Sandstone Press is very proud to be the publisher of Jane Rogers and her novel The Testament of Jessie Lamb, long-listed for this year’s Man Booker Prize.

An Lanntair, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, 2 September 2011.

Nairn Courthouse, 31 August- 4 September 2011.

Watercolour Music House would like to invite you to join them for what promises to be their best house concert yet! Move over Abba – they have secured the phenomenal talents of quite simply one of the greatest bands of any genre to come out of Sweden. Vasen are legendary – truly gifted, and very funny (in the way that only a Swede who speaks excellent English can be)!

Increased ticket sales with the start of Blas 2011 this weekend are setting organisers up for one of the busiest festivals ever.

Cara Luft and Suns of Arqa to play Coffee Shop Sessions in Strathpeffer.

Gairloch based artist Lynn Bennett-Mackenzie & Indian artist Somu Desai are involving local school children in creating an installed artwork on the Beinn Eighe nature reserve.

Perth Theatre’s new creative director for theatre Rachel O’Riordan has chosen 1920’s Scotland as the setting for Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night.

TINA ROSE discovers a sense of place in the work of recent art school graduates.

The Ironworks, Inverness, 3rd September 2011.