BIRLINNNew Titles 2016

Birlinn Limited was established in 1992 by Managing Director Hugh Andrew, and is comprised of a number of imprints.

Birlinn publishes Scottish and general UK interest books, from biography to history, military history, cookery and Scottish Gaelic. The name comes from the old Norse world ‘birlinn’, meaning a long boat or small galley used especially in the Hebrides and West Highlands of Scotland in the Middle Ages. BC Books is a new children’s imprint, launched in 2015. It is designed to provide writing and illustration of the highest quality for young readers in Scotland and beyond. Birlinn is dedicated to nurturing young readers and helping them discover a passion for reading that will last a lifetime.

Polygon publishes literary fiction and poetry, both classic and modern, from Scottish writers such as Robin Jenkins, George Mackay Brown and the author of the No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series, Alexander McCall Smith, as well as selected music and film titles. International writers including Jan-Philipp Sendker are also published under this imprint. Polygon was originally set up by students of Edinburgh University in the late 1960s.

Arena Sport is Birlinn’s sport imprint. The sport books range from football and rugby, to golf and cycling. These books have an international as well as national appeal. Arena’s first titles were published in June 2013.

John Donald publishes academic books.

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2016 NEW TITLES

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Darien: A Journey in Search of Empire John McKendrick Keeping the Jewel in the Crown: The British Betryal of India Walter ReidThe Chain Bridge Honey Bible Liz AshworthThe Scottish Oats Bible Nicola FletcherThe Question of Scotland: Devolution and After Tam DalyellMy Remarkable Journey: The Autobiography of Britain’s First Muslim MP Mohammad SarwarWild Island Jane SmithThe Lady of the Lake Walter ScottRemembering Sam: The Life and Times of Sam Galbraith Graham TeasdaleThe Radical Rising: The Scottish Insurrection of 1820 Peter Berresford Ellis & Seumas Mac a’ GhobhainnThe Colouring Book of Scotland Eilidh MuldoonTobermory Sam Jones, Nic Davies & Brian SwinbanksPoacher’s Pilgrimage: An Island Journey Alistair McIntoshA Rum Affair: A True Story of Botanical Fraud Karl SabbaghLandscapes in Stone: Arran Alan McKirdyLandscapes in Stone: Skye Alan McKirdyThe Way it Was: A History of Gigha Catherine CzerkawskaThe Crinan Canal Marian PallisterAbbotsford to Zion: The Story of Scottish Place-names Around the World Elspeth WillsScottish Baking Sue Lawrence Upper Clydesdale: A History and a Guide Daniel MartinEriskay Where I Was Born Angus Edward McInnesCeltic Scotland Ian ArmitIslay Voices Jenni Minto & Les Wilson

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Isolation Shepherd Iain R. ThomsonThe Man Who Gave Away His Island: A Life of John Lorne Campbell of Canna Ray PermanThe Grand Scuttle: The Sinking of the German Fleet at Scapa Flow in 1919 Dan Van der VatBannockburn: The Battle for a Nation Alistair MoffatThe Secrets of Rosslyn Roddy MartineSummer Walkers Timothy NeatThe Highland Clearances Eric RichardsHebridean Island Hopping: A Guide for the Independent Traveller Martin CoventryMingulay: An Island and Its People Ben BuxtonNicola Sturgeon: A Political Life David TorranceThe Picts: A History Tim ClarksonHidden Scotland: Scotland’s Hidden Past Ann LindsayThe Hunt for Rob Roy: The Man and the Myths David StevensonScots Who Made America Rick Wilson

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‘The Wild Black Region’: Badenoch 1750 - 1800 David TaylorVoices of the Forest: A Social History of Scottish Forestry in the Twentieth Century Mairi StewartKinship, Church and Culture: Collected Essays and Studies by John W.M. Bannerman Edited by Dauvit Broun and Martin MacGregorBrilliant Lives: The Clerk Maxwells and the Scottish Enlightenment John ArthurThe Campbells of the Ark: Men of Argyll in 1745 Ronnie BlackScotland’s Merlin: A Medieval Legendand its Dark Age Origins Tim ClarksonScottish Arctic Whaling: 1750 to World War I Chelsey W. SangerOutlaws of Medieval Scotland: Challenges to the Canmore Kings 1058-1266 R. Andrew MacDonaldHebridean Folk Songs Volumes 1 - 3 John Lorne CampbellCremation in Modern Scotland: History, Architecture and the Law Peter C. Jupp (et. al)

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Hebridean Stationery 2017 Mairi HedderwickScottish Historical Maps Calendar 2017 In Association with the NLSPuffer Calendar 2017 David Hawson

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Set Adrift Upon the Word: The Sutherland Clearances James HunterThe Railway Atlas of Scotland: 100 Years of History in Maps David SpavenEdinburgh: Mapping the City Chris Fleet and Daniel MacCannellGlasgow: Mapping the City John MooreScotland: A History From Earliest Times Alistair Moffat101 Gins To Try Before You Die Ian BuxtonThe Great Tapestry of Scotland Andrew Crummy, Alistair Moffat, Alexander McCall Smith, Susan Mansfield

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ISBN: 9781780273204 Price: £20 Format: 234 x 156mm hbkRights: WorldFebruary 2016288pp

John McKendrick

JOHN MCKENDRICK was born and brought up in Glasgow. He studied at the LSE and Oxford and is currently a barrister in London and an advocate in Edinburgh. He also worked for two years in Panama And the Caribbean.He was Times Lawyer of the Week in September 2013.

DarienA Journey in Search of Empire

The Company of Scotland and its attempts to establish the colony of Caledonia on the inhospitable isthmus of Panama in the late seventeenthcentury is one of the most tragic moments of Scottish history. Devised by William Paterson, the stratagem was to create a major trading stationbetween Europe and the East. It could have been a triumph, but inadequate preparation and organization ensured it was a catastrophe – of the 3000settlers who set sail in 1688 and 1699, only a handful returned, the rest having succumbed to disease, and the enormous financial loss was a keyfactor in ensuring union with England in 1707.

Based on archive research in the UK and Panama, as well as travelling to Darien itself, John McKendrick explores this fascinating and seminal moment in Scottish history. A unique blend of travelogue and history, Darien uncovers fascinating new information from New World archives about the role of the English and Spanish, and aboutthe identities of the settlers themselves.

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Walter Reid

WALTER REID studied at the universities of Oxford and Edinburgh. He has written a number of acclaimed books of military and political history,including Churchill: Under Friendly Fire and Empire of Sand: How Britain Made the Middle East.

