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Birlinn Ltd Matt Jansen The Autobiography What Was What Is and What Might Have Been
Matthew Jansen is an English former professional footballer who played as a striker and a manager. He started his career with hometown club Carlisle United, and also played for Crystal Palace, Blackburn Rovers and Bolton Wanderers as well as a loan spell with Coventry City.
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Birlinn Ltd World War I Scottish Tales Of Adventure
Allan Burnett is a freelance writer and editor based in Sweden. He has worked as deputy editor for the Scottish Standard and as deputy foreign editor for the Sunday Herald. He is the author of a number of bestselling children's history books, including World War I Tales of Adventure, World War II Tales of Adventure, The Story of Scotland and Invented in Scotland (all Birlinn).
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Birlinn Ltd Everyday Gaelic
Morag MacNeill was born in Greenock and learned Gaelic as a teenager. She was a full-time primary school teacher and now works as a supply teacher, mainly in the Gaelic medium. She has done extensive teaching of adults within night class, adult education groups and organisations. She has lived in Inverness since 1970.
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Birlinn Ltd Reminiscences of a Jacobite The Untold Story of the Rising of 1745
Michael Nevin is a professional economist and collector of Jacobite memorabilia. He served as Treasurer of the 1745 Association between 2005 and 2010 and has been the association's Chair since 2016. He lives in Edinburgh.
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Birlinn Ltd Moscow Calling Memoirs of a Foreign Correspondent
Angus Roxburgh studied Russian and German at the universities of Aberdeen and Zurich. He was Sunday Times Moscow correspondent (198789), BBC Moscow correspondent (199197) and BBC Europe correspondent (19982005). From 2006 to 2009 he was media consultant to the Kremlin, and is now a freelance writer and journalist. He is the author of the acclaimed The Strongman: Vladimir Putin and the Struggle for Russia and was consultant on the award-winning BBC documentaries The Second Russian Revolution and Putin, Russia and the West.
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Birlinn Ltd Walking Through Shadows A Journey of Loss and Renewal
Mike Cawthorne began hill-walking on Ben Nevis aged seven, and has been climbing mountains ever since. He has worked as a teacher, professional photographer and freelance journalist. He has an intimate knowledge of the Scottish Highlands, undertaking his first long-distance trek there in 1982. As well as Hell of a Journey he has written two other books: Wilderness Dreams: The Call of Scotland's Last Wild Places (2007) and Wild Voices: Journeys through Time in the Scottish Highlands (2014). He lives in Inverness.
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Birlinn Ltd Mary Queen of Scots
Jenny Wormald was one of the most influential Scottish historians of her generation. She taught history at Glasgow University for 20 years, and was then appointed to a fellowship in Modern History at St Hilda's College, Oxford, for a further 20 years. After retirement to Edinburgh she became an Honorary Fellow in Scottish History at the University of Edinburgh and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. She wrote a number of significant books and articles, including Court, Kirk and Community: Scotland 1470-1625 (1981), 'James VI and I: Two Kings or One?' (1983) and 'Gunpowder, Treason and Scots' (1985).
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Birlinn Ltd Dear Alfonso An Italian Feast of Love and Laughter
Mary Contini grew up in East Lothian above her family's Italian cafe. She is the bestselling author of numerous books about Italian life and cooking, including Dear Francesca, Dear Olivia, Valvona & Crolla: A Year at an Italian Table and The Italian Sausage Bible. She is a Director of Valvona & Crolla, the renowned Edinburgh delicatessen, restaurant and cookery school.
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Birlinn Ltd Dear Alfonso An Italian Feast of Love and Laughter
Mary Contini grew up in East Lothian above her family's Italian cafe. She is the bestselling author of numerous books about Italian life and cooking, including Dear Francesca, Dear Olivia, Valvona & Crolla: A Year at an Italian Table and The Italian Sausage Bible. She is a Director of Valvona & Crolla, the renowned Edinburgh delicatessen, restaurant and cookery school.
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Birlinn Ltd Eriskay Where I Was Born
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Birlinn Ltd The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Robert Louis Stevensonwas born in Edinburgh. The success of Treasure Island (1883) and Kidnapped (1886) established his reputation as a writer of tales of action and adventure. Stevenson's Calvinist upbringing lent him a preoccupation with predestination and a fascination with the presence of evil, themes he explored in The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886)Denise Minahas won the CWA Dagger for Best First Crime Novel, the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year twice, and the MacIlvanney Prize twice. She is the author of the first Darkland Tale, Rizzio (Polygon).
