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<strong>Birlinn</strong> Limited was established in 1992 by Managing Director Hugh Andrew,<br />
and is comprised of a number of imprints.<br />
<strong>Birlinn</strong> publishes both Scottish and general UK interest books, from biography<br />
to history, military history, cookery and Scottish Gaelic. The name comes from<br />
the old Norse word ‘birlinn’, meaning a long boat or small galley used especially<br />
in the Hebrides and West Highlands of Scotland in the Middle Ages.<br />
BC Books is a new children’s imprint, launched in 2015. It is designed to<br />
provide writing and illustration of the highest quality for young readers across<br />
the UK. <strong>Birlinn</strong> is dedicated to nurturing young readers and helping them<br />
discover a passion for reading that will last a lifetime.<br />
Polygon publishes literary fiction and poetry, both classic and modern, from<br />
writers such as Robin Jenkins, George Mackay Brown and the author of the<br />
No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series, Alexander McCall Smith, to music and<br />
film titles including Stuart Cosgrove's Young Soul Rebels. International writers<br />
including Jan-Philipp Sendker are also published under this imprint. Polygon<br />
was originally set up by students of Edinburgh University in the late 1960s.<br />
Arena Sport is <strong>Birlinn</strong>’s sport imprint. The sport books range from football and<br />
rugby, to golf, running and cycling. These books have an international as well<br />
as national appeal. Arena’s first titles were published in June 2013.<br />
John Donald publishes academic books.<br />
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CONTENTS<br />
NEW TITLES<br />
The Colouring Book of Edinburgh – Eilidh Muldoon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .<br />
Landscapes in Stone – Alan McKirdy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .<br />
The Italian Chapel, Orkney – Donald S. Murray . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .<br />
The Potter's Tale – Dion Alexander . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .<br />
Storm in the Desert – Mark Muller Stuart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .<br />
The Pocket Guide to Whisky – Blair Bowman with Nikki Welch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .<br />
Exploring Glasgow – Robin Ward . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .<br />
The Finest Road in the World – James Miller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .<br />
Islay: The Land of the Lordship – David Caldwell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .<br />
The Essential English-Gaelic / Gaelic English Dictionary – Angus Watson . . . . . . . . . . .<br />
Enlightenment Edinburgh: A Guide – Sheila Szatkowski . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .<br />
The Hebrides – Paul Murton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .<br />
The Hebridean Colouring Book – Eilidh Muldoon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .<br />
Eriskay Where I Was Born – Angus Edward MacInnes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .<br />
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9<br />
11<br />
13<br />
15<br />
17<br />
19<br />
21<br />
23<br />
25<br />
27<br />
29<br />
31<br />
NEW EDITIONS<br />
The Yellow on the Broom – Betsy Whyte . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .<br />
Red Rowans and Wild Honey – Betsy Whyte . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .<br />
Jessie's Journey – Jess Smith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .<br />
Tales from the Tent – Jess Smith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .<br />
The Reivers – Alistair Moffat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .<br />
The Wall – Alistair Moffat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .<br />
The Scots: A Genetic Journey – Alistair Moffat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .<br />
ALSO AVAILABLE – Alistair Moffat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .<br />
JOHN DONALD<br />
Voices From Scottish Librarians – Ian MacDougall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .<br />
The Kingdom of the Isles – R. Andrew MacDonald . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .<br />
Mary, Queen of Scots – Jenny Wormald . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .<br />
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35<br />
36<br />
37<br />
38<br />
39<br />
41<br />
43<br />
45<br />
STATIONERY<br />
Hebridean Stationery – Mairi Hedderwick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .<br />
The Scottish Maps Calendar 2018 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .<br />
The Scottish Wildlife Calendar 2018 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .<br />
The Elizabeth Blackadder Cat Calendar 2018 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .<br />
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Eilidh Muldoon<br />
APRIL <strong>2017</strong><br />
The Colouring Book of<br />
Edinburgh<br />
This is a unique Scottish colouring<br />
book suitable for adults as well as<br />
children featuring 23 of the festival<br />
city’s most iconic places, including:<br />
Eilidh Muldoon studied<br />
Art History and gained<br />
an MFA in Illustration<br />
from Edinburgh College<br />
of Art in June 2013, where<br />
she is currently Illustrator<br />
in Residence. She is also<br />
a freelance artist and<br />
illustrator whose work has<br />
appeared in prints, greetings<br />
cards and giftware.<br />
Edinburgh Castle • Victoria Street<br />
• Grassmarket • St Giles • National<br />
Museum of Scotland • The Mound and<br />
Ramsay Gardens • Calton Hill • Old<br />
Town • Usher Hall • Balmoral Hotel<br />
• Scott Monument and Princes Street<br />
Gardens • West Register Houmse •<br />
Holyrood Palace • HMS Britannia •<br />
Ocean Terminal & Botanic Gardens •<br />
<strong>New</strong> Town • Dean Village • Arthur’s<br />
Seat • Scottish Parliament • Zoo •<br />
Greyfriars Bobby • The Shore, Leith •<br />
The Meadows<br />
Eilidh Muldoon’s illustrations are<br />
ideal for all levels of colouring –<br />
plenty of intricate detail for those who<br />
like a colouring challenge, yet simple<br />
enough for those with less patience to<br />
create beautiful colour artwork in a<br />
short time.<br />
Format: 250 x 250mm pbk<br />
ISBN: 9781780274317<br />
Price: £8.99<br />
Extent: 48pp<br />
Illustrations: b/w throughout<br />
April <strong>2017</strong><br />
Also available<br />
