The Birlinn imprint publishes Scottish and general UK interest books, including biography, history, military, politics and Scottish Gaelic. The name comes from the old Norse word birlinn, meaning a long boat or small galley used especially in the Hebrides and West Highlands of Scotland in the Middle Ages.
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Hardback | Pub: 02 Nov 2023£25.00Scotland has some of the best seafood in the world, so we why don’t we eat more of it? Why don’t we highlight the bounty of our seas and the people who fish, produce, sell, preserve and cook it? Acclaimed cooker writer Ghillie Basan embarks on a…
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Hardback | Pub: 05 Oct 2023£14.99This is a book about stories – old stories of people and place, and of the more-than-human world. A vivid account of a journey through the Scottish Highlands, The Bone Cave follows a series of folktales and myths to the places in which they’re…
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Hardback | Pub: 05 Oct 2023£25.00
This edition is signed by the author. Doug Scott was a legend among mountaineers. His expeditions, undertaken over a period of five decades, are unparalleled achievements. This book describes the extraordinary drama of them all, from the Himalaya to…
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Hardback | Pub: 14 Sep 2023£30.00Hodges Figgis Book of the Year 2023 Maps are essential tools in finding our way around, but they also tell stories and are great depositories of information. Until the twentieth century and the arrival of aerial images, a map was the best way of…
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Hardback | Pub: 07 Sep 2023£30.00
Surprisingly, the remarkable story of the Scottish role in the discovery of the Northwest Passage – a long desired trade route connecting the Atlantic and Pacific – has not received a great deal of attention. This book charts the extensive…
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| Pub: 10 Aug 2023£7.99This notebook features a beautiful illustration of the iconic heron in its natural habitat. With cover illustrations by fine art printmaker Sarah Ross Thompson, this notebook contains blank paper, with head-and-tail bands.
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| Pub: 10 Aug 2023£7.99This notebook features a beautiful illustration of the iconic gannet in its natural habitat. With cover illustrations by fine art printmaker Sarah Ross Thompson, the notebook contains blank paper, with head-and-tail bands.
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| Pub: 10 Aug 2023£7.99This notebook features a beautiful illustration of the iconic heron in its natural habitat. With cover illustrations by fine art printmaker Sarah Ross Thompson, this notebook contains blank paper, with head-and-tail bands.
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| Pub: 10 Aug 2023£7.99This notebook features a beautiful illustration of the iconic oystercatcher in its natural habitat. With cover illustrations by fine art printmaker Sarah Ross Thompson, this notebook contains blank paper, with head-and-tail bands.
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E-Book | Pub: 01 Aug 2023£14.99
Discover Scotland Today. Dig deep into the past with our Ultimate Scottish History bundle, featuring some of the best writers on Scotland’s history, including Alistair Moffat, Rosemary Goring, Tim Clarkson, James Hunter and more! Uncover the…
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Paperback | Pub: 01 Feb 2024£14.99
This is an invaluable learning resource for anyone interested in Scottish Gaelic. In addition to basic words and phrases, it also includes more complex and idiomatic material, all arranged thematically and covering topics such as meeting and…
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Paperback | Pub: 07 Mar 2024£12.99
Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize 2023 As seen in The Times, Sunday Times, Spectator, and on Tonight with Andrew Marr (LBC) Under President Xi Jinping, China’s global ambitions have taken a dangerous new turn. Bullying and intimidation have…
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Hardback | Pub: 07 Mar 2024£22.00Perched on a beautiful Scottish island measuring just two miles across, Café Canna is one of the remotest restaurants in Britain. By necessity, and also out of love, Gareth Cole and his team make the most of local ingredients from the island and…
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Paperback | Pub: 07 Mar 2024£12.99
Shortlisted for the 2021 Lakeland Book of the Year Firths and estuaries are liminal places, where land meets sea and tides meet freshwater. Their unique ecosystems support a huge range of marine and other wildlife: human activity too is profoundly…
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Hardback | Pub: 04 Apr 2024£25.00MasterChef finalist Sarah Rankin has a passion for Scottish produce and flavours and for feeding people. Being a food lover encompasses not just a passion for the ingredients themselves, but also for the seasons and weather which nurtures them, and…
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Paperback | Pub: 04 Apr 2024£8.99Gardening is one of the most popular hobbies in the country. This book includes lots of garden-themed illustrations by bestselling artist Eilidh Muldoon to colour in. From gardening tools, ponds, greenhouses, allotments and herb gardens to beehives,…
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Paperback | Pub: 04 Apr 2024£12.99
Acclaimed historian Alistair Moffat sets off in the footsteps of the Highland clans. In twelve journeys he explores places of conflict, recreating as he walks the tumult of battle. As he recounts the military prowess of the clans – surely the most…
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Paperback | Pub: 04 Apr 2024£14.99
In this acclaimed book, Alistair Moffat tells the story of a part of Scotland that has played a huge role in the nation’s history and moved poets, painters and writers as well as ordinary people for hundreds of years. The hunter-gatherers who…
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Paperback | Pub: 04 Apr 2024£6.99Scotland has one of the richest traditions of folklore in the world, and the nation’s greatest writers have been influenced by the country’s abundance of customs, superstitions, ghost stories and folktales. Robert Burns, Walter Scott, James Hogg…
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Paperback | Pub: 04 Apr 2024£6.99The Scots have always had a reputation for clarity of thought and also for the vigour with which it is put into words. This collection spans the entire gamut of a nation’s recorded thought and experience from Roman Scotland to the present day….
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Diary | Pub: 02 May 2024£14.99This 112pp week-to-view diary features 33 stunning illustrations from wildlife artist Jane Smith including, birds, animals and plants set against magnificent scenery.
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Diary | Pub: 02 May 2024£8.99This 112-pp week-to-view diary features 33 stunning illustrations from wildlife artist Jane Smith including, birds, animals and plants set against magnificent scenery.
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Paperback | Pub: 21 Sep 2017£14.99
In this book, Alistair Moffat brings vividly to life the story of this great nation, from the dawn of prehistory through to the twenty-first century. Ambitious, richly detailed and highly readable, Scotland: A History From Earliest Times skilfully…
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Paperback | Pub: 06 Mar 2017£12.99Hadrian’s Wall is the largest, most spectacular and one of the most enigmatic historical monument in Britain. Nothing else approaches its vast scale: a land wall running 73 miles from east to west and a sea wall stretching at least 26 miles down…