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Birlinn Ltd Hebridean Healers
Christine Leach moved to Mull more than 30 years ago. She established Pennyghael in the Past Historical Archive, and set about exploring and recording the remains of townships in the Brolas area.Andrea Cameron is an Archivist and Local Historian who has completed local history projects in both Northumberland and the Isle of Mull.Miek Zwamborn is a Dutch author and visual artist based on Mull where she co-runs the creative hub KNOCKvologan.Elizabeth Carter has been gardener at Bolton Castle, Yorkshire, since 2015 where she has replanted the herb garden, now containing over 100 species of plants.
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Birlinn Ltd The Contini Cookbook
After training and working as a chartered surveyor, Carina Contini and her husband Victor set up Centotre now Contini George Street in Edinburgh. She maintains a high profile in the food and drink industry, having been Glenfiddich Food Personality of the Year and Harpers and Queens Food Personality Scotland. Carina has written on food and drink for The Scotsman since 2012 and regularly contributes to The Herald and BBC Scotland.
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Birlinn Ltd One Week in April The Scottish Radical Rising of 1820
Maggie Craig is the acclaimed writer of the ground-breaking Damn' Rebel Bitches: The Women of the '45, and its companion volume Bare-Arsed Banditti: The Men of the '45. She is also the author of six family saga novels set in her native Glasgow and Clydebank. She is a popular speaker in libraries and book festivals and has served two terms as a committee member of the Society of Authors in Scotland.
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Birlinn Ltd The Tobacco Lords
Sir Tom Devine is the Sir William Fraser Professor Emeritus of Scottish History and Palaeography at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author or editor of more that forty books on Scottish historical studies and related fields. The only historian to be knighted by HM The Queen for services to the study of Scottish history', he has been described byThe Timesnewspaper as as close to a national bard as the nation has'.
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Birlinn Ltd My Scottish Holiday Tin
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Birlinn Ltd The Iona Abbey Jigsaw Puzzle
Tom Gilfillan studied at Glasgow School of Art and was well known for his paintings of the Highlands of Scotland during the 1930s, '40s and '50s.
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Birlinn Ltd A History of Scottish Football in 100 Objects The Alternative Football Museum
Andy Bollen is a cultural commentator, drummer, gag writer and now football historian. The author of the critically-acclaimed Nirvana: A Tour Diary, the political spoofSandy Trout: The Memoir, and Labelled With Love. He has written forChewin' The Fat, Pulp Video, Naked Radio, Watson's Wind Up and Des Clarke's Breaking the News, as well as being a former columnist withThe Sunday Mailand The Glasgow Herald. He has contributed to various publications includingThe Mail on Sunday, Scotland on Sunday and The New York Times andwrites material on a freelance basis for comedians and performers. He lives in Coatbridge.
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Birlinn Ltd The European Game The Secrets of European Football Success
Daniel Fieldsend is a UEFA qualified academy coach and scout working for Liverpool Football Club. He has worked in the football industry for many years, following the completion of a BSc degree in Football Studies. Alongside his current academy role, he is the Liverpool FC researcher for the Football Manager series. As a writer, he is the founder and editor of leftwingsoccer.com.
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Birlinn Ltd The Strange Affair of Madeleine Smith
Douglas MacGowan was born in Chicago in 1963 and has lived in California since 1968. He received a Bachelor of Public Administration degree from the University of San Francisco in 1988 and has contributed articles to the Scottish Journal, The Scotsman and Celtic Heritage. He has been married for ten years and currently lives on the San Francisco peninsula with his wife, far too many cats and one dog.
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Birlinn Ltd The Devils Staircase by the bestselling author of The Cry
Helen FitzGerald is the second youngest of thirteen children. She grew up in the small town of Kilmore, Victoria, Australia, and studied English and History at the University of Melbourne. Via India and London, Helen came to Glasgow University where she completed a Diploma and Masters in Social Work. She has worked as a probation and parole officer for ten years, most of it in Barlinnie, where she helps to prepare serious offenders for release. She's married to screenwriter Sergio Casci, and they have two children.
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Birlinn Ltd The Sound of My Voice
Ron Butlin is an award-winning poet, playwright, novelist, short story writer children's author and librettist whose works have been translated into many languages. He regularly gives creative writing workshops in schools, and was Edinburgh Makar from 2008 to 2014.
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Birlinn Ltd Travels With a Stick
Richard Frazerwas minister of Greyfriars Kirk in Edinburgh. He founded and chairs the Grassmarket Community Project, which helps the most vulnerable. He has been influential in the revival of pilgrimage in Scotland and in the Church of Scotland's decision to officially promote and revive pilgrimage after 450 years.