THE COLOURING BOOK OF SCOTLAND<br />
ISBN: 9781780274058<br />
Price: £8.99 Paperback<br />
SALES OF OVER 6,000 COPIES<br />
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Alan McKirdy<br />
APRIL <strong>2017</strong><br />
Landscapes in Stone<br />
The geology of the Cairngorms was<br />
created on a timeline that stretches<br />
back hundreds of millions of years.<br />
Much of the land is underlain by<br />
granite that formed deep within the<br />
Earth’s crust and ‘surfaced’ as the<br />
overlying layers of rock were stripped<br />
away by ice, wind and water.<br />
Alan McKirdy has written<br />
many popular books on<br />
geology and related topics<br />
and has helped to promote<br />
the study of environmental<br />
geology in Scotland. Before<br />
his recent retirement he<br />
was Head of Information<br />
Management at Scottish<br />
Natural Heritage.<br />
The bedrock is hard and, although<br />
the area has been heavily glaciated,<br />
still boasts 18 Munros, the highest<br />
of Scotland’s peaks. The area attracts<br />
climbers, walkers and assorted<br />
adventurers who want to pit<br />
themselves against some of the most<br />
challenging conditions to be found<br />
anywhere in the UK. The plants and<br />
animals of the Cairngorms need to<br />
be hardy to survive the severe winter<br />
conditions. The higher reaches of<br />
the mountains are rich in montane<br />
vegetation such as lichen-rich heath<br />
and other habitats support many rare<br />
species.<br />
Format: 230 x 165mm pbk<br />
ISBN: 9781780273709<br />
Price: £7.99<br />
Extent: 48pp<br />
Illustrations: Colour throughout<br />
April <strong>2017</strong><br />
ARRAN<br />
ISBN: 9781780273693<br />
SKYE<br />
ISBN: 9781780273723<br />
EDINBURGH<br />
ISBN: 9781780273716<br />
Also available<br />
SET IN STONE<br />
ISBN: 9781780271514<br />
Price: £9.99 Paperback<br />
MULL, IONA & ARDNAMURCHAN (June <strong>2017</strong>)<br />
ISBN: 9781780274409<br />
ARGYLL & THE ISLANDS (June <strong>2017</strong>)<br />
ISBN: 9781780274669<br />
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Donald S. Murray<br />
The Italian Chapel,<br />
Orkney<br />
APRIL <strong>2017</strong><br />
Donald S. Murray is an<br />
author and journalist whose<br />
poetry, prose and verse has<br />
been shortlisted for both the<br />
Saltire Award and Callum<br />
Macdonald Memorial<br />
Award. He won a Robert<br />
Louis Stevenson Fellowship<br />
in 2012 and a Jessie Kesson<br />
Fellowship in 2013. His<br />
book, The Guga Stone, was<br />
recently nominated as one<br />
of the Guardian Best Nature<br />
Books of 2013. He lives and<br />
works in Shetland.<br />
Thousands of visitors go to the<br />
Italian Chapel in Orkney every year,<br />
witnesses to a series of remarkable<br />
acts of transformation. Its builders<br />
included a group of Italian soldiers<br />
imprisoned in this bleak and<br />
windswept part of Scotland. In the<br />
course of this, they not only played a<br />
part in changing Orkney’s way-of-life<br />
forever but also transformed a simple<br />
Nissen Hut, constructing through<br />
their labours a place-of-worship that<br />
still stands till this day a remarkable<br />
symbol of their identity and faith.<br />
The Italian Chapel, Orkney tells the<br />
story of the strength and tenacity,<br />
laughter and tears of the men who<br />
built the Chapel, showing how spirits<br />
defeated and despondent during years<br />
of exile were lifted by its creation. It<br />
does this with its own artistry and<br />
grace, using folk-tale and myth to<br />
provide a fitting counterpart to the<br />
wonder and beauty of the building<br />
that inspired it.<br />
Format: 198 x 129mm B-pbk<br />
ISBN: 9781780274294<br />
Price: £9.99<br />
Extent: 240pp<br />
Illustrations: 24pp colour plates<br />
April <strong>2017</strong><br />
‘A beautiful book in many ways’<br />
– <strong>New</strong> Shetlander<br />
‘The chapel now has a book that can<br />
match it in artistic merit’<br />
– Shetland Times<br />
Also available<br />
THE GUGA HUNTERS<br />
ISBN: 9781780273051<br />
Price: £8.99 Paperback<br />
Also available<br />
SY StorY<br />
ISBN: 9781780272603<br />
Price: £12.99 Paperback<br />
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Dion Alexander<br />
APRIL <strong>2017</strong><br />
The Potter's Tale<br />
A Colonsay Life<br />
Dion Alexander moved<br />
in 1971 to Carsaig on Mull<br />
to set up a pottery before<br />
moving to Colonsay. He set<br />
up a pottery on Colonsay<br />
through the 1970s before<br />
leaving for South Uist<br />
in 1980 to become the<br />
first manager of the Co<br />
Chomunn at Lochdair.<br />
In 1983 he moved to<br />
Glengarry and began work<br />
for Shelter Scotland where<br />
he set up the Lochaber<br />
Housing Association. He<br />
has continued to specialise<br />
in that area and has both<br />
written a number of high<br />
profile reports and has<br />
chaired a large number<br />
of committees and action<br />
groups on housing and fuel<br />
poverty across the<br />
Highlands. He now lives<br />
near Dornoch.<br />
The Potter’s Tale is a story of one<br />
man’s journey of discovery and self<br />
discovery on one of the most beautiful<br />
islands on the Hebrides – Colonsay.<br />
Dion Alexander was ‘the Colonsay<br />
Potter’ through the 1970s and his<br />
own story is interwoven with that of<br />
some of the legendary characters of<br />
the islands in that period, one of the<br />
last in which Gaelic came naturally to<br />
the community. It is also the story of<br />
beginning to think about how to keep<br />
a small remote community dominated<br />
by a landed estate alive and viable in<br />
the face of modern pressures.<br />
The Colonsay of the 1970s had no<br />
electricity or affordable housing and<br />
an erratic ferry service. The book is an<br />
autobiography, a reflection of a world<br />
still close in time but in some ways<br />
very distant interwoven with much<br />
of history, tradition and folklore,<br />
and a moving account of the trials,<br />
triumphs and tribulations of a small<br />
community. Above all it is woven<br />
with a deep love of the magical place<br />
that is Colonsay.<br />
Format: 198 x 129mm B-pbk<br />
ISBN: 9781780274737<br />
Price: £8.99<br />
Extent: 240pp<br />
Illustrations: 8pp b/w plates<br />
April <strong>2017</strong><br />
Also available<br />
ISLAND ON THE EDGE<br />
ISBN: 9781780273495<br />
Price: £12.99 Paperback<br />
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Mark Muller Stuart<br />
Mark Muller Stuart<br />
is a senior advocate who<br />
specialises in public<br />
