Tam o’Shanter: A Poem for All Hallows
23 Oct '20
IN AN EDITION THAT WILL GIVE YOU GOOSEBUMPS Tam o’ Shanter usually gets an annual outing on Burns Night in darkest January, but this year I submit...
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Spooky Books for Dark Nights
22 Oct '20
As the nights stretch out and we approach Halloween, we’ve selected six books that we think you might enjoy. Click on any cover to find out...
Alistair Moffat Travels to the Edge of the World on the Birlinn Podcast this Week…
20 Oct '20
Join award-winning writer and historian Alistair Moffat as he travels through the Highlands and Islands of Scotland in the footsteps of the...
To all of Faith or simply of Good Will… ACT NOW
20 Oct '20
Last week His Holiness Pope Francis gave a TED talk. It was of course in Italian and a transcript is never as good as the original but it made...
How to Stay Positive and Survive another Lockdown (or Mini-lockdown… or Tightened Measures… or Circuit Breaker… or Firebreak… or Tier 1, 2 or 3 – or even 4…)
19 Oct '20
The nights are darker, the air is colder and it definitely feels like winter is upon us. On top of this we have tighter restrictions coming at us...
Congratulations to our Authors on the Queen’s Birthday Honours List
14 Oct '20
All members of the Birlinn team are truly delighted to report that two of our authors have been made Officers of the Order of the British Empire in...
Cairngorms in Fact and Fiction: Polygon Announces Two-book Deal with Merryn Glover
14 Oct '20
We are delighted to announce that Polygon has signed a two-book deal with Merryn Glover for a novel and a non-fiction work, both set in and around...
Award-Winning New Writing from Argyll and Bute
13 Oct '20
Over lockdown, an all-age creative writing project has been running in the area of Argyll and Bute in the west of Scotland. Our own Denzil Meyrick,...
Festivals Galore!
08 Oct '20
Autumn is always a busy time for authors, festival programmers, booksellers and publishers alike, and we’re so happy that this year has been no...
What’s in the News as Autumn Kicks-In?
06 Oct '20
We’ve been busy in the second part of this crazy Covid summer and early Autumn. We’ve been busy, our authors have been busy and...
Introducing A Large Measure of Snow by Denzil Meyrick
01 Oct '20
A Large Measure of Snow is the new short novel from Denzil Meyrick, author of the globally bestselling DCI Daley detective series. A beautiful...
Calling Emerging and Aspiring Writers – This One is For You!
30 Sep '20
In the second of The Cumnock Tryst’s series of online workshops, a part of the A Musical Celebration of the Coalfields community opera...