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Birlinn Ltd 101 Gins To Try Before You Die
Ian Buxton has been working in and around the drinks industry for close to 30 years, but has been drinking professionally for a good deal longer. He writes in a variety of trade and consumer titles here and abroad.
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Birlinn Ltd Day of the Trolls The Trolls Series
Ron Butlin is an award-winning poet, playwright, novelist, short story writer chidlren's au-thor and librettist whose works have been translated into many languages. He regularly gives creative writing workshops in schools, and was Edinburgh Makar from 2008 to 2014.James Hutcheson is Creative Director at Birlinn. He has been designing books, book jackets and album covers for many years.
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Birlinn Ltd An Eye on the Hebrides
At seventeen,Mairi Hedderwick took a job as a mother's help on the Isle of Coll in the Hebrides, beginning a life-long love affair with islands and their small communities.Mairi's island world is delightfully reflected in the imaginary island of Struay where her perennially popular Katie Morag stories are set. As well as creating children's books Mairi has also written and illustrated books for adults, including Highland Journey, Shetland Journey and Sea Change.
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Birlinn Ltd Edinburgh A New History
Alistair Moffat was born and bred in the Scottish Borders. A former Director of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Director of Programmes at Scottish Television and founder of the Borders Book Festival, he is also the author of a number of highly acclaimed books. From 2011 he was Rector of the University of St Andrews. He has written more than thirty books on Scottish history.
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Birlinn Ltd Edinburgh The Autobiography
Alan Taylor has been a journalist for over 30 years. He was editor of the centenary editions of the collected novels of Muriel Spark and has edited several acclaimed anthologies, including The Assassin's Cloak (2000). He wrote the bestselling Appointment in Arezzo: A Friendship with Muriel Spark (2017) and also edited Madly, Deeply: The Alan Rickman Diaries (2022).
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Birlinn Ltd Vampire State
Ian Williams was foreign correspondent for Channel 4 News, based in Russia and then Asia. He then joined NBC News as Asia Correspondent. As well as reporting from China, he has also covered conflicts in the Balkans, the Middle East and Ukraine. He won an Emmy and BAFTA awards for his discovery and reporting on the Serb detention camps during the war in Bosnia. He is currently a doctoral student in the War Studies department at King's College, London, focusing on cyber issues.
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Birlinn Ltd My Scottish Nature Tin
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Birlinn Ltd Made in Africa
Ed Aarons is a sports journalist for The Guardian who has been an expert on African football for more than a decade. Born in Croydon, south London in 1981, he fell in love with it while watching a Roger Milla-inspired Cameroon lose to England in the quarter-final of the 1990 World Cup. He has built a reputation for being one of the best of the new generation of football journalists in the country, with particularly close links to African players in the Premier League.
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Birlinn Ltd Captain Fantastic
Tom Doyle is an acclaimed music journalist, author and long-standing contributing editor to Q, whose work has also appeared in Mojo, the Guardian, Marie Claire, Elle, The Times and Sound on Sound. Over the years he has been responsible for key magazine-cover profiles of Paul McCartney, Keith Richards, Kate Bush, Elton John, R.E.M. and U2, among many others.
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Birlinn Ltd Sight Unseen A Sarah Sutherland Thriller
Sandra Ireland was awarded a Carnegie-Cameron scholarship to study for an MLitt in Writing Practice and Study at the University of Dundee, graduating with a distinction in 2014. Her work has appeared in various publications and women's magazines. She is the author of Beneath the Skin (2016), Bone Deep (2018) and The Unmaking of Ellie Rook (2019). She lives in Carnoustie, Scotland.
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Birlinn Ltd Peacocks Alibi
Stuart David is a musician, songwriter and novelist. He grew up in Alexandria, on the west coast of Scotland a town memorably described as looking like a town that's helping the police with their inquiries'. The character of Peacock Johnson is based on some of the people Stuart grew up amongst there. Stuart co-founded the band Belle and Sebastian (19962000) and went on to form Looper in 1998. His memoir, In the All-Night Café: A Memoir of Belle and Sebastian's Formative Year, was published by Abacus/Little, Brown in 2015 to much critical acclaim.
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Birlinn Ltd Escape to Ikaria All at Sea in the Aegean
Nick Perry spent his childhood in Dorset, out in the countryside daydreaming most of the time. He was educated at Parkstone Sea TrainingSchool before leaving for London where he worked for ATV Television. He travelled around Europe moving from job to job until he came intomoney. On impulse he bought a hill farm in North Wales, some experiences of which form the backdrop to Peaks and Troughs. He lives with hiswife Arabella in the Wiltshire countryside where he spends his time writing, walking and listening to classical music.
