Contents
FICTION 4 NATURE 6 TRAVEL & GUIDES 16 POLITICS & CURRENT AFFAIRS 20 FOOD & DRINK 23 HISTORY 28 BIOGRAPHY 41 THE GREAT TAPESTRY OF SCOTLAND 44 CHILDREN’S 48 STATIONERY 53 ACADEMIC HISTORY 55 The Night Before Morning
June 1945. Hitler has triumphed, Britain is under German occupation and America cowers under the threat of nuclear attack. In the dead of night, a figure flits through the ruins of Dryburgh Abbey, searching for a hidden document he knows could change the course of history. The journal he discovers, by a young soldier, David Erskine, records an extraordinary story.
As the brutal grip of the occupying forces ALISTAIR MOFFAT was born tightens, he is determined to join the in Kelso, Scotland in 1950. He resistance. A daring escape leads him and is an award winning Writer, his fiancée Katie on a breathless chase to Historian and former Director the university town of St Andrews, where of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe the Germans have established a secret and Director of Programmes research laboratory. When it becomes at Scottish Television. He is clear what its purpose is, David, Katie and the founder of Borders Book their small, trusted band must adopt a Festival and Co-Chairman of desperate and audacious plan to thwart The Great Tapestry Of Scotland. Nazi domination . . .
A gripping, page-turning thriller based on an alternative version of events at the end of the Second World War ISBN: 9781780277370 Price: £8.99 Publication: 01 July 2021 For fans of Robert Harris and John Format: 198 x 129mm Paperback Buchan; Alistair Moffat has created a Extent: 256pp chilling post-1945 world where Britain Illustrations: n/a ePub: 9781788853873 has been occupied by the Nazi forces Rights: World All Languages
4 | fiction Blood and Gold A Journey of Shadows
‘An exquisite piece of storytelling’ – The Guardian
Ancient myths and legends from two very different cultures are woven together when Jeda receives a magical box from her dying mother. Rehema’s last wish is to share a set of powerful stories with her daughter, which will empower and guide her, and ensure she grows into a strong, MARA MENZIES is a narrative confident woman, certain of her heritage artist who draws on her rich, and her place in the world. dual Kenyan/Scottish cultural heritage to create worlds that Filled with tragedy, wonder and magic, explore contemporary issues Blood and Gold asks us to re-examine our through legend, myth and own identities and attitudes, and explores fantasy. She lives in Edinburgh. the themes of loss, grief, injustice and oppression.
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
Based on Mara Menzies’s acclaimed storytelling performance, premiered at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2019 ISBN: 9781780277370 Price: £12.99 Publication: 07 October 2021 Format: 218 x 160mm Paperback Extent: 176pp Illustrations: b/w line drawings ePub: 9781788853873 Rights: World All Languages
fiction | 5 Regeneration The Rescue of a Wild Land
‘Hugely enjoyable and inspiring’ – Isabella Tree
In 1995 the National Trust for Scotland acquired Mar Lodge Estate in the heart of the Cairngorms. After 25 years of extremely hard work, the pinewoods, bogs, moors and mountains of this magnificent reserve are returning to their former glory.
Regeneration is the story of this success, ANDREW PAINTING grew featuring the myriad creatures who live on up in the south of England the Estate, as well as the people who are and studied English at protecting the land and quietly working to King’s College, London and undo the wrongs of the past. Environmental Anthropology at Aberdeen University. He Mar Lodge is now one of the most moved to Scotland to volunteer successful examples of rewilding in with the RSPB and worked as the UK Assistant Ecologist at the Mar Lodge Estate from 2016 to For fans of James Rebanks’ A 2020. Shepherd’s Life, Isabella Tree’s Wilding and Native by Patrick Laurie
A moving story of hope in an age of environmental destruction ISBN: 9781780277141 Price: £20.00 Publication: 04 March 2021 Format: 234 x 156mm Royal hbk Extent: 304pp Illustrations: 8pp colour plates ePub: 9781788853828 Rights: World All Languages
6 | nature writing - new A Sky Full of Kites A Rewilding Story
Red kites were once Britain’s most common bird of prey. By the early 1900s they’d been wiped out following centuries of ruthless persecution. When reintroduced kites began roosting on their 1,400-acre family farm at Argaty, Tom Bowser and his parents decided to turn their estate into a safe haven.
A Sky Full of Kites is the story of the Argaty Red Kite project, and the re- establishing of these magnificent TOM BOWSER grew up on raptors to Scotland. Tom Bowser his parents’ Perthshire farm. reveals his passion for nature and his After university he worked as a desire to dedicate his family’s land to teacher and then as a journalist conservation. before returning to Argaty in 2009. In 2017 he took over the The inspirational story of the running of the conservation reintroduction of one of Britain’s project Argaty Red Kites, and in most majestic birds of prey 2018 launched the Argaty Red Squirrels project. 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
ISBN: 9781780276502 Price: £14.99 Publication: 03 June 2021 Format: 234 x 156mm Trade pbk Extent: 240pp Illustrations: 8pp colour plates ePub: 9781788852852 Rights: World All Languages
nature writing - new | 7 A Scurry of Squirrels Nurturing The Wild
Scotland’s favourite wildlife writer knows the red squirrel on a uniquely personal level having hand-reared numerous kits for return to the wild. Part history and natural history, as well as personal memoir, this is the uplifting tale of Polly’s life with wildlife which also documents an inspirational rewilding project on her small Perthshire farm that has brought dramatic results. POLLY PULLAR is a field naturalist, writer, photographer Exploring many of the wildlife conflicts and wildlife rehabilitator who that face us, she highlights vital ways grew up in Ardnamurchan. She in which we can nurture the wild before is a much-loved contributor to it’s too late. An important and delightful a wide selection of publications book. and has written numerous best- selling books. An intimate and affectionate portrait of one of the nation’s favourite animals
Polly Pullar is the author of the acclaimed A Drop in the Ocean and a co-author of Fauna Scotica: Animals and People in Scotland ISBN: 9781780277042 Price: £14.99 Publication: 01 July 2021 Features a foreword by Romain Pizzi Format: 234 x 156mm Trade pbk Extent: 240pp Illustrations: 8pp col. plates / drawings ePub: 9781788854658 Rights: World All Languages
8 | nature writing - new Native Life in a Vanishing Landscape
NEW IN PAPERBACK
‘[A] beautifully written memoir ... unforced and utterly authentic’ – 5 Stars, Mail on Sunday
‘Brilliant and beautiful’ – Julien Glover, London Evening Standard
‘I will hand sell this book for decades to come. It’s a gem’ – Patrick Neale, owner of Jaffé and Neale PATRICK LAURIE is a Bookshop freelance journalist. As well as writing and farming, he works A poignant and moving book, Native for Soil Association Scotland on weaves together folklore and science, a programme which supports tradition and progress to examine how we conservation projects on take what has passed and transform it for farmland. the future.
Patrick Laurie plunges into work on his family farm in the hills of southwest Scotland and is forced to face the reality of life in a vanishing landscape reassembling centuries of tradition.
Shortlisted for The Wainwright Prize for ISBN: 9781780277073 Price: £9.99 UK Nature Writing 2020 Publication: 01 March 2021 Format: 198 x 129mm B-pbk Extent: 288pp Illustrations: b/w illustrations / maps ePub: 9781788852579 Rights: World English Language exc. NA
nature writing - new in paperback | 9 An Eye on the Hebrides
‘A beautiful book ... as evocative of the islands as the smell of peat smoke, the taste of smoked herring or a vintage malt’ – The Scotsman
Mairi Hedderwick embarks on a six- month-long journey to 40 islands from Arran to Lewis, recounting her pilgrimage around the archipelago of the Western Isles with which she has had a lifelong love affair.
