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Listen now to Lost People
Margaret Elphinstone's Lost People is now available as an audiobook. The novel, timeless yet disturbingly relevant, offers healing, peace and refuge to a world ravaged by war and desolation. It was shortlisted for the 2024 Saltire Award for Fiction.
274 words for 274 miles
Tantallon Tir is a welcome new arrival on the Scottish publishing scene and I am delighted to be among the 40 contributors to its debut anthology, 274 miles. 274 is the length in miles of the Scottish mainland: it is also the word limit to which every contributor had to work. Even the busiest reader cannot claim lack of time to delve into this eclectic collection.
There She Goes
Margaret Elphinstone is one of 17 contributors to There She Goes, a collection of women's writing on the experience of travel edited by Esa Aldegheri. Margaret is pictured reading her chapter, Sea Crossings: Time Circles, at the book's launch.
There She Goes is published by Saraband.
PaperBoats - Earth Day Edition
RESISTANCE
is those who flower in poor soil:
groundsel, self-heal, bittercress, speedwell;
is celandines forcing their way
through cracks in rotten concrete;
Margaret Elphinstone celebrates the resistance of plants against the onslaught of rogue human systems in the latest edition of PaperBoats.