Paul Duke is a Scottish photographer who grew up in Muirhouse, the Edinburgh housing estate later associated with Irvine Welsh’s novel Trainspotting. In No Ruined Stone, published by Hartmann Books in 2018, he returns to the estate and works in a documentary and poetic mode, moving through its buildings, residents, and everyday textures. The photographs raise questions of social inequity, while the underlying narrative concerns the fighting spirit, dignity, and hope of people living there today.

The book presents the photographs as a sequence rather than as isolated images. The publisher lists 112 pages and 64 duotone illustrations, accumulating into a portrait of a place and its community. The photographer is Paul Duke; the accompanying text is written by Martin Barnes, an author and curator of photography at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, whose essay role is distinct from Duke’s photographic authorship. Graphic design is credited to Peter Willberg, London.

Hartmann Books published the volume in 2018 in English and German. Measuring 23 by 30 centimetres, it is a softcover with dustjacket. The publication is associated with an exhibition, Paul Duke – No Ruined Stone, at Edinburgh Art Centre; the book itself, however, is the primary object described here. The title No Ruined Stone is presented without further explanation in the available evidence.