MAIRI HEDDERWICK has Filled with wit and wisdom that had a life-long love affair is matched by her spell-binding with islands and their small illustrations, Mairi Hedderwick portrays communities. She is the author the islands in all their diversity, with swift of many children’s and adult and perceptive cameos of everyday life. books including the popular Katie Morag series. A reissue of the acclaimed island classic by one of Scotland’s favourite authors and illustrators, feature a new specially written introduction
Fully illustrated throughout with beautiful watercolours
Lifetime sales of over 75,000 copies ISBN: 9781780277318 Price: £12.99 Publication: 03 June 2021 Format: 234 x 156mm Trade pbk Extent: 128pp Illustrations: Watercolours throughout ePub: n/a Rights: World All Languages
10 | nature writing - new in paperback A Richness of Martens Wildlife Tales from the Highlands
NEW IN B-FORMAT PAPERBACK
When Les and Chris Humphreys moved to Ardnamurchan 15 years ago, little did they realise they would be sharing their home with some of Britain’s most elusive animals.
In this book Polly Pullar tells the remarkable story of the couple and their animal friends, interpolating it with natural history, anecdote and her own POLLY PULLAR is a field experiences of the wildlife of the area. naturalist, writer, photographer The result is a fascinating glimpse into and wildlife rehabilitator who the life of a much misunderstood animal. grew up in Ardnamurchan. She is a much-loved contributor to A remarkable and insightful a wide selection of publications celebration of an endangered animal and has written numerous best- selling books. Exquisite nature writing about one of the most beautiful parts of the Scottish Highlands
Challenges many pre-conceived assumptions about the pine marten
ISBN: 9781780276366 Price: £9.99 Publication: 01 April 2021 Format: 198 x 129mm B-pbk Extent: 224pp Illustrations: 16pp colour plates ePub: 9781788850704 Rights: World English Language
nature writing - new in paperback | 11 The Unremembered Places Exploring Scotland’s Wild Histories
NEW IN PAPERBACK
‘Grippingly told…each of his journeys fills with atmosphere and emotion’ – BBC Countryfile Magazine
There are strange relics hidden across Scotland’s landscape: forgotten places that are touchstones to incredible stories and past lives which still resonate today. Combining a rich fusion of travelogue PATRICK BAKER has worked and historical narrative, Patrick Baker in the publishing industry for threads themes of geology, natural and many years and is currently social history, literature, and industry writer for an investment from the places he visits, discovering management company. He connections between people and place is a keen outdoor enthusiast more powerful than can be imagined. and has walked and climbed throughout Scotland and Shortlisted for both the Boardman Europe. Tasker Award for Mountain Literature 2020 and the Great Outdoors Outdoor Book of the Year 2020
A poignant and enthralling take on some of Scotland’s most fascinating, yet overlooked, places of interest ISBN: 9781780277240 Price: £9.99 Publication: 01 April 2021 Sold over 3,500 hardbacks in 2020 Format: 198 x 129mm B-pbk Extent: 224pp Illustrations: 8pp colour plates; maps ePub:9781788852661 Rights: World All Languages
12 | nature writing - new in paperback The Cairngorms A Secret History
REISSUE
‘Packed with great stories and vivid descriptions’ – Scotland Outdoor
This is a series of journeys exploring barely known human and natural stories of the Cairngorm Mountains. It looks at a unique British landscape, its last great wilderness, with new eyes. History combines with travelogue in a vivid account of this elemental scenery.
Patrick Baker seeks out the unlikeliest and most interesting of features in places far off the beaten track. The cultural and human impact of this stunning landscape and reflections on the history of mountaineering are the threads which bind this compelling narrative together.
Reissue of this bestselling book with a beautiful new cover
An essential guide for the one and a half million visitors to the Cairngorm National Park every year ISBN: 9781780271880 Price: £9.99 Publication: 01 April 2021 Sales of over 5,000 copies Format: 198 x 129mm B-pbk Extent: 176pp Illustrations: 16pp colour plates ePub: 9781788850704 Rights: World English Language
nature writing - reissue | 13 A Last Wild Place Seasons in the Wilderness
‘His writings opened the eyes and changed the lives of others’ – The Herald
When Mike Tomkies moved to a remote cottage on the shores of Loch Shiel in the West Highlands of Scotland, he found a place which was to provide him with the most profound wilderness experience of his life. Here Tomkies describes the whole cycle of nature, through the seasons in a harsh and testing MIKE TOMKIES was an environment of unrivalled beauty. acclaimed naturalist, writer and Hollywood film journalist who His extraordinary insights into the lived for 35 years in remote wildlife that shared his otherwise and wild places in the Scottish empty territory were not gained without Highlands, Canada and Spain. perseverance in the face of perilous He wrote a number of best- hazards, and the difficulties and selling nature books as well as challenges of life in the wilderness are a a two-volume autobiography. key part of this remarkable book. He died in 2016. A celebration of nature at its most rugged and spectacular
A remarkable insight into the challenges and rewards of living in remote places, unmissable for anyone ISBN: 9781780277035 Price: £9.99 interested in wildlife, conservation Publication: 01 April 2021 and the natural world Format: 198 x 129mm B-Pbk Extent: 320pp Illustrations: 16pp colour plates ePub: 9781788854498 Rights: World English Language
14 | nature writing - reissue Between Earth and Paradise An Island Life
‘A wilderness saga told by a true craftsman with honesty, fervour and an unerring eye for detail’ – Country Living
After giving up a hectic life as a journalist in Europe and Hollywood in the late 1960s to return to his boyhood love of nature, Mike Tomkies moved to Eilean Shona, a remote island off the west coast of Scotland.
This is the astonishing story of daring to take the first step away from urban routines and embracing a harsh yet immensely rewarding way of life which, in turn, led Tomkies to an even more remote location and inspired an acclaimed series of books on various animals and the challenges and joys of living in remote places.
The first of Mike Tomkies’ acclaimed books about living in remote places in Scotland and his encounters with local wildlife ISBN: 9781780277066 Price: £9.99 A story of escaping the hectic urban Publication: 06 May 2021 Format: 198 x 129mm B-pbk world and reconnecting with nature Extent: 272pp Illustrations: 8pp colour plates ePub: 9781788854535 Rights: World English Language
nature writing - reissue | 15 Fringed With Mud and Pearls An English Island Odyssey
Greece has its sun-soaked Cyclades; Scotland its rain-drenched Hebrides and Ireland the Skelligs. And what has England got? The isles of Canvey, Sheppey, Wight and Dogs, Mersea, Brownsea, Two Tree and Rat.
But there are also wilder, rockier places – Lundy, the Scillies, Holy Island, the Farnes. These islands and their inhabitants all possess their own After many years working fascinating stories. Ian Crofton describes for the publisher Collins, his encounters with their history and IAN CROFTON is now a tradition, the island wildlife from freelance author and editor puffins to porpoises, and recounts the based in London. His previous varied ways in which England’s islands bestsellers include Walking have been formed and are constantly the Border: A Journey between changing. Scotland and England and Scottish History without the Ian Crofton embarks on a personal Boring Bits. odyssey to the islands encircling England
A fascinating, fun alternative journey around England, filled with history, anecdote and acute observation
ISBN: 9781780276656 Price: £20.00 From the author of the acclaimed Publication: 06 May 2021 Walking the Border, a Daily Telegraph Format: 234 x 156mm Royal hbk Extent: 288pp Travel Book of the Year Illustrations: 16pp colour plates ePub: 9781788852982 Rights: World All Languages
16 | travel and guides - new Exploring the Fife Coastal Path A Companion Guide
This is the ideal guide to the whole route, so rich in history and natural beauty. Designed to be used by walkers on the Path or visitors to any point along it, it introduces a wealth of castles, churches, harbours, monuments and red-roofed houses.
