocks and wider achievements that make up one of more remarkable social and economic events of the last 25 years… The book begins with a revolutionary experiment on Orkney at the start of the 1950s. It ends with profound questions about the sort of Scotland we want to live in, questions that would not have been asked 20 years ago.

LESLEY RIDDOCH 978-1-913025-63-2 Paperback 198x129mm 256pp July 2020 £9.99 JP Politics & Government World Rights

Huts. Wee wooden huts. Why would half a million cabins sprinkled throughout the woodlands of Scotland, transform our health, happiness and our democracy?

“

These are the questions Lesley Riddoch addresses while exploring our relationship with both our country and our countryside through the tradition of hutting. She relates both Scotland’s and Norway’s history of the wooden hut and how it is still relevant in the modern world where nature is so often ignored.

Reading Lesley Riddoch’s Blossom is like inhaling fjord air after being trapped in a sweaty backroom. Just brilliant.

Pat Kane, The National

“

LESLEY RIDDOCH is an award-winning broadcaster, writer and journalist. She writes weekly columns for The Scotsman and Sunday Post and is a regular contributor to The Guardian, Newsnight Scotland, Scotland Tonight and Any Questions. She is founder and Director of Nordic Horizons, a policy group that brings Nordic experts to the Scottish Parliament.

The Case of the Catalans

Borders Witch Hunt The Story of the 17th Century Witchcraft Trials in the Scottish Borders

Why so many Catalans no longer want to be a part of Spain

MARY W. CRAIG 978-1-913025-55-7 Hardback 210x135mm 224pp

CLARA PONSATĺ (ed.)

978-1-913025-38-0 Paperback 198x129mm 168pp March 2020 £7.99 JPWQ Revolutionary Groups & Movements World Rights

The Stones of the Ancestors Unveiling the Mysteries of Scotland’s Ancient Monuments DOUGLAS SCOTT & STUART McHARDY 978-1-912147-80-9 Hardback 273x210mm 192pp

The book reviews the historical, legal, political and economic aspects of the preset conflict between Catalonia and Spain, exploring why so many Catalans are no longer happy to be a part of Spain. This book authors examine the case for Catalan independence, and make the situation easy to understand.

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Why would Catalans want to engage in an uphill fight to set up an independent state in 21st century Europe?... Over the years it has become evident that the Spanish constitutional system... has clearly regressed to work against Catalan interest.

May 2020 £14.99 NHDN European History: Reformation World Rights

May 2020 £25.00 NKD Archaeology by Period / Region World Rights

The Spirit of Malawi SUSAN DALGETY 978-1-913025-46-5 Paperback 210x135mm 224pp

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CLARA PONSATI was the Minister for Education in the Catalan Government until she had to go into exile in Belgium, and then Scotland, from a European Arrest Warrant due to her activity in the independence movement in Catalonia. She is now a Professor of Economics at the School of Economics and Finance at the University of St Andrews. She has a PhD in Economics from the University of Minnesota and specialises in game theory and political economy, with a focus on models of bargaining and voting. She is also a member of the Institut d'Anàlisi Econòmica in the UAB and now an MEP for Spain, despite her exile.

June 2020 £14.99 WTL Travel Writing World Rights

Jules Verne’s Scotland In Fact and Fiction IAN THOMPSON 978-1-913025-26-7 Paperback 210x135mm 256pp

March 2020 £8.99 DNBL Biography: Literary World Rights

The Case of the Catalans

Borders Witch Hunt The Story of the 17th Century Witchcraft Trials in the Scottish Borders

Why so many Catalans no longer want to be a part of Spain

MARY W. CRAIG 978-1-913025-55-7 Hardback 210x135mm 224pp

CLARA PONSATĺ (ed.)

978-1-913025-38-0 Paperback 198x129mm 168pp March 2020 £7.99 JPWQ Revolutionary Groups & Movements World Rights

The Stones of the Ancestors Unveiling the Mysteries of Scotland’s Ancient Monuments DOUGLAS SCOTT & STUART McHARDY 978-1-912147-80-9 Hardback 273x210mm 192pp

The book reviews the historical, legal, political and economic aspects of the preset conflict between Catalonia and Spain, exploring why so many Catalans are no longer happy to be a part of Spain. This book authors examine the case for Catalan independence, and make the situation easy to understand.

“

Why would Catalans want to engage in an uphill fight to set up an independent state in 21st century Europe?... Over the years it has become evident that the Spanish constitutional system... has clearly regressed to work against Catalan interest.

