Books from Birlinn
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J K Rowling and the Harry Potter Phenomenon
By Lindsey FraserFrom a remarkable insider perspective Lindsey Fraser tells the amazing tale that began one day on a train, when Rowling had forgotten to pack a pen. . .
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Scottish History Without the Boring Bits: A Chronicle of the Curious, the Eccentric, the Atrocious and the Unlikely
By Ian CroftonPraise for Ian Crofton's A Dictionary of Scottish Phrase and Fable: 'The kind of book you find yourself immersed in long after you should have put it down' Times Literary Supplement
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A Dictionary of Scottish Phrase and Fable
By Ian CroftonThis 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 ...
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Isles of the West: A Hebridean Voyage
By Ian MitchellMitchell's entertaining and thought provoking account of his luxurious quest to not only enjoy the beauty of the islands, but to come to an understanding of the places and the effect alien forces have on them.
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Scottish Inventors
By Gary Smailes"Scottish inventions tells the stories of 32 famous (and some not so famous!) men and women, and their often bizarre inventions, who have put Scotland on the map, including James Watt, Thomas Telford, Alexander Graham Bell, John Logie Baird ...
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Thunderbook: The World of Bond According to Smersh Pod
By John RainM orders a restriction on his passport, the cancellation of all his cards and the batteries to be taken out of his Xbox ... looking for all the world like he's advertising P&O Cruises, but instead he's heading to see René Mathis, ...
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Tobermory and Other Stories
By SakiAt a country house party Cornelius Appin announces that he has discovered a method by which animals can be taught to speak.
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Facing the Bear: Scotland and the Cold War
By Trevor RoyleTheir story has been related in several historical accounts and has provided the basis for several dramatised films such as Alan Bennett's An Englishman Abroad (1983) which centred on Burgess, played by Alan Bates, with the film being ...
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Precious and the Zebra Necklace
By Alexander McCall SmithThis is the start of an exciting adventure that leads the two girls deep into the remotest parts of Botswana, where they meet an old lady who recognises the necklace and has some extraordinary news for Nancy.
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Highland Warrior: Alasdair MacColla and the Civil Wars
By David StevensonA compelling and dramatic sweep through some of the most eventful years in Scottish history, told in a text both authoritative and highly readable.
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Tom Morris of St Andrews: The Colossus of Golf 1821 - 1908
By David Malcolm, Peter E. CrabtreeThis is the first biography in over 100 years of the great Tom Morris of St Andrews, who presided over one of the most illustrious periods in the history of golf, who - more than anyone before or since in any game - stamped his individual ...
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Pabay: An Island Odyssey
By Christopher WhatleyAn opportunity arose for Angus Mackinnon to take over from Donald Robertson, who had intimated his intention of leaving Scalpay. Angus was keen to make the change, for even though he was sixtyfour years old, he knew Scalpay well.
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Lost Aberdeen: Aberdeen's Lost Architectural Heritage
By Diane MorganLong gone industrial archaeology is also revisited, the railway stations, mills, shipyards, seafront, tollhouses and boathouse, which slipped away as if they never had existed.In Lost Aberdeen Diane Morgan writes with the same fresh ...
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Crappit Heids for Tea: Recollections of a Highland Childhood
By Ann Gray, Iby FraserSutherland is one of the most ruggedly beautiful and sparsely populated parts of Scotland.
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Pipers: A Guide to the Players and Music of the Highland Bagpipe
By William DonaldsonPipers takes the reader inside the world of the performer community of Scottish piping, introducing the instrument itself and the various different repertories.
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Robert Fergusson: Selected Poems
By Robert FergussonThis edition, first published in 2000 to mark the 250th anniversary of Fergusson's birth, and revised in 2007, contains all his poems in Scots, a selection of poems in English, an introductory essay, revised orthography, substantial ...
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FAITHFUL and BRAVE
By John MacLeodFormer pupil and award-winning journalist John MacLeod reveals all in a book which tells not just the historical facts, but which is liberally peppered with anecdote, including details about the clock that never worked, the ghost of the ...
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Leila
By Robin JenkinsRobin Jenkins returned to the Far East in the 1950s for "Leila", a tender love story involving a Scottish teacher, Andrew Sandilands, and Leila, the exotically beautiful daughter of a local politician.
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Warriors of the Word: The World of the Scottish Highlanders
By Michael NewtonWilliam J. Watson 2004: 244–5; G. W. S. Barrow 1998: 56–9. William J. Watson 2004: 247–8; John MacInnes 2006: 23. Ian Carmichael 1948: 42–3. ... Scott Reiss 2003: 149–50, 153–4. Sally K. Sommers Smith 2003: 105. Scott Reiss 2003: 155–8.
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McLevy: The Edinburgh Detective
By James McLevyVery inspiring ... part of our history and part of our culture' - Alanna Knight 'A fascinating insight into the Victorian underclass ... a powerful writer' - Daily Mail 'This is a gem .