Hamish Brown gives practical advice on all aspects of walking the Path, whether you are making a seven-day trip along its whole length or walking a short HAMISH BROWN is a section on a Sunday afternoon. Along the well-known outdoors writer, way he provides a mass of fascinating lecturer and photographer information about people and places that who has published several can be read for pleasure and kept as the bestselling books. He divides souvenir of a unique and unforgettable his time between his home in part of Scotland. Fife and Morocco, where he leads expeditions in the Atlas A new edition to cover the extended Mountains. route which now runs from Kincardine to Newburgh
Includes practical advice and maps, as well as fascinating historical and anecdotal information
ISBN: 9781780277288 Price: £12.99 Publication: 03 June 2021 Format: 222 x 136mm Paperback Extent: 208pp Illustrations: b/w photographs / maps ePub: n/a Rights: World All Languages
travel and guides - new | 17 The Deeside Way Complete, folded map of route included
The Deeside Way is a long-distance path running for 66km (41 miles) from Aberdeen, the oil capital of Europe, to Ballater in Royal Deeside in the Cairngorms National Park. Mainly following the course of old Royal Deeside Railway line, it is suitable for cyclists as well as walkers.
This new Guide offers a wealth of practical information on preparation for the walk, accommodation, transport and much else. As well as describing the Way PETER EVANS is an itself, Peter Evans includes six additional experienced writer and walks in and around Deeside, varying hillwalker with an extensive from short low-level walks to mountain knowledge of the area covered summits. in this book and its history. A former editor of The Great This is the first book-length guide to Outdoors, Climber and Scottish the Deeside Way, a newly developed Field magazines, he was a route which is rapidly gaining in journalist with Scotland popularity on Sunday for many years. The Guide is accompanied by an entirely new full-colour folding map prepared by Nicolson Maps and is illustrated in colour throughout
ISBN: 9781780275901 Price: £16.99 Publication: 06 May 2021 Format: 220 x 136mm Paperback Extent: 128pp Illustrations: colour throughout ePub: n/a Rights: World All Languages
18 | travel and guides - new The Outer Hebrides A Historical Guide
The Outer Hebrides lie 40 miles to the west of mainland Scotland, forming a barrier to the North Atlantic. Culturally distinct from early prehistory, the islands contain a wealth of historical and archaeological monuments.
In addition to descriptions of key sites from prehistory onwards and gazetteers covering every place of historical interest, this book also traces the development of the modern environment and landscape DR MARY MACLEOD RIVETT of the islands, enabling the visitor to is an experienced archaeologist appreciate the sites within their full working from Gearrannan, on historical and cultural context. the West Coast of the Isle of Lewis. With a background The latest book in Birlinn’s acclaimed in international commercial series of historical guides and research archaeology, she worked as Western Isles An up-to-date, authoritative and Archaeologist for over 11 years, accessible introduction to the built before returning to freelance heritage of the Outer Hebrides research and academic work in 2009. ALSO AVAILABLE
ISBN: 9781780273679 Price: £12.99 Publication: 01 July 2021 Format: 198 x 129mm B-Pbk Extent: 240pp Illustrations: 8pp b/w plates, maps ePub: n/a Rights: World All Languages
travel and guides - new | 19 Every Breath You Take China’s New Tyranny
‘a superb and deeply informed study’ – Chris Patten, Chancellor of Oxford University
China is building the world’s first digital totalitarian state, a system of hitherto unimaginable social and political control.
Ian Williams examines this extraordinary rise and considers the wider implications IAN WILLIAMS has been for the rest of the world. How to deal reporting from China for the with an increasingly strident, aggressive past 20 years as a foreign Beijing is one of the biggest challenges correspondent for Channel 4 facing the West in what has become a News and then the American technological Cold War. network NBC. He won an Emmy and BAFTA awards for A particularly topical book given the his discovery and reporting ongoing tensions between the United on the Serb detention camps States and China’s tech companies during the war in Bosnia and is currently a doctoral student in A forensic examination of China’s the War Studies department at digital state, how information is King’s College, London. controlled and how it affects the population
ISBN: 9781780277110 Will be of great interest to anyone Price: £16.99 Publication: 01 April 2021 interested in international relations, Format: 234 x 156mm Trade pbk politics and the modern political Extent: 376pp Illustrations: 8pp colour plates climate ePub: 9781788853842 Rights: EL UK & Commonwealth (exc. NA)
20 | politics and current affairs - new The Lockerbie Bombing A Father’s Search for Justice
The destruction of Pan Am Flight 103 over the Scottish town of Lockerbie in December 1988 was the largest attack on Britain since World War Two. Among the passengers was Flora, beloved daughter of Dr Jim Swire. Jim accepted American claims that Libya was responsible, but during the Lockerbie Trial he began to distrust key witnesses and supposed firm evidence. JIM SWIRE was a GP when his daughter was killed in the The book takes us along Dr. Swire’s Lockerbie bombing. He became journey to uncover the truth behind not a spokesman for UK Families only a personal tragedy but one of the Flight 103 and has worked modern world’s most shocking events. tirelessly for the truth to be told about the bombing. This publication ties in with a brand new Netflix series that is in PETER BIDDULPH began production for 2021 working with Jim to tell his story in 1999. Swire’s intention to A searing story, which has taken over write a book had made him a three decades and crossed several campaigner for the truth and continents to find the truth behind also a ‘person of interest’. the atrocity
ISBN: 9781780276489 Taken fully up to date with the appeal Price: £14.99 in late 2020 by Megrahi’s family Publication: 06 May 2021 Format: 234 x 156mm Trade pbk Extent: 272pp Illustrations: 8pp b/w plates ePub: 9781788853057 Rights: World All Languages
politics and current affairs - new | 21 Moscow Calling Memoirs of a Foreign Correspondent
‘A gripping story, scintillatingly told’ – The Scotsman
In Moscow Calling, Angus Roxburgh presents his Russia – not the Russia of news reports, but a quirky, crazy, exasperating, beautiful, tumultuous world that in four decades has undergone remarkable changes.
From the dark, fearful days of ANGUS ROXBURGH was communism and his adventures as Sunday Times Moscow a correspondent covering the Soviet correspondent (1987–89), Union’s collapse into chaos, to his BBC Moscow correspondent frustrating work as a media consultant (1991–97) and BBC Europe to Putin’s Kremlin, his memoir offers a correspondent (1998–2005). unique, fascinating and at times hilarious From 2006 to 2009 he was insight. media consultant to the Kremlin, and is now a freelance A unique and revealing perspective on writer and journalist. Russia
Explores the human stories behind the big political events that have shaped the country
ISBN: 9781780277189 Features a new introduction bringing Price: £9.99 the book up to date Publication: 04 February 2021 Format: 198 x 129mm B-pbk Extent: 384pp Illustrations: 16pp colour plates ePub: 9780857909824 Rights: World All Languages
22 | politics and current affairs - new Gin: The Ultimate Companion
The 21st century’s own Gin Craze continues unabated, with exciting new crafted gins launched on a regular basis.
Leading spirits writer Ian Buxton has looked to revise and renew his focus on this most fashionable of spirits. In this book he brings his customary wit, industry knowledge and highly developed palate to this fast-evolving and dynamic market with enthusiastic, book-buying drinkers keen for more IAN BUXTON has been ginsights! working in and around the drinks industry for 30 Ian Buxton’s latest book on gin, years but has been drinking expanding on the success of the professionally for a good deal bestselling 101 Gins To Try Before You longer. He writes in a variety of Die, which has sold 80,000 copies trade and consumer titles in the UK and abroad. The best and most comprehensive guide to gin, perfect for novice and connoisseur alike
Features new and extensive sections on Cocktails, Tonic Waters and Flavoured Gins to guide readers on the best and tastiest available
ISBN: 9781780277530 Price: £14.99 Publication: 07 October 2021 Format: 198 x 129mm B-Pbk w/flaps Extent: 256pp Illustrations: b/w line drawings throughout ePub: 9781788854634 Rights: World English Language
food and drink | 23 The Scottish Brunch Bible
Brunch should evoke a sense of pleasure and relaxation – and perhaps also the temptation to try something new.
