Birlinn: 208 books
A School in South Uist
Reminiscences of a Hebridean Schoolmaster, 1890-1913
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2016
These are the memoirs of a teacher from England who became headmaster of Garrynemonie School in South Uist in the 1890s. At that time, the Hebrides were as remote and forbidding to mainlanders as the Antarctic is in the late-1990s. In the 1890s this island was one of the poorest districts in the Outer...
Padre Mac
The Autobiography of Murdo Ewen Macdonald of Harris
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
From a croft in the Hebridean island of Harris to the grim confines of the Nazis' notorious prisoner-of-war camp Stalag Luft III and the hallowed of Glasgow University, the life of Murdo Ewen Macdonald was one of extraordinary variety and richness. Macdonald was ordained as a Church of Scotland minister...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2017
All over the world traditional tales used to be told at the fireseide until their place came to be taken by books, newspapers, radio and television. This is an entertaining collection from Scotland, recorded and collected by researchers from the School of Scottish Studies at Edinburgh University over...
The Final Curtsey: A Royal Memoir by the Queen's Cousin
A Royal Memoir by the Queen's Cousin
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
This is the intimate and revealing autobiography of Margaret Rhodes, the first cousin of Queen Elizabeth II and the niece of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother. Margaret was born into the Scottish aristocracy, into a now almost vanished world of privilege. Royalty often came to stay and her house was...
The Soap Man
Lewis, Harris and Lord Leverhulme
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
In 1918, as the First World War was drawing to a close, the eminent liberal industrial Lord Leverhulme bought - lock, stock and barrel - the Hebridean island of Lewis. His intention was to revolutionise the lives and environments of its 30,000 people, and those of neighbouring Harris, which he shortly...
Stuart Adamson
In a Big Country
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
The book that fans of the Skids, Big Country and the Raphaels have been waiting for - a critical perspective not only of Adamson's music and its wider cultural influence, but also the excesses of fame and how the music business really works. Stuart Adamson: In A Big Country tells the story of how...
The Iceman
The Rise and Fall of a Crime Lord
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2012
The elite police officers secretly launching Scotland's biggest ever offensive against organised crime had only one target. His name was Jamie Stevenson, but he was known as The Iceman, the biggest drugs trafficker the country has ever seen. Suspected of a string of murders - including the gangland...
Acid Attack
A Journalist's War With Organised Crime
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Two days before Christmas 2015, veteran crime journalist Russell Findlay was the target of a vicious attack on his own doorstep. An unknown assailant, disguised as a postman, hurled sulphuric acid in his face before attempting to stab him with a steak knife. Despite suffering horrific burns, Findlay...
Shredded
Inside RBS, The Bank That Broke Britain
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
The Royal Bank of Scotland was once one of the most successful and profitable financial institutions in the world; revered, admired and trusted by millions of savers and investors. A trusted employer for tens of thousands of people, with branches on nearly every high street in the land. Now, the very...
by Rita Monaldi, Francesco Sorti
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
July, 1700, Rome. Atto Melani - once a celebrated castrato soprano, now a spy in the service of King Louis XIV, the Sun King - mingles with other high-ranking guests at the villa of Cardinal Spada. Despite being there to celebrate the Cardinal's nephew's wedding, the main topic of conversation is...
When The Clyde Ran Red
A Social History of Red Clydeside
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
When the Clyde Ran Red paints a vivid picture of the heady days when revolution was in the air on Clydeside. Through the bitter strike at thehuge Singer Sewing machine plant in Clydebank in 1911, Bloody Friday in Glasgow’s George Square in 1919, the General Strike of 1926and on through the Spanish...
by Alan Burnett
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
"William Wallace And All That" is a real-life adventure packed with historical facts about Scotland's legendary hero. Join Sir William Wallace on his fearsome quest to free the Scots from villainous King Edward and his evil empire. Growl with anger as you find out what nasty things Edward's...
by Ian Buxton
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2015
We're in the middle of a new Gin Craze. Scarcely a day goes by without an established brand offering a fresh take on their established styles or, more likely, a new boutique distillery opening its doors - where gin is de rigueur. From Adnams to Zuidam; Beefeater to Bombay and London to Plymouth (and...
Whiskies Galore
A Tour of Scotland's Island Distilleries
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2017
Island whiskies have long held a fascination and a powerful emotional draw on whisky drinkers the world over. Their special combination of heritage, mystique, and remote location captures the imagination; their highly distinctive flavours are often imitated but seldom bettered. There have been few...