Wind&Bones Books

Wind&Bones Books Independent publisher | Writing, creativity and philosophy events | 📍 Taiwan & Scotland

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Independent publisher of fiction, non-fiction and translation. We also curate writing and philosophy for social change projects. Directed by writers Dr Hannah Stevens & Dr Will Buckingham. A Scottish organisation currently based in Taiwan. We have worked all around the world with groups including survivors of domestic abuse, ex-political prisoners, doctors, directors of international NGOs, LGBTQI+

groups, activists and community educators in conflict areas. Our partners include the BBC, the British Embassy, Greenpeace, the Goethe Institute, Caritas and GIY Ireland. We take our name from Liu Xie, the sixth century Chinese writer. For Liu, good writing requires a combination of liveliness (wind) and rigour (bone). "So cultivate the strength of the wind, and make the bone robust." — Liu Xie

Here is Wind&Bones co-director Will Buckingham chatting to Oleksandr Shyn at Radio Taiwan International about our book T...
21/08/2025

Here is Wind&Bones co-director Will Buckingham chatting to Oleksandr Shyn at Radio Taiwan International about our book Tâigael: Stories from Taiwanese & Gaelic.

Radio Taiwan International (RTI) is the English name and call sign of the Central Broadcasting System (CBS), national broadcaster and international radio service of Taiwan.

It is a public radio station that broadcasts in 14 languages around the world via the internet, shortwave and podcasts.

This was a delight!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JGRafkIK7w&list=PLHMAirY2XP7UBd8R8yGUhZapZHawcGn_j&index=2

What a lovely week it's been so far visiting family and friends in Yorkshire, England!
20/08/2025

What a lovely week it's been so far visiting family and friends in Yorkshire, England!

We are really excited to share this second feature on our recently published book Tâigael: Stories from Taiwanese & Gael...
19/08/2025

We are really excited to share this second feature on our recently published book Tâigael: Stories from Taiwanese & Gaelic over on TaiwanPlus.

Learn more about Taiwan's diverse languages, history, local culture and what's happening at the brilliant 南渡策室 x 無有為獨立書店 (who also stock Tâigael!).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egAcLeM6ZkY

Wind&Bones is a small, indie press. We also curate writing, storytelling and philosophy for social change projects. We a...
18/08/2025

Wind&Bones is a small, indie press. We also curate writing, storytelling and philosophy for social change projects. We are a Scottish organisation, based between the cities of Dundee in Scotland, and Tainan in Taiwan. Directed by Dr Hannah Stevens & Dr Will Buckingham.

We work with organisations and individuals on projects that bring together writing, creativity and social change.

We take our name from the Medieval Chinese writer, Liu Xie, and his book the Wenxin diaolong (文心雕龍), or The Heart of Literature, the Carving of Dragons.

So cultivate the strength of the wind, and make the bone robust.

蔚彼風力，嚴此骨鯁。

For Liu, writing needs a balance of wind (feng 風) — vitality, life and spiritedness — and bone (gu 骨) — organisation and structure. We take this as good advice not just for writing, but also for social change, and for life.

Last week we received a very warm welcome from Director General Chi-Hua Ding and Assistant Director Hui-Lin Ho at the Ta...
18/08/2025

Last week we received a very warm welcome from Director General Chi-Hua Ding and Assistant Director Hui-Lin Ho at the Taipei Representative office in Edinburgh to talk about our book Tâigael: Stories from Taiwanese & Gaelic.

Over tea we talked about the innovative nature of the book, the stories, the brilliant writers, creativity, life in Taiwan and Scotland and the importance of building solidarity between small nations.

We are planning some exciting book events in Scotland next year, so stay tuned.

For anyone who might not be sure: the Taipei Representative Office is a de facto embassy representing Taiwan in countries that do not have formal diplomatic relations with Taiwan, like the UK.

The Taipei Representative Office - like all embassies - handles cultural, economic, and consular affairs, serving as the highest-level Taiwanese representation in those locations.

Taiwan in Scotland 🫖☕

Imagine when the Firth of Forth—the estuary at the heart of Scotland—is all glacier, the country around it frozen solid....
14/08/2025

Imagine when the Firth of Forth—the estuary at the heart of Scotland—is all glacier, the country around it frozen solid. Imagine, as the ice melts, the shores gradually repopulated by plants, animals, and people, until the Forth is the main conduit between a society with imperial ambitions and the rest of the world.