Food writer and broadcaster Ghillie Basan offers 50 recipes in seven themed sections: brunch in a bowl, brunch with eggs, brunch on bread, baked potato brunch, sweet-tooth brunch and boozy brunch.
The latest in Birlinn’s bestselling GHILLIE BASAN has written Food Bibles series, with cumulative over 40 books on different sales of over 125,000 copies culinary cultures and has been nominated for the Glenfiddich Focuses on brunch, a meal filled with Award, the Guild of Food endless possibilities! Writers Award and the Cordon Bleu World Food Media Award. Over 50 recipes arranged by theme, Her food and travel articles illustrated throughout by Bob Dewar have appeared in a huge variety of newspapers and magazines. ALSO AVAILABLE
ISBN: 9781780276625 Price: £4.99 Publication: 03 June 2021 Format: 156 x 110mm A-pbk Extent: 112pp Illustrations: b/w line drawings throughout ePub: n/a Rights: World All Languages
24 | food and drink The Tobermory Seafood Bible
In today’s world of ready meals and snacking, the value of healthy eating has never been more important. Seafood is one of the healthiest things you can put on your plate: fish is good for the heart, improves circulation, keeps your joints mobile and your eyes healthy, and is packed with minerals.
In this book, Sally MacColl presents 50 delicious tried-and-tested seafood recipes featuring produce from the SALLY MACCOLL was born waters around her home island of Mull, and brought up on the beautiful including salmon, trout, haddock and Hebridean island of Mull, mackerel as well as mussels, langoustine, where she is co-owner of the lobster, scallops and crab. Tobermory Fish Company, a family-owned business since The latest in Birlinn’s acclaimed 1971. best-selling cookery bibles, with cumulative sales of 140,000 copies
Written by the co-owner of the Tobermory Fish Company, one of Britain’s most acclaimed artisan seafood suppliers
ISBN: 9781780277547 Price: £4.99 Publication: 07 October 2021 Format: 156 x 110mm A-pbk Extent: 112pp Illustrations: b/w line drawings throughout ePub: n/a Rights: World All Languages
food and drink | 25 The Ninth Wave Love and Food on the Isle of Mull
Owners of the Ninth Wave Restaurant on the Isle of Mull, Carla and John Lamont, have brought fine dining to one of the most beautiful islands in the Hebrides. Their cooking is based on seasonality - using the wonderful natural larder of fruit,vegetables, game and seafood at the times of year when they are available CARLA LAMONT is from and at their best. Victoria, Canada. She came over to Scotland in 1994 to Carla tells the story of how she came to work in a restaurant on Iona. set up the restaurant in a remote corner She met her husband John of Scotland and captures the zest and in the village of Fionnphort, creativity of its menu in detailed and Mull, where they have lived easy-to-follow recipes. This is a book to ever since and set up their treasure and to turn to again and again. increasingly acclaimed restaurant in 2009. Author Carla Lamont was a quarter- finalist for MasterChef: The Professionals in 2020
The Ninth Wave was Visit Scotland’s Best Restaurant in 2014 and 2016
As well as a sumptuous souvenir of Mull, this is a practical working ISBN: 9781780277561 cookbook which will guide both Price: £17.99 beginners and experienced cooks Publication: 03 June 2021 Format: 234 x 190mm Trade pbk Extent: 192pp Illustrations: colour throughout ePub: n/a Rights: World All Languages
26 | food and drink A Taste of the Highlands
On a journey through the Highlands of Scotland, Ghillie Basan visits some of the world’s most beautiful places as she chats to food producers, farmers, fishermen, distillers and local characters about food and life, gleaning recipes along the way.
The result of her travels is a spectacular GHILLIE BASAN has written celebration of local produce, including over 40 books on different local lamb and grass-fed Highland beef, culinary cultures and has been wild venison, fresh salmon and juicy nominated for the Glenfiddich scallops, seasonal fruits and berries, Award, the Guild of Food artisan cheeses and breads and, of Writers Award and the Cordon course, beer, gin and whisky. Bleu World Food Media Award. As well as running cookery Ghillie Basan is well known as workshops she also works a food writer whose work has as a flavour and food pairing been nominated for a number of consultant for bar tenders and prestigious awards chefs. Includes magnificent full-colour photography of the places, people, produce and finished dishes
ALSO AVAILABLE
ISBN: 9781780277424 Price: £20.00 Publication: 07 October 2021 Format: 234 x 190mm Hbk Extent: 208pp Illustrations: colour throughout ePub: n/a Rights: World All Languages
food and drink | 27 Old Ways New Roads Travels in Scotland 1720–1832
In 1725 an extensive military road and bridge-building programme was implemented by the British crown that would transform 18th-century Scotland. JOHN BONEHILL is a Lecturer in History of Art at the In this book a number of acclaimed University of Glasgow. experts explore how the Scottish landscape was variously documented, NIGEL LEASK is Regius evaluated, planned and imagined Professor of English Literature in words and images. As well as a and Language at the University fascinating insight into the experience of of Glasgow. travellers and tourists, it also considers how they impacted on the experience of ANNE DULAU-BEVERIDGE the Scottish people themselves. is Curator of French and British Art at the Hunterian. A major new book to coincide with the online exhibition at the Hunterian Art Gallery, Glasgow, from March to May 2021
Includes reproductions of 200 full colour paintings and prints
ISBN: 9781780276670 Price: £20.00 Publication: 07 January 2021 Format: 240 x 256mm Paperback Extent: 240pp Illustrations: colour throughout ePub: n/a Rights: World All Languages
28 | history - new The Soul of the Journey The Mendelssohns in Scotland and Italy
Brother and sister Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn enjoyed a rare bond, and Their travels produced some great music. The Hebrides Overture and the Scottish Symphony were inspired by Felix’s 1829 visit to Scotland, whilst Fanny’s DIANA AMBACHE has written innovative piano cycle Das Jahr was a for numerous publications, musical response to the tour of Italy she including The Independent, made in 1839–40. Classical Music magazine, BBC Music magazine, Classic FM Combining letters and sketches with an magazine and Musical Opinion. accompanying narrative describing their She was shortlisted for the journeys, this is a wonderful celebration prestigious European Women of the two Mendelssohns and a portrait of Achievement in 2002 for her of Scotland and Italy of the time as seen work pioneering the revival and through the eyes of two of the Romantic promotion of music by movement’s most acclaimed composers. female composers. A fascinating insight into the personal and creative lives of one of the 19th century’s greatest musical families
Features Fanny and Felix ISBN: 9781780277257 Mendelssohn’s original letters, as Price: £14.99 Publication: 07 October 2021 well drawings by Felix Mendelssohn Format: 246 x 189mm Trade pbk himself and musical facsimiles of Extent: 160pp Illustrations: colour & b/w throughout Fanny’s manuscripts ePub: n/a Rights: World All Languages
history - new | 29 Putting the Tea in Britain The Scots Who Made Our National Drink
From the Indian Mutiny to the London Blitz, offering a ‘nice cup of tea’ has been a stock British response to a crisis. But tea itself has a dramatic, and often violent, history.
