2021 Preview: History and Current Affairs
22 Jan '21
From books exploring the interwoven history of tea and Scotland to the rise of China’s surveillance state, we have a range of brilliantly...
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2021 Preview: Crime Writing from Polygon
19 Jan '21
At Polygon we are proud to publish a wide range of crime writing from bestselling authors and exciting new voices. Our 2021 line-up includes...
Poem of the Week: Norman MacCaig, Praise of a thorn bush
18 Jan '21
An Edinburgh school teacher by profession, poet Norman MacCaig spent his summers in Assynt in the far north west of Scotland. From their first visit...
Recipe: Cock-a-leekie Soup (for the Soul)
18 Jan '21
Chicken soup is a global panacea. So much so, in fact, that it’s given its name to a whole self-help franchise, Chicken Soup for the Soul....
Speaking personally: Orwell, Jura and 1984
18 Jan '21
As Polygon publishes a new edition of George Orwell’s dystopian masterpiece 1984, Managing Director Hugh Andrew speculates on the connections...
2021 Preview: Nature and the Outdoors
15 Jan '21
While we spent a great deal of 2020 staying at home, many of us also took the opportunity to connect more with nature and explore our local...
2021 Preview: Literary Fiction, Literary History, Poetry Highlights
14 Jan '21
Our programme of publishing for 2021 is full of remarkable books that will take you all over the world, propel you back and forward in time, bring...
The Stone of Destiny – A Great Adventure
17 Dec '20
Unless the fates shall faithless prove, And prophets voice be vain. Where’er this sacred Stone is found, The Scottish race shall reign. Some years...
Poem of the Week: Winter by Alexander McCall Smith
15 Dec '20
We are now just a week away from the shortest day of the year, so it seems particularly appropriate to share the poem ‘Winter’ from...
Speaking personally… about Tim Clarkson
15 Dec '20
One of the things that has always fascinated me about the country I am from is the early history which began the processes which led (not without...
Cassius X: Sunshine and Upheaval
15 Dec '20
In the below extract from his newest book Cassius X, Stuart Cosgrove transports us to the sticky heat and neon glare of Miami in 1963, where Cassius...
Bonnie Prince Charlie at 300: Extract from Reminiscences of a Jacobite by Michael Nevin
11 Dec '20
When Jacobite enthusiast Michael Nevin successfully bid for a handwritten letter and memorandum by Bonnie Prince Charlie at an auction, little did he...
