Sandstone Press Ltd: 78 books

Joseph Staines, an unemployed chef, has left Edinburgh with the tallybook of the late debt collector, Isa Stoddart. Her son Lachie thinks Stainsie killed her, but Lachie has apparently committed suicide. To his surprise, Stainsie is the sole beneficiary of Lachie’s will and has inherited a dilapidated...

When Stuart married Marie, who saved his life, he didn't expect her to leave him to protest the badger cull. Stuart can care about badgers too - if it means getting his wife back. But out in the woods animal instincts are stirring. Stuart's about to enter a world of sexy witches, militant vegans and gun-toting farmers in this dark comedy about nature and love.

Many people won't believe this story. That's the way it is, and I understand that. The first time I met M?iri NicEachairne, I didn't believe it either. But her story is so astonishing and so important for the whole world that I couldn't ignore it. Little by little, I was drawn in by what M?iri had...

Tha iad òg is làn spòrs, nigheanan òga sa bhaile mhòir cho toilichte ’s a ghabhas … ach is e clach-mhìle a th’ ann an tricheadamh cola-breith. Is nuair a dh’iarras Graeme air Jo a bana-chàirdean fhàgail airson fuireach còmhla ris-san, feumaidh Bell agus Anna rudeigin a dhèanamh airson...

Theich Marie Schmidt à Berlin an Ear leis an nighinn òig aice, ach chaidh a duine is a mac fhàgail air taobh eile a’ bhalla. Cha robh fios aig Caitrìona gun robh bràthair aice mus do leugh i na seann litrichean a lorg i ann an taigh a màthar. Às dèidh nam bliadhnaichean uile, an urrainn...

Is e an Taistealach an tè mu dheireadh às an t-saoghal aice, a' siubhal tro thìm is farsaingeachd a' lorg dachaigh ùr air planaid fhreagarrach. Tha e fa-near dhi clann a bhreith agus an cinneadh aice a thoirt air adhart, ach chan eil i na h-aonar. Tha creutairean eile an seo, dà threubh dhiubh,...

Bha Eilidh daonnan a' gabhail iongnadh dè seòrsa beatha a bh' aig a seanair is a seanmhair anns a' Bhaile Dearg, a chaidh a bhàthadh le sgeama Hydro bho chionn bhliadhnaichean. Tha rudeigin annasach ag èirigh dhi ri taobh an locha agus anns a' mhionaid tha i air ais anns a' bhaile mar a bha e,...

Naomi was always the geeky hanger-on at uni, but now her social networking app Snog has taken the internet by storm and suddenly she's rich and famous and running a huge company. It's more than her jealous friend Jeni can bear, and it's all too easy to set up a fake online profile and start making...

B’ e seo an cothrom mòr. Air turas-ciùil anns na Stàitean agus tè òg bhòidheach ri a thaobh, bha Colman air a dhòigh glan. Cha robh càil a dhùil aige gum biodh e a’ teicheadh bhon phoileis, ach a-nis cha robh e a’ faicinn dòigh às. Touring the US with his band should have been...

Ostracised at school because of her parents’ eccentricity, Anna coped by inventing an imaginary friend called Pipkin, but when she started chatting to boys on the internet she soon forgot her childhood companion. Now a fuel crisis has thrown the island into chaos, leaving Anna without her social...

The Tailor of Inverness is a story of journeys, of how a boy who grew up on a farm in Galicia (Eastern Poland, now Western Ukraine) came to be a tailor in Inverness. His life spanned most of the 20th century. His story is not straightforward. He was taken prisoner by the Soviets in 1939 and forced...

'When Donella Atkins meets ambitious doctor Hugh Ferguson Watson it is love at first sight, but the marriage is not happy. Donella thinks she knows why. Before she met him, Hugh force-fed several hunger-striking suffragettes. The redoubtable Arabella Scott he kept in isolation for five weeks, meeting...

‘Gentlemen—’ Fitzmaurice’s eyes gleamed and he revealed many teeth ‘-- lace up your stoutest boots and pack your warmest underwear -- we’re all off to the bloody Arctic!’ It is Dublin in the spring of 1916: whilewar rages across Europe and rebellion threatens the Irish capital, three...

Life is sweet for would-be bohemian Artie Conville. Safe at the helm of his subsidised magazine—with a cosy office paid for by the tax-payer—he's content to drift along quoting poetry, lingering over long lunches and flirting with the lovely Rosie McCann. The main thing is to keep the real world—of...