Many Scots made fortunes – but it is a story with a dark side in which racism, the exploitation of native peoples and environmental devastation was the price LES WILSON is an paid for our favourite brew. Les Wilson award-winning writer and brings the story right up to date, with documentary maker. He is the a look at the recent development of tea co-editor of Islay Voices (Birlinn, plantations in Scottish hills and glens. 2016) and the author of The Drowned and the Saved: When The dramatic and colourful story of War Came to the Hebrides how Scots brought tea to Britain and (Birlinn, 2018), which won the made it our national drink Saltire Society History Book of the Year award, 2018. More than 165 million cups of tea are consumed in the UK each day, and it’s the most popular drink in the world
Interest in speciality and exotic teas is increasing rapidly ISBN: 9781780276571 Price: £14.99 Publication: 03 June 2021 Format: 216 x 138mm Demy Hbk Extent: 272pp Illustrations: 8pp b/w plates ePub: 9781788852876 Rights: World All Languages
30 | history - new The Star Drive The True story of a Genius, an Engine and Our Future
This book is the amazing story behind the revolutionary Stirling Engine, which began with Scottish minister Robert Stirling’s original designs for a heat exchange engine in 1816. An invention truly ahead of its time, the practical application of the Stirling Engine has taxed the minds of scientists and inventors for almost 200 years.
Only now is it possible for its full potential to be realised. Phillip Hills weaves science and history together to PHILLIP HILLS is best known tell the story of one of the most exciting for his role in setting up the scientific developments the world has Scotch Malt Whisky Society. His ever seen. interest in Stirling technology came about after finding a Told for the first time, this is the model of Stirling’s original extraordinary story of how an obscure engine for sale at London’s Victorian Scottish minister invented Portobello Road antiques the technology which may take us to market. the stars
The recent Mars landing of the Perseverance rover means that NASA is on target to send a crew to the red planet using Stirling technology ISBN: 9781780276687 Price: £14.99 within the next decade Publication: 02 September 2021 Format: 216 x 138mm Demy Hbk For fans of the bestselling Longitude Extent: 256pp Illustrations: 16pp b/w plates ePub: 9781788853002 Rights: World All Languages
history - new | 31 Neville Chamberlain The Passionate Radical
‘Shines a penetrating light . . . his conclusions are unflinching’ – John Hussey, author of Waterloo: The Campaign of 1815
Neville Chamberlain is remembered today as Hitler’s credulous dupe, the man who proclaimed in September 1938 that the Munich agreement guaranteed ‘peace in our time’.
WALTER REID studied at Unjsutly dismissed as one of the great the universities of Oxford and losers of history, this is a magisterial Edinburgh and is the author reappraisal of the man and his legacy, of a number of acclaimed showing him to be a true radical and a biographies and books of man of passion, particularly with regard military and political history. to the welfare of his fellow citizens. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. A radical re-assessment of one of Britain’s most controversial prime ministers which shows him to be one of the most effective political leaders of the twentieth century
Crucial to understanding the shaping of Britain between the World Wars ISBN: 9781780276748 Price: £25.00 Publication: 02 September 2021 Format: 234 x 156mm Royal Hbk Extent: 320pp Illustrations: 8pp b/w plates ePub: 9781788853064 Rights: World All Languages
32 | history - new A Sword for Christ The Republican Era in Great Britain and Ireland
The 15-year period between 1645 and 1660 was one of the most dynamic in British history, during which Oliver Cromwell’s republican Commonwealth and Protectorate attempted to create a new type of ‘Godly’ state after the execution of Charles I.
Drawing on the latest research and established sources as well as the works and diaries of contemporaries such as JOHNATHAN COBB studied John Evelyn, John Milton and Samuel History at Edinburgh University. Pepys, A Sword for Christ offers a new He held a commission in the and stimulating perspective on these British army until 1988, after extraordinary years. which he pursued a career in investment management. He A magnificent portrait of a won on the Bloomberg/Daily tumultuous period in British history Express International Fund of the Year Award in 1997 and Reappraises many of the key lives in East Lothian. personalities of the period, including Oliver and Richard Cromwell, General Monck, Sir Thomas Fairfax, Charles II and Queen Henrietta Maria
This book will be a must read for ISBN: 9781780276922 anyone interested in the history of Price: £30.00 Great Britain and its shaping as a Publication: 02 September 2021 Format: 234 x 156mm Royal Hbk nation Extent: 416pp Illustrations: 8pp b/w plates ePub: 9781788853064 Rights: World All Languages
history - new | 33 Vienna The International Capital
Vienna is unique amongst world capitals in its consistent international importance over the centuries.
From its time as the capital of an imperial superpower, through war, dissolution, dictatorship to democracy Vienna has reinvented itself and its relevance to the rest of the world. In the first book of its kind, former BBC Vienna correspondent Angus Robertson charts how the Austrian capital developed ANGUS ROBERTSON is a from a garrison town at the edge of the Public Diplomacy consultant, Roman Empire History to a glittering with nearly 30 years’ experience international city. of the international media, frontline political and campaign A complete history of Vienna, one of experience. He is the former the most internationally important BBC Vienna correspondent and capital cities in the world News Editor for the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation From the Congress of Vienna in 1815 (ORF). He served as Member of to diplomatic summits during the Parliament for Moray from 2001 Cold War, Vienna has been the site of to 2017. seismic events for Europe and beyond
Will be of interest to students of politics, international relations and
ISBN: 9781780276915 European history Price: £30.00 Publication: 07 October 2021 Format: 234 x 156mm Royal Hbk Extent: 464pp Illustrations: 16pp colour plates ePub: n/a Rights: World All Languages
34 | history - new Newcastle Upon Tyne Mapping the City
Newcastle has a long and distinguished history through two millennia: a Roman fortress at the eastern end of Hadrian’s Wall; an important centre of MICHAEL BARKE was monasticism; a ‘royal’ bulwark against Reader in Human Geography attacks and invasion from Scotland; and at Northumbria University, the principal centre for the export of coal Newcastle upon Tyne, where to London. he taught from 1974 until his retirement in 2016. This book takes an innovative approach to telling the story of the area’s history BRIAN ROBSON grew up in by focusing on the historic maps and Tyneside. He was Director of plans that record the growth and the Centre for Urban Policy development of Newcastle and Tyneside Studies at the University of over many centuries. Manchester. He died in 2020. The latest in Birlinn’s bestselling ANTHONY CHAMPION series of Mapping the City books, is Emeritus Professor at with cumulative sales of over 30,000 Newcastle University and copies was a staff member in the university’s geography A fascinating look at the North-east’s department. main city and Tyneside featuring over 100 beautiful maps and plans, many reproduced for the first time in book ISBN: 9781780277264 form Price: £30.00 Publication: 04 November 2021 Format: 250 x 246mm Hbk Extent: 272pp Illustrations: colour throughout ePub: n/a Rights: World All Languages
history - new | 35 Scottish Customs
Customs play an important part in all societies and offer fascinating insights into a country’s history and culture. Scotland boasts a multitude of unique customs, many of which can be traced back to the times of the Druids, Celts and Romans.
This book introduces hundreds of Scottish customs associated with a huge range of topics. As well as customs associated with key events of our lives, from birth to death, it also includes customs associated with the world of work, food and drink, health, animals SHEILA LIVINGSTONE was and nature. a Scottish author who wrote widely on the subject of The first book in Birlinn’s new-look Scottish culture and history. Traditional Scotland series
A concise and wide-ranging introduction to Scottish customs
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ISBN: 9781780277301 Price: £6.99 Publication: 01 April 2021 Format: 178 x 110mm Paperback Extent: 160pp Illustrations: b/w line drawings ePub: n/a Rights: World All Languages
36 | history - gifts Scottish Proverbs
Proverbs, once described as ‘the wisdom of many and the wit of one’, offer unique insights the way of life and the social mores of past generations.
This book features an introduction which explores the role of proverbs in Scottish culture and over 1,000 proverbs arranged in easily accessible A–Z format. Many have been commonly used for hundreds of years, but modern sayings are also included. The addition of a comprehensive glossary will help you fully appreciate these colourful and often humorous nuggets of wisdom and COLIN S.K. WALKER worked advice. as a bookseller in Aberdeen and has been collecting Scottish The second title in Birlinn’s new- proverbs for many years. look Traditional Scotland series
The Scots are well known for their pithy sayings which have been passed down over for centuries
ISBN: 9781780277295 Price: £6.99 Publication: 01 April 2021 Format: 178 x 110mm Paperback Extent: 160pp Illustrations: b/w line drawings ePub: n/a Rights: World All Languages
history - gifts | 37 The Appin Murder The Killing that Shook a Nation
COVER On a hillside near Ballachulish in the FORTHCOMING Scottish Highlands in May 1752 a rider was assassinated by a gunman. The murdered man, Colin Campbell, was a government agent and his death resulted in the execution of James Stewart, an innocent and a veteran of the Highland uprising crushed in April 1746 at Culloden.