Keeping the Jewel in the CrownThe British Betrayal of India

ISBN: 9781780273365 Price: £17.99Format: 234 x 156mm hbkRights: WorldMay 2016224pp

This a stimulating and controversial account of Britain’s role in Indian independence, written by a respected and prolific historian.

When India became independent in 1947, the general view, which has prevailed until now, is that Britain had been steadily working foran amicable transfer of power for decades. In this book Walter Reid argues that nothing could be further from the truth. With reference toa vast amount of documentary material, from private letters to public records and state papers, he shows how Britain held back political progress in India for as long as possible – a policy which led to unimaginable chaos and suffering when independence was granted, and which created a legacy of hatred and distrust that continues to this day.

DarienA Journey in Search of Empire

‘Instructive and convincing . . . deftly tracks Whitehall’s half-baked attempts to deflect the Indian demand for self-determination One can only sympathise with those who had to wrestle with the consequences’ John Keay, author of India: A History

‘‘A fascinating, robust and provocative version of the sunset of the Raj’’ Lawrence James, author of Raj: The Making and Unmaking of British India

9781780270616£12.99 pbk

9781843410591£12.99 pbk

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The Scottish Oats Bibleillustrated by Bob Dewar

NICHOLA FLETCHER has written a number of highly acclaimed cookery books, including Charlemagne’s Tablecloth, Nichola Fletcher’s Ultimate Venison Cookery, Caviar: A Global History and Birlinn’s The Venison Bible. In 2014 she was awarded and MBE for services to the Scottish venison industry.

BOB DEWAR has illustrated over 40 books, and his work has featured in the Scotsman, Herald, Sunday Post and Scottish Field.

ISBN: 9781780273648Price: £4.99 Format: 156 x 111mm pbkRights: WorldJune 201696ppb/w illus. throughout

Liz Ashworth Nicola Fletcher

The Chain Bridge Honey Bibleillustrated by Bob Dewar

ISBN: 9781780273440Price: £4.99Format: 156 x 111mm pbk Rights: WorldJune 201696ppb/w illus. throughout

Scottish oats are famous the world over. In this practical and imaginative book, award-winning cookery writer Nichola Fletcher features 45 recipes which show the remarkable versatility of different kind of oats.

Arranged in themed sections – breakfasts; soups and savouries; desserts and sweets and drinks – the result is a huge variety of mouthwateringrecipes, from fish haggis, wild mushroom risotto and grouse soup to oatmeal candy, spiced oatmeal cake and a detox oatmeal drink, that show how oats can be combined with a vast range of other ingredients and also take centre stage themselves.

Since before history, honey has added delicacy and sweetness to the Scottish diet. Scottish honey, with its fragrances of heather, meadowsweet, clover and birch, is a unique, magical ingredient, and the Honey Bible features a host of easy-to-prepare recipes drawing on this wonderful resource. Liz Ashworth introduces us to its versatility from dishes as varied as medieval sweet pickled salmon and honey-spiced beetroot, to the delectable cranachan and more contemporary chocolate honey fudge cake.

Prepared in collaboration with one of the UK’s oldest and largest honey farms, Chain Bridge in the Borders, this book draws on the experience and traditions of generations of skilled beekeepers and Scottish cooks in the use of this quintessentially natural and organic food.

LIZ ASHWORTH is a Scottish food writer and food product developer, with a particular interest in using local products. The author of a pioneering series of cookery books for beginners of all ages, she writes food columns in various publications, and coordinates the food programme in the annual Orkney International Science Festival. Her most recent book is Orkney Spirit: Food Journeys with Liz Ashworth.

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TAM DALYELL was born in Edinburgh in 1932. He joined the Labour Party in 1956 after the Suez Crisis and served as an MP from 1962 to 2005, first for West Lothian and then for Linlithgow. He retired as Father of the House and Scotland’s longest serving politician in 2005.

The Question of ScotlandDevolution and After

ISBN: 9781780273686Price: £9.99 Format: 198 x 129mm pbkRights: WorldJuly 2016176pp

Tam Dalyell

In September 2014, with the Scottish independence referendum, the United Kingdom came close to being broken apart after three centuries as one of the most successful political unions in history. Yet despite a conclusive No vote, the SNP took almost every seat inScotland at the 2015 general election.

In this book Tam Dalyell offers a personal reflection on why the UK is on the brink of the most serious constitutional crisis in its history. But this is not just a history of why we have ended up where we are. Dalyell also offers sage advice and suggests ways forward which will inform debate as the UK moves into a new political era.

ISBN: 9781780273167Price: £20Format: 234 x 156mm hbk Rights: WorldJanuary 2016288pp16pp colour plate section

MOHAMMAD SARWAR is a prominent Pakistani politician and successful businessman. Sarwar is a former British politician, who served as a Labour parliamentarian from 1997 to 2010, representing Glasgow Central. He was also the first Muslim to sit in the British parliament. He renounced his British citizenship in August 2013 following confirmation of his governorship.

My Remarkable JourneyThe Autobiography of Britain’s First Muslim MPWITH BOB WYLIEThis is the inspirational account of how Mohammad Sarwar rose to political power from modest beginnings in rural Pakistan. Born in Punjab in 1952, Sarwar’s early years were characterized by hardship and persecution. But this all changed after arriving in Glasgow, where he transformed a corner shop on the verge of bankruptcy to a Cash-and-Carry wholesale business with a turnover of more than £200m a year. From business he moved into politics, becoming MP for Glasgow Govan, then Glasgow Central. No stranger to controversy – he voted against Tony Blair’s decision to invade Iraq, and was famously caught in a News of the World sting in 1997 for allegedly bribing an election rival – he has also been heavily involved in extensive charity humanitarian work in Pakistan.

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Wild IslandA Year in the Hebrides

JANE SMITH was born in Sussex. After gaining a degree in Zoology, she became a wildlife film-maker for the BBC Natural History Unit and National Geographic, winning an Emmy for her work. When her children were born she changed direction, creating wildlife artwork as another way of communicating her passion for the natural world. She now lives in Argyll with her husband, also a wildlife film-maker, and children.

ISBN: 9781780272696Price: £20.00 Format: 234 x 190mm hbkRights: WorldMarch 2016160 ppColour illus. throughout

Jane Smith

This is a book for anyone interested in wildlife, for art lovers, for tourists wanting a memento of their holiday, for everyone who loves the west coast of Scotland. It depicts a year in the life of Oronsay, a remote island that is farmed by the RSPB for the benefit of wildlife, and follows artist Jane Smith, as she attempts to portray the interactions of wildlife, farm animals and human inhabitants.

