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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...

08 Dec '20

We asked members of our staff team to select two books that they would give as Christmas presents this year. And here is what they said (some got...

08 Dec '20

Alistair Moffat’s In Search of Angels: Travels to the Edge of the World is his own journey in the footsteps of the Irish saints who brought...

07 Dec '20

The demands of publishing and the constant need for new books can often be an exhausting and demanding process. One of its great pleasures is when...

07 Dec '20

From an outstanding year of Birlinn books, the Scotsman highlighted no less than ELEVEN of our titles in their Books of the Year supplement. You can...

04 Dec '20

This week we sat down (figuratively speaking) with Denzil Meyrick to discuss his new books and the wider events of what has been a tumultuous year! A...

02 Dec '20

By Ann Landmann, Sales Rep When I was growing up in the East of Germany, the 6th December was Nikolaus – your first haul of sweets or...

30 Nov '20

This poem from Andrew Greig’s new collection, Later That Day, is about the familiar routine of walking your dog on a familiar beach on a...

26 Nov '20

Ten years to celebrate Scotland. Ten years to bring a dream to fruition. Ten years to reach the new starting point for something incredibly...

24 Nov '20

This spring, there were lofty and gargantuan reading-intentions abroad. Lockdown was the time to finally read War and Peace, or any one of the...

23 Nov '20

Ann Lingard, novelist and former research biologist, is the author of The Fresh and the Salt: The Story of the Solway, an astonishing look at all...

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Bonnie Prince Charlie at 300: Extract from Reminiscences of a Jacobite by Michael Nevin

11 Dec '20

Staff Picks for Christmas Pressies! (Part one)

08 Dec '20

A is for Applecross: A Gaelic Alphabet

08 Dec '20

A Message that Stands the Test of Time

07 Dec '20

Look Who’s In… The Scotsman Books of the Year

07 Dec '20

Q & A with DENZIL MEYRICK

04 Dec '20

Sweets in Shoes?

02 Dec '20

Poem of the Week: The Way to Warebeth Beach by Andrew Greig

30 Nov '20

Ten Years to a Tapestry

26 Nov '20

In thrall to the small

24 Nov '20

Essay of the Week: Winter Tales from the Solway

23 Nov '20

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