Introducing this new and updated edition JAMES HUNTER is Emeritus of his account of what came to be called Professor of History at the the Appin Murder, historian James Hunter University of the Highlands tells how his own Duror upbringing and Islands. He has written introduced him to the tragic story of extensively about the north James Stewart. of Scotland and about the region’s worldwide diaspora. The tragic story of one of Scotland’s His book Set Adrift upon the most notorious murders and World (Birlinn 2016) was Saltire miscarriages of justice History Book of the Year in 2016. Will be of interest to anyone with a passion for Scottish and Jacobite history
James Hunter is an award-winning ISBN: 9781780277202 historian and highly respected in his Price: £9.99 Publication: 01 July 2021 field Format: 198 x 129mm B-Pbk Extent: 320pp Illustrations: n/a ePub: 978178885XXXX Rights: World All Languages
38 | history - reissue Pirate Queen The Life of Grace O’Malley
In a life stranger than any fiction, Grace O’Malley, daughter of a clan chief in the far west of Ireland, went from marriage at fifteen to piracy on the high seas. Eventually in 1586 she was captured and sentenced to hang.
Saved from the scaffold by none other than Queen Elizabeth herself, it was then rumoured she had become intelligencer for the queen’s spymaster, Sir Francis Walsingham. Was this the price of her JUDITH COOK was a prolific freedom? Judith Cook explores this biographer and investigative and other questions about the life and journalist. Her subjects included times of this remarkable woman in a J.B. Priestley, Daphne du fascinating, thrilling and impeccably Maurier and Hilda Murrell, researched book. the anti-nuclear campaigner who died in mysterious The extraordinary life of Grace circumstances1985. Born in O’Malley, the world’s most famous Manchester, Judith Cook lived woman pirate for many years in Cornwall, where she died in 2004. The subject of the movie Grainne Uaile (Ciaran Davies, 2020) and the Netflix series Grace O’Malley: The Sea Queen
ISBN: 9781780277158 Price: £9.99 Publication: 06 May 2021 Format: 198 x 129mm B-Pbk Extent: 208pp Illustrations: n/a ePub: 978178885XXXX Rights: World All Languages
history - reissue | 39 The Silver Chanter Historical Tales of Scottish Pipers
All over the world people associate the bagpipes with Scotland. In this informative and entertaining book Stuart McHardy introduces Scotland’s national instrument and examines the part that the piper himself has played in society over the centuries.
Whether dealing with great bravery or contemptible jealousy, the supernatural or the mundane, these stories reflect STUART McHARDY is a writer, the central role that the bagpipes have storyteller and lecturer. He was played, and continue to play, in Scottish Director of the Scots Language traditional culture. Resource Centre from 1993 to 1998 and is a founder A colourful and entertaining member and past president collection of tales featuring of the Pictish Arts Society. Scotland’s national instrument An experienced broadcaster Stuart McHardy has long been Stuart McHardy is a popular writer, interested in Scotland’s musical broadcaster and storyteller and an traditions, playing music expert in Scottish history professionally since his teens. ALSO AVAILABLE
ISBN: 9781780277226 Price: £8.99 Publication: 06 May 2021 Format: 198 x 129mm B-Pbk Extent: 224pp Illustrations: n/a ePub: 9781788853569 Rights: World All Languages
40 | history - reissue River of Fire The Clydebank Blitz
When, on the evening of 13 March 1941, the authorities first detected that Clydebank was ‘on beam’ – targeted by the primitive radio-guidance system of the German bombers – no effort was made to raise the alarm or to direct the residents to shelter or flight.
In this newly updated edition of his acclaimed book, John MacLeod tells the human story of the Clydebank Blitz and the terrible scale of death and JOHN MACLEOD won Scottish devastation, speculating on why its Journalist of the Year in 1991 incineration has been so widely forgotten and contributed regularly to and its ordeal denied any place in The Scotsman and The Herald. national honour. He is presently a columnist with the Scottish Daily Mail and is Published to coincide with the 80th the author of several books. He Anniversary of the Clydebank Blitz lives on a croft on the west side of Lewis. A fascinating, in depth history of this lesser-known incident in the Second World War
Based off of primary sources and interviews with relatives of those who survived the blitz ISBN: 9781839830143 Price: £12.99 Publication: 04 March 2021 Format: 198 x 129mm B-Pbk Extent: 448pp Illustrations: 8pp b/w plates ePub: 9780857900869 Rights: World All Languages
history - new edition | 41 The King Over the Water A Complete History of the Jacobites
Shortlisted for the Military History Matters Book of the Year Award, 2020
‘Seward’s best work ... a rollickingly, splendidly chronological history’ - The Herald
This is the first modern history for general readers of the entire Jacobite movement in Scotland, England and DESMOND SEWARD is one Ireland, from the ‘Glorious Revolution’ of of the most highly regarded 1688 that drove James II into exile to the popular historians of his death of his grandson, Cardinal Henry, generation. He is the author of Duke of York, in 1807. numerous books, ranging from studies of medieval kings to Based on the latest research, The King biographies of Napoleon and over the Water weaves together all the Hitler. His books The Hundred strands of this gripping saga into a vivid, Years’ War and The Wars of the sweeping narrative, full of insight, Roses are regarded as standard analysis and anecdote. works on their subjects. Paperback edition of the first full, modern history of the Jacobite cause in its entirety
ISBN: 9781780276762 Desmond Seward is the bestselling Price: £14.99 author of over 30 books of popular Publication: 04 March 2021 history Format: 198 x 129mm B-Pbk Extent: 416pp Illustrations: 16pp colour plates ePub: 9781788853071 Rights: World All Languages
42 | history - new in paperback A Difference of Opinion The Autobiography of Jim Sillars
Jim Sillars as a working-class schoolboy was told by the Deputy Rector at Ayr Academy that he would end up a ‘common labourer’, and by the Rector that he would ‘make nothing of himself’.
He went on to be elected an MP twice, reaching high levels of political leadership, and making a continuing JIM SILLARS served as a high-profile contribution to public life and Labour MP in Westminster, policy. This is his story, told in his own before splitting to form the words. Scottish Labour Party. After then joining the SNP he was One of the most well-known Scottish elected MP for Govan in 1988. politicians of recent decades gives the In his later career he became inside story of his life in politics Assistant to the Secretary General of the Arab-British His views on government, Scottish Chamber of Commerce and Nationalism and Europe are also served six years on the highly relevant to current political board of Scottish Enterprise. controversies
From Neil Kinnock to Margaret Thatcher his stories about his ISBN: 9781780276830 Price: £20.00 encounters give fascinating insights Publication: 02 September 2021 into political history Format: 234 x 156mm Royal Hbk Extent: 328pp Illustrations: 8pp colour plates ePub: 9781788853033 Rights: World All Languages
biography - new | 43 The Great Tapestry of Scotland
The Great Tapestry of Scotland is an outstanding celebration of thousands of years of Scottish history and achievement, from the end of the last Ice Age to Dolly the Sheep and Andy Murray’s Wimbledon victory of 2013. ALISTAIR MOFFAT was born The 1000+ stitchers spent a total of 55, in Kelso, Scotland in 1950. He 000 sewing hours on the 160 panels that is an award winning Writer, make up this extraordinary work of art. Historian and former Director of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Photographs of every panel are and Director of Programmes included, together with descriptive and at Scottish Television. He is explanatory material on each and lists the founder of Borders Book of all the stitchers involved. This is an Festival and Co-Chairman of enthralling and beautifully produced The Great Tapestry Of Scotland. illustrated guide to the Tapestry.