international law, advising<br />
international bodies on<br />
humanitarian issues and<br />
conflict resolution. He is<br />
a senior mediator to the<br />
United Nations Department<br />
of Political Affairs and has<br />
conducted international<br />
missions throughout the<br />
Middle East and Africa.<br />
Storm in the Desert<br />
British Invervention in Libya<br />
and the Arab <strong>Spring</strong><br />
In this remarkable book, Mark Muller<br />
tells the story of British intervention<br />
in Libya and the Arab <strong>Spring</strong> from<br />
a unique civil society standpoint: he<br />
was there in Benghazi two weeks after<br />
the UN No-Fly Zone Resolution was<br />
passed, meeting with Rebel leaders<br />
to discuss how Western civil society<br />
might help them stabilise the country<br />
and resolve difficult legacy issues.<br />
Muller documents how non-state<br />
mediators and organisations,<br />
journalists, artists and like-minded<br />
diplomats, such as assassinated<br />
US Ambassador Chris Stevens,<br />
explore ways to support democratic<br />
movements and promote human<br />
rights in one of the world’s most<br />
turbulent regions.<br />
Storm in the Desert describes a<br />
dramatic story of revolution but also<br />
the murky but sometimes inspiring<br />
role successive British governments<br />
played in trying to contain conflict<br />
in the region. It gives a unique<br />
insight into the world of diplomacy<br />
and power politics and the way they<br />
impact upon ordinary human lives.<br />
Format: 234 x 156mm hbk<br />
ISBN: 9781780274522<br />
Price: £25.00<br />
Extent: 384pp<br />
Illustrations: 16pp colour plates<br />
May <strong>2017</strong><br />
MAY <strong>2017</strong><br />
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Blair Bowman with Nikki Welch<br />
MAY <strong>2017</strong><br />
The Pocket Guide<br />
to Whisky<br />
Blair Bowman is the<br />
founder of World Whisky<br />
Day, first launched in<br />
2012 and which is now<br />
celebrated every year, on<br />
every continent (including<br />
Antarctica). He has been<br />
a whisky enthusiast since<br />
helping found Aberdeen<br />
University’s Malt Whisky<br />
Society. He currently writes<br />
for Scottish Field as their<br />
Whisky Columnist and is<br />
a contributing editor to<br />
the Cask & Still, Scotland’s<br />
newest whisky magazine.<br />
Nikki Welch spent ten<br />
years selling and marketing<br />
wine for a number of<br />
wine producers and major<br />
supermarkets. She now owns<br />
Convivium Wine, organizes<br />
events for the public and<br />
for wine companies, trains<br />
staff, writes about wine and<br />
acts as a consultant for wine<br />
businesses.<br />
The ever-expanding world of whisky<br />
can be a daunting one, with a deluge<br />
of new brands, distilleries and<br />
literature on the subject making it<br />
all but impossible for the amateur<br />
whisky drinker to find their feet.<br />
Following on from the bestselling<br />
Pocket Guide to Wine, Blair Bowman<br />
provides a compact and accessible,<br />
easy-to-use guide to help budding<br />
whisky enthusiasts on their way. The<br />
Pocket Guide to Whisky explores<br />
every kind of whisky, from the well<br />
known Scottish giant Glenlivet, to the<br />
exotic Japanese Hibiki, and includes<br />
the ever-growing and hotly debated<br />
blended whiskies too!<br />
Based on the same principle as Nikki<br />
Welch's famous WineTube Map, this<br />
book shows how different whiskies<br />
relate to each other in terms of taste.<br />
From novice to expert, it enables<br />
whisky lovers to find out more about<br />
the brands they already like and<br />
to make informed choices as they<br />
explore further.<br />
Format: 170 x 105mm A-pbk<br />
ISBN: 9781780274324<br />
Price: £7.99<br />
Extent: 144pp<br />
Illustrations: Colour throughout<br />
May <strong>2017</strong><br />
Also available<br />
THE POCKET GUIDE TO WINE<br />
ISBN: 9781780271446<br />
Price: £7.99 Paperback<br />
SALES OF OVER 7,000 COPIES<br />
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Robin Ward<br />
MAY <strong>2017</strong><br />
Exploring Glasgow<br />
The Architectural Guide<br />
Robin Ward is an<br />
architecture critic, writer<br />
and graphic designer who<br />
was born and raised in<br />
Glasgow. He studied at<br />
Glasgow School of Art<br />
and subsequently worked<br />
for the BBC in London,<br />
and in Canada, where he<br />
was architecture critic for<br />
the Vancouver Sun. He<br />
has written a number of<br />
books, including Some<br />
City Glasgow, The Spirit<br />
of Glasgow, and co-wrote<br />
Exploring Bangkok.<br />
Glasgow is one of the most<br />
architecturally exciting cities in<br />
the world, boasting a huge variety<br />
of building styles. There are grand<br />
Victorian public buildings celebrating<br />
civic progress and pride, commercial<br />
palazzi glorifying trade and industry,<br />
glittering art galleries, a Gothic<br />
Revival university as well as tower<br />
blocks, tenements, the Art Nouveau<br />
of Charles Rennie Mackintosh and<br />
the quirky classicism of Alexander<br />
‘Greek’ Thomson.<br />
This book illustrates and describes<br />
almost 500 buildings and structures,<br />
featured not only for their architectural<br />
excellence but also for their social and<br />
historical significance.<br />
Format: 235 x 130mm pbk<br />
ISBN: 9781780274546<br />
Price: £16.99<br />
Extent: 304pp<br />
Illustrations: Colour throughout<br />
May <strong>2017</strong><br />
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James Miller<br />
MAY <strong>2017</strong><br />
The Finest Road in<br />
The World<br />
Trains and stagecoaches stuck in the<br />
snow, wild storms driving sailing<br />
ships off course, traffic pile-ups on<br />
so-called ‘killer’ highways – stories<br />
abound about the horrors of travel in<br />
the Highlands and Islands, and have<br />
done for as far as the records go back.<br />
James Miller was born<br />
in Caithness and studied<br />
zoology in Aberdeen and<br />
marine biology in Montreal.<br />
After working for the British<br />
Council he became a fulltime<br />
freelance writer. He<br />
has written a number of<br />
acclaimed books, including<br />
Scapa, The Dambuilders,<br />
The Foresters, Inverness and<br />
Swords for Hire.<br />
James Miller tells the dramatic and<br />
sometimes surprisingly humorous<br />
story of travel and transport in the<br />
Highlands. Some of the figures in the<br />
story are familiar – General George<br />
Wade, Thomas Telford and Joseph<br />