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Birlinn Ltd Regeneration The Rescue of a Wild Land
Andrew Painting grew up in the south of England and studied English at King's College, London and Environmental Anthropology at Aberdeen University. He moved to Scotland to volunteer with the RSPB and since 2016 has been Assistant Ecologist at the Mar Lodge Estate.
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Birlinn Ltd Riders on the Storm The Climate Crisis and the Survival of Being
Alastair McIntoshis an independent writer, broadcaster, speaker and activist who is involved in a wide range of contemporary issues, from land reform, globalization and nonviolence to psychology, spirituality and ecology.
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Birlinn Ltd Jane Haining
Mary Miller has worked in fundraising and charity work throughout the world. Named Evening Times 'International Scotswoman of the Year' in 2009, her lifelong interest in the care of children in difficult situations drew her to explore Jane Haining's devotion to the Jewish girls in her care. She lives in Glasgow.
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Birlinn Ltd Life Is Not a Long Quiet River A Memoir
Willy Slavin has spent his life championing the cause of the poor. Working as a priest for 50 years in the most deprived areas of Glasgow and Bangladesh and in hospitals and prisons, he is also known for his role in the late-2017 installation of the Homeless Jesus sculpture on a park bench in Glasgow.
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Birlinn Ltd In Your Loving is Your Knowing
Peter Matheson is a theologian who has lectured in theology in the UK, New Zealand, Australia and the USA. From 1965 and 1982 he was Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Ecclesiastical History at New College, Faculty of Divinity, Edinburgh University.Alastair Hulbert is a practical theologian and ecumenist, who worked for 20 years in Europe Paris, Geneva, and latterly in the European churches office in Brussels. He was Warden of Scottish Churches House, Dunblane (20032008).
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Birlinn Ltd Scottish Battles
Born in 1953, John Sadler has law degrees from Northumbria University and the University of Westminster. A part-time lecturer in military history at Sunderland University Centre for Lifelong Learning, he is currently studying toward a PhD in history and is soon to begin an Imperial War Museum Fellowship in Holocaust Studies. He is the author of over 20 books, including Scottish Battles(Birlinn, 2010). He lives in Newcastle.
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Birlinn Ltd Hey Jude
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Birlinn Ltd Little Wonder The Fabulous Story of Lottie Dod the Worlds First Female Sports Superstar The Extraordinary Story of Lottie Dod the Worlds First Female Sports Superstar
Sasha Abramskygrew up in London and now lives in Sacramento with dual UK-US citizenship. He is a freelance journalist, writer, public speaker and university lecturer at U.C. Davis. He has written thousands of articles and is the author of eight published books includingInside Obama's Brain (Penguin, 2009),The American Way of Poverty (Nation Books, 2013)andThe House of Twenty Thousand Books (Halban, 2014).
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Birlinn Ltd Nature Notebooks Mini Set
After gaining a degree in Zoology, Jane Smith became a wildlife film maker for the BBC Natural History Unit and National Geographic. She won an Emmy for her work and has also appeared on BBC Radio 4's Tweet of the Day. She now creates wildlife art from her home on the west coast of Scotland to communicate her passion for the natural world.
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Birlinn Ltd Dumfriesshire
A native of south-west Scotland, and member of a long-established local family, Andrew McCulloch graduated in law at Edinburgh University. His lifelong interest in history, combined with legal practice, farming, managing his own business, and his residence in Dumfriesshire, has qualified him well to write this comprehensive history of the region. He is the author of several books and articles, including Galloway:Land Apart, The Feeneys of the Birmingham Post, and Scottish Saga: The Kingship in Eclipse.
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Birlinn Ltd Pianos and Flowers
Alexander McCall Smith is the author of the highly successful No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, which has sold over twenty-five million copies. Since then he has devoted his time to the writing of fiction and has seen his various series of books translated into over forty-six languages and become bestsellers throughout the world.
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Birlinn Ltd A Chasm in Time
Dr Patricia R. Andrew FSA, FSAScot, AMA, FRSA, whose career has been mainly in museums and galleries in Scotland and England, is now a freelance consultant, researcher and lecturer. She has written many exhibition catalogues and has published widely on varied art-historical topics from the 18th to the 21st centuries.
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Birlinn Ltd Edinburgh 1000 Piece Jigsaw
Artist Kathy Lewis is a well known creator of visitor products (jigsaws, posters, mugs tea towels etc) for Cambridge.
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