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Birlinn Ltd Precious and the Case of the Missing Lion
Alexander McCall Smithis the author of the highly successfulNo. 1 Ladies' Detective Agencyseries, 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. These include the44 Scotland Streetnovels, first published as a serial novel in theScotsman, theIsabel Dalhousienovels, theVon Igelfeldseries and theCorduroy Mansionsnovels.
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Birlinn Ltd Precious and the Zebra Necklace
Alexander McCall Smithis the author of the highly successfulNo. 1 Ladies' Detective Agencyseries, 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. These include the44 Scotland Streetnovels, first published as a serial novel in theScotsman, theIsabel Dalhousienovels, theVon Igelfeldseries and theCorduroy Mansionsnovels.
£8.99
Birlinn Ltd The History of St. Kilda
Roger Hutchinson is an award-winning author and journalist, who joined the West Highland Free Press in Skye. He is a columnist for the WHFP, a book reviewer for The Scotsman and the author of over 15 books. His book The Soap Man (Birlinn 2003) was shortlisted for the Saltire Scottish Book of the Year (2004) and the bestselling Calum's Road (2007) was shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature's Ondaatje Prize.
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Birlinn Ltd The Ghosts of Cathkin Park
Michael McEwanis a journalist from Glasgow. He is the Assistant Editor of PSP Media Group's portfolio of sports titles, which includeBunkered, Scotland's highest circulating golf magazine. He is a former winner of both the RBS Young Sportswriter of the Year andEvening TimesYoung Football Journalist of the Year awards and the author ofRunning the Smoke: 26 First-Hand Accounts of Running the London Marathon.
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Birlinn Ltd The Book of Iona
Robert Crawford is Professor of Modern Scottish Literature in the School of English at the University of St Andrews. His seven collections of poems include Full Volume (Cape, 2008), Testament (Cape, 2014) and Apollos of the North (Birlinn, 2006), which featured his English translations alongside poems in Latin by George Buchanan and Arthur Johnston. Together with Mick Imlah he is co-editor of The New Penguin Book of Scottish Verse (2000), while his prose books include biographies of Robert Burns and T. S. Eliot. He lives in St Andrews with his wife and two children.
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Birlinn Ltd Of Stone and Sky
Merryn Glover was the first ever Writer in Residence for the Cairngorms National Park. She writes fiction, plays, poetry and journalism and her work has won awards, been published in anthologies, magazines and newspapers and broadcast on BBC Radio Scotland and Radio 4. A skilled trainer and presenter, with experience across cultures, age groups and abilities, she is always keen to meet readers, deliver workshops and perform her work, both in person and online.
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Birlinn Ltd Friend Foe A Hew Cullan Mystery 4 The Hew Cullan Mysteries
Shirley McKay was born in Tynemouth but now lives with her family in Fife. At the age of fifteen she won the Young Observer playwriting competition, her play being performed at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs. She went on to study English and Linguistics at the University of St Andrews before attending Durham University for postgraduate study in Romantic and Seventeenth-Century prose. She was shortlisted for the CWA Debut Dagger. Shirley works as a freelance proofreader.
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Birlinn Ltd Neville Chamberlain
Walter Reid studied at the universities of Oxford and Edinburgh and is the author of a number of acclaimed biographies and books of military and political history. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
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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 Funnyosities The Comic Gems of Chic Murray
Robbie Grigor is an expert on Scottish comedy and culture and author of Just Daft: The Chic Murray Story, also published by Birlinn.
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Birlinn Ltd Pabay An Island Odyssey
Christopher Whatley, OBE, FRHistS, FRSE is Professor of Scottish History at the University of Dundee. His publications include the award-winning The Scots and the Union and, more recently, Immortal Memory: Burns and the Scottish People.
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Birlinn Ltd Scots Who Made America
Rick Wilson grew up in the same small-town street where David Buick, founder of the Buick car company, was born. As a journalist he has worked not just on daily newspapers in London's Fleet Street but also in The Netherlands and his native Scotland as a magazine editor.
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Birlinn Ltd The Liberations Child
Lucy Cruickshanks' novels have been shortlisted for the Author's Club Best First Novel Award and Guardian's Not The Booker Prize, named a Top Ten Book of the Year by The Bookbag, and featured widely in the press. A great fan of the underdog, she's drawn to people and places grappling with political instability, writing about societies at their most precarious and fraught with risk.You can find her chatting all things books on YouTube (Bookshanks) and on Twitter @LucyBookshanks.
