About Hayloft

Hayloft is an independent publishing company and publishes books on a range of subjects, including history, mountaineering, outdoor, humour, memoirs and rural life. In a wider sense Hayloft books celebrate life in Cumbria, the Lake District and the North and has won several awards at the Lakeland Book of the Year competition. For a full list of titles see books.

We are lucky to have customers all over the world and will continue to bring our books to the widest possible audience. We would like to take this opportunity to thank all the bookshops, customers, writers, artists, journalists, photographers and authors who have supported us in our first ten years.

Based in the Pennines near Kirkby Stephen, Hayloft's publishing experience includes books, newspapers, magazines, brochures, reports and websites. Hayloft previously published the north's first all digital newspaper, the Westmorland Messenger and Icetalk magazine.

The company was founded in 1989 though it did not publish books full-time until ten years later. Hayloft has now published more than 100 titles, some of them now out of print.

Though the company is small, we employ freelance experts as each project demands. For instance, James Deboo is a freelance editor and indexer, specializing in anything literary or historical. Based in Kendal, he's worked with Hayloft on a number of projects, and can be found at www.jamesdeboo.co.uk.

We think that Hayloft is probably the loneliest publishing company and bookshop in the UK and possibly the highest at just less than 1,000 feet above sea level - so it's worth a visit even if just to see the views!