The Shetland Times Publishing
The Shetland Times Publishing has been connecting writers and readers, entertaining, informing, and serving Shetland’s cultural heritage since 1872.
We specialise in local interest books, from the trivial to the academic, biography to military history, natural world and maritime interest, guide books, dictionaries, knitting manuals, cookery books, traditional music and fiction.
At present we have well over a hundred titles on our backlist and produce on average eight new titles a year. No other company offers anything like the range of expertise we bring to the local publishing market. Editing, subbing, proofreading, design and layout, printing and binding are routine technicalities.
Publishing and promoting your work on our Shetland Times website (www.shetlandtimes.co.uk), online social media promotions through our various platforms (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram etc), our e-commerce website (https://shop.shetlandtimes.co.uk) and advertising in The Shetland Times weekly newspaper are all part of the publishing process.
Oh, and we must also mention the shelves of Shetland’s leading bookseller, our very own retail premises, the Shetland Times Bookshop. Our shop team is also available to help you with promotional book launches in store or on location within our isles.
We are currently expanding our activities to take advantage of print on demand and ebook services. So if traditional publishing is not a feasible for your book we might be able to offer another publishing option.
If you have a publishing idea, or a manuscript to submit, get in touch.
“The Shetland Times is a Shetland institution and although a small publisher they were the obvious choice with their unique perspective on all things to do with Shetland.”
Marian Armitage,
author of our bestselling 2014 title, Shetland Food and Cooking.
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Contact Shetland Times Publishing through the details listed below. You can continue to buy our titles through our bookshop.
Trade customers please contact us for terms.
Contact:
Charlotte Black (Publications Manager)
Gremista,
Lerwick,
Shetland,
Scotland.
ZE1 0PX
Tel: +44 (0)1595 742 000
Email: publishing@shetlandtimes.co.uk
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A Photographic Guide to Shetland’s Wild Flowers
This third edition of David Malcolm’s popular guide to Shetland’s wild flowers has been enlarged and completely revised, with 71 new species not included in previous editions. By sorting the …
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A Photographic Guide to Shetland's History
Shetland has a rich and varied heritage. Ancient and silent ruined dwellings and monuments testify to human presence and activity over thousands of years. Viking settlers, German traders, Dutch fishermen …
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Shetland Words: A dictionary of Shetland dialect
Paperback version Shetland Words is the first new Shetland dictionary for many years. It is the result of almost three years painstaking research by Alastair and Adaline Christie-Johnston and contributing …
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Seabirds and Seals
An entertaining, thought-provoking and informative overview of 25 years of wildlife guiding around the Shetland islands of Bressay and Noss. After sailing around these two small Shetland islands with his …
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The Shetland Bus
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Fair Isle Designs from Shetland Knitters Volume 2
Following the huge success of Volume One, the Shetland Guild of Spinners, Knitters, Weavers and Dyers are back with 12 new designs. Patterns range from peerie projects to full size …
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Fair Isle Designs from Shetland Knitters Volume 1
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A Legacy of Shetland Lace
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The Tunes of Gideon Stove
Gideon Stove, born in 1874, was indisputably the foremost Shetland fiddler, violinist and composer of tunes throughout his lifetime. Entirely self-taught, he courageously gave up his trade as a baker …
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Borrowed Time
Debt, social mobility and the Fetlar Clearances: the Nicolsons of Brough Lodge. Looking inland from a small beach on the northwest coast of the island of Fetlar in Shetland you …
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Horticulture on the Edge
As those who live in such areas will testify, growing anything in a northern climate is, at the very least, a real challenge. However, advances in techniques, information, cultivars, and …
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Shetland's Heritage of Sail
In Shetland’s Heritage of Sail Charlie Simpson tells the story of the technology that shaped Shetland’s history. It begins with the first settlers of the islands and proceeds through the …
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Victorians 60° North
This is the amazing saga of five Edmonston brothers of Shetland and their families, from the late 18th when they were born, to the early 20th century, told through their …
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Sea View
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From Böd to Boardroom An historical novel on the life of Arthur Anderson
Arthur Anderson was a Shetlander who rose from humble beginnings in Lerwick to become a prominent businessman and, as co-founder of the P amp O shipping company, a pioneer of …
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Benny-benny Seawater: The First Day of the Summer Holidays
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Sonnets & Secrets
Jessie Nicol was born in Sullom, Shetland, in 1924. She first attended the Bressay school and for a short time the Sullom school before finishing her education at the Lerwick …
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Whispers on the Wind
A miscellany of historical tales, family stories, fiction and poetry. From shipwrecks and the fighting Strachans of Yell to peats and piltocks and childhood reminiscences, and from dialect stories of …
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The Further North You Go
You’re a drink sodden, coke-fuelled PR executive for whom things go suddenly, spectacularly and bizarrely wrong. Leave London, abandon your family, job and head upwards: north. How far north can …
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Fair Isle Ghosts
Where the North Sea meets the Atlantic sits a tiny outcrop of sandstone, just over 3 miles long. Fair Isle is the UK’s most remote inhabited island. In the nineteenth …
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