Exciting and Authoritative Female Voices


Fair representation of women in publishing is a long-recognised concern especially in non-fiction. Scotland is responding with strong lists as these recent successes testify:


Clare Hunter Threads of Life, Hodder & Stoughton


Threads of Life is an eloquent history of the language of sewing over centuries and across continents. Blending memoir and history with a unique understanding


of craft, Threads of Life is an evocative and moving book about the need we all have to tell our story.


ISBN: 9781473687936 – Paperback


Kapka Kassabova To The Lake, Granta


In this follow-up to the multi-award winning Border, Kassabova journeys to her grandmother’s place of origin, two lakes set within the mountainous borderlands of North


Macedonia, Albania and Greece. A deep enquiry into how geography and politics imprint themselves upon families and nations, with questions about human suffering and the capacity for change.


ISBN: 9781783783977 – Hardback


Melanie Reid The World I Fell Out Of, Harper Collins


In 2010 Melanie Reid fell


from her horse. Paralysed from her chest down, she spent almost a full year in hospital, determinedly working towards gaining as much movement in her


limbs as possible, and learning to navigate her way through a world previously invisible to her.


ISBN: 9780008291464 – Paperback


Charlotte Runcie Salt On Your Tongue, Canongate


Listed among The Spectator, Scotsman and Prospect’s books of the year, Salt On Your Tongue considers what the sea means to us, and particularly to women


through the ages. Navigating through ancient Greek myths, poetry, shipwrecks and Scottish folktales, Runcie explores how the sea has inspired, fascinated and terrified us.


ISBN: 9781786891211 – Paperback


THE NAN SHEPHERD PRIZE


Discovering underrepresented voices in nature writing


The Nan Shepherd Prize was launched by Canongate in 2019 and provides a platform for underrepresented voices in nature writing. The prize was named after one of Scotland’s most beloved authors, Nan Shepherd, whose


classic of nature writing The Living Mountain is today recognised as a masterpiece of the genre.


The inaugural prize was won by Nina


Mingya Powles, whose submission Small Bodies of Water was praised for its exquisite lyrical and poetic writing.


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