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... Read More
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... Read More
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... Read More
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... Read More
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... Read More
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,... Read More
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... Read More
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... Read More
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... Read More
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... Read More
Author of Ardnish Brings New Golden Era of Cinema to Fort William 28 Sep '20 Ardnish author, Angus MacDonald, opens Cinema and Arts Centre in Fort William... and it's looking good! Read More
Take A Quite Impossible Journey Around the Railways of Scotland With Andrew Drummond 24 Sep '20 Join Andrew Drummond in a special launch-day video as he explores the fascinating world of his new book, A Quite Impossible Proposal: How Not to... Read More