DISCOVER BIRLINN: RBF PUBLISHER HIGHLIGHTS
Jim
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.'
It's a huge honour to host a launch for Blood and Gold, Mara Menzies debut, which Birlinn released just last month. It’s impossible not to be enchanted by Mara, whose gift for story has captivated us each time we’ve seen her take the stage - and now her magic is on the page it’s all the more enthralling!
Here are a few of the Birlinn books that will be on their book stall, illustrating the brilliant range - from pretty picture books to the phenomenal poetry of Jenni Fagan and Michael Pedersen, from history to fiction and beyond. And of course, this is just the tip of the list!
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- Blood & Gold
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- Mara Menzies
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- Lost Edinburgh
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- Coghill, Hamish
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- Riders on the Storm : The Climate Crisis and the Survival of Being
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- McIntosh, Alastair
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- Scottish Home Rule : The Answer to Scotland's Constitutional Question
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- Thomson, Ben, Campbell, Menzies
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- Talking at the Gates : A Life of James Baldwin
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- Campbell, James
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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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- Native : Life in a Vanishing Landscape
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- Laurie, Patrick
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- To Learn the Future : Poems for Teachers
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- Cooper, Jane, Fraser, Lilias, Tongue, Samuel, Hendry, Kate
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- To Mind Your Life : Poems for Nurses and Midwives
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- Balaam, Marti, Cable, Clare, MacDonald, Kath, Patterson, Jenny, Prigmore, Tasha, Gillis, John, Tongu
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- Eat Bike Cook : Food Stories & Recipes from Female Cyclists
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- Pemberton-Platt, Kitty, Buchanan, Fi
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- Pirate Queen : The Life of Grace O'Malley
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- Cook, Judith
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- Rizzio : Darkland Tales
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- Mina, Denise
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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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- Scottish Customs
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- Livingstone, Sheila
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- A Richness of Martens : Wildlife Tales from the Highlands
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- Pullar, Polly, Lister-Kaye, John, Tingey, Sharon
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- The Wild Wind
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- Kalayil, Sheena
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- The Essential Gaelic-English / English-Gaelic Dictionary
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- Watson, Angus
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- Carve the Runes : Selected Poems
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- Brown, George Mackay
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- Way of the Wanderers : The Story of Travellers in Scotland
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- Smith, Jess
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- Oyster
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- Pedersen, Michael
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- There's a Witch in the Word Machine
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- Fagan, Jenni
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- The Queen of the Birds
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- Polwart, Karine, Leiper, Kate
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- The Little House by the Sea
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- Blathwayt, Benedict