Mitchell among them – but there are<br />
a host of others too.<br />
This thought-provoking book will<br />
appeal to all who like stories of travel<br />
and transport, and are interested in<br />
how changing modes of transport<br />
have affected the ways of life in the<br />
Highlands.<br />
Format: 234 x 156mm R-pbk<br />
ISBN: 9781780274300<br />
Price: £12.99<br />
Extent: 320pp<br />
Illustrations: Colour throughout<br />
May <strong>2017</strong><br />
Also available<br />
THE DAM BUILDERS<br />
ISBN: 9781841582252<br />
Price: £14.99 Paperback<br />
Also available<br />
THE GATHERING STREAM<br />
ISBN: 9781780270951<br />
Price: £14.99 Paperback<br />
Also available<br />
SCAPA<br />
ISBN: 9781843410058<br />
Price: £9.99 Paperback<br />
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David Caldwell<br />
MAY <strong>2017</strong><br />
Islay<br />
Land of the Lordship<br />
Until his retirement Dr<br />
David Caldwell was<br />
Keeper of Scotland & Europe<br />
in the National Museums of<br />
Scotland. He is the author<br />
of Islay, Jura and Colonsay:<br />
A Historical Guide (2001),<br />
which provides a gazetteer<br />
of sites and monuments to<br />
complement this book.<br />
This is the history of Islay up to the<br />
present day with a particular focus<br />
on the people of the island. Islay was<br />
originally part of Dal Riata, the early<br />
kingdom of the Scots, but was then<br />
colonised by Scandinavian settlers<br />
in the ninth century. It was also<br />
the home of the MacDonalds, who<br />
established the Lordship of the Isles<br />
during the Medieval Period and who<br />
mounted a challenge to the Stewart<br />
dynasty for control of Scotland.<br />
It also looks at the lesser folk, especially<br />
during the time of the Campbell<br />
lairds, from the early 17th century<br />
onwards. Archaeology combined with<br />
documentary research has helped to<br />
build up a picture of how the people<br />
of Islay lived, the way the land was<br />
farmed and the development of local<br />
industries, including the distilling of<br />
whisky.<br />
Format: 234 x 156mm R-pbk<br />
ISBN: 9781780274652<br />
Price: £17.99<br />
Extent: 432pp<br />
Illustrations: 24pp col. plates, maps, line illus.<br />
May <strong>2017</strong><br />
'For visitors and historians and<br />
indeed all who love Islay, those who<br />
have family there, or whose ancestors<br />
once lived there, this book is a musthave'<br />
– Scots Magazine<br />
Also available<br />
ISLAY, JURAY AND COLONSAY<br />
ISBN: 9781841589619<br />
Price: £9.99 Paperback<br />
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Angus Watson<br />
MAY <strong>2017</strong><br />
The Essential English-Gaelic<br />
Gaelic-English Dictionary<br />
Angus Watson’s Essential Gaelic–<br />
English and English–Gaelic<br />
dictionaries are well-established as<br />
one of the leading dictionaries of the<br />
Gaelic language.<br />
Angus Watson graduated<br />
in Gaelic from Aberdeen<br />
University and is a published<br />
writer of Gaelic short stories.<br />
He has recently completed a<br />
PhD at St Andrews<br />
University and currently<br />
lives in France.<br />
This combined dictionary is ideal for<br />
learners of Gaelic at all levels, and<br />
its generous coverage of vocabulary<br />
from fields such as business and IT<br />
makes it a valuable tool for all those<br />
who require an up-to-date reference<br />
work. It contains a large amount<br />
of explanatory material, numerous<br />
examples of usage and idiomatic<br />
phrases and expressions. Many<br />
registers and styles are sampled, from<br />
the familiar (and occasionally the<br />
vulgar) to the formal and the literary.<br />
Cross-references draw the user to<br />
related words and expressions, and<br />
Scots equivalents are provided for a<br />
number of headwords.<br />
Format: 234 x 156mm R-pbk<br />
ISBN: 9781780274645<br />
Price: £14.99<br />
Extent: 528pp<br />
Illustrations: N/A<br />
May <strong>2017</strong><br />
Also available<br />
POCKET ENGLISH-GAELIC DICTIONARY<br />
ISBN: 9781841588087<br />
Price: £7.99 Paperback<br />
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Sheila Szatkowski<br />
JUNE <strong>2017</strong><br />
Enlightenment Edinburgh<br />
A Guide<br />
Sheila Szatkowski is a<br />
writer and historian based in<br />
Edinburgh. Her interest in<br />
the Scottish Enlightenment<br />
began at Edinburgh<br />
University under the<br />
tutelage of George E. Davie,<br />
philosopher and author of<br />
The Democratic Intellect.<br />
She is currently completing<br />
a biography on the life and<br />
unpublished works of John<br />
Kay (1742-1826).<br />
During the 18th century, Edinburgh<br />
was the intellectual hub of the Western<br />
world. Adam Smith, David Hume,<br />
Dugald Stewart and Adam Ferguson<br />
delivered their diverse tomes on<br />
philosophy and political economy.<br />
Others such as James Hutton, Joseph<br />
Black, Lord Hailes, Sir John Clerk<br />
of Eldin and Robert Adam pushed<br />
ahead with new discoveries and ideas<br />
in the fields of science, medicine, law<br />
and architecture.<br />
If Edinburgh was the beating heart<br />
of this Scottish Enlightenment<br />
then its physical embodiment was<br />
the <strong>New</strong> Town and the great civic<br />
improvements in the old medieval<br />
city. In this informative and highly<br />
illustrated guide Sheila Szatkowski<br />
introduces the noteworthy buildings<br />
and people of 18th and early 19thcentury<br />
Edinburgh.<br />
It is a book about people and places,<br />
clubs and conversations, and a<br />
celebration of how topography and<br />
cultural achievement came together<br />
to create the great enlightenment city<br />
that is Edinburgh.<br />
Format: 236 x 190mm pbk<br />
ISBN: 9781780273730<br />
Price: £12.99<br />
Extent: 128pp<br />
Illustrations: Colour throughout<br />
June <strong>2017</strong><br />
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Paul Murton<br />
JULY <strong>2017</strong><br />
The Hebrides<br />
Paul Murton is well<br />
known as a documentary<br />
film maker whose work<br />
includes Grand Tours of<br />
Scotland and Grand Tours<br />
of the Scottish Islands (4<br />
series). He grew up in rural<br />
Argyll and has been an<br />
inveterate traveller since his<br />
teenage years.<br />
Paul Murton has spent half-a lifetime<br />
exploring some of the most beautiful<br />
islands in the world – the Hebrides.<br />
He has travelled the length and<br />
breadth of the Scotland’s rugged, sixthousand-mile<br />
coast line, and sailed<br />
to over eighty islands.<br />
