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Hardback | Pub: 16 Jun 2022£25.00
The Long Golden Afternoon tells the story of the transformative generation of golf that followed the rise of Young Tom Morris – an era of sweeping change that saw Scotland’s national pastime become one of the rare games played around…
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Paperback | Pub: 02 Jun 2022£9.99
‘An outstanding mystery thriller… Noir fans won’t want to miss it’ – Publishers Weekly (Starred) ‘A riveting, brutal journey into the high stakes world of legacy art and inherited wealth’ – Denise Mina,…
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Paperback | Pub: 02 Jun 2022£12.99
Is There a Pigeon in the Room? is a deeply personal book about Cameron Wyllie’s remarkable four-decade career in teaching. It’s a tapestry of anecdotes and reflections on topics like drugs, parenting and sex education, laced with stories about…
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Paperback | Pub: 02 Jun 2022£8.99
The ghosts of the past will not be silenced. Glasgow, 1983, and a beat constable walks away from a bar where he knows a crime is about to be committed. It is a decision that will haunt him for the rest of his life. In the present, an old fisherman…
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Paperback | Pub: 02 Jun 2022£14.99
The Moray Way consists of all or part of three previously existing routes: the Moray Coast Trail, the Speyside Way and the Dava Way. Together they cover a huge and varied range of landscapes.This book is the ideal guide to much of what this…
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Paperback | Pub: 02 Jun 2022£6.99
Throughout the world there exists an enduring fascination with our ancestry – who we are and where we come from. Nowhere is this more evident than with the generations of Scots who over the centuries have left their native Scotland to create a new…
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Paperback | Pub: 02 Jun 2022£12.99
First published in 2010 to mark the centenary of Norman MacCaig’s birth, The Many Days aims to strike a balance between representing the much-loved poems that any reader would expect to find in a selected MacCaig, and other less familiar…
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Hardback | Pub: 02 Jun 2022£14.99Three huge iron chests lay locked in the office of a law firm, their ancient mechanisms jealously guarding secrets of Scotland’s past. No one had seen inside the chests for over a century or knew what they contained. When the bolts were finally…
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Paperback | Pub: 05 May 2022£8.99
‘A gripping high-octane masterpiece’ – Andrew Child To make the perfect Spanish whodunnit cocktail, take one dead gangster, mix in six shifty expats, add one ruthless baddie and garnish with a suspicious police officer . . . Daniella…
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Paperback | Pub: 05 May 2022£7.99
At the age of 10, Rowena Farre left the security of her parents’ home in India and was sent to live with her aunt on a lonely croft in the wild and remote Highlands of Scotland. During her stay in Sutherland, she drew strength from the…
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Paperback | Pub: 05 May 2022£7.99The written history and archaeological records of Central Scotland takes us back to Pictish times some 5,000 years ago. The geology of the area stretches back a further 400 million years. The oldest rocks are found near Lesmahagow and in the…
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Paperback | Pub: 05 May 2022£7.99The Small Isles comprise the Inner Hebridean islands of Rum, Eigg, Canna and Muck. The landscapes, rocks and fossils of these beautiful, remote islands tells of a drama involving erupting volcanoes, an ancient ecosystem that included dinosaurs and…
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Paperback | Pub: 05 May 2022£7.99The south of Scotland has a long and turbulent geological past. Perhaps most notably, it marks the place where, 432 million years ago, an ocean, once as wide as the north Atlantic, was compressed by a convergence of ancient lands and then ceased to…
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Paperback | Pub: 05 May 2022£8.99
A small inheritance and a letter from his grandfather mark the beginnings of a journey that leads Peter Angus Gillies from his mundane job in Canada to Ardnish, the land of his forebears, on the rugged and remote west coast of Scotland. As Peter…
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Paperback | Pub: 05 May 2022£8.99
‘Beautifully written … a unique tale told in a unique voice’ – S.G. Maclean Summer, 1522. In a wave of pomp, Henry VIII’s court welcomes the Imperial emperor, Charles V. Anthony Blanke, the son of the king’s late ‘black…