Published to mark the opening of a new, purpose-built gallery for the Tapestry to open in Galashiels in Summer 2021
This book shows in full colour all the finished panels of the tapestry – one of the biggest community arts projects ever to take place in Scotland
ISBN: 9781780276472 Previous edition sold over 17,000 Price: £30.00 Publication: 03 June 2021 copies Format: 250 x 246mm Hardback Extent: 352pp Illustrations: colour throughout ePub: n/a Rights: World All Languages
44 | the great tapestry of scotland The Great Tapestry of Scotland The Making of a Masterpiece
This book tells the story of the creation of The Great Tapestry of Scotland, from its original conception and creation by teams of dedicated stitchers to its grand unveiling at the Scottish Parliament in 2013, its subsequent touring and the creation of its permanent home in the ALISTAIR MOFFAT was born Scottish Borders. in Kelso, Scotland in 1950. He is an award winning Writer, A guide to one of the most ambitious art Historian and former Director projects in Scotland’s history, this edition of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe features a new afterword bringing the and Director of Programmes story up to date from the launch at at Scottish Television. He is the parliament to the building of the the founder of Borders Book permanent home in Galashiels. Festival and Co-Chairman of The Great Tapestry Of Scotland. The Great Tapestry of Scotland was created by a team of over a thousand volunteer stitchers from over 300 miles of wool
Previous edition sold over 19,000 copies
ISBN: 9781780277097 Price: £9.99 Publication: 03 June 2021 Format: 236 x 190mm Paperback Extent: 128pp Illustrations: colour throughout ePub: n/a Rights: World All Languages
the great tapestry of scotland | 45 The Great Tapestry of Scotland Colouring Book
The Great Tapestry of Scotland is one of the most ambitious community arts projects ever undertaken. The brainchild of bestselling author Alexander McCall Smith, historian Alistair Moffat and artist ANDREW CRUMMY began his Andrew Crummy, it was created by a professional career in London, team of over one thousand volunteer where he contributed to a stitchers between 2012 and 2013, led by wide range of publications, Dorie Wilkie. including NME, The Observer and Timeout. A series of large- The book also features stunning images scale murals for Midland Bank from Andrew Crummy’s artwork for the developed into an interest for Tapestry – complete panels and details. artworks in public and All have been adapted to allow colouring community settings, and he has enthusiasts of all ages and ability to been involved with many such share in this remarkable work of art. projects around the world. Published to coincide with the opening of the Great Tapestry of Scotland’s permanent home in Galashiels in June 2021
At 143 metres, the Great Tapestry of Scotland is twice the length of the Bayeux Tapestry, and its 160 panels ISBN: 9781780277080 feature key moments from over of Price: £8.99 8,500 years of Scottish history Publication: 03 June 2021 Format: 250 x 250mm Paperback Extent: 48pp Illustrations: b/w line drawings throughout ePub: n/a Rights: World All Languages
46 | the great tapestry of scotland The Story of Scotland Inspired by The Great Tapestry of Scotland
In this book, specifically designed for younger readers, bestselling children’s historian Allan Burnett tells the story of Scotland through the Great Tapestry - a thing of wonder, full of magic and adventures and mysteries. In addition to opening windows into key moments in history and introducing some of the most ALLAN BURNETT is one of significant people who have shaped the Scotland’s best-selling authors nation, the book also celebrates the lives for young readers. He was born of ordinary Scots over the ages. and brought up in the Western Isles and educated at the From saints, soldiers and University of Edinburgh, while Vikings to kings and queens, Arctic working after dark as a ghost whalers and footballers, this is an tour guide. Allan has written amazing journey through the story of many other books, including Scotland. Mary, Queen of Scots and All That and Invented in Scotland. A magnificent pageant of Scottish history and culture through the ages for young readers aged 8–12
Features details of the acclaimed Great Tapestry of Scotland ISBN: 9781780277134 Price: £9.99 Humorous yet informative in Allan Publication: 06 May 2021 Format: 230 x 180mm Paperback Burnett’s trademark style Extent: 128pp Illustrations: colour throughout ePub: n/a Rights: World All Languages
the great tapestry of scotland | 47 The Greatest Show on Earth Mexico 1970
The 1970 World Cup is widely regarded as the greatest ever staged, with more goals per game than any World Cup since. But more than just the proliferation of goals was the quality of the overall football, as some of the finest teams ever to represent the likes of West Germany, Peru, Italy and England came together for a tilt at the world title.
ANDREW DOWNIE is the Andrew Downie charts each stage of the Brazilian football correspondent tournament, from the preparations to the for Reuters, and has lived in the final, telling a host of remarkable stories country for almost 20 years. He in the players’ own words. has written on football for GQ, the Economist, the New York The story of the greatest World Cup Times and the Guardian among competition ever staged told in the others. players’ own words
Using new interviews as well as archive material this is book takes you right to the heart of the action like never before
An essential read for all followers of
ISBN: 9781909715967 the beautiful game, and a perfect gift Price: £17.99 for fans everywhere Publication: 02 September 2021 Format: 234 x 156mm Royal Hbk Extent: 320pp Illustrations: 16pp b/w plates ePub: 9781788853217 Rights: World All Languages
48 | sport - new The Ghosts of Cathkin Park Inside Third Lanark’s Extraordinary Final Season
The summer of 1967 was Scottish football’s finest hour, with one exception.
Third Lanark Athletic Club, one of the country’s oldest and most successful football teams, a founder member of the Scottish Football Association, and to date one of only four teams to defeat both Rangers and Celtic in the Scottish MICHAEL McEWAN is a Cup Final, played its final game. And journalist from Glasgow. He hardly anybody seemed to notice. Why? is the Assistant Editor of PSP Media Group’s portfolio of Michael McEwan brings rich archival sports titles, which include research together with interviews with Bunkered, Scotland’s highest the key surviving players in the Third circulating golf magazine. He Lanark squad from that final season, is the author of Running the as well as opposition players and other Smoke: 26 First-Hand Accounts relevant figures from the era. of Running the London Marathon. The story of the forgotten demise of what was once one of the Scottish Premiership’s most formidable institutions
ISBN: 9781909715981 Price: £17.99 A tale of bitter revenge and a torrid Publication: 02 September 2021 example of how mismanagement off Format: 234 x 156mm Royal Hbk Extent: 320pp the pitch can destroy fortunes on it Illustrations: 16pp b/w plates ePub: 9781788853149 Rights: World All Languages
sport - new | 49 Be Quiet, Bramble!
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 BENEDICT BLATHWAYT doesn’t like the rain. spent much of his youth, childhood and early years of One night, after a heavy storm, the river married life on Mull. He has floods. The other animals are frightened, written and illustrated over 50 but Bramble knows what to do and picture books for Julie MacRae, sets off to rescue them. Walker Books, Hutchinson, OUP and Rex Fox, among others, A delightful picture flat from one of and his work has appeared the UK’s most popular children’s in 14 languages. He won the authors and illustrators Smarties Prize in 1988 for Tangle and the Firesticks. Birlinn’s Blathwayt titles have now sold over 45,000 copies, including Tig & Tag, The Little House by the Sea and Little Seal
ISBN: 9781780276595 Price: £6.99 Publication: 03 June 2021 Format: 200 x 200mm Paperback Extent: 32pp Illustrations: colour thoughout ePub: n/a Rights: World All Languages
50 | children’s Pip and the Puffer
Pip lives on island and is the captain of his boat Puffin, which he sails to the mainland to collect the things that the islanders need.
