Jane Rogers Wins 2012 Arthur C. Clarke Award
 Long listed for the Booker Prize in 2011, The Testament of Jessie Lamb has just been announced as the winner of this year’s Arthur C. Clarke Award. This is readers’ last chance to buy the first edition of the novel. A new edition will appear in July in a joint publication with Canongate, and with a stunning new cover design.
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Scottish Book Of The Year Shortlist 2012
 For the third time since publication Zoë Strachan’s Ever Fallen in Love has been short listed for a prestigious award, this time the Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book Awards 2012, in partnership with Creative Scotland. If Zoë’s dark, unsettling coming of age tale wins its category, it will be considered for the overall award, announced at the Edinburgh Book Festival in August, where Zoë is also appearing.
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Commonwealth Book Award 2012
 Me and Mr Booker by Cory Taylor, originally published in Australia by Text Publishing and due out from Sandstone Press in July, has been short listed for the Commonwealth Book Award. This powerful evocation of sexual awakening charts with perception the difficult territory of a young girl’s affair with a middle aged married man.
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Sandstone Books - Across The World
 The Sandstone Press 2012 Catalogue is now available and can be downloaded from our website. It demonstrates how far we have travelled in less than a year, widening our list with books from overseas.
In addition to Me and Mr Booker, we have signed up the latest title in the Charlie Hood series from Southern California’s T. Jefferson Parker, The Jaguar, and Incidents in the Life of Markus Paul from distinguished Canadian author David Adams Richards. These are strong titles from skilled and exciting authors.
Look out too for the paperback of James McGonigal’s biography of Edwin Morgan, Beyond the Last Dragon, now with a refreshed cover featuring a characterful portrait of the poet. The Sea Detective is also moving to paperback, with strong advance sales.
Alison Fell has joined us with a new novel, The Element -inth, as has outdoor writer Chris Townsend, and we have strong tales of family life, difficult youth, and humour from Britain and Ireland. Our selling has moved forward dramatically with joining Faber Factory Plus (aka: Alliance 2) and Repforce Ireland. Keep an eye on the website for further news, and details of launches and other events where our authors are appearing.
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