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By: Kevin Williamson
ISBN: 9781846973536
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Publication Date: Jul 2016
Publisher: Birlinn General
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Follow up to last year's immensely popular #UntitledOne
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By: Liz Lochhead
ISBN: 9781846972072
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Publication Date: Nov 2011
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A stunning new collection of selected works from one of Scotland's most loved writers and current makar.
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By: James Hunter
ISBN: 9781780277196
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Publication Date: Aug 2022
UK Publication Date: 5th May 2022
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New edition of this classic and pioneering account of what happened to the thousands of people who left Skye and the wider north of Scotland to make new lives across the sea.This is the story of the Highland impact on the New World.
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By: Ian Crofton
ISBN: 9781780277554
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Publication Date: Feb 2022
UK Publication Date: 21st October 2021
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This authoritative, entertaining and eminently browsable reference book, arranged in easily accessible A-Z format, is an absorbing and imaginative feast of Scottish lore, language, history and culture, from the mythical origins of the Scots in Scythia to the contemporary Scotland of the Holyrood parliament and Trainspotting.
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By: Jim Sillars
ISBN: 9781780276830
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Publication Date: Sep 2021
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In this book, Jim Sillars gives the inside story of his life in politics. During his time serving as an MP in Westminster he met and had dealings with every prominent politician of the day, from Neil Kinnock to Margaret Thatcher, and his stories about these encounters give fascinating insights into political history.
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By: Hugh MacDiarmid
ISBN: 9781846970269
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Publication Date: Apr 2015
UK Publication Date: 22nd May 2008
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The drunk man lies on a moonlit hillside looking at a thistle, jaggy and beautiful, which epitomises Scotland's divided self. The man reflects on the fate of the nation, the human condition in general and his own personal fears. This book contains commentary and notes, and takes the reader through the author's complex and opaque use of language.
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By: Ian Smith
ISBN: 9781909715813
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Publication Date: Oct 2019
Publisher: Birlinn General
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A Full Back Slower Than Your Average Prop is a hymn to the golden age of amateur rugby, full of warmth and charm and great humour
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By: Alexander McCall Smith
ISBN: 9781846975158
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Publication Date: May 2020
UK Publication Date: 23rd April 2020
Publisher: Birlinn General
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A poem does not have to be famous to be cherished. The best-known poems of Robert Burns have been loved by countless people over the years, but there are other poems that may be largely unknown that will mean a great deal to the few who are familiar with them. This anthology is a personal curation and not just a simple collection of poems.
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By: Andrew Drummond
ISBN: 9781912476886
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Publication Date: Jul 2021
Publisher: Birlinn General
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In the 1890s, the people of north-west Scotland grew tired of Government Commissions sent to consider a railway to Ullapool. Despite rock-solid arguments in favour of such a railway, neither government nor the big railway companies lifted a finger to build one.
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By: Iain Fraser
ISBN: 9781780279183
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Publication Date: Nov 2024
UK Publication Date: 22nd August 2024
Publisher: Birlinn General
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In this evocative book Iain and Anne Fraser take the reader, both visitor and resident, on a personal journey through the centre of one of the worlds most unforgettable cities. Working with four talented local artists they reflect the character and cultural history of Edinburgh through 80 pages and 150 beautiful and original illustrations.
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By: Tom Bowser
ISBN: 9781780277769
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Publication Date: Oct 2024
UK Publication Date: 4th July 2024
Publisher: Birlinn General
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This is the inspirational story of the reintroduction of one of Britain's most majestic birds of prey. At a time when Britain's wildlife is in major decline, this is a tale of hope about the positive differences that people can make.
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By: Karine Polwart
ISBN: 9781780275321
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Publication Date: Jan 2019
UK Publication Date: 18th October 2018
Publisher: Birlinn General
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A young girl and her mother settle in the woods for a night's sleep, after a long and tiring journey. But who will keep them safe from harm A wee bird is watching from the trees. And he knows just what to do. A vividly illustrated telling of a folk tale that speaks to themes of displacement, migration and protection.