In this book Paul visits each of<br />
the Hebridean islands in turn,<br />
introducing their myths anc legends,<br />
history, culture and extraordinary<br />
natural beauty. In addition he also<br />
meets the people who live there and<br />
learns their story. He has met crofters,<br />
fishermen, tweed weavers, Gaelic<br />
singers, clan chiefs, artists, postmen<br />
and bus drivers – people from every<br />
walk of life who make the islands tick.<br />
This blend of the contemporary and<br />
the traditional creates a vivid account<br />
of the Hebrides and serves as unique<br />
guide to the less well known aspects<br />
of life among the islands.<br />
Format: 246 x 189mm pbk<br />
ISBN: 9781780274676<br />
Price: £14.99<br />
Extent: 304pp<br />
Illustrations: Colour throughout<br />
July <strong>2017</strong><br />
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Eilidh Muldoon<br />
JULY <strong>2017</strong><br />
The Hebridean<br />
Colouring Book<br />
The Hebrides contain some of<br />
Scotland’s most breathtaking scenery,<br />
magnificent castles, picturesque<br />
villages and towns, as well as<br />
numerous monuments and other<br />
features of interest. In this book,<br />
suitable for adults and children alike,<br />
Eilidh Muldoon presents 31 of the<br />
most iconic Hebridean places Places<br />
featured include:<br />
Eilidh Muldoon studied<br />
Art History and gained<br />
an MFA in Illustration<br />
from Edinburgh College<br />
of Art in June 2013, where<br />
she is currently Illustrator<br />
in Residence. She is also<br />
a freelance artist and<br />
illustrator whose work has<br />
appeared in prints, greetings<br />
cards and giftware.<br />
St Clements Churh, Rodel, Harris •<br />
Dun Carloway • Ness Harbour, Lewis<br />
Gearranish Blackhouse towship,<br />
Lewis • Kissimul, Barra • Dunvegan,<br />
Skye • Eilean Iarmain (pier and hotel)<br />
Skye • Neist Point and Lighthouse,<br />
Skye • Talisker, Cuillins, Skye •<br />
Kinloch Castle, Rum • Sgurr of Eigg<br />
• Muck Harbour • Breacacha Castle<br />
Coll • Iona Abbey• Staffa Treshnish/<br />
Clac Guairidh ruined townships<br />
Mull, Tobermory • Lip na Cloiche<br />
Garden, Mull • Bowmore, Islay •<br />
Bruichladdich, Islay • Ardnamurchan<br />
Lighthouse • Lismore Cathedral<br />
Format: 250 x 250mm pbk<br />
ISBN: 9781780274768<br />
Price: £8.99<br />
Extent: 48pp<br />
Illustrations: b/w throughout<br />
July <strong>2017</strong><br />
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ISBN: 9781780274058<br />
Price: £8.99 Paperback<br />
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Angus Edward MacInnes<br />
JULY <strong>2017</strong><br />
Angus Edward MacInnes<br />
was present to witness the<br />
real events behind Whisky<br />
Galore, after which he<br />
travelled the seas as a radio<br />
officer. He finished his career<br />
captaining Caledonian<br />
MacBrayne ferries on the<br />
Clyde.<br />
Eriskay<br />
Where I Was Born<br />
Angus Edward MacInnes, born at<br />
Haun, Eriskay in the Outer Hebrides<br />
in 1925, returned in his imagination<br />
to the island of his birth to create<br />
what, since its first publication in<br />
1997, has become a classic account<br />
of an almost forgotten way of life.<br />
His autobiography, told with the<br />
captivating rhythms and story-telling<br />
techniques of his native Gaelic,<br />
combines the author’s personal<br />
experiences with his observations<br />
of life around him. The result is a<br />
complete picture of Eriskay, from<br />
its topography to descriptions of the<br />
islanders’ dress, diet and schooling.<br />
The island’s traditions are brought<br />
vividly to life with amazing – but, the<br />
author insists, true – tales of ‘giants’,<br />
strong men, ghosts and the second<br />
sight.<br />
Amongst author Angus Edward’s<br />
stories of his childhood and<br />
schooldays on Eriskay is a hilarious<br />
first-hand account of the aftermath of<br />
the sinking of the SS Politician, later<br />
immortalised in Whisky Galore.<br />
Format: 198 x 129mm B-pbk<br />
ISBN: 9781780273815<br />
Price: £12.99<br />
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July <strong>2017</strong><br />
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WHISKY GALORE<br />
ISBN: 9781780270920<br />
Price: £9.99 Hardback<br />
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Betsy Whyte<br />
The Yellow<br />
on the Broom<br />
Betsy Whyte was born into<br />
a traveller family in 1919<br />
and brought up in the ageold<br />
tradition of the ‘mist<br />
people’ – constantly moving<br />
around the country and<br />
settling down in one place<br />
only during the winter. It<br />
was while the family were<br />
‘housed up’ at this time<br />
of year that she received<br />
her education, attending a<br />
number of village schools<br />
before winning a scholarship<br />
to Brechin High school,<br />
where she was the only<br />
traveller child. She gave up<br />
the traveller life when she<br />
married in 1939 and started<br />
writing about her childhood<br />
in the 1970s. She died in<br />
1988.<br />
The Yellow on the Broom is the first<br />
part of Betsy Whyte’s autobiography.<br />
Not only is it a fascinating insight<br />
into the life and customs of traveller<br />
people in the 1920s and 1930s,<br />
it is also a thought-provoking<br />
account of human strength and<br />
weakness, courage and cowardice,<br />
understanding and prejudice by a<br />
sensitive and entertaining writer.<br />
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MARCH <strong>2017</strong><br />
Red Rowans<br />
and Wild Honey<br />
The sequel to the perennially popular<br />
The Yellow on the Broom, Red Rowans<br />
and Wild Honey follows Betsy’s story<br />
to the end of the Second World<br />
War. She recounts in vivid detail the<br />
heady years of her adolescence, her<br />
courtship and her mother’s struggle to<br />
bring up four children in the only way<br />
a travelling woman knew: hawking<br />
wares, fruit picking, tatty howking -<br />
in fact any kind of work that would<br />
provide the next meal.<br />
This edition also contains another<br />
substantial piece of autobiography,<br />
which remained incomplete at the<br />
time of her death and which appears<br />
in print here for the first time.<br />
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March <strong>2017</strong><br />
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THE WAY OF THE WANDERERS<br />
ISBN: 9781780273341<br />
Price: £9.99 Paperback<br />
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Jess Smith<br />
