Fidra Books is a publisher and bookseller based in Edinburgh, and run by Malcolm and Vanessa Robertson.

We published our first book in 2005 and have grown steadily since then with around a dozen titles planned for the forthcoming year. In November 2007, we opened Edinburgh's only specialist children's bookshop.

Vanessa deals with the day-to-day running; supervises the selection of the stock for the bookshop; liases with customers, publishers and stockists of our titles; looks after our authors; organises events at the shop and oversees orders placed directly with Fidra Books. She also writes regularly (ish) on the Fidra Blog about books, bookselling and life as an independent publisher.

Malcolm is our technical whizz. He builds and looks after our website; oversees the production of our books and makes the numbers add up. Formerly a university physicist, Malcolm's also in charge of selecting the academic stock for the shop and has put together a range of science and maths books to excite all budding scientists.

The rest of the team include Polly, our bookshop assistant who can probably find the right book for any reader. There's also Magnus (aged nearly 8) who's already a shrewd judge of publishers' proof copies, and Teaga (our Leonberger mountain dog) who's a 7 stone ball of fur and who already has a regular stream of fans visiting to give her a biscuit.