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

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/

International praise for Tâigael: Stories from Taiwanese & Gaelic ✨✍️“Tâigael: Stories from Taiwanese & Gaelic facilitat...
09/08/2025

International praise for Tâigael: Stories from Taiwanese & Gaelic ✨✍️

“Tâigael: Stories from Taiwanese & Gaelic facilitates a storytelling conversation between two minority languages, Taiwanese and Scottish Gaelic. It is a rare thing for these particular languages, these oral cultures, to be put in such comprehensive contact. Drawing parallels between two marginalised territories, Scotland and Taiwan, the central, future-facing lesson of this book is that communication between minority-language writers is not only possible but desirable. Though two quite different national-linguistic contexts are celebrated and maintained here, a shared preoccupation with certain concerns - present-day feminism perhaps foremost among these - animates this unique quadrille of stories (and tellers) beyond their languages of transmission.”

— Colin Bramwell (Scotland), poet and translator.

Head to 👉books.windandbones . com 👈 to get your copy. We ship across Taiwan, the UK and beyond.

✨✍Creative Writing Unleashed ✨✍In September we are delighted to be working in collaboration with National Cheng Kung Uni...
08/08/2025

✨✍Creative Writing Unleashed ✨✍

In September we are delighted to be working in collaboration with National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) to run an intensive course, Creative Writing Unleashed!

National Cheng Kung University 國立成功大學 is a public research university in Tainan, Taiwan. Founded in 1931 during Japanese rule the university is one of the oldest institutions of higher education in Taiwan.

Creative Writing Unleashed is an intensive micro-course conducted primarily in English. And it will run intensively from 1st September to 5th September 2025.

The course will explore the practice of creative writing through an interdisciplinary lens, engaging students with critical essays that examine the relationship between creative writing and different fields of study and developing students' skills in poetic expression in relation to other literary genres.

The course is an in-person series and students at NCKU are eligible to enrol. For more details head to the website via the QR code at the bottom of the poster.

Remaking the World is a mini-course for anyone who wants to use writing to bring about positive social change.The course...
07/08/2025

Remaking the World is a mini-course for anyone who wants to use writing to bring about positive social change.
The course is downloadable as a zip file that bundles together EPUB and PDF editions, so you can read on your favourite device, or print out the beautiful PDF to keep.

Head to 👉books.windandbones. com 👈 and look for 'Remaking the World.'

We want this course to be available to as many people as possible. So we are also offering the PDF-only version of the course entirely free of charge. If you can afford to donate, please do — it helps support our work. But if you want to get hold of the free PDF, visit our downloads page on the Wind&Bones website.

International praise for Tâigael: Stories from Taiwanese & Gaelic ✨✍️“Languages are the vehicles of culture; they carry ...
07/08/2025

International praise for Tâigael: Stories from Taiwanese & Gaelic ✨✍️

“Languages are the vehicles of culture; they carry the spirit of their origins from generation to generation. Tâigael is an innovative work created by writers from Taiwan and Scotland, presenting culture-based stories in four languages and five writing systems. It is an important vehicle that brings life to these beautiful cultures worth preserving. I am truly honoured to be one of the first readers of this impressive work!”

—Wen Ruoqiao 温若喬 (Taiwan), translator and poet

Head to 👉books.windandbones . com 👈 to get your copy. We ship across Taiwan, the UK and beyond.

COMING SOON 😎👇Tâigael: Stories from Taiwanese & Gaelic writer Naomi Sím will be speaking about her strategic writing met...
06/08/2025

COMING SOON 😎👇

Tâigael: Stories from Taiwanese & Gaelic writer Naomi Sím will be speaking about her strategic writing method.

24th August 2025. Details on the poster!

Glacier: An Icebound View of the Firth of Forth by Garry MacKenziePUBLISHED 1st August 2025Imagine when the Firth of For...
05/08/2025

Glacier: An Icebound View of the Firth of Forth by Garry MacKenzie

PUBLISHED 1st August 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.

About the Author ✍️

Garry MacKenzie’s book-length poem Ben Dorain: a conversation with a mountain was shortlisted for a Scottish National Book Award and long-listed for the Highland Book Prize. He has published two pamphlets with Clutag Press, and his next collection Firth, a portrait of the human and ecological histories of the Firth of Forth, will be published by The Irish Pages Press in 2026.

Glacier is available as a beautiful PDF digital download. Head to 👉books.windandbones. com 👈 to get your copy!

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04/08/2025

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Remaking the World is a mini-course for anyone who wants to use writing to bring about positive social change.The course...
04/08/2025

Remaking the World is a mini-course for anyone who wants to use writing to bring about positive social change.

The course is downloadable as a zip file that bundles together EPUB and PDF editions, so you can read on your favourite device, or print out the beautiful PDF to keep.

https://books.windandbones.com/product/remaking-the-world

We want this course to be available to as many people as possible. So we are also offering the PDF-only version of the course entirely free of charge. If you can afford to donate, please do — it helps support our work. But if you want to get hold of the free PDF, visit our downloads page on the Wind&Bones website.

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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.