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By: Robert Louis Stevenson

ISBN: 9781846970337
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2007
Publisher: Birlinn General
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A novel that revolves around the friendship of two central characters David Balfour, a Lowland Whig, and Alan Breck Stewart, a Highland Jacobite and their differences.


(Paperback)

By: Ed Hodge

ISBN: 9781913759025
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2021
Publisher: Birlinn General
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This is the inside story of St Johnstone's Historic Cup Double in Season 2020-21 one of the most remarkable achievements in Scottish football history.


(Paperback)

By: Jenny Wormald

ISBN: 9781780275529
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2018
Publisher: Birlinn General
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A reissue of one of the classics of Scottish history.


(Paperback)

By: Neil McLennan

ISBN: 9781846976209
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2023
Publisher: Birlinn General
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Here for the first time, collected in a single volume are the poems, written in Edinburgh, of Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon. These Edinburgh poems highlight the significance of the time these poets spent together in and around the city.


(Hardback)

By: Daniel MacCannell

ISBN: 9781780274003
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2016
Publisher: Birlinn General
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The latest book in Birlinn's bestselling Mapping the City series, this time mapping Oxford.


(Paperback, Reprint)

By: Sally M. Foster

ISBN: 9781780271910
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2014
Publisher: Birlinn General
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Early historic Scotland was home to a variety of diverse peoples and cultures, all competing for land and supremacy. Yet by the eleventh century it had become a single, unified kingdom, known as Alba, under a stable and successful monarchy. How did this happen, and when A new and revised edition of a highly regarded book.


(Paperback, Reissue)

By: Judith Cook

ISBN: 9781780277158
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2021
Publisher: Birlinn General
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The extraordinary life of Grace OMalley, the worlds most famous woman pirate.


(Paperback, New edition)

By: Shirley McKay

ISBN: 9781846973437
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2016
Publisher: Birlinn General
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Queen & Country: A Hew Cullen Mystery


(Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)

By: Betsy Whyte

ISBN: 9781841580708
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2002
Publisher: Birlinn General
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This sequel to "Yellow on the Broom" takes Betsy's story to the end of World War II. She was born in 1919 into a travelling family, and tells her own story, with the bitter and the sweet, the rowan and the honey.


(Hardback)

By: John Greechan

ISBN: 9781913759124
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2024
Publisher: Birlinn General
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Revolutioncharts the dramatic story of Ange Postecoglous instant impact on Celtic and charts his life and times in football, through the eyes of those who know him best. This book provides an in-depth, fascinating insight into the making of a man and his unique football philosophy.


(Paperback)

By: Alastair McIntosh

ISBN: 9781780276397
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2020
Publisher: Birlinn General
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Climate change is the greatest challenge to humankind today. Writer, scholar and broadcaster Alastair McIntosh sums up the present knowledge and shows that conventional solutions are not enough. In rejecting the blind alleys of climate change denial, exaggeration and false optimism, he offers a scintillating discussion of ways forward.


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By: Allan Burnett

ISBN: 9781780273914
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Aug 2016
Publisher: Birlinn General
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Learn history the fun way in an entertaining and informative series of books about key people from Scotland's history


(Paperback)

By: James Robertson

ISBN: 9781846970351
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2007
Publisher: Birlinn General
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Originally published in 2000 by Polygon to mark the 250th anniversary of Fergusson's birth, this new edition contains all Fergusson's finest poems in both Scots and English, and features a new introductory essay, revised orthography, a substantial section of notes and a glossary.


(Paperback)

By: Michael McEwan

ISBN: 9781909715387
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2016
Publisher: Birlinn General
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26 First-Hand Accounts of Tackling the London Marathon


(Paperback)

By: Kenneth Cox

ISBN: 9781780271897
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2014
Publisher: Birlinn General
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This book is a compact colour guide of the largest survey of Scottish gardens ever mounted and the first such guidebook to all that Scotland can offer garden and plant lovers.


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By: Peter Burns

ISBN: 9781909715677
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2018
Publisher: Birlinn General
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Scottish Rugby 101 is a compendium of fascinating facts, quotes, stats, stories, personalities and trivia - a perfect stocking-filler for all fans of Scottish rugby.From the very first Test match in 1871 all the way through to the present day, Scottish rugby's rich history is distilled into 101 facts, stats and stories.


(Paperback, Reissue)

By: John Neil Munro

ISBN: 9781846974984
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2019
Publisher: Birlinn General
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John Martyn is one of rock music's last real mavericks. Despite chronic addiction to alcohol and drugs, he produced a string of matchless albums. Loved by fans and critics, loathed by ex-wives and managers, he has survived the music business he despises for forty years.


(Paperback)

By: Ian R. Hamilton

ISBN: 9781841587295
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2008
Publisher: Birlinn General
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In 1950, Ian Robertson Hamilton, a law student, took the Stone of Destiny from beneath the Coronation Chair in Westminster Abbey, leading to the outrage of the English establishment. This book sets down the chain of events which led to his decision to go to London, remove the Stone and a minute-by-minute account of the act and the aftermath.


(Hardback)

By: Alistair W.J. Kerr

ISBN: 9781846975264
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2021
Publisher: Birlinn General
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Tales for Twilighttakes the reader on a 200 year journey of Scottish ghost stories, with unnerving tales by writers such as James Hogg in the early eighteenth century, all the way to James Robertson, very much alive in the twenty-first.


(Paperback)

By: Jess Smith

ISBN: 9781841587141
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2009
Publisher: Birlinn General
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Traces the author's eventful life with Dave and their three children, from their earliest years together. This memoir features their adventures and achievements that are interspersed with stories of her parents' childhood, her father's 'tall tales' and the eerie echoes of ghosts and hauntings that she has heard from gypsies and travellers.


(Paperback, Reprint)

By: Liz Ashworth

ISBN: 9781780274850
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2017
Publisher: Birlinn General
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The only book to feature bere - one of Scotland's most ancient and nutritious grains


(Paperback, New Edition)

By: Alistair Moffat

ISBN: 9781780275543
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2018
Publisher: Birlinn General
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A story of the border: a place of beginnings and endings, of differences and similarities. This is also the story of an ancient place; where hunter-gatherers penetrated into the virgin interior, where Celtic warlords ruled, the Romans came but could not conquer, and where the glittering kingdom of Northumbria thrived.


(Paperback)

By: A.D. Cameron

ISBN: 9781841584034
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2005
Publisher: Birlinn General
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"The Caledonian Canal" records the history of one of Scotland's most massive engineering projects, from Thomas Telford's first survey in 1801 into the twenty-first century.


(Paperback)

By: Edwin Morgan

ISBN: 9781846975448
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2020
Publisher: Birlinn General
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Introduced by Liz Lochhead, in this selection we journey round Scotland in Canedolia, study its history in Picts, home in on Morgan's own city of Glasgow in Glasgow Sonnet v, imagine the country's future in The Coin.

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