Scotforth Books

Who are Scotforth Books?

Scotforth Books was set up by Carnegie Publishing, a commercial publisher of high quality local, regional and national history books. Over the years since 1984, when the company was founded, we have received an increasing number of enquiries from authors and organisations who either wanted us to publish their work commercially or were seeking advice about self-publishing.

Many of these books were for personal or specialised markets (family or church histories, for example), but some would appeal to a small wider market for which they would need an ISBN. Our existing imprints are for specific genres of books (see below) and therefore not appropriate for the huge range of subject matters covered by self-published works, so in order to avoid confusion in bookshops etc we decided to create a new imprint with its own series of ISBNs. We chose Scotforth because that is the name of the area of Lancaster in which we are based (and it seemed doubly appropriate as our MD is a Scot!).

Scotforth Books offers a complete range of book production services and sound, honest advice at a fair price, to enable individuals and organisations to turn their manuscripts into high quality published books.