Luath Press
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Independent publisher, committed to publishing well written books worth reading.
🎟️ A Scottish Football Odyssey ⚽ Archie Macpherson has been writing and broadcasting on the beautiful game for 60 years.
The new edition of It's Not Where You Start has been going down a storm in Clydebank! Scott Kyle is taking his spoken word performance of the book across Scotland, as well as taking part in the One Hundred Voices installation at the Edinburgh Fringe and Festival of Politics 📚
🎟️ Art Without Borders – Demarco’s Europe 🎨 ‘There is no such thing as Scottish art, only art in Scotland which is part of a European tradition’ says Richard Demarco CBE, who has been to every Edinburgh Festival since its inception in 1947.
COMING SOON 📚 Bone Idol: the remarkable, untold story of Jimmy Bone by Ben Ramage⚽ This captivating biography tells the extraordinary story of Jimmy Bone, bringing to life a remarkable footballer, manager and coach.
🎟️Choose Life Choose Leith – Trainspotting on Location 💀 Set firmly in unglamorous 1980s Leith, Trainspotting has burst through stage, film and now musical genres, dodging the forces of orthodoxy and censorship.
🎟️ Unfinished Business – Scotland’s Political Crossroads 🚦 What has a quarter century of devolution meant for Scotland? The ‘Scottish Question’ will always be ‘unfinished business’ according to James Mitchell and Henry McLeish.
🎟️ Donald Dewar – An Incomplete Legacy?📜 Donald Dewar, Scotland’s inaugural First Minister, battled long and hard to establish the Scottish Parliament. Yet, despite the vision proclaimed at its opening in July 1999, the Parliament has become mired in constitutional wrangling.
COMING SOON 📚Scotland's Lost Leader: The Life of Donald Dewar by Mark Peel ✨ The definitive biography of one of modern Scotland’s most consequential figures, this book offers a vivid portrait of the man who helped shape the nation’s return to self-government.
🎟️Talking two millennia (of Scotland’s history) ⌛ How distinctive is Scotland’s history from that of other countries? What was happening in Europe when the Scots won at Bannockburn, or in Russia when Mary, Queen of Scots lost her head?
🎟️ Ancient Voices, Living Landscape – Scotland’s Geomythography 🪨 Join Stuart McHardy, author of Scotland’s Geomythography and look at ancient Scotland through new eyes.
O wad some Pow’r the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us An’ foolish notion: What airs in dress an’ gait wad lea’e us, And ev’n Devotion! —Robert Burns, “To a Louse”, via @luathpress.bsky.social 🎨 Bob Dewar #BookWormSat #C18 luath.co.uk/products/poe...
New interview: Alison Irvine shares the story of Glasgow's greatest venue - Barrowland @luathpress.bsky.social thestrangebrew.co.uk/barrowland-t...
Barrowland: The Inside Story - The Strange Brew
Alison Irvine on writing Barrowland: The Inside Story of Glasgow's Beloved Ballroom, in conversation with Jason Barnard.
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COMING SOON 📚 Demarco's Europe by Richard Demarco and Roddy Martine 🏛️This third volume of the Demarco Trilogy celebrates the extraordinary cultural legacy of Richard Demarco and his lifelong connection with the Edinburgh International Festival.
Check out Chris Charlesworth's review of BARROWLAND: THE INSIDE STORY OF GLASGOW’S BELOVED BALLROOM by Alison Irvine here: zurl.co/h05vm
BARROWLAND: THE INSIDE STORY OF GLASGOW’S BELOVED BALLROOM by Alison Irvine
Books about venues invariably dwell on the artists who have performed there, even though the reality is that they have spent a fraction of t...
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I’m always a fan of @scattyscribbler.bsky.social and her latest children’s book out from @luathpress.bsky.social is another cracker. Here’s my review lindasbookbag.com/2026/07/06/e...
🎟️ Northern Spirits, Restless Hearts 🧭 Join Janis Mackay, author of On a Northern Shore, in the fertile place where ancient Scottish folklore and new feisty fiction meet, where love is hampered by ghosts and the restless surge of the sea is always in hearing.
🎟️A Wee Bit Zen – when less is more ⛩️ Join Alan Spence, former Edinburgh Makar and author of the cult-classic Glasgow Zen and upcoming sequel A Wee Bit Zen for conversation and short-form poetry from a trickster with words and a mesmerising performer of his own work.
🎟️ Tea and Tales 🫖 Join Gerda Stevenson, author of Cat Wumman: Tales o Nine Lives as she mesmerises with her contemporary retellings of folk tales from Scotland, Japan, the Mississippi swamps and Inuit tribes, blending storytelling and song, over tea and coffee.
🎟️Iona With Love 🌊 Artists have long appreciated Iona’s natural beauty, its exquisite colours and the quality of its ever-changing light.
🎟️Scotland’s Darkest Past 🧹Join Mary Craig, author of Agnes Finnie and Borders Witch Hunt and step beyond the myths into a chilling world where whispers became accusations and accusations became death sentences.
🌈Celebrating our LGBTQ+ books and authors. 🕷 Keeping Away the Spiders by Anne Pia - themes of gender identity and feminism 🎤 The Real Stanley Baxter by Brian Beacom - understanding sexuality of the comedian and music hall star
COMING THIS JULY 📚 From the back streets of Rutherglen to red carpets around the world, Scott Kyle's powerful memoir It's Not Where You Start returns in a new edition this July.
🚨Event change! 🚨 Between the Stones – Scotland through Outlander is now on 25 August at 1.30pm Outlander has generated global interest in the history, languages and landscapes of Scotland.
✨Celebrate Juneteenth with some key reads ✨ 📢Empowering poetry from Kokumo Rocks 🎶 Digging deep into the legacy of Robert Burns 🌴Scotland's relationship with slavery in Jamaica ⌛ Investigating racism in Scotland today ...and many more titles on the Luath website 📚
Thank you so much @luathpress.bsky.social for Enter Eddie Shakespeare by @scattyscribbler.bsky.social I adore Barbara’s children’s books luath.co.uk/products/ent...
Barbara Sellars talks to Olivia Sprinkel in this two-part interview, discussing all things Iona With Love zurl.co/Jz75F
