Keeping it Local – Online or Face-to-Face
24 Nov '20
Supporting our Booksellers, Writers and all in Publishing Last week, the Guardian newspaper reported authors coming together in a ‘thunderclap of...
News
Polygon Authors Look to the Future for Book Week Scotland 2020
16 Nov '20
Here at Birlinn, we love Book Week Scotland. A whole week celebrating the wonderful world of Scottish books, authors, libraries, bookshops,...
2020 Highland Book Prize Longlist Announced
10 Nov '20
We are delighted to announce that Alistair Moffat’s new book, In Search of Angels, is one of the 13 books selected for the 2020 Highland Book...
Winners Announced: The Inaugural Prize for the Best Paper in Scottish Local History
09 Nov '20
Two papers about seventeenth-century Scotland have won a new prize for Scottish history-writing sponsored by Birlinn. John Harrison and Allan Kennedy...
All Saints Day – But we are In Search of Angels
01 Nov '20
The end of October ushers in colder days as we sit at the start of winter. And this year, more than most, we are looking at difficult months ahead....
Ten Years a Bestseller, Ten Years an Eye Opener
31 Oct '20
Today, half of Scotland’s rural land remains in the hands of just 432 owners. Some estimates claim that Scotland has the most unequal land...
Gillian Galbraith TOPS UK eBook Charts
31 Oct '20
The Guardian newspaper reported last Saturday that Gillian Galbraith, author of the Alice Rice series, had topped the charts of UK Library eBook...
#solwaybore with Ann Lingard
27 Oct '20
Last week, residents along the Solway Firth were lucky enough to witness a tidal bore, an infrequent phenomenon where the leading edge of the...
A Podcast for ALL Football Lovers
16 Oct '20
Daniel Gray and Alan McCredie joined forces this month for a hugely enjoyable podcast with Nutmeg magazine, in celebration of their new book,...
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,...