A humorous, first-hand, personal view of island life, both human and otherwise, this book is illustrated with Jane Smith’s vibrant and acutely observed sketches, paintingsand prints.

Sir Walter Scott

The Lady of the LakeIntroduction by Stuart Kelly

SIR WALTER SCOTT (1771-1832) is universally acclaimed as one of the world’s greatest writers who was of seminal importance in the development of the historical novel.

STUART KELLY is a freelance journalist and writer. He is the author of Scott-Land: The Man Who Invented a Nation (Polygon)

ISBN: 9781780273372 Price: £9.99 Format: 198 x 129mm pbkRights: WorldApril 2016224pp

The Lady of the Lake marked the pinnacle of Walter Scott’s popularity as a poet, with record-breaking sales and ecstatic reviews which helped spread his fame far beyond Britain. It also inspired thousands to flock to Loch Katrine in the Trossachs to see for themselves the isle where the banished James of Douglas and his daughter Ellen take refuge, and where the mysterious knight, James Fitz James, arrives andsets in motion a chain of events which have far-reaching consequences for them all.

The Lady of the Lake is a key work of the Romantic movement which swept Europe by storm in the early nineteenth century.

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Jane Smith Peter Berresford Ellis & Seumas Mac a’ Ghobhainn

PETER BERRESFORD ELLIS, an acknowledged expert on the Celtic world, is an historian, literary biographer and novelist. He is author of thebestselling Sister Fidelma historical mysteries (writing as Peter Tremayne).

SEUMAS MAC A’ GHOBAINN was a Scottish author, essayist and propagandist who died in 1987. He was co-author (with Peter Berresford Ellis) of The Problem of Language Revival (1971).

ISBN: 9781780273839 Price: £14.99 Format: 198 x 129mm pbkRights: WorldApril 2016416pp16pp b/w plates

Glasgow, April 1820. The last armed uprising on British soil, intent on severing the Union and establishing a radical Scottish republic, endedin executions, imprisonments, transportations and 85 trails for high treason. Yet despite its political and social importance, the story of this working-class revolution vanished from the historical record. This book restores the radical rising to its rightful place in history, offering an incisive analysis of the rising itself and the events which led up to it, vividly recapturing the extraordinary heroism of its leaders, John Baird and Andrew Hardie, and the savagery with which the movement was crushed by the forces of the British state.

The Radical RisingThe Scottish Insurrection of 1820

Sir Walter Scott

The Lady of the LakeIntroduction by Stuart Kelly

GRAHAM TEASDALE, The editor, is Emeritus Professor of Neurosurgery at the University of Glasgow and knew Sam Galbraith well. The 27 contributors include fellow politicians such as Alistair Darling and Brian Wilson, eminent figures from the world of medicine, such as Harry Burns, David Hamilton and Harpreet Kohli, as well as close friends like Muriel Gray and members of Sam Galbraith’s family.

Sam Galbraith, an exceptionally talented young neurosurgeon in Glasgow, was led by strong socialist values to seek a political career. Soon after election to Parliament in 1987 at 42 years old, he devloped a serious lung condition that required him to undergo a lung transplant and left him with limited health. Despite this, he went on to hold Ministerial posts, first in Westminster and then in the new Scottish Parliament.

In government he abolished markets in the NHS in Scotland and, by highlighting the relation between deprivation and illness, he was able to achieve his ambition to make a difference to health on a large scale. When Sam died aged 68 he was the longest living survivor of a lung transplant. His story is told by colleagues, friends and family.

Graham Teasdale

Remembering SamThe Life and Times of Sam Galbraith

ISBN: 9781780273389 Price: £12.99 Format: 198 x 129mm hbkRights: WorldApril 2016208pp

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Eilidh Muldoon

EILIDH MULDOON studied Art History and gained an MFA in Illustration from Edinburgh College of Art in June 2013, where she is currently Illustrator in Residence. She is also a freelance artist and illustrator whose work has appeared in prints, greetings cards and giftware.

The Colouring Book of Scotland

ISBN: 9781780274058Price: £7.99Format: 250 x 250mm hbkRights: WorldJune 201648ppb/w illus. throughout

A unique Scottish colouring book suitable for adults as well as children featuring 20 of the country’s most iconic places, including:

Edinburgh Castle • Forth Rail Bridge • St Andrews • HMS Discovery, Dundee • Balmoral Castle • Loch Ness/Urquart Castle • Dunrobin • Castle, Stromness, Orkney • Skara Brae • Callanish standing stones • Lews Castle, Lewis • Highland Games • Eilean Donan • Duart Castle, Mull • Tobermory, Skye • Kelvingrove Museum, Glasgow • Caerlaverlock Castle • Abbotsford House • Melrose Abbey • Rosslyn Chapel • Falkirk Wheel • Stirling Castle • Edinburgh Christmas Market

Eilidh Muldoon’s illustrations are ideal for all levels of colouring – for those who like a colouring challenge, yet simple enough for those with less patience to create beautiful colour artwork in a short time.

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ISBN: 9781780273150 Price: £9.99 Format: 248 x 190mm hbkRights: WorldMay 201696ppColour Illus. throughout

Nic Davies, Sam Jones andBrian Swinbanks

SAMANTHA (‘SAM’) JONES is a landscape photographer who runs her business, Islandscape Photography, on Mull. She was RNLIPhotographer of the Year in 2011 and a finalist in the Scottish Nature Photography Awards in 2013.

NIC DAVIES has worked in wildlife conservation and animal welfare since 1989. He now lives on Mull, engaged in photography, wildlife guiding and the conservation of otters and marine species. His photographs have has featured in publications and TV programmes worldwide.

BRIAN SWINBANKS Is an Industrial and Graphic Designer. He has designed children’s toys at Raleigh Bicycles and was awarded with brother Duncan a British Design Award. He has run his own Charter Boat business and is Chair of the Tobermory Harbour Association.

Tobermory

Tobermory, the principal town on the island of Mull, is one of the prettiest towns in the Hebrides. Its principal street, Main Street, with its buildings painted in distinctive bright colours, is also one of the most well-known views in Scotland.

This book includes the work of three local photographers, uniquely qualified to capture the spirit of this magical place in all its moods. In addition to pictures of the town, its views, surrounding countryside and wildlife – on land and sea – it also features the people of Tobermory itself, at work and at leisure. The result is a vivid portrait of a vibrant community in an exquisitely beautiful natural setting.

