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Black & White Publishing produce a wide range of titles from biography to fiction. Their output includes the award-winning children's imprint Itchy Coo.

Black and White Publishing

The Ballroom Café

The Ballroom Café by Ann O’Loughlin: The debut novel from an Irish journalist that went onto become one of the bestselling eBooks of 2015, selling over 250,000 copies. Ann’s subsequent book, The Judge’s Wife was shortlisted for a Romantic Novel Award (RoNA) and spent five weeks as an Irish bestseller. Ann’s third book, The Ludlow Ladies’ Society was released in July 2017.
Watch Over Me

Watch Over Me by Daniela Sacerdoti: The first book in a four-part series, Daniela Sacerdoti’s Glen Avich series has sold over a million copies in eBook, and Watch Over Me is one of the bestselling Kindle titles of all time.
Dare to Fall

Dare to Fall by Estelle Maskame: A new novel from the international bestselling author of the Did I Mention I Love You? Trilogy, which has been sold in 15 territories around the world, Dare to Fall is one of the launch titles for our new Young Adult imprint, Ink Road. Estelle started writing her DIMILY trilogy aged just 13, and it was published by the time she was 17.
The White Bird Passes

The White Bird Passes by Jessie Kesson: A brand new edition of Jessie Kesson’s Scottish literature classic.
The Gruffalo in Scots

The Gruffalo in Scots by Julia Donaldson; Translated by James Robertson: A children’s classic, The Gruffalo has now been translated into Scots by our children’s imprint, Itchy Coo. Due to the success, we’ve now also published The Gruffalo in Doric, Dundee, Orkney, Shetland,and Glaswegian dialects.
The Broons Blethers!

Scotland's favourite family explain their blethers in their own unique way. So come and have a right good laugh as they get drookit, go winchin' and get in all sorts of fankles describing their favourite words and phrases.

Since 1999 Black and White Publishing has produced a wide range of titles with over 300 now in print, including 30 in the award-winning Itchy Coo imprint of children's books in the Scots language, the B&W classics list and the Broons and Oor Wullie books. We publish an extensive range of titles including general non-fiction, biography, sport, cookery and humour, fiction, YA (Ink Road imprint) and children's books.

Established: 1999

Publications (yearly average): 50-60

Types of books published: General non-fiction; memoirs; biographies; sport; true crime; cookery; humour; fiction; YA (15+); Children's

Submission details: We accept unsolicited manuscripts via our website at https://blackandwhitepublishing.com/submissions. We ask for a brief covering letter, synopsis and the first three chapters or first 30 pages of your work in the first instance. For full submission guidelines, please visit our website www.blackandwhitepublishing.com.

CONTACTS

People: Campbell Brown (Managing Director); Alison McBride (Publishing Director); Janne Moller (Rights Manager); Thomas Ross (Digital & Operations Manager); Emma Hargreaves (Editorial Manager); Sarah Barnard (Sales Account Manager)

Address: Nautical House, 104 Commercial Street, Edinburgh, EH6 6NF
Tel: 0131 625 4500
Fax: 0131 625 4501
Email: mail@blackandwhitepublishing.com
Website: www.blackandwhitepublishing.com
Facebook: Black & White Publishing
Twitter: @bwpublishing

DISTRIBUTOR:
Grantham Book Services, Trent Road, Grantham, Lincolnshire, NG31 7XQ.
Tel: +44 (0)1476 541000.
Fax: +44 (0)1476 541060
Website: www.thebookservice.co.uk

SALES REPRESENTATION:
UK (excl Scotland) - PGUK, PGUK, 63-66 Hatton Garden, London, EC1N 8LE
Email: sales@pguk.co.uk
Tel: 020 7405 1105

Scotland - Daiden O'Regan, Black & White Publishing Ltd, Nautical House, 104 Commercial Street, Edinburgh, EH6 6NF
Email: daiden@blackandwhitepublishing.com
Tel: 0131 625 4500

Ireland & Northern Ireland - Gill Hess Ltd, 15 Church St, Skerries, Co. Dublin, Ireland
E-mail: gilhess@iol.ie
Tel: +357 1849 1801