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By: Iain Crichton Smith
ISBN: 9781846974038
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Publication Date: Nov 2017
UK Publication Date: 1st September 2017
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A collection of Iain Crichton Smith's short fiction.
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By: Alycia Pirmohamed
ISBN: 9781846976032
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Publication Date: Dec 2022
UK Publication Date: 1st September 2022
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Another Way to Split Water is the debut collection from Edwin Morgan Poetry Award winner Alycia Pirmohamed. This collection employs figurations of the natural world to reflect on themes of language, distance, migration, belonging, faith, grief, and intimacy.
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By: Christina Noble
ISBN: 9781780274867
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Publication Date: Oct 2018
UK Publication Date: 26th July 2018
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The story of an ancient Scottish estate.
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By: Robin Lloyd-Jones
ISBN: 9781780277059
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Publication Date: Aug 2022
UK Publication Date: 7th April 2022
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This is a classic book of kayaking adventures from a Booker Prize nominee. With striking new cover design and a specially written introduction by the author, Argonauts of the Scottish Isles is avivid and exciting journey around Orkney, Shetland and the islands of Scotland, combining kayaking adventure with history.
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By: Alan McKirdy
ISBN: 9781780274669
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Publication Date: Jun 2017
UK Publication Date: 22nd June 2017
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The latest in a new series of books which explain how Scotland's scenery was made, why it looks the way it does today and how it has changed over millions of years
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By: Jim Carruth
ISBN: 9781846975004
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Publication Date: Oct 2019
UK Publication Date: 10th October 2019
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Bale Fire is a book in three cycles. The first explores the darker side of communities in decline. The middle is a transposition of elements and characters of the Odyssey to a Scottish hill farm and its neighbours. The final part looks at the idea of harvest and loss. Jim Carruth offers here both a celebration and an elegy.
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By: Benedict Blathwayt
ISBN: 9781780276595
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Publication Date: Sep 2021
UK Publication Date: 1st July 2021
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Bramble the cow lives on an old farm where she has lots of friends. But she has a problem - she hates loud noises! She doesn't like the buzzing of bees, or the sound of the wind during a storm, or the farmer's combine harvester. And she doesn't like the rain. One night, after a heavy storm, the river floods.
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By: Roger Hutchinson
ISBN: 9781839830501
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Publication Date: Feb 2024
Publisher: Birlinn General
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From 1918 to the modern day, Roger Hutchinson tells the story of the Stornoway Trust, and of the people who guided their pioneering estate into the relative security and prosperity of the 21st century. In doing so he paints a vivid portrait of a unique landholding experiment, of Highland land struggle and of the island of Lewis itself.
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By: George Mackay Brown
ISBN: 9781846975103
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Publication Date: Sep 2019
UK Publication Date: 27th June 2019
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By: Jim Carruth
ISBN: 9781846975127
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Publication Date: Oct 2019
UK Publication Date: 10th October 2019
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Almost eighteen years in the making, this collection is a love poem to a rural community in Scotland. The freshness of its language brings the daily grind, its joys and harsh realities, to vivid life; its final elegies form a moving testament to a lost generation of family, friends, farmers and farms.
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By: Mara Menzies
ISBN: 9781780277462
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Publication Date: Feb 2022
UK Publication Date: 7th October 2021
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Blood and Gold is a powerful, dynamic fusion of African and Scottish myth and fantasy which explores the themes of racism, immigration and colonialism, and the acceptance of self, grief and loss.
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By: Owen Dudley-Edwards
ISBN: 9781780272177
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Publication Date: Oct 2014
UK Publication Date: 9th October 2014
Publisher: Birlinn General
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Here is the unvarnished, human story behind the infamous Burke and Hare murders. We delve into their past, their personalities and the circumstances that made them resort to murder as a money-making scheme. It's a tale of desperation and greed, of outsiders, ambition, corruption and betrayal. And it's all true!
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