Sign in

Luath Press

@luathpress.bsky.social
342 followers 92 following 910 posts

Independent publisher, committed to publishing well written books worth reading.

PostsRepliesMedia
Luath Press @luathpress.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Want to learn some animal fun facts? Helen Percy's life as a rural shepherdess has given her a wealth of knowledge – read on for some of her insights... 🐏Given the choice, a ewe will give birth in the same place every year – often the place where she herself was born.
100
Luath Press @luathpress.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
COMING SOON 📚Heroes of the Spanish Civil War by Clifford Thurlow ✊A gripping work of historical non-fiction that brings to life the courage, conviction and complexity of those who fought in one of the twentieth century’s most defining conflicts.
100
Luath Press @luathpress.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Today marks what would have been the 77th birthday of Jimmy Bone. How well did you know his story? Read on for some facts you might not have known about the player: 🏰Jimmy was born in a castle near Bridge of Allan.
122
Luath Press @luathpress.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
🎵The Playlist is here!🎶 Ahead of Crossing the Sound, listen along to the tracks that serve as an immersive backdrop to the characters' lives.
100
Luath Press @luathpress.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Alan Spence discusses the music of what happens' in our latest quickfire Q+A. Read it here: zurl.co/ecakN
000
Luath Press @luathpress.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
COMING SOON 📚 Peggy & the Fairy Knolls by Angus Peter Campbell ✨ Growing up in the wild Hebridean landscape, Peggy and her best friend Penny are inseparable, with the magical fairy knolls as constant in their lives as church or school.
100
Luath Press @luathpress.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
CAT WUMMAN by Gerda Stevenson has been Longlisted for the 2026 Saltires, Scotland's National Book Awards - Fiction Book of the Year.
110
Reposted by Luath Press
The Herald comment & analysis @scottishcomment.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Five-star review: Matthew Zajac’s 20-year-old solo play has had a journey almost as remarkable as its subject, says Herald theatre critic Neil Cooper www.heraldscotland.com/life_style/2... @neilcooper.bsky.social @lyceumedinburgh.bsky.social @heraldscotland.bsky.social @brianjaffa.bsky.social
heraldscotland.com
The five-star Scottish play that tells an extraordinary story of exile and survival
Theatre review: The Tailor of Inverness, Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, Neil Cooper, Five stars: Matthew Zajac’s now almost twenty-year-old solo…
023
Luath Press @luathpress.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Helen Percy discusses a life lived in the open air, and all of the rewards and challenges this brings in our latest quickfire Q+A.
101
Luath Press @luathpress.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
COMING SOON 📚 Robert Burns the World O'er by Kenny MacAskill🌍an engaging exploration of the nearly 40 statues dedicated to Scotland’s national poet, Robert Burns, found across the globe.
120
Luath Press @luathpress.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Back to school or back in time? Our latest quickfire Q+A with Barbara Henderson focuses on her novel aimed at 9–12-year-olds, Enter Eddie Shakespeare!
110
Luath Press @luathpress.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Our September in books... 🌊What the Sea Gives – erudite and thought-provoking poetry from Professor Alan Riach. 🎶 Crossing the Sound – Peter Irvine's debut novel navigating friendship, fame and betrayal in the 1980s music scene.
100
Luath Press @luathpress.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
COMING SOON 📚Daughterhood by Alison Irvine ✨Daughterhood is a poignant novel following 46-year-old Nina Polmont as she navigates the complexities of family duty and personal aspiration.
010
Luath Press @luathpress.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
COMING SOON 📚The Tailor of Inverness by Matthew Zajac 🧵 The Tailor of Inverness is the remarkable true story of one man's extraordinary journey through war, exile and reinvention.
100
Luath Press @luathpress.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
COMING SOON 📚Crossing the Sound by Peter Irvine 🎶 A gripping novel seeped in the atmosphere of the 80s, set between a remote Scottish island and the music capitals of London and New York. Peter Irvine explores ambition, friendship and the price of fame...
022
Luath Press @luathpress.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
COMING SOON📚 What the Sea Gives by Alan Riach 🌊 These thought-provoking poems explore truth, art, love, family and the natural world in an era shaped by artificial intelligence, misinformation and political uncertainty.
110
Luath Press @luathpress.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
COMING SOON 📚 Whistlebare by Helen Percy 🐕
100
Luath Press @luathpress.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Listen to Ben Ramage discussing Jimmy Bone on Saturday's Off the Ball podcast here: zurl.co/TH7e7
100
Luath Press @luathpress.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Day 1 ScotlandsFest in the bag! Highlights included... 🥚 A lucky audience member won some fresh (unfertilised) duck eggs from Helen Percy for correctly identifying the collective noun for a group of foxes...
100
Luath Press @luathpress.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
1 week to go until these incredible ScotlandsFest events! 🎟️
100
Luath Press @luathpress.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
1 week until Between the Stones: Scotland Through Outlander 🎟️ Join the editors of Outlander and Scotland to find out what this time-travelling series can teach us about Scottish history and Scotland today? ⚔️ Grab your spot here! zurl.co/HbS1M
000
Luath Press @luathpress.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
1 week until these incredible ScotlandsFest events!
100
Luath Press @luathpress.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
1 week until Day 2 of ScotlandsFest! 🎟️
101
Luath Press @luathpress.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
1 week until the start of ScotlandsFest! 🎟️
100
Luath Press @luathpress.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
🎟️ No Scotland No Party! 🏆
100
Luath Press @luathpress.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
🎟️ A Scottish Football Odyssey ⚽ Archie Macpherson has been writing and broadcasting on the beautiful game for 60 years.
100
Luath Press @luathpress.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Coming up in August...
100
Luath Press @luathpress.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
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 📚
100
Luath Press @luathpress.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
🎟️ 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.
100
Luath Press @luathpress.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
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.
100
Luath Press @luathpress.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
🎟️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.
100
Luath Press @luathpress.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
🎟️ 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.
100
Luath Press @luathpress.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
🎟️ 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.
100
Luath Press @luathpress.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
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.
100
Luath Press @luathpress.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
🎟️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?
100
Luath Press @luathpress.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
🎟️ Ancient Voices, Living Landscape – Scotland’s Geomythography 🪨 Join Stuart McHardy, author of Scotland’s Geomythography and look at ancient Scotland through new eyes.
100
Reposted by Luath Press
Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 18/07/2026
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...
To a Louse, On Seeing one on a Lady’s Bonnet at Church
Robert Burns

