DISCOVER Birlinn: 2025 RBF PUBLISHER HIGHLIGHTS
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The stalls at the Fair include both radical and independent publishers - and it's great to be representing a number of terrific Scottish indies!
One of the bigger, more recognisable Scottish presses is Birlinn - based in Edinburgh, they identify themselves as 'built on traditions of the written and spoken word and is constantly looking to the future.'
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- The Poor Had No Lawyers : Who Owns Scotland and How They Got it
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- Wightman, Andy

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- Scotland: Her Story : The Nation's History by the Women Who Lived It
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- Goring, Rosemary

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- Scottish Folklore
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- Lamont-Brown, Raymond

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- Wild History : Journeys into Lost Scotland
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- Crawford, James

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- Fly High, Little Puffling
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- Stickley, Frances

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- The 12 Days o Yule : A Scottish Christmas
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- Susan Rennie

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- Not the End of the World
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- Baldwin, Talya

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- Benbecula : Darkland Tales
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- Macrae Burnet, Graeme

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- Hex : Darkland Tales
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- Fagan, Jenni

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- Nothing Left to Fear from Hell : Darkland Tales
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- Warner, Alan

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- Columba's Bones
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- Greig, David

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- Queen Macbeth
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- McDermid, Val

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- Burnt Offerings
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- Devlin, Danielle

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- Weak Teeth
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- May, Lynsey

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- Summer Hours
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- Thom, Alessandra

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- The Malt Whisky Murders
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- Jayne Clark, Natalie

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- Tales for Twilight : Two Hundred Years of Scottish Ghost Stories
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- Kerr, Alistair W.J.

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- 1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four : New Edition of the Twentieth Century's Dystopian Masterpiece
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- Orwell, George, Massie, Alex

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- Frankenstein : New Edition of Mary Shelley's Gothic Masterpiece
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- Shelley, Mary

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- The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
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- Stevenson, Robert Louis

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- A Swan's Neck on the Butcher's Block
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- Fagan, Jenni

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- Holy Boys
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- Ordorica, Andres N.

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- Edinburgh's Greatest Hits : A Celebration of the Capital's Music History
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- Byers, Jim, Trew, Jonathan, Shepherd, Fiona, Stroak, Alison

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- Drystone: A Life Rebuilt
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- Kristie De Garis

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- Night Train to Odesa : Covering the Human Cost of Russia’s War
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- Stout, Jen

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- Art Deco Scotland : Design and Architecture in the Jazz Age
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- Peter, Bruce

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- Blue Moon
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- Karakas, Damir

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- Burke and Hare : The True Story Behind the Infamous Edinburgh Murderers
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- Dudley-Edwards, Owen

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- Dark Encounters : A Collection of Ghost Stories
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- Croft Dickinson, William, CBE, Kerr, Alistair W.J.

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- Ferry
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- Blathwayt, Benedict

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- Scottish Festivals
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- Livingstone, Sheila

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- Scottish Placenames
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- Ross, David

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- The Bright Fabric of Life
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- Collie, Mhairi

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- The Scottish Oats Bible
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- Fletcher, Nichola

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- Unwritten Woman
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- Lavery, Hannah

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- Moder Dy : Polygon New Poets
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- Watt, Roseanne

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- Anamnesis
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- Lee, Iona

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- A Croft in the Hills
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- Stewart, Katharine

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- Islay, Jura and Colonsay : A Historical Guide
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- Caldwell, David