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Alastair McIntosh

ALASTAIR MCINTOSH is an independent writer, broadcaster, speaker and activist who is involved in a wide range of contemporary issues, from land reform, globalization and nonviolence to psychology, spirituality and ecology.

Poachers’ PilgrimageAn Island Journey

ISBN: 9781780273617 Price: £17.99Format: 234 x 156mm hbkRights: WorldJune 2016272pp16pp colour plates

The islands of the Outer Hebrides are home to some of the most remote and spectacular scenery in the world. They host an astonishing range of mysterious structures – stone circles, beehive dwellings, holy wells and ‘temples’ from the Celtic era. Over a twelve-day pilgrimage, often in appalling conditions, Alastair McIntosh returned to the islands of his childhood and explored the meaning of these places. He went from the most southerly tip of Harris to the northerly Butt of Lewis. Thebook is a walk through space and time, across a physical landscape and into a spiritual one. Alastair had just come back from lecturing at military institutions across Europe. This is a moving book, a powerful reflection not simply of this extraordinary place and itspeople met along the way, but of imaginative hope for humankind.

A Rum AffairA True Story of Botanical Fraud

KARL SABBAGH is a writer, journalist and TV producer. He is the author of a dozen books, including The Living Body (with Christian Barnaard), Power into Art and Palestine: A Personal Journey.

ISBN: 9781780273860Price: £9.99Format: 198 x 129mm pbkRights: WorldJune 2016288 pp8pp b/w plates

Karl Sabbagh

In the 1940s, the eminent British botanist John Heslop Harrison proposed a controversial theory: that vegetation on the islands off the west coast of Scotland had survived the last Ice Age. His premise flew in the face of what most botanists believed – that no plants had survived the 10,000-year period of extreme cold. Harrison didn’t anticipate, however, an amateur botanist called John Raven, who boldly questioned whether these grasses were truly indigenous to the area, or whether they had been transported there. This is the story of what happened when a tenacious amateur set out to find out the truth, and how he uncovered a most extraordinary fraud.

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Alastair McIntoshKarl Sabbagh

ISBN: 9781780273693 Price: £7.99 Format: 165 x 230mm pbkRights: WorldJuly 201648ppColour illus. throughout

Alan McKirdy

ALAN MCKIRDY has written many popular books and book chapters on geology and related topics and has helped to promote the study of environmental geology in schools. Before his recent retirement he was Head of Information Management at Scottish Natural Heritage. He is the author of Land of Mountain and Flood and Set in Stone.

Landscapes in Stone: Arran

The Isle of Arran dominates the Firth of Clyde. A favourite haunt of holidaymakers, it is also a place of fascination for the geologist, offeringa huge variety of rocks that represent a massive slice through geological time. From the ancient bent and buckled strata of Dalradian - a small fragment of the roots of the once mighty Scottish Highlands – the dramatic Northern mountains though which ice gouged its way during the Ice Age, to the relatively recent (some 60 million years ago!) rocks associated with the Arran volcano, the geological record tells an amazing tale.

This book is a fascinating introduction to the landscape of Arran – one of the most significant geological areas of the country

‘[A] concise and lavishly illustrated guide to the extraordinary landscape and geology of Scotland, a land mass that has traveled across the surface of the globe for 3,000 million years. The next time you look at a mountain, think about how it came to be there’ – Scotland Magazine

9781780271514£9.99 pbk

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Landscapes in Stone: Skye

ISBN: 9781780273723 Price: £7.99 Format: 165 x 230mm pbkRights WorldJuly 201648ppColour illus. throughout

The Isle of Skye offers a magical combination of wild land and breath-taking natural beauty. Skye’s geological history involves some of the most ancient rocks on the planet, and the development of one of the mightiest volcanoes ever to blow its top. Skye is also known as Scotland’s ‘dinosaur island’, yielding the remainsof many species of plant and meat-eating creatures that stalked land some 140 million years ago.

This book provides key information about the formation of the island and the on-going processes of natural landscape evolution thatcontinue to leave their mark on these spectacular vistas.

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The Way it WasA History of Gigha

CATHERINE CZERKAWSKA is a playwright and novelist who writes for the theatre, and for BBC Radio. Her novel The Curiosity Cabinet waspublished by Polygon in 2005 and was shortlisted for the Dundee Book Prize. She has a postgraduate degree in Folk Life Studies, henceher lifelong interest in oral history and tradition.

ISBN: 9781780273853Price: £12.99 Format: 198 x 129mm pbkRights: WorldJune 2016336pp16pp b/w plate section

Catherine Czerkawska

The island of Gigha is a small gem, the most southerly of the true Hebridean islands, lying just off Tayinloan on Scotland’s Kintyre peninsula. Gigha’s good harbours, fertile land, mild climate and strategically useful position have given it a fascinating history.Catherine Czerkawska relates the sometimes turbulent story of the people of Gigha, from the settlers of prehistoric times, through successive incomers including the Celts, the Vikings, and the McNeill lords of this island.

The author, like so many people, fell helplessly in love at first sight with Gigha and returns to it time and again. This book explores just what it is that makes the island such an enchanting place.

ISBN: 9781780273464Price: £9.99Format: 198 x 129mm pbk Rights: WorldJune 2016240pp16pp b/w plate section

MARIAN PALLISTER has worked as a features writer and commentator covering social issues in Scotland and round the world, particularly in disaster and war zones. She also founded the Mhuthanzia Lilanda Initiative, a charity which supports the education of vulnerable young people in Zambia.

The Crinan Canal

Known as ‘Britain’s most beautiful shortcut’, the Crinan Canal runs from Ardrishaig on Loch Fyne nine miles across the Kintyre peninsula tothe west coast of Scotland. Designed by John Rennie after initial survey work by James Watt in 1771, the canal was opened in 1801, with further improvements made by Thomas Telford in the second decade of the nineteenth century.

These days the canal is a popular route for leisure craft. In the book Marian Pallister tells the story of the canal from its origins to the present day, discussing how it was built, who built it, how it changed life in the surrounding areas, and how it has been used.

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9781780272207£9.99 pbk

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Sue Lawrence

After graduating from St Andrews University in history in 1970, ELSPETH WILLS has spent her career as a researcher, interpreter and writer within advertising, marketing, economic development and visitor attraction environments. She has written over a dozen books on subjects as varied as natural history, new town development and Scottish innovation.

Over the centuries countless Scots have travelled to every conceivable corner of the globe – some to start a new life, others as entrepreneurs, explorers, missionaries, colonial administrators, soldiers or in a multitude of other contexts.

