Birlinn: 208 books
The European Game
An Adventure to Explore Football on the Continent and its Methods for Success
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2017
The European Game is an adventure. Over three months Dan Fieldsend travelled the continent discovering the methods for success used at some of the biggest clubs in Europe, from Ajax and Juventus, to Feyenoord, Inter Milan, Bayern Munch, Benfica, Athletic Bilbao and many more. At each institution he...
by Graeme Obree
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
On 17 July 1993, Graeme Obree stunned the international world when he emerged from obscurity to smash Francesco Moser's World Hour Record. The Flying Scotsman is Graeme Obree's searing autobiography, from his tough upbringing in Ayrshire where he found escape on the roads, to his head-to-head duals...
Money
The Life and Fast Times of Floyd Mayweather
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
This edition is fully updated to include Mayweather’s battle with UFC star Conor McGregor.Floyd ‘Money’ Mayweather is one of the most successful professional boxers of all time, with fifty professional victories in a glittering unbeaten ring career that has spanned two decades. Mayweather was...
Detroit 67
The Year That Changed Soul
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
Detroit 67 is the story of Motor City in the year that changed everything. Twelve chapters take you on a turbulent year-long journey through the drama and chaos that ripped through the city in 1967 and tore it apart in personal, political and interracial disputes. It is the story of Motown, the break-up...
The School of Hard Knox
The Autobiography of Archie Knox
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
The School of Hard Knox chronicles the life and career of one of the most admired and respected coaches ever to grace Scottish football, Archie Knox.After his early days at Forfar Athletic, Archie became a key ally for Alex Ferguson at Aberdeen and Manchester United. Together they won the Scottish...
by Liz Lochhead
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
The Colour of Black and White is Liz Lochhead's first collection of poems for more than a dozen years, and, for her, the most important since the award-winning Dreaming Frankenstein and Collected Poems in 1984. The coming of a simple love lyric feels like a proof that some vital stream hasn't dried...
Friend & Foe
A Hew Cullan Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
St Andrews, 1583. The young king James VI is confined at Falkland palace, plotting his escape. Dissension rages between Kirk and Crown, the king and his 'lord enterprisers', and between the separate factions of the church. In St Andrews Castle, a bishop in decline plays out his darkest fantasies,...
Queen & Country
A Hew Cullan Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
Three years after his enforced departure to London, Hew is reconciled with King James VI and recalled to Scotland. He elopes to St Andrews with a young Englishwoman. The death of Mary, Queen of Scots has unleashed a wave of anti-English sentiment among the Scottish people, and fear and confusion in...
by Shirley McKay
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
1579, St. Andrews. A thirteen-year old boy meets his death on the streets of the university city of St. Andrews and suspicion falls upon one of the regents at the university, Nicholas Colp. Hew Cullan, a young lawyer recently returned home from Paris, uncovers a complex tale of passion and duplicity,...
Dark Encounters
A Collection of Ghost Stories
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Dark Encounters is a collection of classic and elegantly unsettling ghost stories first published in 1963. A spine-tingling collection, these tales are set in the brooding landscape of Scotland, with an air of historic authenticity – often referring to real events, objects and people. From a demonic...
The Ragged Lion
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2018
In this critically-acclaimed fictional memoir of Sir Walter Scott, Allan Massie recreates the life and times of one of Scotland’s greatest writers,convincingly capturing Scott’s humour, stoicism and eccentricity. Combining imaginative plausibility with his own deep knowledge of and love forScott's...
Appointment in Arezzo
A friendship with Muriel Spark
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
This book is an intimate, fond and funny memoir of one of the greatest novelists of the last century. This colourful, personal, anecdotal, indiscreet and admiring memoir charts the course of Muriel Spark’s life revealing her as she really was. Once, she commented sitting over a glass of chianti...
by Liz Lochhead
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Liz Lochhead has built an impressive reputation as poet, playwright and performer attracting a large and admiring public. Dreaming Frankenstein and Collected Poems stands as a monument to her early work: four collections Memo for Spring (1972), Islands (1978) and Grimm Sisters (1981) and the title...
Masters of Men
Rory Mcilroy, Ken Venturi and Their Epic Journey from Augusta to Bethesda
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
In April 1956 and in April 2011, Ken Venturi and Rory McIlroy each carried commanding leads of four shots into the final day of the US Masters at Augusta National. The green jacket was theirs for the taking, but in their final rounds, both men self-destructed, each shooting 80 over their final 18...