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By: Russell Jones

ISBN: 9781846976544
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2024
UK Publication Date: 4th July 2024
Publisher: Birlinn General
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Whencurmudgeonly pensioner Dot wins the lottery, her newfound friend Max helps her make a bucket list of all the things shes always wanted to do but never had the chance.Bucket Listis a humorous feel-good, life-affirming novel about the power of friendship, community and lemon drizzle cake.


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By: Danielle Devlin

ISBN: 9781846976162
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2024
UK Publication Date: 5th October 2023
Publisher: Birlinn General
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Burnt Offeringsis the story of Besse Duncan, a young mother who is accused of witchcraft by the man who attempts to rape her. Destined to lose her daughter, her freedom and her life, this is the story of one womans fight for vindication through a patriarchal landscape of torture and persecution while her life hangs in the balance.


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By: George Mackay Brown

ISBN: 9781846975165
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2021
UK Publication Date: 3rd June 2021
Publisher: Birlinn General
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By: Stuart Cosgrove

ISBN: 9781846975790
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2023
UK Publication Date: 1st September 2022
Publisher: Birlinn General
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Cassius X is the remarkable story of the transformation of Cassius Clay into global icon Muhammad Ali, pivoting on the year that he converted to Islam under the guidance of Malcolm X and prepared for his title fight against ex-convict Sonny Liston.


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By: Douglas Skelton

ISBN: 9781846976254
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2023
UK Publication Date: 6th July 2023
Publisher: Birlinn General
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The fifth book in Douglas Skeltons critically acclaimed Rebecca Connolly series. Set in Rannoch, Perthshire,Children of the Mistsees reporter Rebecca on the trail of a story that proves blood may be thicker than water but can still be easily spilled.


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By: Andrew Liddle

ISBN: 9781780278599
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2024
UK Publication Date: 6th June 2024
Publisher: Birlinn General
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Churchill: The Scottish Yearstells the incredible story of how the god-fearing teetotaller Edwin Scrymgeour fought and won an election against Britains most famous politician. The story begins with their first electoral contest in 1908 and follows their political rivalry over the next five elections until Scrymgeours eventual victory in 1922.


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By: David Greig

ISBN: 9781846976735
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2025
UK Publication Date: 3rd October 2024
Publisher: Birlinn General
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The first ever novel by award-winning Scottish playwright David Greig,Columba's Bonesrecasts ninth century Scotland as the setting for a Scandi-noir-style thriller. Utterly unique,Columba's Bonesexplores early Christianity and paganism, philosophy, redemption and shame, violence and love, transcendence and reality.


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By: David Greig

ISBN: 9781846976261
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2024
UK Publication Date: 5th October 2023
Publisher: Birlinn General
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The first ever novel by award-winning Scottish playwright David Greig,Columbas Bonesrecasts ninth century Scotland as the setting for a Scandi-noir-style thriller. Utterly unique,Columbas Bonesexplores early Christianity and paganism, philosophy, redemption and shame, violence and love, transcendence and reality.


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By: William Croft Dickinson

ISBN: 9781846976568
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2024
UK Publication Date: 5th October 2023
Publisher: Birlinn General
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Dark Encountersis a collection of classic and elegantly unsettling ghost stories first published in 1963. A spine-tingling collection, these tales are set in the brooding landscape of Scotland, with an air of historic authenticity often referring to real events, objects and people.


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By: Denzil Meyrick

ISBN: 9781846973154
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2015
UK Publication Date: 27th April 2015
Publisher: Birlinn General
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When a senior Edinburgh Civil Servant spectacularly takes his own life in Kinloch Harbour, D.C.I. Jim Daley comes face-to-face with the murky world of politics. The fate of nations is at stake. Jim Daley must face his worst fears as tragedy strikes. This is not just about a successful investigation, its about survival.


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By: Martin Stewart

ISBN: 9781846976490
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2024
UK Publication Date: 7th March 2024
Publisher: Birlinn General
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Robbie Gould is not psychic. Of course he isnt thats not a real thing. So why is a woman standing in his driveway begging him for help in finding her son, who shes convinced has been kidnappedJoin Gould as he plunges into a bizarre world of rare whisky, drug dealers, bent cops, social influencers and yakuza mobsters to uncover the truth.


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By: George Orwell

ISBN: 9781846976582
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2024
UK Publication Date: 4th January 2024
Publisher: Birlinn General
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George Orwell's vivid memoir of his time living among the desperately poor and destitute,Down and Out in Paris and Londonis a moving tour of the underworld of society.Exposing a previously-hidden world to his readers, Orwell gave a human face to the statistics of poverty for the first time and in doing so, found his voice as a writer.