Jessie's Journey<br />
Jess Smith lives near<br />
Crieff. She is married and<br />
has three children and<br />
six grandchildren. As a<br />
traditional storyteller she<br />
is in great demand for<br />
performances throughout<br />
Scotland.<br />
From the ages of 5 to 15, Jess Smith<br />
lived with her parents, sisters and a<br />
mongrel dog in an old, blue Bedford<br />
bus. They travelled the length and<br />
breadth of Scotland, and much of<br />
England too, stopping here and there<br />
until they were moved on by the<br />
local authorities or driven by their<br />
own instinctive need to travel. By<br />
campfires, under the unchanging stars<br />
they brewed up tea, telling stories and<br />
singing songs late into the night.<br />
Jessie’s Journey describes what it<br />
was like to be one of the last of the<br />
traditional travelling folk. It is not<br />
an idyllic tale, but despite the threat<br />
of bigoted abuse and scattered<br />
schooling, humour and laughter run<br />
throughout a childhood teeming<br />
with unforgettable characters and<br />
incidents.<br />
Format: 198 x 129mm B-pbk<br />
ISBN: 9781841587028<br />
Price: £8.99<br />
Extent: 256pp<br />
March <strong>2017</strong><br />
‘Unforgettable story of a Scottish<br />
Gypsy girl’ – Maggie Smith Bendell<br />
‘A life full of laughter, fun and most<br />
of all, love’ – Mary Horner, Editor,<br />
Romany Road<br />
'a must-read for Big County history<br />
buffs' – Perthshire Advertiser<br />
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MARCH <strong>2017</strong><br />
Tales from the Tent<br />
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TEARS FOR A TINKER<br />
ISBN: 9781841587141<br />
Price: £7.99 Paperback<br />
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THE WAY OF THE WANDERERS<br />
ISBN: 9781780273341<br />
Price: £9.99 Paperback<br />
In Tales from the Tent, Jess Smith –<br />
Scottish traveller, hawker, gypsy, ‘ganabout’<br />
and storyteller – continues<br />
the unforgettable story of her life on<br />
the road. Unable to adjust to settled<br />
life working in a factory after leaving<br />
school, she finds herself drawn once<br />
again to the wild countryside of<br />
Scotland.<br />
Having grown up on the road in an<br />
old blue bus with her parents and<br />
seven sisters, Jessie now joins her<br />
family in caravans, stopping to rest<br />
in campsites and lay-bys as they<br />
follow work around the country –<br />
berry-picking, hay-stacking, ragging,<br />
fortune-telling and hawking. Making<br />
the most of their freedom, Jessie and<br />
her family continue the traditional<br />
way of life that is disappearing before<br />
their eyes, wandering the roads and<br />
byways, sharing tales and living on<br />
the edge of ‘acceptable’ society.<br />
Format: 198 x 129mm B-pbk<br />
ISBN: 9781841587196<br />
Price: £8.99<br />
Extent: 240pp<br />
March <strong>2017</strong><br />
'told in Jess Smith’s gallus and<br />
infectious style which pulls you in<br />
and makes closing the book a sheer<br />
impossibility' – Scots Magazine<br />
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Alistair Moffat<br />
MARCH <strong>2017</strong><br />
The Reivers<br />
The Story of the Border Reivers<br />
From the early fourteenth century to<br />
the end of the sixteenth, the Anglo-<br />
Scottish borderlands witnessed one<br />
of the most intense periods of warfare<br />
and disorder ever seen in modern<br />
Europe.<br />
Alistair Moffat is a former<br />
Director of the Edinburgh<br />
Festival Fringe and Director<br />
of Programmes at Scottish<br />
Television. He now runs the<br />
Borders and Lennoxlove<br />
book festivals and is<br />
currently Rector of St<br />
Andrews University. He<br />
has written numerous<br />
books, including Tuscany,<br />
The Faded Map, The Sea<br />
Kingdoms, The Borders and<br />
The Scots: A Genetic Journey,<br />
all of which are published by<br />
<strong>Birlinn</strong>.<br />
As a consequence of near-constant<br />
conflict between England and<br />
Scotland, Borderers suffered at<br />
the hands of marauding armies,<br />
who ravaged the land, destroying<br />
crops, slaughtering cattle,<br />
burning settlements and killing<br />
indiscriminately. Forced by extreme<br />
circumstances, many Borderers took<br />
to reiving to ensure the survival of<br />
their families and communities,<br />
and for the best part of 300 years,<br />
countless raiding parties made their<br />
way over the border. The story of the<br />
Reivers is one of survival, stealth,<br />
treachery, ingenuity and deceit,<br />
expertly brought to life in Alistair<br />
Moffat’s acclaimed book.<br />
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March <strong>2017</strong><br />
‘It is the passion and pride in the land<br />
of his birth that shine through in this<br />
superb new work’<br />
– Southern Reporter<br />
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‘A page-turning history, lucidly written<br />
. . . one of the best reads of the year’<br />
– Scottish Life<br />
Also available<br />
THE BORDERS<br />
ISBN: 9781841584669<br />
Price: £12.99 Paperback
The People's Historian<br />
MARCH <strong>2017</strong><br />
The Wall<br />
Rome's Greatest Frontier<br />
’A most compelling, thoughtprovoking<br />
and entertaining<br />
history’<br />
– Rosemary Goring, Herald<br />
‘This is a definitive piece<br />
of research, colourfully<br />
and humorously written,<br />
beautifully illustrated with fine<br />
photography and enhanced<br />
by a necessary map, dates of<br />
the Common Ridings, names<br />
of Border families and a<br />
selection of evocative Border<br />
Ballads’<br />
– Scots Magazine<br />
'Through deft prose and eagleeyed<br />
research Moffat succeeds<br />
in restoring Hadrian's Wall to<br />
its former grandeur'<br />
– Scottish Field<br />
'In The Wall, Alistair Moffat's<br />
fascination shines through as<br />
he captures the enormous<br />
endeavour of the builders<br />
along with the captivating<br />
human stories the stones still<br />
tell after nearly two millennia'<br />
– Scotsman<br />
Hadrian’s Wall is the largest, most<br />
spectacular and one of the most<br />
enigmatic historical monument in<br />
Britain. Nothing else approaches its<br />
vast scale: a land wall running 73<br />
miles from east to west and a sea wall<br />
stretching at least 26 miles down the<br />
Cumbrian coast. Many of its forts are<br />
as large as Britain’s most formidable<br />
medieval castles, and the wide ditch<br />
dug to the south of the Wall, the<br />
vallum, is larger than any surviving<br />