This book takes the reader on a journey from the wastes of Antarctica to the South African Highlands, from Canada’s prairies to Australia’s vineyards. It visits cities and deserted villages, scales mountain peaks and calls in at far-flung islands. All these places have one thing in common – the fact that they were named by, or after, Scots. The places named and the people they honoured provide a different way oflooking at the influence of Scots overseas, whether railroad engineer, pioneer farmer, displaced crofter or multi-millionaire.

Elspeth Wills

Abbotsford to ZionThe Story of Scottish Place-names Around the World

ISBN: 9781780274072Price: £9.99 Format: 198 x 129mm pbkRights: WorldJuly 2016224pp

The Crinan Canal

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Scottish BakingIn recent times Britain as a whole can’t get enough of programmes like The Great British Bake-off and The Fabulous Baker Boys, but Scotland has always had a wonderful tradition of baking in both sweet and savoury recipes.

Leading cookery writer Sue Lawrence hasnow combined her two passions, for baking and Scottish cooking, into one definitive book. A compendium of 70 easy-to-follow recipes, it brings together the traditional breads, scones and cakes that have shaped Scotland’s great baking heritage and new contemporary bakes.

SUE LAWRENCE is a food writer and journalist who has written many books on cooking and baking, including The Scottish Kitchen (2002),The Sue Lawrence Book of Baking (2004) and Eating In (2011). She lives in Edinburgh.

ISBN: 9781780274102 Price: £12.99 Format: 234 x 190mm pbkRights: WorldJuly 2016144pp

‘There couldn’t be a book by Sue Lawrence that I wouldn’t want to own. She writes beautifully . . . and her recipes make me ravenous’ – Nigela Lawson

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Eriskay Where I Was Born

ISBN: 9781780273815Price: £12.99Format: 198 x 129mm pbkJune 2016272pp

Angus Edward MacInnes

Angus Edward MacInnes, born at Haun, Eriskay in the Outer Hebrides in 1925, returned in his imagination to the island of his birth to create what, since its first publication in 1997, has become a classic account of an almost forgotten way of life. His autobiography, told with thecaptivating rhythms and story-telling techniques of his native Gaelic, combines the author’s personal experiences with his observations oflife around him. The result is a complete picture of Eriskay, from its topography to descriptions of the islanders’ dress, diet and schooling. The island’s traditions are brought vividly to life with amazing – but, the author insists, true – tales of ‘giants’, strong men, ghosts and thesecond sight.

Daniel Martin

DANIEL MARTIN was born in Carluke and lived there his whole life. Widely respected as a local historian, he was also a Fellow of the RoyalSociety of Edinburgh and taught Mathematics at Glasgow University. He died in 2006.

Upper Clydesdale, the rural part of South Lanarkshire, is one of the most beautiful parts of the country. Its main centres of population include Carluke, Carnwath, Lanark, New Lanark, Biggar, Lesmahagow, Douglas and Coulter, Abington, Crawford and Leadhills.In this affectionate and intimate portrait of the area, local historian Daniel Martin roves from prehistoric and Roman through medieval and covenanting to industrial and modern times, covering a huge range of themes – including archaeology, history (natural, local andecclesiastical) and the many places of interest in the area, such as New Lanark, the Falls of the Clyde and Craignethan Castle. Famous figures connected with the area include William Wallace, Robert Burns, Lord Braxfield, William Gladstone and Hugh MacDiarmid.

Upper ClydesdaleA History and Guide

ISBN: 9781780273976 Price: £12.99Format: 216 x 138mm pbkRights: WorldJune 2016256pp

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‘Hugely readable… sometimes grim, sometimes angry, sometimes very funny… MacInnes is a marvellous storyteller, and hewrites exactly as he speaks, with Gaelic idioms woven effortlessly into his gloriously Hebridean English’ – Donald Meek, Twentieth Century Gaelic and Hebridean Literature

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Jenni Minto & Les Wilson

Eriskay Where I Was Born

Daniel Martin

IAN ARMIT is Professor of Archaeology at the University of Bradford, having previously taught at Queen’s University, Belfast. Prior to that, hean Inspector of Ancient Monuments with Historic Scotland.

This authoritative and beautifully illustrated book is aimed at the general reader who wants to know about the mysterious people who inhabited Scotland from the Bronze Age onwards. They created wonderful works of art in gold and silver and their brochs and hillforts are scattered over the Scottish landscape. Many modern-day Scots are descended from them. Using the results of modern archaeology and historical sources,

Ian Armit answers the key questions about who the Celts were, where they came from, their relationship with other Celtic tribes throughout Europe, their customs and beliefs and their daily life. It is a fascinating story told with flair and clarity by one of Britain’s leading experts on the Celts.

Ian Armit

Celtic ScotlandEarly Historic Scotland

ISBN: 9781780272924 Price: £14.99Format: 246 x 189mm pbkRights: WorldJune 2016144ppColour plate section & integrated mono

JENNI MINTO studied accountancy at Aberdeen University and worked for BBC Scotland in a variety of business support roles. She has played a prominent role in setting up Islay’s community owned wind turbine and currently works at the Museum of Islay Life.

LES WILSON is a writer, and award winning documentary maker who specialises in Scottish Historical subjects. Jenni and Les are marriedand moved to Islay in 2011, after having a holiday home there for many years..

Many travellers have had their imaginations captured by the beautiful Hebridean island of Islay, among them the renowned Thomas Pennant and Martin Martin. But Ileachs – the natives of Islay – have also been inspired to record their experience. And there were the ‘non-professional’ writers – the diary and letter writers whose intensely personal musings give us startling insights into the lives of the ordinary Ileachs that historians all too often ignore. This anthology distils the essence of Islay through a very personal selection of writing. Some of the writing is profound, some of it quirky, but all reveals a fascinating aspect of Islay that together presents a revealing andmoving ‘people’s history’ of Islay.

Islay Voices

ISBN: 9781780272948 Price: £20.00Format: 246 x 189mm pbkAugust 2016224pp

Upper ClydesdaleA History and Guide

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Ray Perman

IAIN THOMSON was born in Inverness, but was raised and educated near Liverpool. On leaving school in the late 1940s, he returned toScotland to work on a farm in Aberdeenshire. He is the author of three books, all of them vivid depictions of some of the wildest and mostremote parts of the Highlands. He currently lives outside Inverness.

In August 1956 a young shepherd, his wife, two-year-old daughter and ten-day-old son sat huddled in a small boat on Loch Monar in Ross-shire as a storm raged around them. They were bound for a tiny, remote cottage at the western end of the loch which was to betheir home for the next four years. Isolation Shepherd is the moving story of those years. Set against the awesome splendour of some of Scotland’s most spectacular scenery,

Iain R. Thomson’s classic book provides a sensitive, richly detailed account of the shepherd’s life through the seasons and recreates the events that shaped the family’s life in Glen Strathfarrar before the area was flooded as part of a hugehydro-electric project.