May 2020 £14.99 NHDN European History: Reformation World Rights

May 2020 £25.00 NKD Archaeology by Period / Region World Rights

The Spirit of Malawi SUSAN DALGETY 978-1-913025-46-5 Paperback 210x135mm 224pp

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CLARA PONSATI was the Minister for Education in the Catalan Government until she had to go into exile in Belgium, and then Scotland, from a European Arrest Warrant due to her activity in the independence movement in Catalonia. She is now a Professor of Economics at the School of Economics and Finance at the University of St Andrews. She has a PhD in Economics from the University of Minnesota and specialises in game theory and political economy, with a focus on models of bargaining and voting. She is also a member of the Institut d'Anàlisi Econòmica in the UAB and now an MEP for Spain, despite her exile.

June 2020 £14.99 WTL Travel Writing World Rights

Jules Verne’s Scotland In Fact and Fiction IAN THOMPSON 978-1-913025-26-7 Paperback 210x135mm 256pp

March 2020 £8.99 DNBL Biography: Literary World Rights

Luath Press Limited

But n Ben A-Go-Go MATTHEW FITT 978-1-912147-50-2 Paperback 198x129mm 207pp

£8.99 FL Science Fiction World Rights

How to Create a Meaningful Wedding Ceremony in Your Own Words TIM MAGUIRE 978-1-912147-74-8 £25.00 WJW Weddings World Rights

More Tales From the Island Nurse MARY MacLEOD 978-1-910021-17-0 Paperback 198x129mm 224pp

£8.99 DNBA Autobiography World Rights

Barcelona to Buckie Thistle Exploring Football’s Roads Less Travelled MAT GUY Paperback 210x135mm 192pp

978-1-913025-35-9 £12.99 SFBC Football World Rights

DISTRIBUTION

RIGHTS

Established in 1981, Luath Press is a leading independent book publisher with over 500 books in print including modern fiction, history, politics, travel guides, poetry and much more.

UK & IRELAND BookSource 50 Cambuslang Road Glasgow G32 8NB Order Line: 0141 642 9192

FRENCH Anne Confuron Anne Confuron Literary Agency 23 rue Antoine de St Exupéry 93130 Noisy le Sec France Email: aconfuron@gmail.com

Luath Press was established by Tom and Rene Atkinson in Barr (near Girvan in Ayrshire) in 1981. Tom had recently returned to Scotland and, finding there were no good descriptive guides to the popular parts of Scotland, set about writing and publishing the Luath Guides Series. Other books by other writers followed including a number of popular titles that have remained in print for many years, such as Mountain Days and Bothy Nights, Bare Feet and Tackety Boots and more.

We Do!

Hardback 225x165mm 192pp

ABOUT US

Following Tom’s retirement, Gavin and Audrey MacDougall took over the running of the company and moved it from Barr to Edinburgh.

Since 1997, Luath has built on the sound core of well established books first published by Tom and Rene, and created various new series (On the Trail Of..., Walk With Luath, The Quest For, Let’s Explore, Luath Storyteller, Viewpoints, Wild Lives) and launched various new writers and poets (Darren McGarvey, Alison Irvine, Daniel Gray, Rab Wilson, Mark Thomson and many more).

US & CANADA Independent Publishers Group 814 N. Franklin Street Chicago, IL 60610 Phone: (312) 337-0747 Email: frontdesk@ipgbook.com GERMANY Missing Link International Booksellers Westerstr. 114 – 11628199 Bremen Phone: +49 (0)421 50 43 48 Email: info@missinglink.de

REPRESENTATIVES SCOTLAND Don Morrison Phone: 07774 604569 Email: donmo@blueyonder.co.uk LONDON & SOUTH Nic Webb and Andrea Grant-Webb nic@broomfieldbooks.co.uk Phone: 07984 901 972 Phone: 01342 313 237 Email: andrea@broomfieldbooks.co.uk

We are now situated in offices on Edinburgh’s historic Royal Mile, and we remain committed to publishing well written books worth reading.

GERMAN Nina Arrowsmith Arrowsmith Agency Poststrasse 14-16, 20354 Hamburg Phone: +49 40 85 100 295 Email: agency@arrowsmith-agency.com SPANISH Sandra Biel Piera Julio F-Yanez Agencia Literaria S.L. Phone: +34 (0)93 200 7107 Email: sandra@yanezag.com ITALIAN Beatrice Beraldo Ag. Letteraria Internazionale Phone: +39 (0)2 865 445 Email: beatrice.beraldo@italianliterary.com CZECH Jana Borovanova, Dilia Phone: +42 (0)266 199 841 borovanova@dilia.cz CHINESE Chris Lin Big Apple Tuttle Mori Agency Phone: +886 2 8771 6411 x 302 chris-lin@bigapple1-china.com JAPANESE Mayumi Finn EJ International m.miyata417@gmail.com

CONTACT US

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Luath Press Limited, 543/2 Castlehill, The Royal Mile, Edinburgh EH1 2ND