prehistoric earthwork. Built in a tenyear<br />
period by more than 30,000<br />
soldiers and labourers at the behest<br />
of an extraordinary emperor, the Wall<br />
consisted of more than 24 million<br />
stones, giving it a mass greater than all<br />
the Egyptian pyramids put together.<br />
In this book, based on literary and<br />
historical sources as well as the latest<br />
archaeological research, Alistair<br />
Moffat considers who built the Wall,<br />
how it was built, why it was built and<br />
how it affected the native peoples<br />
who lived in its mighty shadow. The<br />
result is a unique and fascinating<br />
insight into one of the Wonders of the<br />
Ancient World.<br />
Format: 198 x 129mm B-pbk<br />
ISBN: 9781780274553<br />
Price: £9.99<br />
Extent: 308pp<br />
Illustrations: 16pp colour plates<br />
March <strong>2017</strong><br />
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The People's Historian<br />
APRIL <strong>2017</strong><br />
The Scots<br />
A Genetic Journey<br />
Alistair Moffat is a former<br />
Director of the Edinburgh<br />
Festival Fringe and Director<br />
of Programmes at Scottish<br />
Television. He now runs the<br />
Borders and Lennoxlove<br />
book festivals and is<br />
currently Rector of St<br />
Andrews University. He<br />
has written numerous<br />
books, including Tuscany,<br />
The Faded Map, The Sea<br />
Kingdoms, The Borders and<br />
The Scots: A Genetic Journey,<br />
all of which are published by<br />
<strong>Birlinn</strong>.<br />
History has always mattered to Scots,<br />
and rarely more so than now at the<br />
outset of a new century, after more<br />
than ten years of a new parliament<br />
and the new census of 2011. An<br />
almost limitless archive of our history<br />
lies hidden inside our bodies and we<br />
carry the ancient story of Scotland<br />
around with us. The mushrooming<br />
of genetic studies, of DNA analysis,<br />
is rewriting our history in spectacular<br />
fashion.<br />
This new edition takes into account<br />
recent developments in DNA science<br />
and includes recent findings on<br />
early farming and its migrations,<br />
Neanderthal DNA, the classic Celtic<br />
DNA Y chromosome haplogroup, the<br />
royal Stewart lineages, and physical<br />
characteristics such as red hair and<br />
blue eyes.<br />
‘[Moffat] is wonderfully able to<br />
communicate the epic elements of<br />
the story – which matters because<br />
that’s precisely what man’s survival<br />
has been’ – The Scotsman<br />
'A fascinating picture'<br />
– James Naughtie, Today Programme<br />
BBC Radio 4<br />
Format: 198 x 129mm B-pbk<br />
ISBN: 9781780274447<br />
Price: £9.99<br />
Extent: 272pp<br />
Illustrations: 8pp colour plates<br />
April <strong>2017</strong><br />
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'The fusion of science and the physical<br />
history – like an abandoned croft –<br />
allows people to trace their Scots<br />
ancestry with precision’<br />
– Sunday Herald<br />
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Ian MacDougall<br />
FEBRUARY <strong>2017</strong><br />
Voices of Scottish<br />
Librarians<br />
Ian MacDougall, a longstanding<br />
research worker<br />
of the Scottish Working<br />
People’s History Trust, has<br />
played a pivotal role in<br />
recording working people’s<br />
lives and publishing their<br />
stories. He is the author<br />
of several works of social<br />
history including Bondagers,<br />
All Men are Brethren, Voices<br />
of Scottish Journalists, Voices<br />
from War and Voices from<br />
Lilliesleaf.<br />
This collection, based on interviews<br />
with 14 librarians and other library<br />
staff working in Scotland in the<br />
twentieth century, tells the stories<br />
of their working lives, explaining<br />
how libraries developed from the<br />
difficulties of the inter-war period<br />
and the austerity following the<br />
Second World War to become a<br />
well-used and important feature of<br />
local communities, committed to<br />
delivering an expanding range of<br />
public services.<br />
As background to their working lives,<br />
the interviewees describe their family<br />
circumstances, housing, schooling,<br />
pastimes, reading and wartime<br />
experiences. Charting the evolution<br />
of librarianship, the book reveals how<br />
our libraries have served society for<br />
generations and confirms Andrew<br />
Carnegie’s belief that public libraries<br />
are one of the most potent agencies<br />
for good.<br />
Format: 234 x 156mm R-pbk<br />
ISBN: 9781910900093<br />
Price: £16.99<br />
Extent: 384pp<br />
Illustrations: 4pp b/w plates<br />
February <strong>2017</strong><br />
Also available<br />
ALL MEN ARE BRETHEREN<br />
ISBN: 9781904607724<br />
Price: £25.00 Paperback<br />
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VOICES FROM LILLIESLEAF<br />
ISBN: 9781906566951<br />
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R. Andrew MacDonald<br />
MAY <strong>2017</strong><br />
The Kingdom of the Isles<br />
Scotland's Western Seaboard c.1100 - 1336<br />
R. ANDREW MCDONALD<br />
is Professor of History at<br />
Brock University, Canada,<br />
where he was the founding<br />
director of the Centre for<br />
Medieval and Renaissance<br />
Studies. He is the author of<br />
many books, book chapters,<br />
and articles on medieval<br />
Scottish, Hebridean, and<br />
Manx history, including<br />
Outlaws of Medieval<br />
Scotland: Challenges to the<br />
Canmore Kings 1058-1266,<br />
co-editor of The Viking Age:<br />
A Reader and co-editor of<br />
Alba: Celtic Scotland in the<br />
Middle Ages.<br />
This study explores the history of the<br />
western seaboard of Scotland (the<br />
Hebrides, Argyll and the Isle of Man)<br />
in a formative but often neglected<br />
era: the central middle ages, from the<br />
mightly Somerled to his descendant<br />
John MacDonald, the first Lord of the<br />
Isles (c. 1336).<br />
Drawing on a variety of sources, this<br />
very readable narrative deals with<br />
three major and closely interrelated<br />
themes: first, the existence of the Isles<br />
and coastal mainland as a kingdom<br />
from c.1100 to 1266; second, the<br />
rulers of the region, Somerled and<br />
his descendants, the MacDougalls,<br />
MacDonalds and MacRuaris; and<br />
third, the often complex relations<br />
among the Isles, Scotland, Norway<br />
and England. A fully rounded history<br />
emerges, which transcends national<br />
viewpoints.<br />
Format: 234 x 156mm R-pbk<br />
ISBN: 9781904607793<br />
Price: £25.00<br />
Extent: 288pp<br />
Illustrations: 8pp b/w plates<br />