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Birlinn Ltd The Highlands and Islands of Scotland
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 Scottish Maps Calendar 2023
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Birlinn Ltd The Sands of Shark Island
Alexander McCall Smith is the author of more than 100 books, including more than 30 best-selling books for children and the globalbest-seller, the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series. He is one of the world's most prolific and popular authors, and his books have been translated into 46 languages.Iain McIntosh's illustrations have won numerous awards in the worlds of advertising, design and books. He has illustrated many ofAlexander McCall Smith's works.
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Birlinn Ltd Easy Peasy
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.Pru Irvine is a food writer, author and journalist with a passionate interest in children's welfare rights. She has lead numerous cookery courses for children and until recently ran her own award-winning confectionary business.
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Birlinn Ltd Picts Gaels and Scots
Sally M. Fosterstudied medieval archaeology at University College London and later completed a PhD at the University of Glasgow. She subsequently worked for RCAHMS and Historic Scotland. After a temporary lectureship at University of Glasgow in 2010 and establishing her AbleMinds business, she joined Aberdeen University as a lecturer in archaeology in September 2011.
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Birlinn Ltd Fatty OLearys Dinner Party
Alexander McCall Smithis the author of the highly successfulNo. 1 Ladies' Detective Agencyseries, 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. These include the44 Scotland Streetnovels, first published as a serial novel in theScotsman, theIsabel Dalhousienovels, theVon Igelfeldseries and theCorduroy Mansionsnovels.
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Birlinn Ltd Precious and the Mystery of Meerkat Hill
Alexander McCall Smithis the author of the highly successfulNo. 1 Ladies' Detective Agencyseries, 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. These include the44 Scotland Streetnovels, first published as a serial novel in theScotsman, theIsabel Dalhousienovels, theVon Igelfeldseries and theCorduroy Mansionsnovels.
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Birlinn Ltd Alternatives to Valium
Alastair McKay grew up in North Berwick, Aberdeen and Edinburgh. He has worked for The Scotsman, Scotland on Sunday, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Black Book, Out, Blah Blah Blah and The Independent. He lives in London.
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Birlinn Ltd River of Fire The Clydebank Blitz
John MacLeodwas born in Lochaber in 1966. After his 1988 graduation from Edinburgh University, he began his career at BBC Highland in Inverness and quickly established himself as a freelance writer. He has won several awards, including Scottish Journalist of the Year in 1991, and has contributed to many publications including theScotsmanand theHerald. He currently writes a Thursday column for theScottish Daily Mailand is the author of a number of highly acclaimed books.
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Birlinn Ltd The Well of the Heads Historical Tales of the Scottish Clans
Stuart McHardy is a writer, storyteller and lecturer. He was Director of the Scots Language Resource Centre from 1993 to 1998 and is a founder member and past president of the Pictish Arts Society. Also an experienced broadcaster and professional musician, he lives in Edinburgh.
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Birlinn Ltd Insurrection Scotlands Famine Winter
James Hunter is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of the Highlands and Islands and was its first Director of the Centre for History. The author of eleven books about the Highlands and Islands, he has also been active in the public life of the area for many years. He is the author of the award-winningSet Adrift Upon the World (Birlinn, 2016).
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Birlinn Ltd Facing the Bear Scotland and the Cold War
Trevor Royle is a broadcaster and author specialising in the history of war and empire. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and is also a member of the Scottish Government's Advisory Panel for Commemorating the First World War.
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Birlinn Ltd Bucket List
Russell Jones is an Edinburgh-based writer and editor. He was the UK's first Pet Poet Laureate, has published six poetry collections, three fantasy novels, one graphic novel and has edited three writing anthologies. Russell is the deputy editor of Scotland's only sci-fi magazine, organises sci-fi cabaret nights in Edinburgh and has a PhD in Creative Writing.
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Birlinn Ltd Double Proof
Martin Stewart's Young Adult work was published in the UK and US by Penguin Random House and nominated for several national awards. His Middle Grade series, Bridget Vanderpuff, launched in 2023 with Zephyr. Martin's work has been published all over the world and translated into multiple languages. A native of Glasgow, he now lives in Troon with his wife, two children and a very big dog. Double Proof is his adult fiction debut.