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Paperback | Pub: 02 Jun 2022£8.99
The ghosts of the past will not be silenced. Glasgow, 1983, and a beat constable walks away from a bar where he knows a crime is about to be committed. It is a decision that will haunt him for the rest of his life. In the present, an old fisherman…
Current Bestsellers
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Paperback | Pub: 02 Jun 2022£8.99
The ghosts of the past will not be silenced. Glasgow, 1983, and a beat constable walks away from a bar where he knows a crime is about to be committed. It is a decision that will haunt him for the rest of his life. In the present, an old fisherman…
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Paperback | Pub: 02 Jun 2022£12.99
Is There a Pigeon in the Room? is a deeply personal book about Cameron Wyllie’s remarkable four-decade career in teaching. It’s a tapestry of anecdotes and reflections on topics like drugs, parenting and sex education, laced with stories about…
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Paperback | Pub: 03 Mar 2022£8.99
GANGLAND BOSS ZANDER FINN DISAPPEARED AFTER THE BRUTAL MURDER OF HIS SON. He fled to London, seeking salvation by walking away from his money, his career and his legacy. But when his old second-in-command Malky Maloney tracks him down, Finn knows he…
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Paperback | Pub: 06 Jan 2022£6.99
Introduced by Alan Johnson. ‘All animals are equal. But some animals are more equal than others.’ Mr Jones of Manor Farm is so lazy and drunken that one day he forgets to feed his livestock. The ensuing rebellion under the leadership of the pigs…
Poem of the Week: ‘The Callanish Stones’ by Nikki Robson
20 Jun ’22
Summer Solstice: Extract from Native by Patrick Laurie
20 Jun ’22
The Best Books to Take with you on your Summer Holiday
13 Jun ’22
Escape into a Good Book – delivered right to your door!
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Paperback | Pub: 01 Mar 2021£9.99
A Times Bestseller Shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize for UK Nature Writing 2020 ‘Remarkable, and so profoundly enjoyable to read … Its importance is huge, setting down a vital marker in the 21st century debate about how we use and…
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Paperback | Pub: 21 Sep 2017£14.99
From the Ice Age to the Scottish Referendum, historian and author Alistair Moffat explores the history of the Scottish nation. As well as focusing on key moments in the nation’s history such as the Battle of Bannockburn and the Jacobite…
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Paperback | Pub: 23 May 2019£10.99Winner of an Eric Gregory Award, 2020 Winner of a Somerset Maugham Award, 2020 ‘The old Shetland fishermen still speak with something like reverence of the forgotten art of steering by the moder dy (mother wave), the name given to an underswell…
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Paperback | Pub: 23 May 2019£14.99Some years ago a revolution took place in Early Medieval history in Scotland. The Pictish heartland of Fortriu, previously thought to be centred on Perthshire and the Tay found itself relocated through the forensic work of Alex Woolf to the shores…
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Paperback | Pub: 17 May 2011£6.99
Recently returned from South Africa, adventurer Richard Hannay is bored with life, but after a chance encounter with an American who informs him of an assassination plot and is then promptly murdered in Hannay’s London flat, he becomes the obvious…
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Packing for your summer holidays? Or just soaking up the Scottish sunshine while it lasts? Either way, Six Wounds is the perfect summer read, set in Spain’s Costa Blanca and laced with dark humour. ☀️ 🏖
Available now from your local bookshop or the Birlinn website. @gojabrown
We are very proud to be publishing a brand new book by Stephen Proctor today, The Long Golden Afternoon. It tells the fascinating story of how Scotland's national pastime became one of the rare games played around the world. Available now from your local bookshop or on the Birlinn website.
The Death of Remembrance is the thrilling new instalment to the DCI Daley series. Find out more in this video, and pick up your copy on the Birlinn website, from your local bookshop, or from your favourite online retailer. 📚
🌟 PUBLICATION DAY! 🌟 The Death of Remembrance, the brand new novel in the DCI Daley series is officially published today. It is an incredibly special one because not only does it mark the tenth anniversary since the first book was published, it is also the tenth novel published in Denzil Meyrick's bestselling series! @denzil_meyrick
