Malachy Tallack's Sixty Degrees North chosen as BBC Book of the Week
Sixty Degrees North: Around the World in Search of Home will be published by Polygon on 13 July 2015 and that same week it will be featured as BBC Radio 4’s Book of the Week. Produced by BBC Radio Drama’s Kirsteen Cameron, the book will be read for radio by award-winning actor, Sandy Grierson.
A pre-publication extract from the book was published in this month’s Scottish Review of Books and is already attracting a great deal of attention…
‘It is a brave book . . . and a beautiful book’ – Robert Macfarlane
‘Malachy Tallack is the real deal, a writer given over to pure curiosity, honest witness and that most precious of gifts, an unselfconscious sense of wonder . . . not just a vibrant new voice, but a wise, questioning and highly sophisticated talent’ – John Burnside
‘Elegant, meditative and wry . . . Tallack takes the reader on some fascinating excursions’ – Gavin Francis
Available in shops on 13 July 2015.
The Great Tapestry of Scotland is on the Move (but there's still time to make your Mark!)
Members of the public are to be given a chance to make a stitch on new welcome panels for the Great Tapestry of Scotland before it moves to its new, purpose built home in Galashiels.
Writing Scotland's Future – July 1999
In 1999 the winner of a national writing competition, Writing Scotland’s Future, was only 11 years old. But her winning entry was strong and on 1 July that year, her poem was read out at the Official Opening of Scotland’s new Parliament. Jan Rutherford was present.
Shortlisted for Major Award
PPW’s Jan Rutherford has been shortlist for the UK’s Publishers’ Publicity Circle Annual Award.