About BUAN
Buan Press is a new publishing company that seeks to help people to feel better connected, to places, and to other people.
Buan is named after the ancient Celtic term buan, meaning enduring, long lasting, andthe Old English phrase that means both to live, to dwell, to be in a place, and to make, to build.
Buan has been set up to create beautiful books that capture the spirit of place, and to bring to life places that people care about.
Our Story
Buan Press has been set up to create visually rich books that capture the spirit of place,and to bring to life places that people care about. And, in doing so, to help people to feel better connected, to places, and to other people.
Recognising that a sense of place is innately connected to who we are, and that our relationship with how and where we live is more critical than at any other time.
Our own connections with a place can be as unique as each of us, but we can also share a fondness for a landscape and a coastline, or sense a common spirit.
Like cairn stones placed along a path, we hope our books can serve as way markers: guides that signal a connection with land and community.
Our People
Buan has been formed by a collective of writers, editors, designers, photographers and marketers with experience creating some of the most successful and beautiful publications.
David Gilbey — Publisher, Author, Former publisher at Time Inc (Time, Fortune, Wallpaper), advisor to Monocle Media.
Charlotte Heal — Creative Director, Award-winning designer with work for The National Portrait Gallery, The Tate, Kinfolk and Toast.
Roo Lewis — Photographer, London-based photographer. His acclaimed book Port Talbot UFO Investigation Club (GOST, 2023) uses UFO folklore to reflect on small-town hope and resilience. His portraits have been exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery and the Royal Academy, and featured in Dazed, The Guardian and Vogue.
And editors, production managers and marketers with backgrounds at Vintage, Penguin Random House and Folio.
Our Books
Our books are made to capture the spirit of place. Each one explores how landscapes, memory and community shape one another, combining words, photography and illustration to bring a place to life.
Every title is produced with care, designed as a lasting hardback, and made to be kept, shared and returned to.
Our first book, Waterlands, tells the story of the harbours and tidal coastlines of West Sussex and East Hampshire. Future titles will continue this work in other places, each one rooted in memory, community and landscape.
Our Commitment
At Buan, every book is made with responsibility and care.
We give back to the landscapes that inspire us, donating half of all profits to local environmental and wildlife charities.
Our books are made to last. They are printed and bound with careful attention to materials, and designed as objects to be kept, shared and returned to.
Each title brings together writers, photographers, illustrators and designers in a spirit of collaboration, so that words and images carry equal weight.
Through this work, our commitment is simple: to honour place, memory and community, and to make books that endure.