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By: Mihir Bose

ISBN: 9781913759063
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2022
UK Publication Date: 5th May 2022
Publisher: Birlinn General
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Dreaming the Impossible is the definitive book of racism in British sports.Drawing on his extensive knowledge of sport and his own personal experience of racism Mihir Bose examines the way racism has affected black and Asian sportsmen and women and how attitudes have evolved over the past fifty years.


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By: Ian Williams

ISBN: 9781780277110
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2021
UK Publication Date: 1st April 2021
Publisher: Birlinn General
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Ian Williams examines the extraordinary rise of the Chinese surveillance state, how information is controlled and how it affects the population.The book also considers the wider implications for all of us, and how we are all tracked, monitored and followed with every click, view and search we make.


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By: Morag Macneill

ISBN: 9781780278292
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2024
UK Publication Date: 4th April 2024
Publisher: Birlinn General
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This new and expanded edition of the best-sellingEveryday Gaelicincludes allbasic words and phrases, along with more complex and idiomatic material, all arranged thematically and covering topics such as meeting and greeting, travelling, the weather and eating and drinking. An accessible book which will be of benefit to all Gaelic learners.


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By: Stuart Cosgrove

ISBN: 9781846974748
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2019
UK Publication Date: 11th April 2019
Publisher: Birlinn General
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Harlem 69 brings Stuart Cosgroves epic sixties trilogy to a dramatic conclusion and looks forward to brilliant music yet to come jazz funk to disco and hip hop.


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By: Jenni Fagan

ISBN: 9781846976223
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2023
UK Publication Date: 6th October 2022
Publisher: Birlinn General
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From the multi-award-winning, former Granta Best Young British Novelist, Jenni Fagan tells the story of GeillisDuncan, a teenage girl caught up in the sixteenth century witch trials in the Scottish coastal town of North Berwick.


(Hardback)

By: Stuart Cosgrove

ISBN: 9781846975844
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2022
UK Publication Date: 4th August 2022
Publisher: Birlinn General
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Hey America!unearths the untold story of how successive presidents and their most senior aides recruited pop, rock and soul musicians to campaign for their election and help shape and represent public policy (often with disastrous consequences). It reveals a remarkable roller-coaster of social change.


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By: Jenna Watt

ISBN: 9781780277455
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2022
UK Publication Date: 4th August 2022
Publisher: Birlinn General
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Weaving together her first experience of deer stalking with uncovering a lost family history of Highland gamekeeping, award-winning young playwright Jenna Watt explores the varied and sometimes extreme characters who make up the rewilding community in contemporary Scotland.


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By: Rosemary Goring

ISBN: 9781780277233
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2022
UK Publication Date: 4th August 2022
Publisher: Birlinn General
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In this book, Rosemary Goring tells the story of Marys Scottish years through the often dramatic and atmospheric locations and settings where the events that shaped her life took place and also examines the part Scotland, and its tumultuous court and culture, played in her downfall.


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By: Rosemary Goring

ISBN: 9781780278254
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2024
UK Publication Date: 7th March 2024
Publisher: Birlinn General
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In this book, Rosemary Goring tells the story of Marys Scottish years through the often dramatic and atmospheric locations and settings where the events that shaped her life took place and also examines the part Scotland, and its tumultuous court and culture, played in her downfall.


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By: Alexander McCall Smith

ISBN: 9781846976452
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2023
UK Publication Date: 6th July 2023
Publisher: Birlinn General
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Living what the philosophers call a good life is not always easy. If there is a single human quality that most of us value above others it is kindness. Love and kindness are at the heart of this new collection by Alexander McCall Smith.


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By: Alexander McCall Smith

ISBN: 9781846976605
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2024
UK Publication Date: 7th March 2024
Publisher: Birlinn General
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What really counts in this life For the writer, Alexander McCall Smith, it is friendship and love themes that crop up time and again in his novels. And it is these themes that he explores in this, his debut collection of poems.


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By: Alistair Moffat

ISBN: 9781780278018
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2023
UK Publication Date: 6th October 2022
Publisher: Birlinn General
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Fourteen centuries ago, Irish saints brought the Word of God to the Hebrides and Scotlands Atlantic shore. In this book, Alistair Moffat journeys from the island of Eileach an Naoimh at the mouth of the Firth of Lorne to Lismore, Iona and then north to Applecross, searching for traces of these extraordinary men.

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