Iain R. Thomson

Isolation Shepherd

ISBN: 9781780274041 Price: £8.99Format: 198 x 129mm pbkRights: WorldFebruary 2016240pp

The Man Who Gave Away His IslandA Life of John Lorne Campbell of Canna

In 1938 John Lorne Campbell bought the Hebridean isle of Canna. He wanted to prevent it becoming a rich man’s playground (like so many other islands and Highland estates), to preserve a part of traditional Gaelic culture and show that efficient farming methods could be compatible with wildlife conservation and sustainability.

This acclaimed book is an insightful and human portrait of one of the twentieth century’s most significant scholars of the Gaelic world. 2016 marks the 20th anniversary of his death.

ISBN: 9781780274119 Price: £9.99Format: 198 x 129mm pbkRights: WorldFebruary 2016272pp16pp b/w plates

RAY PERMAN was a journalist for 30 years in London and Scotland. In 1977 he first visited Canna and met John Lorne Campbell, with whom he corresponded until John’s death in 1996.

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Dan Van der Vat Alistair MoffatRay Perman

Iain R. Thomson

DAN VAN DER VAT, born in Holland and educated in England, became a full-time author after 25 years in journalism. He has publishedseven books on maritime history, including The Ship that Changed the World and The Riddle of the Titanic (with Robin Gardiner), as well asa biography of Albert Speer.

The Grand Scuttle became a folk legend in both Germany and Britain. However, few people are aware that Rear Admiral Ludwig von Reuter became the only man in history to sink his own navy because of a misleading report in a British newspaper; that the Royal Navy guessed his intention but could do nothing to thwart it; that the sinking produced the last casualties and the last prisoners of the war.

This is the remarkable story of the scuttling of the German fleet in Scapa Flow. It contains previously unused German archive material, eyewitnessaccounts and the recollections of survivors, as well as many contemporary photos which capture the awesome spectacle of the finest ships of the time being deliberately sunk by their own crew.

The Grand ScuttleThe Sinking of the German Fleet at Scapa Flowin 1919

ISBN: 9781843410690 Price: £8.99Format: 198 x 129mm hbkApril 2016240pp2 x 8pp b/w plates

BannockburnThe Battle for a NationIn this book, best-selling author Alistair Moffat offers fresh insights into one of the most famous battles in history, yet one which is surprisingly little understood. Where exactly was it fought; and what happened at the Scottish council of war the night before the second day to persuade the Scots to attack at dawn?

This book follows in detail the events of those two days that changed history, and captures all the fear, heroism, confusion and desperation as he describes the tactics and manoeuvres that led to a stunning and unexpected Scottish victory.

ISBN: 9781780272795Price: £7.99Format: 198 x 129mm pbkRights: WorldMay 2016224pp

ALISTAIR MOFFAT was born and bred in the Scottish Borders. A former Director of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and Director of Programmes at Scottish Television, he now runs the Borders Book Festival and the DNA testing company, BritainsDNA (britainsdna.com). He is also the author of numerous best-selling books.

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Roddy MartineTimothy Neat

The Secrets of Rosslyn

RODDY MARTINE is a freelance journalist, author and broadcaster based in Edinburgh. He has written a number of bestselling books,including Living in the Highlands (Thames and Hudson, 2000), Scottish Clans and Family Names (Mainstream, various edns) and The Edinburgh Military Tattoo (Robert Hale, 2001).

ISBN: 9781780274089Price: £8.99Format: 198 x 129mm pbkRights: WorldApril 2016224pp16pp colour plates

Nestling in an exquisite glen just seven miles from the centre of Edinburgh, Rosslyn Chapel is one of the world’s most extraordinary places. Ever since it was built in the mid fifteenth century it has cast a mesmerising spell over all who have visited it, exuding an aura of profoundmystery, as if it holds the key to some vast, unearthly secret.

Six hundred years later it continues to confound and intrigue. Roddy Martine sifts through mounds of unfounded conjecture and fantasy to make sense of it all. The Secrets of Rosslyn is the only book that lets the facts speak for themselves, showing ultimately that the truth is no less amazing than fiction.

Summer Walkers

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ISBN: 9781780273969Price: £14.99Format: 260 x 189mm pbkRights: WorldJune 2016240ppb/w illus. throughout

The Summer Walkers is the name the crofters of Scotland’s North-west Highlands gave the Travelling People – the intinerant tinsmiths, horse-dealers, hawkers and pearl-fishers who made their living ‘on the road’. These people are not gypsies – they are indigenous Gaelic-speaking Highlanders who are heirs to a vital and ancient culture. This book documents their way of life and explores their customs, superstitions, unique language, stories, poetry and songs rough photographs and remembrances. The result is a poignant and deeply moving record of a way of life now on the verges of living memory.

TIMOTHY NEAT is an art historian, film-maker and writer. He is the author of numerous books, including Part Seen, Part Imagined, a study of Charles Rennie Mackintosh, and a two-volume biography of Hamish Henderson. His film Play Me Something was Best Film, Festival de Cinema de Barcelona, 1989.

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Roddy MartineTimothy Neat Martin Coventry

Eric Richards

ERIC RICHARDS is Emeritus Professor of History at Flinders University, Australia and previously taught at Stirling University, Scotland. His published work includes an acclaimed biography of Patrick Sellar, which was awarded the prize for Scottish History Book of the Year(1999) by the Saltire Society.

The Highland Clearances

This book traces the origins of the Clearances from the eighteenth century to their culmination in the crofting legislation of the 1880s. It shows how the Clearances were one of many ‘attempted’ solutions to the problem of how to maintain a population on marginal and infertile land, and were, in fact, part of a wider European movement of rural depopulation.

In drawing attention away from the mythology to the hard facts of what actually happened, The Highland Clearances offers a balancedanalysis of events which created a terrible scar on the Highland and Gaelic imagination.

ISBN:9781780273846Price: £12.99 Format: 198 x 129mm pbkRights: WorldMay 2016512pp8pp b/w plates, maps

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Hebridean Island HoppingA Guide For the Independent Traveller

ISBN: 9781780271170Price: £10.99 Format: 216 x 138mm pbkRights: WorldJune 2016272ppIllustrated throughout

The concept of island hopping conjures up visions of freedom and adventure, whether it be in the sunny Aegean or the exotic Caribbean. The Hebrides offer Scotland’s unique take – large skies, crashing seas and magnificent scenery, as well as wildlife, history, archaeology, sports and countless other attractions. Each island has a unique and individual character, landscape and history which have attracted and intrigued travellers and visitors for hundreds of years. Hebridean Island Hopping covers everything needed to get the most from a visit to any of the islands off the west coast of Scotland.

