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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Treasure Islands: True Tales of a Shipwreck Hunter
Alex Crawford has dived countless wrecks and is one of the pioneers of deep-water recovery. In this book he captures all the drama and danger of his most thrilling dives. …
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The Shetland Bus
Our bestseller now reprinted for a fifth time. A classic story of secret wartime missions across the North Sea. Dark winters provided the perfect cover for missions to occupied Norway …
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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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A Short History of the World According to Sheep
An addictively free-ranging survey of the massive impact that the domesticated ungulates of the genus Ovis have had on human history. From the plains of ancient Mesopotamia to the rolling …
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Shetland Calendar 2022
Another stunning collection of scenic photographs, majestic coastlines, wild seas and breath-taking views, to take you through the year. Featuring key moments in the Shetland year and a “word o …
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1915 War
Coming soon. Available to pre-order. Following on from 1914 Peace and War. Extracts from the Shetland Times. Compiled by Gordon Johnston Paperback 236 pages …
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Nobody's Child
Not yet four years old, Gloria was forcibly separated from her baby brother Kevin and entered into the often-brutal world of the Rothwell Children’s Home, where she found occasional moments …
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The Other Titanic
The biggest ship in the world at the start of the 20th century, the White Star liner Oceanic was built to very high specifications, and was described by famous Titanic …
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Old Foula: The Edge of the World
Considered remote today, the island of Foula has been continuously inhabited since the Neolithic Age. This book, however, concentrates on island life in the 2oth century. The photographs show a …
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Spy Fever. The Post Office Affair
A remarkable true story of the events surrounding the unexplained incarceration of the entire staff of the Lerwick Post Office at the beginning of the First World War. …
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