Around the World
Scotland beyond borders
Scotland beyond borders
October sees the international publishing world gather together in one city - Frankfurt - to celebrate writing, publishing and storytelling, to make new friends and contacts, and to share in the excitement in what's happening around the world. Scotland will be well represented by its publishers, and, as ever, passing on the best of our own stories.
To celebrate Scotland's international outlook, we've gathered together fiction, non-fiction and poetry that show Scotland inspired by the rest of the world and taking us to new places - real and imagined - that leave us enriched, enlivened and entertained.
Hell: Dante’s Divine Trilogy Part 1 Decorated and Englished in Prosaic Verse By Alasdair Gray By Dante Aligheri & Alasdair Gray Published by Canongate
1 In middle age I wholly lost my way,
finding myself within an evil wood
far from the right straight road we all should tread,
4 and what a wood! So densely tangled, dark,
jaggily thorned, so hard to press on through,
even the memory renews my dread.
7 My misery, my almost deadly fear
led on to such discovery of good,
I’ll tell you of it, if you care to hear.
10 I cannot say how I had wandered there,
when dozy, dull and desperate for sleep
my feet strayed out of the true thoroughfare,
13 till deep among the trees an upward slope
gave to my fearful soul a thrill of hope
as rising ground at last became a h...
Our goal: to bring the best new voices and works from this region to UK readers.
The idea behind the press formed during our travels through Latin America. We realised that there was a wealth of amazing new authors in this region, and very few were available in English. Many were being translated into French, German, Italian, Chinese, and even Hebrew. Why should Anglophone readers be missing out? Carolina – originally from Argentina, a specialist in Latin American literature and a published translator – has always had a passion for the literature from this part of the world. Combined with my background in IT and business, we realised that we w...
The Janus Run: A Q & A With Douglas Skelton
‘He rolled and took aim at the closest gunman. It all seemed so natural. He fired. It all seemed so easy. Aim the gun, fire the gun, take a life. That was when we knew for certain that Dagda was back. …
Cover Stories: Muriel Spark Centenary Editions
‘One’s prime is elusive. You little girls, when you grow up, must be on the alert to recognise your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur. You must then live it to the full.’
David Robinson Reviews: Love is Blind by William Boyd
‘Mysteries – music, time, movement – were reduced to complex, elaborate mechanisms. People tended to be fascinated.’
Pin-Ups: Toulouse Lautrec and the Art of Celebrity
‘In the end, of course, it was Lautrec who would achieve enduring fame from his posters, rather than the celebrities whose careers he promoted.’
‘I am convinced that every Scot has grasped the most salient and mysterious fact of being, its glowing ruby kernel: the knowledge that life rewards those who love – but really love – to live.’
‘I came to the Sahara to be buried.’
‘Finally the bombardment ceases but they cannot see what has happened, for the cloud hanging over Gemmano shows no signs of dispersing. Toni and Papa hug and grip each other as if to convince themselv …
Nameless Country: Selected Poems of AC Jacobs
‘I choose neither East nor West, For I am shaped by the North.’
‘The Story of my Heart’: A short story from Steam Punk Writers Around the World
‘But Daniel didn’t feel like he belonged anywhere. He came alone, he sat alone and he stayed alone.’