MARTIN COVENTRY was born and educated in Edinburgh. He has written several other books including The Hebrides: The Western Isles of Scotland and The Castles of Scotland.

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ISBN: 9781780273044Price: £12.99 Format: 198 x 129mm pbkRights: WorldMay 2016288pp

ISBN: 9781780273457 Price: £9.99 Format: 198 x 129mm pbkRights: WorldJune 2016256pp

Ben Buxton

BEN BUXTON first explored the Hebrides in the 1970s. Later, while studying for a degree in archaeology, he investigated the archaeologyand history of Mingulay. Ben He teaches adult education classes in archaeology and is Curator at Wareham Museum.

MingulayAn Island And Its People

Ben Buxton documents the story of a people and of this remote, barren and ruggedly beautiful island that lies at the southern end of the Outer Hebrides. Looking back through the annals of history, he uncovers the traditions of a hospitable, close community which thrived under clan rule. But set in lonely isolation in the stormy Atlantic, with no proper landing place, absentee landlords and insufficient fertile land, life for Mingulay’s inhabitants was hard, and by 1912, the ‘voluntary’ evacuation of the island was complete. This is the poignant story of Mingulay and the life of its people – now lost beyond the grasp of living memory.

Nicola SturgeonA Political Life

How did a working-class girl from Ayrshire become one of Scotland and the UK’s most prominent politicians? Identified as a rising star by the SNP leadership shortly after she joined the party as a teenager, when the Nationalists formed their first Scottish Government in 2007 Nicola Sturgeon swiftly became one of its most successful ministers. By the time Alex Salmond resigned as First Minister after the No vote in the Scottish independence referendum, she was viewed as his natural successor, leading her party to its remarkable success at the 2015 general election.

In this book, David Torrance traces the life and career of a remarkable woman.

DAVID TORRANCE is a freelance journalist based in London, and author of a number of political biographies, including George Younger, David Steel and Alex Salmond.

David Torrance

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Ben BuxtonDavid Torrance

ISBN: 9781780274034Price: £9.99Format pbk: 198 x 129mmRights: WorldMay 2015240pp

TIM CLARKSON worked in academic librarianship before setting up a business with his wife. He gained an MPhil in archaeology (1995)and a PhD in medieval history (2003) from the University of Manchester. He is author of The Men of the North (2010) and The Makers ofScotland (2012).

The PictsA History

Tim Clarkson

The Picts were an ancient nation who ruled most of northern and eastern Scotland during the Dark Ages. Despite their historical importance, they remain shrouded in myth and misconception. Absorbed by the kingdom of the Scots in the ninth century, they lost theirunique identity, their language and their vibrant artistic culture. Amongst their few surviving traces are standing stones decorated with incredible skill and covered with enigmatic symbols – vivid memorials of a powerful and gifted people who bequeathed no chronicles to tell their story, no sagas to describe the deed of their kings and heroes. In this book Tim Clarkson pieces together the evidence to tell the story of this mysterious people from their emergence in Roman times to their eventual disappearance.

Hidden ScotlandScotland’s Hidden Past

Ann Lindsay

In this marvellously entertaining and informative book, Ann Lindsay introduces a huge range of quirky, intriguing and amusing details about Scotland’s past and present. Some of what she reveals is verifiable by fact, some shrouded in mystery and superstition. Packed withinformation on curious places, bizarre happenings and perplexing oddities, Hidden Scotland will surprise even the most erudite student of Scottish culture. It includes instructions on how to get to all the places mentioned in the book, making it an indispensable companion tothose keen to explore the more alternative destinations on Scotland’s tourist trail.

ANN LINDSAY is the author of a number of bestselling books, including The Dried Flower Garden (Batsford) and Seeds Blood and Beauty: Scottish Plant Explorers (Birlinn). She has also contributed over to the years to a wide range of newspapers and magazines, including Sunday Herald, Sunday Post, Country Life and the Scots Magazine.

ISBN: 9781780274096 Price: £12.99 Format: 216 x 138mm pbkRights: WorldJune 2016256pp

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Scots Who Made America

What would America have been without the Scots? Andrew Carnegie, the humble weaver’s son who went there to become the world’s richest man, thought it might have been ‘a poor show’.

This book is an unapologetic celebration of what he was proudly talking about –little Scotland’s huge human contribution to the cultural identity of the Big Country. Rick Wilson profiles an intriguing selection of Scottish innovators who have projected their genius, energy and inspiration across the Atlantic.

RICK WILSON grew up in the same small-town street where David Buick, founder of the Buick car company, was born. As a journalist he has worked not just on daily newspapers in London’s Fleet Street but also in The Netherlands and his native Scotland as a magazine editor.

Rick Wilson

The Hunt for Rob RoyThe Man and the Myths

This is the first time that Rob Roy’s life has been written with a full range of sources. The picture that emerges is indeed striking, but not heroic. The Story of a man deeply wronged and oppressed, forced into outlawry, has to be modified by the clear evidence that he was only outlawed after undertaking a careful plan to swindle his creditors.

With this book Scotland may lose a hero of the old-fashioned and unreal sort, but it gains a Rob Roy whose life-story emerges as one that was dramatic and certainly more human.

This radical revision of popular views on Rob Roy is based on much recently discovered material and is the first new biography for thirty years.

DAVID STEVENSON is Professor Emeritus of Scottish History at the University of St Andrews and the author of numerous books, including the standard two-volume history of the Covenanters.

ISBN: 9781780273808Price: £7.99 Format: 198 x 129mm pbk Rights: WorldMay 2016216pp2 x 8pp b/w plate section

ISBN: 9781780273785Price: £9.99Format: 198 x 129mm pbkRights: WorldMay 2016368pp16pp b/w plate section

David Stevenson

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THE WILD

REGIONBLACK

BADENOCH 1750—1800

David Taylor

‘ Taylor, with verve and raw realism,exposes the working life of the Old Highlands

in an entirely new way’ Professor Eric Richards, Carnegie Centenary Professor 2014

DAVID TAYLOR graduated in Scottish Historical Studies from the University of Edinburgh, and gained a PhD from the University of the Highlands and Islands. After teaching history at Douglas-Ewart High School he was Principal Teacher of History and Modern Studies at Kingussie High School(Badenoch) for thirty years. Now retired, he lives in Orkney.

