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Latest Releases
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Paperback | Pub: 01 Oct 2026£12.99Plants have played an enormous role in human culture since time immemorial. This fascinating book explores some of the many ways in which trees, herbs, ferns, mosses and other organisms such as fungi have been used in supernatural and magical…
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Paperback | Pub: 01 Oct 2026£9.99
The new World War II thriller from the author of The Berlin Gambit. In 1942 Police Chief Inspector Rolf Schneider is ordered by Adolf Hitler to investigate the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich. During his investigation of Heydrich’s secret files…
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Paperback | Pub: 01 Oct 2026£10.99
With its natural predators long exterminated, huge deer populations controlled by landowners – largely for their own private interests – have had far-reaching environmental impacts. Despite efforts by conservationists to reduce populations and…
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Hardback | Pub: 01 Oct 2026£18.99
As heard on BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime. It’s never too late to make a change. Single and approaching middle age, Maeve Macdonald feels she has reached a point at which, if she doesn’t do something drastic soon, life will have passed her by. And…
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Paperback | Pub: 30 Sep 2026£14.99Celebrating 25 years of AFC Wimbledon. On May 28, 2002, the most-shameful decision ever taken in the history of English football was rubber stamped. A three-man commission, appointed by the FA, allowed Wimbledon FC to be airlifted from its community…
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| Pub: 17 Sep 2026£19.99An absolutely stunning collage of Edinburgh scenes will surely make this 1000 piece puzzle an instant success in Scotland and beyond. As well as the image on the front of the box, there is a key to the depicted scenes on the box back. The artist,…
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Hardback | Pub: 03 Sep 2026£25.00Funny, scurrilous, chilling and gloriously inventive, Tam o’ Shanter is widely regarded as Robert Burns’ masterpiece. This magnificent edition of the poem features the work of Alexander Goudie, one of Scotland’s greatest…
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Paperback | Pub: 03 Sep 2026£8.99
In Jen’s Party, soon-to-be fifteen-year-old Jen immediately regrets agreeing to her crazy Aunt Belle’s plan for a birthday party which involves, among other notions, flirting with the town’s entire male population. With a perfectly tuned ear…
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Paperback | Pub: 03 Sep 2026£8.99
Bad Attitudes is a wickedly dark tale of Scottish council housing and murder. This novella boasts a missing person, a lethally nosy neighbour, an extra-marital affair, a lusty councillor and a new housing law for tinkers. Who but Agnes Owens could…
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Paperback | Pub: 03 Sep 2026£12.99
‘A masterclass in why sheep count’ – Mark Stephen, presenter of BBC Radio Scotland’s Out of Doors Acclaimed nature writer Polly Pullar has been fascinated by sheep since childhood, when she formed an inseparable bond with her pet…
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Paperback | Pub: 03 Sep 2026£9.99
The scales of justice are easily tipped . . . London, 1932. A brutal murder, a complex forensic investigation and a safe conviction – or so everyone thinks until D.C.I Mowbray hears the condemned man’s last words. Now he needs Dr Jack…
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Paperback | Pub: 03 Sep 2026£16.99This is the story of the Hebridean island of Raasay from the time of the hunter-gatherers to the 21st century. It is dramatic tale which includes Irish missionaries, Viking invaders, the medieval Lordship of the Isles, adoption by the crown of…
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Paperback | Pub: 03 Sep 2026£12.99
‘A masterclass in why sheep count’ – Mark Stephen, presenter of BBC Radio Scotland’s Out of Doors Acclaimed nature writer Polly Pullar has been fascinated by sheep since childhood, when she formed an inseparable bond with her pet…
Current Bestsellers
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Paperback | Pub: 07 May 2026£8.99
A Working Mother is a perfectly crafted novel that will enthral, entertain and surprise in equal measure. Our unreliable narrator, Betty – arch, witty, clever – is married with children and feels trapped. While her husband, Adam, drinks and…
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Paperback | Pub: 07 May 2026£8.99
‘It is dark now and my window onto the world is a small one. I do not know how much longer I will be here.’ Shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction On 9 July 1857, Angus MacPhee, a labourer from Liniclate on the…
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Paperback | Pub: 02 Apr 2026£9.99
Emma Propeller is trying to swerve the wreckage of her marriage. When her husband returns from rehab with a new lover, Emma bolts with her baby on a midnight train to a castle in the Scottish Highlands. A job as a live-in driver for a glamorous…
Summer Hours by Alessandra Thom longlisted for the Polari Prize
09 Oct ’26
Birlinn books longlisted for Saltire Society Non-fiction and Research Awards
25 Sep ’26
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22 Sep ’26
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Paperback | Pub: 02 Jan 2025£9.99
Winner of the Bloody Scotland Debut Prize Death is a lonely business . . . No one who meets Dr Jack Cuthbert forgets him. Tall, urbane, brilliant but damaged, this Scottish pathologist who works with Scotland Yard is the best the new DCI has seen….
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Paperback | Pub: 04 Jun 2026£9.99
A lost Hitchcock film. A deadly secret. It’s murder in Hollywood. Hollywood, 1959. When struggling mystery writer Bobby Burgoyne is hired by Alfred Hitchcock to work on the script for his new film Crescendo, he thinks his future success is…
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Paperback | Pub: 07 May 2026£8.99
The building trade in the west of Scotland has slowed, and Mac leaves his home and his companions in the Paxton Arms for the oil-rich north to seek his fortune. But he soon finds himself out in the wilderness, chasing the promise of a job. In the…
