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Spring 2026 Round Up of Scots & Gaelic Releases

‘Discover Jansson’s uninhibited imagination full of love, kindness, and adventure.’

Scottish publishers consistently celebrate all Scotland’s languages by releasing books in Scots and Gaelic. Here you’ll find highlights from the first half of 2026.

 

CEUM
By Iain D. Urchardan

This second poetry collection by Iain Urquhart explores his thoughts on love, Gaelic, health, politics and world events. Gaelic and the Highlands are in his head, heart, veins, marrow, spirit, and some say, in his soul. 

 

 

 

Dàn nam Ban
By Ceitidh Chaimbeul

The debut collection from award–winning bilingual Gaelic English poet, singer and teacher Ceitidh Chaimbeul explores the stories of women of folklore, local history, family and her own experience as a mother. 

 

 

Slighe Fonn na Bàrdachd
By Mairi Callan

Mairi Callan’s project gives tunes to an extensive body of Gaelic verse that was composed to be sung but for which there are no known melodies. This collection sets out to give the bards a new voice and to share their stories. 

 

 

 

Ròp is Mol
By Donnchadh MacGillÌosa / Duncan Gillies

Gillies is one of the best short story writers in Gaelic today, with previous collection, Crann-fìge, winning the Highland Book Prize in 2022. In Ròp is Mol Gillies creates a coherent and compelling world, by turns realistic, symbolic and infused with complex and fruitful images and characters, and his language is rich and fluent throughout.

 

Image of a book cover featuring a painted landscape scene in soft, muted tones. Rolling hills and mountain slopes fill the cover, rendered in shades of blue, grey, and gold. A narrow valley runs through the centre, with a faint path or river cutting across the scene. A distant human figure and animals appear as tiny silhouettes near the bottom, emphasizing the scale of the landscape. The title “The Weight of Quiet Things” is printed in white text at the top, followed by the subtitle “Essays, Stories & Poems on Scotland’s Living Landscapes.” At the bottom, the text reads “An Arkbound Collection.”The Weight of Quiet Things
Edited by Arkbound

This collection of essays, stories and poems explores the deep, enduring relationship between the Scottish landscape and its people. These works — written in English, Gaelic or Scots — trace a Scotland shaped by labour, collective memory and inheritance of a land that can never be owned. 

 

 

 

Fowk
By Stephen Pacitti

Stephen Pacitti brings together twenty-eight vivid short stories written in Doric to capture the humour, character and emotional depth of everyday life in the North-East.

 

 

 

An Luingeas Dorcha air Fàire
By Tim Armstrong

This is Tim Armstrong’s second fantasy novel following on from his Saltire-winning Air Cuan Dubh Drilseach. After six years of hiding in thick forests that cover the surface of the Earth, Saul’s companion, Rìosa, has gone missing, and Saul suspects their sanctuary has been discovered… 

 

 

Dealan-dè
By Seonag Monk

In this gripping novel, we see 18-year-old Flòraidh transform her identity like a butterfly and join the war effort with her enigmatic friend Lavinia. Read as she climbs the ranks while trying to protect her true identity. 

 

 

 

Glaschu: A Colouring Book in Gaelic
Glasgow: A Colouring Book in Scots

Colour along as you join Eilidh and her dog, Angus, as they take a trip around Glasgow. Choose both Scots and Gaelic editions.

 

 

 

 Eileanan Albannach 1: A Colouring Book in Gaelic
The Scottish Islands 1: A Colouring Book in Scots
Eileanan Albannach 2: A Colouring Book in Gaelic
The Scottish Islands 2: A Colouring Book in Scots

Fun and accessible colouring books that introduces Scotland’s islands through illustrations and writing. These are available in both Scots and Gaelic editions. 

 

 

 

Dathan agus Togail
By Murchadh MacLeòid & Johnathan MacLeòid

Take a break from social media to discover your inner artist with this relaxing and engaging colouring book. 

 

 

 

Wirds O’ Banff
By the students at Banff Academy

This richly illustrated glossary of doric words for birds, beasts, insects, and plants is a testament to the vitality of Doric as a living language, and shares the reflections, research, and creative responses of S3 pupils at Banff Academy, reconnecting language with landscape in fresh and meaningful ways.

 

 

 

 

Moilidh agus Doilidh
By Maoilios Caimbeul

Join Moilidh, an orphan lamb, and Doilidh, a wise sheep and keeper of ancient tales, as they journey through a landscape interwoven with the heavy history of the Highland Clearances. As the sheep travel through Sutherland, the Isle of Skye and the Hebrides, Doilidh tells the stories passed on to her by her ancestors.

 

 

 

Kali – Coocoora
By Aoife Kearney

Follow teenage honey badger Kali and she tries to find courage and become a real hero to protect her friends from a strange new kid at school. 

 

 

 

 

Na Mùmain agus Ad An Draoidh
By Tove Jansson, translated by Mòrag Anna NicNèill

Jansson’s first-ever Moomin story, introduces Gaelic readers to the beloved characters who have become icons of children’s literature, offering a glimpse of Moominvalley and the iconic Moominhouse. Our magic begins with the discovery by Moomin, Snufkin, and Sniff, of the Hobgoblin’s hat . . .

 

 

 

Na Mùmain agus an Tuil Mhòr
By Tove Jansson, translated by Mòrag Anna NicNèill

Discover Jansson’s uninhibited imagination full of love, kindness, and adventure in the face of environmental catastrophe. We follow the Moomin family as they search through forest and flood for long-lost Moominpappa, and a place to call home. 

 

 

 

 

Màiri Anna NicCoinnich: Nighean Sgoile na Gàidheltachd, 1895
By Claire Pepper

Told through the eyes of nine-year-old Mary Ann Mackenzie, experience a vivid recount of a Scottish Victorian child living on Scoraig, where children went to school to be taught in a language they had never heard before. 

 

 

 

The Muckle Birdie Match
By Aaron Gale & Jackie Ross with the pupils at Tullos Primary

Students at Tullos Primary School came together to tell a tale of an unforgettable football showdown between Team Endangered and Team Common. With a designed field guide and habitat map, this book is sure to entertain every young Doric reader. 

 

 

 

Èiginn Ùisdein
By Mòrag Anna NicNèill

Ùisdean the little fox that does not want to eat meet goes on a strange adventure after running away from home, where he meets unusual characters and learns that it’s okay to be different. 

 

 

 

Cù Giobach
By Colas Gutman & Marc Boutavant, translated by Gillebrìde Mac ‘IlleMhaoil

Cù Giobach is a bestselling children’s book in France, now translated into Gaelic, about two furry friends living on the streets desperate to be cared for. Follow the ups and downs of their journey to find a loving owner. 

 

 

 

 

Tòn-iasg
Pauline Pinson, translated by Gillebrìde Mac ‘IlleMhaoil

In this charming book little ones will love, follow Tòn-iasg (or Butt Fish as he is known in English) as he finds friendship and realises that while everyone says he may look like a butt, he also looks like a heart.  

 

 

 

 

 

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