One beautiful morning Pip and his crew set off as usual, but when they ALSO AVAILABLE reach the mainland they learn that the weather is about to turn foggy. As they journey home the fog descends and they are in trouble: how will they avoid the dangerous whirlpool and get safely home? Maybe the crows can help.
LITTLE SEAL Second of two brand new picture ISBN: 9781780274607 flats from the bestselling Benedict Blathwayt
Delightful story of an intrepid young sailor, beautifully illustrated to delight young readers
BELLA GOES TO SEA ISBN: 9781780274577
ISBN: 9781780277127 Price: £6.99 Publication: 03 June 2021 Format: 200 x 200mm Paperback Extent: 32pp Illustrations: colour thoughout ePub: n/a Rights: World All Languages
children’s 51 Young Precious The Collected Adventures
‘Alexander McCall Smith is one of my favourite authors and I have read quite a few books written by him. Out of all his books this is my favourite . . . I give this book 100/100’ – Alexander Bisland, age 9, Lovereading4kids
Once upon a time in Botswana there was a little girl called Precious, who grew up to become a famous detective.
But even as a young girl she had an ALEXANDER McCALL SMITH extraordinary ability to solve mysteries. is the author of more than 80 This volume contains all her first books. He is one of the world’s adventures, from the mystery of some most prolific and popular missing snacks to the clues that lead to a authors, whose books have family reunion. been translated into more than 50 languages. Includes all four books featuring the very first adventures of the young Precious Ramotswe
Will appeal not just to young readers, but to all those who love the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series
The Young Precious series has sold ISBN: 9781780277417 over 50,000 copies Price: £12.99 Publication: 01 July 2021 Format: 198 x 129mm Hardback Extent: 384pp Illustrations: b/w line drawings ePub: n/a Rights: WEL exc. North America
52 | children’s The Queen of the Birds
After a terrible storm, the Kingdom of Birds is looking for a leader. Will it be the bird with the loveliest song, or the brightest plumage? The fastest in the air, or underwater? The bird who flies KARINE POLWART is a highest, or those who stick together and multi-award-winning Scottish work as a team? songwriter and musician, as well as a theatre maker, All across the sky, birds are flocking storyteller, spoken word together. Nightingales and robins, barn performer and essayist. owls and blackbirds. The eagle, the flamingo, the birds of the moor. Curlews KATE LEIPER is an artist and and cuckoos and herons and hoopoes. illustrator who regularly exhibits And Wee Jenny Wren. Let the contest and undertakes commissions begin! throughout the UK. She is particularly drawn to mythical An exquisite retelling of a well- and animal subjects. known traditional tale by one of Scotland’s most well-known songwriters and storytellers
Illustrated by an artist renowned for her paintings of animals – both real and mythical
Karine and Kate collaborated on the acclaimed A Wee Bird Was Watching
ISBN: 9781780276861 (Birlinn, 2018) Price: £8.99 Publication: 05 March 2021 Format: 250 x 250mm Paperback Extent: 48pp Illustrations: b/w line drawings throughout ePub: n/a Rights: World All Languages
children’s 53 The Scottish Coastal Colouring Book
Stretching for almost 10,000 miles (including numerous islands), the coastline of Scotland is one of the most varied in the world, from beautiful sandy beaches and flower-laden machair to EILIDH MULDOON studied dramatic cliffs and sea stacks. Art History and gained an MFA in Illustration from Edinburgh In this book Eilidh Muldoon has drawn 23 College of Art in June 2013, views celebrating the huge diversity of where she is currently a tutor. Scotland’s coasts, featuring dramatic She is also a freelance artist landscapes and seascapes, picturesque and illustrator whose work has fishing villages and imposing castles, not appeared in prints, greetings forgetting the animals that make the cards and giftware. coast their home.
A brand new book in Birlinn’s bestselling series of colouring books focusing on the Scottish coasts
Eilidh Muldoon’s colouring books have sold over 35,000 copies
Illustrations ideal for all levels of colouring
ISBN: 9781780276861 Price: £8.99 Publication: 05 March 2021 Format: 250 x 250mm Paperback Extent: 48pp Illustrations: b/w line drawings throughout ePub: n/a Rights: World All Languages
54 | colouring books Hebridean Desk Diary 2022
ISBN: 9781780277356 Price: £12.99 inc VAT | Publication: 06 May 2021 Format: 230 x 170mm Hardback Extent: 128pp Illustrations: colour thoughout ePub: n/a Rights: World All Languages
Hebridean Pocket Diary 2022
ISBN: 9781780277363 Price: £7.99 inc VAT | Publication: 06 May 2021 Format: 156 x 110mm Hardback Extent: 128pp Illustrations: colour thoughout ePub: n/a Rights: World All Languages
stationery | 55 Hebridean Calendar 2022
ISBN: 9781780277349 Price: £9.99 inc VAT | Publication: 06 May 2021 Format: 300 x 300mm Calendar Extent: 24pp Illustrations: colour thoughout ePub: n/a Rights: World All Languages
Scottish Maps Calendar 2022
ISBN: 9781780277011 Price: £9.99 inc VAT | Publication: 06 May 2021 Format: 300 x 300mm Calendar Extent: 24pp Illustrations: colour thoughout ePub: n/a Rights: World All Languages
The Great Tapestry of Scotland Calendar 2022
ISBN: 9781780277028 Price: £9.99 inc VAT | Publication: 06 May 2021 Format: 300 x 300mm Calendar Extent: 24pp Illustrations: colour thoughout ePub: n/a Rights: World All Languages
56 | stationery Mael Coluim III ‘Canmore’ The World of an Eleventh Century King
The legendary Scottish king Máel Coluim III, also known as ‘Malcolm Canmore’, is often held to epitomise Scotland’s ‘ancient Gaelic kings’. Máel Coluim’s long reign from 1058 until 1093 coincided with the Norman Conquest of England, a revolutionary event that presented great opportunities and terrible dangers.
The book explores the wider political and NEIL McGUIGAN is a cultural world in which Máel Coluim lived, researcher, historian and guiding the reader through the pitfalls lecturer, and also works as a and possibilities offered by the sources historical consultant. He gained that mediate access to that world. degrees from the University of Edinburgh and a PhD in The first full-length study of the history from the University of St famous Scottish king Máel Coluim Andrews, where he is a regular III, popularly known as ‘Malcolm lecturer and tutor. Canmore’, the vanquisher of Macbeth
Will appeal to those interested in medieval history and Anglo-Saxon history
ISBN: 9781910900192 Price: £100.00 Publication: 04 March 2021 Format: 234 x 156mm Hardback Extent: 624pp Illustrations: 8pp b/w plates ePub: n/a Rights: World All Languages
academic history - new in paperback | 57 The Sea Kings The Late Norse Kingdoms of Man and the Isles c.1066-1275
The archipelagic kingdoms of Man and the Isles that flourished from the last quarter of the eleventh century down to the middle of the thirteenth century represent two forgotten kingdoms of the medieval British Isles.
They were ruled by powerful individuals who left their footprint on a wide range of written documents and upon the very landscapes and seascapes of the islands. R. ANDREW McDONALD is This book represents the first ever Professor of History at Brock overview of both Manx and Hebridean University, Canada, where he dynasties that dominated Man and the was the founding director of Isles from the late eleventh to the mid- the Centre for Medieval and thirteenth centuries. Renaissance Studies. He is the author of The Kingdom of The first ever study of the Late Norse the Isles: Scotland’s Western kingdoms of Man and the Isles in the Seaboard, c.1100–c.1336. period of the central Middle Ages
Andrew McDonald is an authority on the subject and the author of numerous books on Scottish and Manx medieval history
ISBN: 9781910900376 Price: £30.00 Publication: 06 May 2021 Format: 234 x 156mm Paperback Extent: 464pp Illustrations: 12pp b/w plates ePub: n/a Rights: World All Languages
58 | academic history - new Sales Contacts
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