Garry MacKenzie’s poem-essay about the Firth of Forth flows implacably forward in time, from the Last Ice Age to the present. In its relentless movement, it sweeps along in its path the sedimented layers of history and literature—stories, texts, and fragments that bear witness to the ecological and human histories of Scotland. As the glacier-scoured land takes its modern shape, the poem reflects on what is carried from the past into the present, and asks how poetry can address the complexity—the accumulated guilt and glory—of the past.

Head to the Wind&Bones Bookshop to get your copy 👉 books.windandbones. com ✨🤓

Finding Our Sea-Legs asks a question that has preoccupied philosophers from the very beginning: how do we make sense of ...
13/08/2025

Finding Our Sea-Legs asks a question that has preoccupied philosophers from the very beginning: how do we make sense of ethics, when it seems so hard to agree?

In Finding Our Sea-Legs, Will Buckingham takes a fresh approach to this question. Instead of seeking the solid ground of philosophical agreement, he launches the reader on a journey across the ocean of stories, to ask about how we experience ethics within our everyday lives

REVIEWS:

The book is unconventional in form: written in colloquial English with little jargon. It tells many stories: about talking fish, million-year-old princesses, and the need to lower your mast as you near the horizon, lest your boat get stuck between the sky and the sea. Finding our Sea-Legs is also unconventional in content. It is one of very few books about a key problem in contemporary philosophy: the tension between the urgency of ethics and their inherent ambiguity.
— David Chapman,

"A rich, lucid feast of a book." — MoralObjectivity. net

"An examination of philosophy and stories that will leave you waving, not drowning…" — Left Lion magazine

Head to 🤓 books.windandbones. com 🤓 to get your copy.

Imagine when the Firth of Forth—the estuary at the heart of Scotland—is all glacier, the country around it frozen solid....
12/08/2025

Imagine when the Firth of Forth—the estuary at the heart of Scotland—is all glacier, the country around it frozen solid. Imagine, as the ice melts, the shores gradually repopulated by plants, animals, and people, until the Forth is the main conduit between a society with imperial ambitions and the rest of the world.

Garry MacKenzie’s poem-essay about the Firth of Forth flows implacably forward in time, from the Last Ice Age to the present. In its relentless movement, it sweeps along in its path the sedimented layers of history and literature—stories, texts, and fragments that bear witness to the ecological and human histories of Scotland. As the glacier-scoured land takes its modern shape, the poem reflects on what is carried from the past into the present, and asks how poetry can address the complexity—the accumulated guilt and glory—of the past.

Head to the Wind&Bones Bookshop to get your copy 👉 books.windandbones. com ✨🤓

What a delight it's been to be back at Wind&Bones HQ in Dundee, Scotland for a visit!
11/08/2025

What a delight it's been to be back at Wind&Bones HQ in Dundee, Scotland for a visit!

We're very happy to share this interview Wind&Bones co-director Dr Hannah Stevens did with Pukaar Magazine recently abou...
10/08/2025

We're very happy to share this interview Wind&Bones co-director Dr Hannah Stevens did with Pukaar Magazine recently about writing, creativity, travelling, work and much more besides.

Pukaar Magazine is designed and published from headquarters in Leicester, England. It has twice been a finalist at the Asian Media Awards. And although they have a significant audience in the black, Asian and minority ethic community, reflecting the UK’s diverse nature, they are proud to be a magazine for all. Their founding mission was to celebrate diversity and inclusion – and that is what they continue to do a decade later.

Hannah was born in Leicester – a city in the midlands of England – and the culture and landscape have helped to shape her in many ways, including creatively and professionally. So when journalist Louise Steel from Pukaar Magazine got in touch, Hannah was delighted to accept her invitation to speak to them.

You can read the interview here: https://pukaarmagazine.com/from-leicester-to-taiwan-how-writing-took-one-author-around-the-world/

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Wind and Bones

Wind and Bones is a project run by Dr. Will Buckingham and Dr. Hannah Stevens exploring the intersections between writing, creativity and social change.

We’re currently based in Sofia, Bulgaria and working regionally around Europe. We’ve previously run projects in Greece, the UK, Myanmar, Taiwan and Indonesia. We’re open to all kinds of interesting projects and collaborations, so do please get in touch!

Wind&Bones Community Interest Company is registered in the UK with company no: 12355764.