May <strong>2017</strong><br />
Also available<br />
OUTLAWS OF MEDIEVAL SCOTLAND<br />
ISBN: 9781910900000<br />
Price: £20.00 Paperback<br />
Also available<br />
ALBA<br />
ISBN: 9781906566579<br />
Price: £20.00 Paperback<br />
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Jenny Wormald<br />
AUGUST <strong>2017</strong><br />
Mary, Queen of Scots<br />
A Study in Failure<br />
JENNY WORMALD was<br />
one of the most influential<br />
Scottish historians of her<br />
generation. After retirement<br />
to Edinburgh she became an<br />
Honorary Fellow in Scottish<br />
History at the University of<br />
Edinburgh and an Honorary<br />
Fellow of the Royal Society of<br />
Antiquaries of Scotland. She<br />
wrote a number of significant<br />
books and articles, including<br />
Court, Kirk and Community:<br />
Scotland 1470–1625 (1981),<br />
‘James VI and I: Two<br />
Kings or One?’ (1983) and<br />
‘Gunpowder, Treason and<br />
Scots’ (1985).<br />
Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, has<br />
long been portrayed as one of<br />
history’s romantically tragic figures.<br />
Devious, naïve, beautiful and sexually<br />
voracious, often highly principled,<br />
she secured the Scottish throne and<br />
bolstered the position of the Catholic<br />
Church in Scotland. Her plotting,<br />
including probable involvement in<br />
the murder of her husband Lord<br />
Darnley, led to her flight from<br />
Scotland and imprisonment by<br />
her equally ambitious cousin and<br />
fellow queen, Elizabeth of England.<br />
Yet when Elizabeth ordered Mary’s<br />
execution in 1587 it was an act of<br />
exasperated frustration rather than<br />
political wrath.<br />
Unlike biographies of Mary predating<br />
this work, this masterly study set out<br />
to show Mary as she really was – not<br />
a romantic heroine, but the ruler of a<br />
European kingdom with far greater<br />
economic and political importance<br />
than its size or location would<br />
indicate. Her extraordinary story has<br />
become one of the most colourful<br />
and emotionally searing tales of<br />
western history, and it is here fully<br />
reconsidered by a leading specialist<br />
of the period. Jenny Wormald’s<br />
beautifully written biography will<br />
appeal to students and general readers<br />
alike.<br />
Format: 234 x 156mm R-pbk<br />
ISBN: 9781910900116<br />
Price: £16.99<br />
Extent: 384pp<br />
Illustrations: 12pp colour plates<br />
August <strong>2017</strong><br />
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Mairi Hedderwick<br />
MAY <strong>2017</strong><br />
Hebridean Stationery<br />
This beautiful stationery collection<br />
features distinctive full-colour<br />
paintings by one of Scotland’s<br />
best-loved authors and artists,<br />
Mairi Hedderwick, in a wonderful<br />
celebration of the extraordinary<br />
natural beauty of the Hebrides<br />
throughout the seasons.<br />
Mairi Hedderwick is the<br />
creator of the imaginary<br />
island of Struay where her<br />
perennially popular Katie<br />
Morag stories are set. As well<br />
as creating children’s books<br />
Mairi writes and illustrates<br />
travel books for adults.<br />
She also illustrated the<br />
acclaimed Janet Reachfar<br />
books, which are published<br />
by <strong>Birlinn</strong>. She lives on Coll.<br />
The paintings have been collected<br />
over the past forty years and show<br />
the changing faces of the landscapes.<br />
Mairi’s sketches range across many of<br />
the isles from Arran to Tiree, expertly<br />
capturing the essence of these<br />
beautiful and diverse islands, from<br />
wind-swept machair and dramatic<br />
cliffs to rolling hills and secluded<br />
woods.<br />
Following the warm reception of the<br />
previous diaries and calendars, this<br />
new 2018 collection is set to enjoy<br />
continued success.<br />
The Hebridean Pocket Diary 2018<br />
ISBN: 9781780274331<br />
Format: 156 x 111mm hbk<br />
Price: £7.99 inc VAT<br />
Extent: 128pp<br />
Illustrations: Colour throughout<br />
The Hebridean Desk Diary 2018<br />
ISBN: 9781780274348<br />
Format: 230 x 170mm hbk<br />
Price: £12.99 inc VAT<br />
Extent: 128pp<br />
Illustrations: Colour throughout<br />
Also available<br />
HEBRIDEAN DESK ADDRESS BOOK<br />
ISBN: 9781841589879<br />
Price: £12.99 Hardback<br />
The Hebridean Calendar 2018<br />
ISBN: 9781780274355<br />
Format: 300 x 300mm CA<br />
Price: £9.99 inc VAT<br />
Extent: 24pp<br />
Illustrations: Colour throughout<br />
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<strong>Birlinn</strong> Calendars<br />
MAY <strong>2017</strong><br />
Scottish Maps Calendar 2018<br />
Following the success of the <strong>2017</strong> Scottish Maps Calendar, <strong>Birlinn</strong> is<br />
once again proud to collaborate with the National Library of Scotland.<br />
This new calendar features more of the most beautiful maps of Scotland<br />
ever made. From the very earliest representations of Scotland in the<br />
second century AD, through the first printed maps of the 16th century<br />
and the achievement of the Ordnance Survey in the 1920s and 1930s to<br />
the most recent satellite imagery, these images tell the story of a nation.<br />
Scottish Maps Calendar 2018<br />
ISBN: 9781780274362<br />
Format: 300 x 300mm CA<br />
Price: £9.99 inc VAT<br />
Extent: 24pp<br />
Illustrations: Colour throughout<br />
Scottish Wildlife Calendar 2018<br />
Scotland is home to a staggering array of wildlife, from the iconic red<br />
deer and Highland cow to the magnificent sea eagle and bottle-nosed<br />
dolphin. This calendar features not only a beautiful selection of animals<br />
themselves but also their natural habitats, which are some of the most<br />
magnificent scenery in the world.<br />
Scottish Wildlife Calendar 2018<br />
ISBN: 9781780274942<br />
Format: 300 x 300mm CA<br />
Price: £9.99 inc VAT<br />
Extent: 24pp<br />
Illustrations: Colour throughout<br />
Elizabeth Blackadder Cat<br />
Calendar 2018<br />
Elizabeth Blackadder is one of Britain’s most acclaimed and popular<br />
contemporary artists. A highly versatile and accomplished artist whose<br />
lyrical watercolour still life and landscape paintings have been exhibited<br />
throughout the UK and abroad, she is also known for her marvelous<br />
paintings of cats, which feature on many greetings cards and stationery<br />
items.<br />
Elizabeth Blackadder Cat Calendar 2018<br />
ISBN: 9781780274959<br />
Format: 300 x 300mm CA<br />
Price: £9.99 inc VAT<br />
Extent: 24pp<br />
Illustrations: Colour throughout<br />
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