Birlinn Ltd. - Polygon, Birlinn, John Donald

You can now access our blog and all articles on http://www.birlinn.co.uk/blog/ . We are looking forward to seeing you there!

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Polygon is delighted to announce that Midnight in Havana by Peggy Blair , scheduled to be published on 4th July in the UK, has been shortlisted for the Arthur Ellis Awards Best First Novel, one...

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Birlinn Ltd is delighted to announce the launch of a new imprint, Arena Sport! Debuting later this Spring, it aims to publish five or six titles per year beginning with the paperback edition o...

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Birlinn is very sad to announce the death last week of Katharine Stewart, author of A Croft in the Hills and A Garden in the Hills , at the age of ninety-eight. A Croft in the Hills (1960)...

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Not a haggis. As the uber-Scot Sir Sean Connery once asked whilst playing an immortal Spaniard, who was actually an ancient Egyptian, in the film Highlander, ‘What is a haggis?’   ...

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If, as Napoleon once observed, “in politics stupidity is not a handicap”, then meet the next Honourable Member for Broughty Ferry – Bob Servant. Star of three bestselling books and a BBC...

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Word of mouth, hand-selling, whatever you call it we do like a personal recommendation. So we asked the Birlinn Elves what their favourite Birlinn and Polygon book of 2012 was. Our Publici...

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Not content with four shortlisted titles at the Saltire Society's Literary Awards , Birlinn and Polygon authors managed to sweep three awards in one week!  Alexander McCall Smith kicked thi...

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This year is a bumper year for Birlinn and Polygon authors at the Saltire Society’s Literary Awards , and rightly so. The winners are announced at the National Library of Scotland on St Andrew...

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It’s Book Week Scotland next week, and we have plenty events planned with our fantastic authors. Get your diary out, here we go! If you’re near the Mull of Kintyre on 26th November, the won...

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Polygon is very excited that James Kelman has been shortlisted for the Best of the James Tait Black Prize. Six authors from the past century have been shortlisted for the best ever winner of Br...

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Birlinn is delighted to announce that SHEILA STEWART has been nominated for the Lifetime Achievement Award in the British Awards for Storytelling Excellence 2012! Sheila joins an impressive...

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If you find yourself at Edinburgh Zoo, and you can tear yourself away from the pandas, we heartily recommend heading to the Rainforest Room in the Education Centre for a fantastic exhibition ca...

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‘This is for you in support of libraries, books, words, ideas …’ The ‘literary Banksy’ has struck again! Over a period of eight months last year, ten intricate and beautiful sculptu...

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We like it very much when people say nice things about books we publish, and we especially like it when it's an 'unprovoked' review, so to speak, from an accidental reader. THE LAST WOLF ...

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Let’s start with a very exciting event for Polygon. They’re all exciting, but it’s not every day a Polygon title is shortlisted for the Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book Awards Bo...

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Birlinn Ltd is delighted to announce the signing of ‘Bradley Wiggins: Tour De Force’ by John Deering. Bradley Wiggins Bradley Wiggins recently became the first British rider to win th...

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They seek him here, they seek him there but in August it’s a pretty safe bet that Alexander McCall Smith will be at home in Edinburgh. ‘Home’ being the Edinburgh International Book Festiva...

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The Book Festival In amongst all the lovely big white marquees in Charlotte Square, you might notice a small orange, two-man tent. This is Birlinn HQ at the Edinburgh International Book Fest...

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Alistair Moffat It has become more and more popular to ask ourselves, genetically-speaking, “Who do you think you are?” but is it something a nation can ask itself? A best-selling histo...

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Everyone at Birlinn is very sad to announce the death of Doris Davidson. Doris    Doris was an Aberdeen lass through and through, having been born there in 1922 the daughter of a mas...

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Polygon is delighted to announce that Angus Peter Campbell has been shortlisted for the Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book of the Year Award 2012. Angus Peter’s collection Aibisidh w...

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If there was anyone we’d describe as laughing at the clock, it would be Aonghas MacNeacail . Acclaimed as the Fforemost poet writing today in the Gaelic language, his skilful way with words an...

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Click here for more info Sometimes you just need something different, so in amongst all the bunting and flags we were delighted to see Dark Heritage taking the time to blog about Vikings i...

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At the weekend BIRLINN celebrated their first year in eBooks, and what an exciting year it has been! Since we launched with 40 titles, we have continued to release digital editions of our ti...

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