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By: Stephen Proctor

ISBN: 9781913759100
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2024
UK Publication Date: 4th April 2024
Publisher: Birlinn General
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The Long Golden Afternoontells the story of the transformative generation of golf that followed the rise of Young Tom Morris - an era of sweeping change that saw Scotland's national pastime become one of the rare games played around the world, told against the backdrop of the passionate rivalry between Scotland and England.


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By: Peter Aitchison

ISBN: 9781912476855
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2019
Publisher: Birlinn General
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The Highland Clearances are a well-documented episode in Scotlands past but they were not unique. The process began in the Scottish Lowlands nearly a century before, when tens of thousands of people were moved from the land by estate owners who replaced them with livestock or enclosed fields of crops. This book tells that forgotten story.


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By: Norman Thomson

ISBN: 9781780277936
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2022
UK Publication Date: 2nd June 2022
Publisher: Birlinn General
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The Moray Way consists of all or part of three previously existing routes: the Moray Coast Trail, the Speyside Way and the Dava Way. Together they cover a huge and varied range of landscapes.This book is the ideal guide to much of what this beautiful and richly historical part of Scotland has to offer.


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By: Alistair Moffat

ISBN: 9781780277370
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2022
UK Publication Date: 1st July 2021
Publisher: Birlinn General
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The Night Before Morning is a gripping, page-turning thriller based on an alternative version of events at the end of the Second World War in the vein of Robert Harris and John Buchan. Alistair Moffat has created a chilling post-1945 world where Britain has been occupied by the Nazi forces.


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By: Alexander McCall Smith

ISBN: 9781846975868
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2022
UK Publication Date: 7th April 2022
Publisher: Birlinn General
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A brand new stand-alone novel from Alexander McCall Smith, The Pavilion in the Cloudsis a beautifully evocative story, set mostly in 1930s Ceylon (now known as Sri Lanka). This atmospheric novel, set in the pre- and post-war years in both Ceylon and Scotland poses the question of what it is to be home.


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By: Irvine Welsh

ISBN: 9781846976018
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2022
UK Publication Date: 13th January 2022
Publisher: Birlinn General
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To celebrate Edinburgh, its literature, and more importantly, its people, Polygon and the One City Trust have brought together writers established and emerging to write about the place they call home. Based around landmarks or significant links to Edinburgh each story transports the reader to a different decade in the citys recent past.


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By: Alexander McCall Smith

ISBN: 9781846976599
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2024
UK Publication Date: 1st February 2024
Publisher: Birlinn General
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The Perfect Passion Companyshows Alexander McCall Smith at his most perceptive, playful, and generous. These three interconnected tales offer a glimpse inside the psychology of matchmaking, the search for love and companionship, and the mysterious spark of attraction that can, at times, catch hold of us all.


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By: Tim Clarkson

ISBN: 9781780274034
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2016
UK Publication Date: 20th June 2016
Publisher: Birlinn General
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In this book Tim Clarkson pieces together all the historical evidence to tell the story of the Pictish people from their emergence in Roman times to their eventual disappearance.


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By: Iain Taylor

ISBN: 9781780277714
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2022
UK Publication Date: 4th August 2022
Publisher: Birlinn General
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This is the essential companion to the fascinating world of Scottish placenames. It features more than 8,000 placenames, from districts, towns and villages to rivers, lochs and mountains, and also includes a comprehensive introduction and maps.


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By: Jessica Hayden

ISBN: 9781913759162
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2024
UK Publication Date: 7th March 2024
Publisher: Birlinn General
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The first book to go behind the scenes with England's Red Roses, unveiling their, challenges, heartbreaks and triumphs. Jessica Hadyen tells this remarkable story, featuring interviews with all the major players in the squad to tell the true story of the team, including Marlie Packer, Jess Breach, former captain Sara Hunter and many more.


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By: Ray Perman

ISBN: 9781780276809
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2022
UK Publication Date: 4th August 2022
Publisher: Birlinn General
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This is the colourful story of how Edinburgh rose to be one of the top 10 financial centres in Europe and how the crisis of 2008 decimated its banking, insurance and investment institutions. Written by award-winning journalist Ray Perman who has reported on the Edinburgh financial industry for 40 years.


