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Watermill owners Jayne and Kevin Ramage

Just Published… FLOATING STONES by Lotte Glob – A stunning new art book from ceramic artist Lotte Glob, featuring photographs and artists notes and sketches, published by The Watermill (£25). Signed copies available. See books for details.

Also on sale are sets of three, limited edition floating stones £150. Please phone 01887 822896 or e-mail info@aberfeldywatermill.com for further details.

Have a Grand Tour of The Watermill!.... You can visit all three floors – simply see our virtual tour of The Watermill

”...an inspiring bookshop, art gallery and cafe located in the superbly restored mill” – Rough Guide to Scottish Highlands and Islands

Featured in the Scotsman...Kate Downie The Sea Room – The Watermill’s current exhibition (open seven days a week until 28 July) is the subject of a double-page spread in The Scotsman. To see images and more infomation about the exhibition CLICK HERE

Bookshop of the Year – Watermill shortlisted... We’ve just heard that The Watermill has been shortlisted for the UK Independent Bookshop of the Year Award. Decision-day is 18 September – fingers crossed!

The Watermill Bookshop

The Watermill is a unique development, bringing together the largest bookshop in the rural Highlands, contemporary art gallery, music and coffee shop. All this is located in a stunning Grade-A listed former watermill set in Aberfeldy in the beautiful Perthshire Highlands.

The Watermill was opened by Michael Palin in May 2005. In May 2006 we won the award for Scottish Independent Bookshop of the Year. In November 2006 the conversion of The Watermill was runner up to the multi-million pound Perth Concert Hall in the Dundee Institute of Architects Commercial Building Awards.

If you are travelling to or through the Highlands, The Watermill is a ‘must visit’. If you live in Glasgow or Edinburgh, we are within 90 minutes’ drive.

We are open seven days a week, 10am – 5.30pm (open 11am Sunday).

What’s New…What’s On…

Kate Downie – The Sea Room, 24th May – 28th July – The body of work in ‘The Sea Room’ reflects Downie’s continuing exploration of the tensions, between human presence and a landscape that is swept by the full force of the elements of nature. See gallery.

Lotte Glob – Fragments, 2 August – 15 September – This year marks Lotte Glob’s 50th Year of working in ceramics. See gallery.

My Highland Perthshire Book – recently published by The Watermill and featured in a six-page article in Scottish Field see books.

Like one of Channel Four’s Grand Designs says The Independent

in its 50 Best Bookshops feature 24 May 2008. “the smell of coffee as you walk in is wonderful. There’s an imaginative sense of design throughout the shop.”

Worth pulling over for says The Guardian’s G2

The Guardian G2 magazine made the Watermill 2nd in ‘30 great roadside cafes just a few minutes’ drive from the main road. see coffee. for full text.

Best Bookshop says The Scotsman

“Stunning conversion of watermill and voted Scotland’s best independent bookshop last May…The largest bookshop in the rural Highlands (with 5,000 titles), it also has an excellent selection of children’s books. Staff hold five children’s reading groups each Saturday…Put all of that alongside the top-floor art gallery, the excellent range of Scottish interest books, the coffee shop, the spaciousness of the building and the plentiful supply of seats for casual browsers and you’ll realise why owner Kevin Ramage isn’t running scared of the internet.” David Robinson, The Scotsman, 17 April 2007