TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING
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Hardback | Pub: 07 Aug 2025£14.99Kristie De Garis spent years running – from places, people and parts of herself. But chaos always followed. When she moved to rural Scotland, she hoped to find peace. Instead, in the space and silence, she was forced to confront everything she had...
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Hardback | Pub: 14 Sep 2023£30.00Hodges Figgis Book of the Year 2023 Maps are essential tools in finding our way around, but they also tell stories and are great depositories of information. Until the twentieth century and the arrival of aerial images, a map was the best way of...
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Hardback | Pub: 19 Oct 2023£35.00Maps can tell much about the story of a place that traditional histories fail to communicate. This is particularly true of Edinburgh, one of the most visually stunning cities in the world and a place rich in historical and cultural associations....
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Paperback | Pub: 03 Jun 2021£14.99At the time of its construction, the Forth Bridge was the largest bridge in the world, and to this day it remains a breathtaking monument to the vision and confidence of the Victorian age which created it. For seven years, thousands of men from all...
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Paperback | Pub: 18 May 2023£12.99There is a story in the name of almost every street and district in Glasgow, with some tracing their origins to pagan times, long before Glasgow could even be called a city. In this hugely informative and entertaining book, Carol Foreman not only...
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Paperback | Pub: 04 Apr 2016£9.99
The remarkable true story. At Scapa Flow on 21 June 1919, there occurred an event unique in naval history. The German High Seas Fleet, one of the most formidable ever built was deliberately sent to the bottom of the sea at the British Grand...
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Paperback | Pub: 19 Sep 2011£9.99
The Great Wood of Caledon – the historic native forest of Highland Scotland – has a reputation as potent and misleading as the wolves that ruled it. The popular image is of an impassable, sun-snuffing shroud, a Highlandswide jungle infested by...
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Hardback | Pub: 02 Oct 2025£30.00Hodges Figgis Book of the Year for 2025 Shortlisted for the An Post Irish Book Awards History Book of the Year Maps allow us to see how the world is organised spatially and show us relationships which cannot be understood from simply reading a text....
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Paperback | Pub: 20 Mar 2025£10.99
In August 1956 a young shepherd, his wife, two-year-old daughter and ten-day-old son sat huddled in a small boat on Loch Monar in Ross-shire as a storm raged around them. They were bound for a tiny, remote cottage at the western end of the loch...
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Hardback | Pub: 11 Nov 2021£30.00Newcastle has a long and distinguished history through two millennia: a Roman fortress at the eastern end of Hadrian’s Wall; an important centre of monasticism; a ‘royal’ bulwark against attacks and invasion from Scotland; and the...
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Calendar | Pub: 06 Jun 2024£10.99Following the continued success of the Scottish Maps Calendar, Birlinn is once again proud to collaborate with the National Library of Scotland. This new calendar features more of the most beautiful maps of Scotland ever made. From the very earliest...
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Paperback | Pub: 02 Feb 2023£9.99
Polly Pullar has had a passion for red squirrels since childhood. As a wildlife rehabilitator, she knows the squirrel on a profoundly personal level and has hand-reared numerous litters of orphan kits, eventually returning them to the wild. In this...
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Paperback | Pub: 01 Jul 2021£14.99
Polly Pullar has had a passion for red squirrels since childhood. As a wildlife rehabilitator, she knows the squirrel on a profoundly personal level and has hand-reared numerous litters of orphan kits, eventually returning them to the wild. In this...
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Paperback | Pub: 18 Aug 2022£25.00The creation of large new tracts of forest, together with the development of a modern wood processing sector, was the single biggest transformation to occur in the Scottish countryside during the twentieth century. While the environmental and...
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Hardback | Pub: 20 Jul 2023£40.00Around the year 1885, Alfred Barnard was secretary of Harper’s Weekly Gazette, a journal which featured facets of the wine and spirit trade. In order to provide his readers with the history and detailed descriptions of the whisky-making...