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By: John Goodlad

ISBN: 9781780278285
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2023
UK Publication Date: 3rd August 2023
Publisher: Birlinn General
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This book tells the extraordinary story of Shetlands most enduring export. It ranges from the wild waters of the North Atlantic and the remote ice filled fjords of west Greenland to the Basque country, from the fishing grounds of Iceland to the Jewish shtetls of Poland and from the mountains of Faroe to the flat coastline of the Netherlands.


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By: Claire Macdonald

ISBN: 9781780279015
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2024
UK Publication Date: 6th June 2024
Publisher: Birlinn General
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In this book Claire Macdonald celebrates the very best of home-grown ingredients - from oatmeal, dairy produce, meat and fish, fruit and vegetables and even whisky - in 60 imaginative recipes for starters, main course and puddings, as well as for sauces, dressings, baking and other treats.


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By: Eilidh Muldoon

ISBN: 9781780278520
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2024
Publisher: Birlinn General
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Gardening is one of the most popular hobbies in the country. This book includes lots of garden-themed illustrations by bestselling artist Eilidh Muldoon to colour in. Theres something for everyone with green fingers in this superb and imaginative colouring book.


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By: Sue Lawrence

ISBN: 9781780278971
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2024
UK Publication Date: 6th June 2024
Publisher: Birlinn General
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Acclaimed cookery writer Sue Lawrence celebrates the enormous range of Scottish soups in this imaginative and practical collection of recipes, ideal for cooks of all abilities.Featuring the very best of local produce, some soups make ideal starters, others are a complete meal in themselves.


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By: Liz Ashworth

ISBN: 9781780278995
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2024
UK Publication Date: 1st August 2024
Publisher: Birlinn General
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Ever since the humble potato arrived from Peru around 1730 it has been a key component of the Scottish diet. In this book Liz Ashworth introduces the heritage and history of the potato and the numerous varieties available, including information on nutritional benefits, the tattie season and how to grow your own.


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By: Anonymous A

ISBN: 9781909715431
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2016
Publisher: Birlinn General
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A completely revised and updated edition of critically acclaimed The Secret Agent.


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By: Alexander McCall Smith

ISBN: 9781780276120
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2019
Publisher: Birlinn General
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By: Ron Butlin

ISBN: 9781846976506
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2024
UK Publication Date: 7th September 2023
Publisher: Birlinn General
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One of the Guardians novels everyone must read and featured on the Lists top 100 Scottish novels of all time. Harrowing but compellingly written, with humour and compassion,The Sound of My Voiceis a stylistic masterpiece that presents conflict between a mans cowardice and cruelty, and a desperate attempt to recover his humanity.


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By: Alexander McCall Smith

ISBN: 9781846976414
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2023
UK Publication Date: 2nd November 2023
Publisher: Birlinn General
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In this new instalment in the perennially popular 44 Scotland series, we are back in the world of Angus and Domenico, Bruce, Matthew and Elspeth, and, of course, Bertie and his friend Ranald Braveheart Macpherson. Filled with Alexander McCall Smiths trademark wit, warmth and humour, this new book is a must-read.


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By: Robert Louis Stevenson

ISBN: 9781846976827
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2024
UK Publication Date: 4th July 2024
Publisher: Birlinn General
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The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hydefollows the story of respectable Dr Jekyll's strange association with the 'damnable young man' Edward Hyde. Dr Jekyll has discovered the ultimate drug: a chemical that can turn him into something else his monstrous alter-ego. This new edition features an introduction by Denise Mina.


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By: Shirley Spear

ISBN: 9781780274133
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2017
UK Publication Date: 21st October 2016
Publisher: Birlinn General
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The latest Birlinn food bible, this time examining the marvelous marmalade!


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By: Paul Murton

ISBN: 9781780275802
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2019
UK Publication Date: 10th October 2019
Publisher: Birlinn General
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A beautifully illustrated personal account of Paul Murton's travels in the Viking north of Scotland.


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By: Stuart McHardy

ISBN: 9781780276953
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2020
Publisher: Birlinn General
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