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Birlinn Ltd Nature Notebooks Midi 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 New Scottish Baking
Sue Lawrence is a food writer and novelist. Having worked for many years in newspapers and magazines, on television and radio, she now concentrates on writing cookery books and novels. She has written twenty cookbooks and six historical novels. Sue is Scottish - originally from Dundee - and lives in Edinburgh.
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Birlinn Ltd Oxford Mapping the City Mapping the Cities Series
Daniel MacCannell, a graduate of Aberdeen University and UCLA Film School, is a widely published non-fiction writer. He is the author of How To Read Scottish Buildings and Oxford: Mapping the City.
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Birlinn Ltd The Changing Tides
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Birlinn Ltd Terms of Restitution
After studying politics, Denzil Meyrick worked as a police officer, distillery manager, freelance journalist, and company director. He is originally from Campbeltown in Argyll, but now lives with his wife Fiona on Loch Lomondside.
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Birlinn Ltd Sixteen String Jack the Garden of Adventure
Tom Pow is an award-winning writer and poet. From 2001 to 2003 he was the first writer in residence at the Edinburgh International Books Festival and he was Writer in Residence at the National Library of Scotland in 2013. His books for children in include Callum's Big Day and Who Is The World For?, which won the Scottish Arts Council's Children's Book of the Year (2001).
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Birlinn Ltd Cutty Sark
Ian Buxtonhas been working in and around the whisky industry for close to 30 years, but has been drinking professionally for a good deal longer. He began writing regularly forWhisky Magazineshortly after it launched, and now also writes in a variety of trade and consumer titles here and abroad. He has published a number of books, including the bestselling101 Whiskies to Try Before You Die.
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Birlinn Ltd The Wild Wind
Sheena Kalayilwas born in Zambia in 1970 where her parents were teachers seconded from Kerala, India. She arrived in the UK aged eighteen and, after graduating, worked all over the world. She has a doctorate in Linguistics, teaches at the University of Manchester and lives near Manchester with her husband and two daughters. She is the author ofThe Bureau of Second Chances(Polygon, 2017), which won the Writers' Guild Best First Novel Award andTheInheritance(Polygon, 2018).
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Birlinn Ltd The Italian Sausage Bible
Mary Contini grew up in East Lothian on top of her family's Italian Cafe. She is the best-selling author of numerous books about Italian life and cooking, including 'Dear Francesca', 'Dear Olivia', 'Valvona & Crolla: A Year at an Italian Table'. She is a Director of Valvona & Crolla, the renowned Edinburgh restaurant, delicatessen and cookery school. Bob Dewar was first published nationally when he was sixteen, and his work has appeared in numerous book and magazines regularly since then. He has had exhibitions in Edinburgh and Italy, and for fifteen years did political and social commentary for 'The Scotsman'.
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Birlinn Ltd Blood in the Water
Gillian Galbraith was an advocate specialising in medical negligence cases and was the legal correspondent for the Scottish Farmer magazine. She has also written on legal matters for The Times. Now a full-time writer of fiction, Gillian lives with her husband, young daughter and assorted animals and bees near Kinross.
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Birlinn Ltd Sixty Degrees North
Malachy Tallack has written for the New Statesman, the Guardian, the Scottish Review of Books, Caught By the River and many other publications, online and in print. He won a New Writers Award from the Scottish Book Trust in 2014, and the Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship in 2015. He is from Shetland, and currently lives in Glasgow.
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Birlinn Ltd Time Tide
Shirley McKay was born in Tynemouth but now lives with her family in Fife. At the age of fifteen she won the Young Observer playwriting competition, her play being performed at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs. She went on to study English and Linguistics at the University of St Andrews before attending Durham University for postgraduate study in Romantic and Seventeenth-Century prose. She was shortlisted for the CWA Debut Dagger. Shirley works as a freelance proofreader.
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Birlinn Ltd Precious and the Zebra Necklace
Alexander McCall Smithis the author of the highly successfulNo. 1 Ladies' Detective Agencyseries, 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. These include the44 Scotland Streetnovels, first published as a serial novel in theScotsman, theIsabel Dalhousienovels, theVon Igelfeldseries and theCorduroy Mansionsnovels.
£6.99
