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(Paperback)

By: Eilidh Muldoon

ISBN: 9781780279343
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2025
Publisher: Birlinn General
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The Hebrides contain some of Scotland's most breathtaking scenery, magnificent castles, picturesque villages and towns, as well as numerous monuments and other features of interest. In this book, suitable for adults and children alike, Eilidh Muldoon presents 23 of the most iconic Hebridean places.


(Paperback, Reissue)

By: Nichola Fletcher

ISBN: 9781780278957
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2025
UK Publication Date: 3rd October 2024
Publisher: Birlinn General
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Scottish oats are famous the world over. In this practical and imaginative book, award-winning cookery writer Nichola Fletcher features 45 recipes which show the remarkable versatility of different kind of oats.


(Hardback)

By: Robin A. Crawford

ISBN: 9781780279114
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2025
UK Publication Date: 3rd July 2025
Publisher: Birlinn General
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Join Robin Crawford on apersonal journey from the source of the River Tay to the sea.Reaching back to a prehistoric fish found near Balruddery in Perthshire, we follow its story through time to the present day, with detours to seek gold, clans, battles, forts, disasters, witches and whisky.For fans ofRobert Macfarlane and Annie Worsley.


(Paperback)

By: Roger Cox

ISBN: 9781913759247
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2025
UK Publication Date: 3rd July 2025
Publisher: Birlinn General
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The story of surfing in Scotland is defined by people who dared to dream in spite of the cold. From surfing columnist Roger Cox,The View From the Shoulderdraws together 20 years of surf journalism from the pages ofThe Scotsmannewspaper, together with fresh context, to create a portrait of a wave-riding community like no other.


(Paperback, New in Paperback)

By: Alexander McCall Smith

ISBN: 9781846977084
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2025
UK Publication Date: 1st May 2025
Publisher: Birlinn General
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After a throw-away comment lands him in a difficult situation, Dr Neil Anderson's principles are put to the test. He ultimately leaves his job, his partner, and Edinburgh far behind for the seclusion and remote beauty of the Isle of Mull off the west coast of Scotland. There love once again blossoms, and Neil's life is forever changed.


(Hardback)

By: Alistair Moffat

ISBN: 9781780279473
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2025
UK Publication Date: 12th June 2025
Publisher: Birlinn General
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Since 1945 the world has changed at breakneck speed. In thisunique social history, acclaimed bestselling historian Alistair Moffat tells the story of these changes many of which have been dizzying and disorientating and how they have affected each and every one of us in all parts of the country.


(Paperback)

By: Allan Gaw

ISBN: 9781846977251
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2025
UK Publication Date: 5th June 2025
Publisher: Birlinn General
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Glasgow, 1931. After a devastating crime, Dr Jack Cuthbert finds himself working at the intersection between rising British fascism, anti-Semitism and the infamous Glasgow razor gangs. To solve the case, Cuthbert needs to rely on all the expertise he can gather from those around him. But who can he trust


(Paperback, New Edition)

By: John Gillies

ISBN: 9781846977213
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2025
UK Publication Date: 1st May 2025
Publisher: Birlinn General
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Being a doctor is a privilege; it is also very demanding and can be stressful, and to be able to look after others, we need to look after ourselves. We offer you this little book of poetry,Tools of the Trade,as a friend to provide inspiration, comfort and support as you begin work.


(Paperback, Reissue)

By: Alexander McCall Smith

ISBN: 9781846977138
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2025
UK Publication Date: 3rd July 2025
Publisher: Birlinn General
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A heart-warming stand-alone novel about trains and love! McCall Smith weaves a tale of four strangers who meet on a train. They have one thing in common - they have all been in love. They all have very different experiences to share, but as one of the character observes, loving others is the good thing we do in our lives.


(Hardback)

By: Ian Crofton

ISBN: 9781780279138
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2025
UK Publication Date: 1st May 2025
Publisher: Birlinn General
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Britain's high places are many and varied, from the rolling hills and lush valleys of the Malverns to the vertiginous slopes of Snowdonia, the romantic peaks and vistas of the Lake District and the silent sub-Arctic tundra of the Cairngorms.


(Paperback, New in Paperback)

By: Ian Williams

ISBN: 9781780279633
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2025
UK Publication Date: 7th August 2025
Publisher: Birlinn General
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In this book, Ian Williams tells the terrifying story of China's vampire economy and the single-minded and ruthless policy of the Party to bend economics and business to its own will. All this is part of realising President Xi Jinping's ambition of China becoming the world's pre-eminent economic, technological and military power.


(Paperback)

By: Tom Bowser

ISBN: 9781780278674
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2025
UK Publication Date: 1st May 2025
Publisher: Birlinn General
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Once common across most of the country, beavers were hunted to extinction in the sixteenth century, but have gradually been returning to Scottish waters. In this deeply personal account, Argaty's Tom Bowser tells of his attempts to save these incredible animals, and the gains that beavers ultimately brought to his family farm.


