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Latest Releases
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Hardback | Pub: 05 Nov 2026£30.00Your ultimate guide to the world’s most popular type of whisky. Blended Scotch is the foundation of the whisky industry, and it is by far the world’s most popular type of whisky. Yet relatively little has been written about it – until…
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Hardback | Pub: 05 Nov 2026£14.99
Jim Wallace – Lord Wallace of Tankerness – was for decades an influential Liberal politician who achieved the rare distinction in politics of being disliked by almost nobody. A long-standing Member of Parliament for Orkney and Shetland, he…
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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: 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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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£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: 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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Paperback | Pub: 03 Sep 2026£25.00Immerse yourself in Scotland’s sauna culture. Saunaland is a love story – between flame and forest, sweat and salt, person and place. It explores the deep, healing rituals of sauna culture, rooted in Nordic tradition and Celtic practices,…
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Hardback | Pub: 03 Sep 2026£35.00Flora Celtica documents the continuously evolving relationship between the Scots and their environment. Based on a mixture of detailed research and information provided by the public, this book explores the remarkable diversity of ways that native…
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Paperback | Pub: 03 Sep 2026£17.99
This is the story of Champion Golfer Allan Robertson (1815-1859). Until now, Robertson’s role had been as a member of the supporting cast in the story of leading light Tom Morris. Between 1840 and 1859 the reality was Robertson shared centre…
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…
Four Birlinn books shortlisted for Scotland’s National Book Awards
16 Oct ’26
Polygon to Publish The Light of All Things by Merryn Glover
13 Oct ’26
Summer Hours by Alessandra Thom longlisted for the Polari Prize
09 Oct ’26
Escape into a Good Book – delivered right to your door!
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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…