Luath Press

Phone: 0131 225 4326 • Website: www.luath.co.uk Director: Gavin MacDougall • gavin.macdougall@luath.co.uk Press & Events Co-ordinator: Lauren Grieve • lauren.grieve@luath.co.uk Press & Events: Jennie Renton • jennie.renton@luath.co.uk Production & Editorial: Maia Gentle • maia.gentle@luath.co.uk Sales, Marketing & Digital Projects: Carrie Hutchison • carrie.hutchison@luath.co.uk

Luath Press Limited

But n Ben A-Go-Go MATTHEW FITT 978-1-912147-50-2 Paperback 198x129mm 207pp

£8.99 FL Science Fiction World Rights

How to Create a Meaningful Wedding Ceremony in Your Own Words TIM MAGUIRE 978-1-912147-74-8 £25.00 WJW Weddings World Rights

More Tales From the Island Nurse MARY MacLEOD 978-1-910021-17-0 Paperback 198x129mm 224pp

£8.99 DNBA Autobiography World Rights

Barcelona to Buckie Thistle Exploring Football’s Roads Less Travelled MAT GUY Paperback 210x135mm 192pp

978-1-913025-35-9 £12.99 SFBC Football World Rights

DISTRIBUTION

RIGHTS

Established in 1981, Luath Press is a leading independent book publisher with over 500 books in print including modern fiction, history, politics, travel guides, poetry and much more.

UK & IRELAND BookSource 50 Cambuslang Road Glasgow G32 8NB Order Line: 0141 642 9192

FRENCH Anne Confuron Anne Confuron Literary Agency 23 rue Antoine de St Exupéry 93130 Noisy le Sec France Email: aconfuron@gmail.com

Luath Press was established by Tom and Rene Atkinson in Barr (near Girvan in Ayrshire) in 1981. Tom had recently returned to Scotland and, finding there were no good descriptive guides to the popular parts of Scotland, set about writing and publishing the Luath Guides Series. Other books by other writers followed including a number of popular titles that have remained in print for many years, such as Mountain Days and Bothy Nights, Bare Feet and Tackety Boots and more.

We Do!

Hardback 225x165mm 192pp

ABOUT US

Following Tom’s retirement, Gavin and Audrey MacDougall took over the running of the company and moved it from Barr to Edinburgh.

Since 1997, Luath has built on the sound core of well established books first published by Tom and Rene, and created various new series (On the Trail Of..., Walk With Luath, The Quest For, Let’s Explore, Luath Storyteller, Viewpoints, Wild Lives) and launched various new writers and poets (Darren McGarvey, Alison Irvine, Daniel Gray, Rab Wilson, Mark Thomson and many more).

US & CANADA Independent Publishers Group 814 N. Franklin Street Chicago, IL 60610 Phone: (312) 337-0747 Email: frontdesk@ipgbook.com GERMANY Missing Link International Booksellers Westerstr. 114 – 11628199 Bremen Phone: +49 (0)421 50 43 48 Email: info@missinglink.de

REPRESENTATIVES SCOTLAND Don Morrison Phone: 07774 604569 Email: donmo@blueyonder.co.uk LONDON & SOUTH Nic Webb and Andrea Grant-Webb nic@broomfieldbooks.co.uk Phone: 07984 901 972 Phone: 01342 313 237 Email: andrea@broomfieldbooks.co.uk

We are now situated in offices on Edinburgh’s historic Royal Mile, and we remain committed to publishing well written books worth reading.

GERMAN Nina Arrowsmith Arrowsmith Agency Poststrasse 14-16, 20354 Hamburg Phone: +49 40 85 100 295 Email: agency@arrowsmith-agency.com SPANISH Sandra Biel Piera Julio F-Yanez Agencia Literaria S.L. Phone: +34 (0)93 200 7107 Email: sandra@yanezag.com ITALIAN Beatrice Beraldo Ag. Letteraria Internazionale Phone: +39 (0)2 865 445 Email: beatrice.beraldo@italianliterary.com CZECH Jana Borovanova, Dilia Phone: +42 (0)266 199 841 borovanova@dilia.cz CHINESE Chris Lin Big Apple Tuttle Mori Agency Phone: +886 2 8771 6411 x 302 chris-lin@bigapple1-china.com JAPANESE Mayumi Finn EJ International m.miyata417@gmail.com

CONTACT US

OTHER TERRITORIES AND LANGUAGES

Luath Press Limited, 543/2 Castlehill, The Royal Mile, Edinburgh EH1 2ND

Luath Press

Phone: 0131 225 4326 • Website: www.luath.co.uk Director: Gavin MacDougall • gavin.macdougall@luath.co.uk Press & Events Co-ordinator: Lauren Grieve • lauren.grieve@luath.co.uk Press & Events: Jennie Renton • jennie.renton@luath.co.uk Production & Editorial: Maia Gentle • maia.gentle@luath.co.uk Sales, Marketing & Digital Projects: Carrie Hutchison • carrie.hutchison@luath.co.uk

Luath Press

committed to publishing well written books worth reading