Ha! whare ye gaun, ye crowlan ferlie!
Your impudence protects you sairly:
I canna say but ye strunt rarely,
Owre gawze and lace;
Tho’ faith, I fear ye dine but sparely,
On sic a place.

Ye ugly, creepan, blastet wonner,
Detested, shunn’d, by saunt an’ sinner,
How daur ye set your fit upon her,
Sae fine a Lady!
Gae somewhere else and seek your dinner,
On some poor body.

Swith, in some beggar’s haffet squattle;
There ye may creep, and sprawl, and sprattle,
Wi’ ither kindred, jumping cattle,
In shoals and nations;
Whare horn nor bane ne’er daur unsettle,
Your thick plantations.A black-and-white pen drawing of a lady in profile, looking to the left. She has a self-satisfied expression on her face and is wearing a huge bonnet, tied on with an enormous bow and topped with more bows and two slightly bedraggled feathers. A large, fat, creepy-crawly hovers above her.Now haud you there, ye’re out o’ sight,
Below the fatt’rels, snug and tight,
Na faith ye yet! ye’ll no be right,
Till ye’ve got on it,
The vera topmost, towrin height
O’ Miss’s bonnet.

My sooth! right bauld ye set your nose out,
As plump an’ gray as onie grozet:
O for some rank, mercurial rozet,
Or fell, red smeddum,
I’d gie you sic a hearty dose o’t,
Wad dress your droddum!

I wad na been surpriz’d to spy
You on an auld wife’s flainen toy;
Or aiblins some bit duddie boy,
On ’s wylecoat;
But Miss’s fine Lunardi, fye!
How daur ye do ’t?O Jenny dinna toss your head,
An’ set your beauties a’ abread!
Ye little ken what cursed speed
The blastie’s makin!
Thae winks and finger-ends, I dread,
Are notice takin!

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!
1166
Reposted by Luath Press
The Strange Brew @strangebrewpod.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
New interview: Alison Irvine shares the story of Glasgow's greatest venue - Barrowland @luathpress.bsky.social thestrangebrew.co.uk/barrowland-t...
thestrangebrew.co.uk
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.
134
Luath Press @luathpress.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
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.
100
Luath Press @luathpress.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Check out Chris Charlesworth's review of BARROWLAND: THE INSIDE STORY OF GLASGOW’S BELOVED BALLROOM by Alison Irvine here: zurl.co/h05vm
zurl.co
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...
001
Reposted by Luath Press
Linda Hill @lindasbookbag.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
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...
1144
Luath Press @luathpress.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
🎟️ Trust Issues, Fake News, Real Poems 🖥️
110
Luath Press @luathpress.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
🎟️ 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.
100
Luath Press @luathpress.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
🎟️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.
123
Luath Press @luathpress.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
🎟️ 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.
131
Luath Press @luathpress.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
🎟️Iona With Love 🌊 Artists have long appreciated Iona’s natural beauty, its exquisite colours and the quality of its ever-changing light.
110
Luath Press @luathpress.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
🎟️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.
100
Luath Press @luathpress.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Coming up in July...📚
000
Luath Press @luathpress.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
🌈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
100
Luath Press @luathpress.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
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.
100