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....
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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...
Birlinn Books – Notes from the Basement, December 21st, 2020
21 Dec '20
It’s the winter solstice, called by a poet ‘the year’s midnight’, and our final newsletter of the year comes just a few hours before the hour...
A Hogmanay Tradition: Black Bun Recipe
21 Dec '20
Black bun, sometimes also known as Scotch bun, is a pastry-enrobed fruit cake which was originally a treat eaten on Twelfth Night, but is now much...
Our Sports Books in The Scotland on Sunday – Best Sports Books of the Year
19 Dec '20
Check out the full list out now on The Scotsman / Scotland on Sunday website Who’s in there? From the Birlinn / Arena stable: Cassius X: A...
Staff Picks for Christmas Pressies! (Part two)
15 Dec '20
Wednesday 16 December is the cut off for online orders arriving safely in time for the big day but don’t forget your High Street bookshops are...
Winter Fridays: Smoked Haddock Rarebit
11 Dec '20
Catching the faint whiff of a bonfire on the breeze might have some extra piquancy this year as 2020’s fallen leaves go up in smoke. Smokeheads...
A Wee Bird Was Watching
09 Dec '20
Karine Polwart tells and sings the ‘Tale of the Wee Bird ‘in the Royal Lyceum Theatre Christmas season for all ages in a beautiful and...
A is for Applecross: A Gaelic Alphabet
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...
Sweets in Shoes?
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...
Feet on the Ground, Heads Spinning towards New Opportunity
01 Dec '20
Have you stumbled across Schitt’s Creek on Netflix? It took me a while to catch up with the rest of the world as one influencer after another raved...