(Paperback, New in B-Paperback)

By: James Crawford

ISBN: 9781780279268
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2025
UK Publication Date: 3rd April 2025
Publisher: Birlinn General
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In this book acclaimed author and presenter James Crawford introduces many forgotten places all over the country, from the ruins of prehistoric forts and ancient, arcane burial sites, to abandoned bothies and boathouses, and the derelict traces of old, faded industry.


(Paperback, New in Paperback)

By: Jane Smith

ISBN: 9781839830914
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2025
Publisher: Birlinn General
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In paintings and words, this book portrays a year in the life of Oronsay, a remote Hebridean island that is farmed by the RSPB for the benefit of wildlife. Jane Smith describes her encounters with birds and animals, both wild and domesticated, and the human inhabitants of the island who look after them, in a humorous and personal account.


(Hardback)

By: Steven Veerapen

ISBN: 9781780279527
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2026
UK Publication Date: 4th September 2025
Publisher: Birlinn General
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Witches have been culturally relevant for centuries, but where did our perception of witches good and bad come from Steven Veerapen traces witches, witchcraft, and witch-hunters from the explosion of mass-trials under King James VI and I in the late sixteenth century to the death of the witch-hunting phenomenon in the early eighteenth century.


(Paperback, The Jura Edition)

By: George Orwell

ISBN: 9781846975769
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2021
UK Publication Date: 14th January 2021
Publisher: Birlinn General
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A dystopian masterpiece, 1984 is the powerful and prophetic novel that defined the twentieth century. This edition has a new, specially commissioned introduction by Alex Massie which recognises the importance that Barnhill, Orwells home on the Island of Jura, had on the writing of this classic.


(Paperback)

By: Denzil Meyrick

ISBN: 9781846974755
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2019
Publisher: Birlinn General
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(Paperback)

By: Isla Dewar

ISBN: 9781846974908
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2020
UK Publication Date: 14th May 2020
Publisher: Birlinn General
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You can't change your past. You can only use the experiences you live through to make your future better, wiser. Anna and her best friend George meet every week to remember, to sigh, to laugh, to reminisce about their moments of glory, guilt and mischief and share their sorrows over a glass or three of wine.


(Paperback, New in Paperback)

By: Andy Bollen

ISBN: 9781913759117
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2024
UK Publication Date: 7th September 2023
Publisher: Birlinn General
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Andy Bollen has created a fantasy football museum to collect together a treasure trove of Scottish football exhibits. Taking a satirical swipe at the beautifully flawed game,A History of Scottish Football in 100 Objectscovers the mayhem, mavericks and bric-a-brac from the magic sponge, to the pie, hair weaves to tattoos.


(Paperback, New edition)

By: F.G. Rea

ISBN: 9781874744870
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2003
Publisher: Birlinn General
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These are the memoirs of Frederick Rea, a teacher from England who became headmaster of Garrynemonie School in South Uist in the 1890s. They show how he strove to meet the difficulties presented by life in one of the poorest districts in the Outer Hebrides.


(Paperback)

By: Lewis Grassic Gibbon

ISBN: 9781904598824
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2006
UK Publication Date: 4th October 2006
Publisher: Birlinn General
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Written by one of the all-time greats of Scottish literature, this work is a trilogy of novels: "Sunset Song" (1932), "Cloud Howe" (1933) and "Grey Granite" (1934). At each book's core is the heroine Chris Guthrie, as she grows from a child into adulthood through the Great War to the development of communism in the 1920s.


(Hardback)

By: Denzil Meyrick

ISBN: 9781846975943
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2022
Publisher: Birlinn General
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A brand new short novel from Denzil Meyrick, author of the global bestselling DCI Daley detective series. This is the second tale from Kinloch, a series of nostalgic, humorous stories for fans of classic Scottish fiction like Neil Munro'sPara Handy.


(Paperback)

By: Jan-Philipp Sendker

ISBN: 9781846972850
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2021
UK Publication Date: 20th February 2014
Publisher: Birlinn General
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The follow-up to the international best-selling novel The Art of Hearing Heartbeats. This spirited novel explores the most inspiring and passionate terrain: the human heart following the interwoven stories of two women living thousands of miles apart and separate lives yet sharing a similar existence.


(Paperback)

By: Linden Bicket

ISBN: 9781846974809
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2021
UK Publication Date: 3rd June 2021
Publisher: Birlinn General
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First published in 1969, An Orkney Tapestry, George Mackay Brown's seminal work, is a unique look at Orkney through the eye of a poet and a celebration of Orkney's people, language and history. Unavailable for many years, this new edition has a specially commissioned Introduction written by Kirsteen McCue and Linden Bicket.

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