Saraband is an award-winning independent publisher of outstanding fiction, nature and environmental writing, essays, life writing and pop culture. For more than thirty years, we have provided a platform for voices that are often overlooked. Our working style is collaborative, and we follow the most sustainable practices at all times.

We publish exceptional books by diverse authors on the culture, landscapes, wildlife, folk traditions and history wherever they live. Our fiction includes literary, historical and contemporary stories reflecting UK and international perspectives – all with unforgettable voices. Our non-fiction inspires, informs, intrigues and stimulates.

We have been shortlisted multiple times in the Independent Publishers’ Guild Publisher of the Year Awards and for Regional Small Press at the British Book Awards, including in the latest round of awards. We were inaugural winners of the Saltire Society’s Scottish Publisher of the Year award. In 2012 we were the sole publisher selected for the London Olympics Scottish cultural programme, to showcase digital innovations including our hit Burns Night app.

Over the past few years our authors have won or achieved shortlistings for a host of literary awards, including: The Booker Prize, LA Times Literary Awards, Edinburgh International Book Festival First Book Award, Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing, Portico Prize, Comedy Women in Print prize, Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year, Scottish National Book Awards in Fiction, Lakeland Awards and the Highland Prize.

We are currently closed to fiction submissions. For non-fiction submissions, please email your book description, table of contents and a sample chapter together with a brief CV relevant to your writing to hermes@saraband.net.