‘The Wild Black Region’Badenoch 1750 - 1800

This book tells the fascinating story of Badenoch, a forgotten region in accounts of Scottish history. Situated in the heart of the Highlands and withits own distinct historic and geographic identity, Badenoch was in the throes of dramatic change in the post-Culloden decades. This ground-breaking study reveals some radical differences from trends across the rest of the Highlands.

Duke, tacksman and erstwhile clansman tried to forge their individual – and often irreconcilable – destinies in a rapidly changing world.In doing so, all were increasingly drawn into the wider, and often lucrative, dimensions of British state and empire.

David Taylor

ISBN: 9781906566982Price: £25.00 Format: 234 x 156mm pbkRights: WorldFebruary 2016336pp16pp colour plates; 8pp b/w plates; maps

David StevensonMairi Stewart

Voices of the ForestA Social History of Scottish Forestry in theTwentieth Century

ISBN: 9781906566647Price: £20.00 Format: 245 x 240mm pbkRights: WorldFebruary 2016304pp120 b/w; 80 colour throughout

MAIRI STEWART graduated in Geography from Glasgow University. After spending ten years working in conservation and land management,her interest in woodland history led her to undertake an MPhil at the University of St Andrews. She is currently afreelance historical researcher specialising in environmental history.

The creation of large new tracts of forest, together with the development of a modern wood processing sector, was the single biggest transformationto occur in the Scottish countryside during the twentieth century. While the environmental and landscape impacts of this change have been much commented upon, its impact on Scottish culture and society has attracted comparatively little attention. This book tells the fascinating story of the human side of forestry, drawing heavily on the thoughts, experiences and reflections of a wide range of individuals from all levels and all sectors of the industry as it has developed in Scotland over the last 100 years.

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Brilliant LivesThe Clerk Maxwells and the Scottish EnlightenmentJames Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879) was the greatest physicist of the nineteenth century, and although his scientific contribution is now acknowledged to be on a level with those of Newton and Einstein, he has generally not received the acclaim that he deserves. This book goes beyond the life of the man himself to explore five generations of his family and those with whom they were connected, predominantly middleranking lowland Scots who were interlinked through marriage.

JOHN ARTHUR graduated from the University of Toronto before returning to Scotland to complete a PhD in physics at the University of Edinburgh. He spent most of his career specialising in electronic and microwave technology developments for communications and radar. Inaddition to a recent book on electromagnetic theory, he has published many papers. He is a trustee of the James Clerk Maxwell Foundation, a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Physics,

John Arthur

Kinship, Church and CultureCollected Essays and Studies by John W.M. BannermanJohn Bannerman (1932–2008) saw the history of Scotland from a Gaelic perspective, and his outstanding scholarship made that perspective impossible to ignore. As a historian, his natural home was the era between the Romans and the twelfth century when the Scottish kingdom first began to take shape, but he also wrote extensively on the MacDonald Lordship of the Isles in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, while his work on the Beatons, the notable Gaelic medical kindred, reached into the early eighteenth century. Across this long millennium, Bannerman ranged and wrote with authority and insight on what he termed the ‘kin-based society’, with special emphasisupon its church and culture, and its relationship with Ireland.

JOHN BANNERMAN studied Celtic languages at the University of Glasgow and gained a PhD from the University of Cambridge. He joined the history department at Edinburgh University in 1967 and worked there for 30 years, while also running the family farm at Balmaha,Stirlingshire. He published a number of influential works on Gaelic Scotland, including Studies in the History of Dalriada and a majorcontribution to Late Medieval Monumental Sculpture in the West Highlands. He retired from teaching in 1997 and took up farming full-timeat Balmaha. He died in 2008.

ISBN: 9781906566975Price: £25.00 Format: 234 x 156mm pbk Rights: World English LanguageMarch 2016288pp16pp colour plate section

ISBN: 9781906566913Price: £25.00Format: 234 x 156mm pbkRights: WorldFebruary 2016320ppb/w throughout

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RONALD BLACK is a retired Senior Lecturer in Celtic Studies at the University of Edinburgh and Gaelic Editor of the Scotsman. He is a regular broadcaster and contributes to a wide variety of newspapers and journals. He lives in Peebles, Scotland.

In the course of his long poem An Airce, ‘The Ark’, the Jacobite poet Alexander MacDonald shows the Campbells being subjected to trial by water for the part they played in defeating Prince Charles’s army in 1745–6. Some will be drowned outright, he says, some just given a good ducking – and some will be honourably treated. He names forty individuals; Ronald Black puts their lives and deeds under the microscope to see how far they deserved their allotted fate.

The result is a well-balanced portrait of the leading men of Argyll in the eighteenth century and a refreshingly new perspective on one of the most colourful episodes in Scottish history: the rising of the ’45 as seen through the eyes of Highlanders who helped tocrush it. The Campbells of the Ark includes a detailed study of the sixty-three locally based companies of the Argyllshire Militia of 1745–6, coveringevery corner of this fascinating county, from Kintyre to Ardnamurchan, from Islay to Genorchy.

Ronald Black

ISBN: Volume 1 – 9781906566890ISBN: Volume 2 – 9781910900062Price: £25.00 Format: 234 x 156mm pbkRights: WorldMarch 2016512pp, 512pp16pp colour plates; 7 maps

The Campbells of the ArkMen of Argyll in 1745VOLUMES 1 & 2

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Who was Merlin? Is the famous wizard of Arthurian legend based on a real person? In this book, Merlin’s origins are traced back to the story of Lailoken, a mysterious ‘wild man’ who is said to have lived in the Scottish Lowlands in the sixth century AD. The book considers the question of whether Lailoken belongs to myth or reality. It looks at the historical background of his story and discusses key characters such as Saint Kentigern of Glasgow and King Rhydderch of Dumbarton, as well as important events such as the Battle of Arfderydd.

Tim Clarkson

ISBN: 9781906566999Price: £14.99 Format: 234 x 156mm pbkRights: WorldApril 2016272pp8pp b/w plates

Scotland’s MerlinA Medieval Legend and its Dark Age Origins

TIM CLARKSON worked in academic librarianship before setting up a business with his wife. He gained an MPhil in archaeology (1995)and a PhD in medieval history (2003) from the University of Manchester. He is author of The Men of the North (2010) and The Makers ofScotland (2012).

Scottish Arctic Whaling1750 to World War I

Scottish Arctic Whaling brings to light a previously little-known but important Scottish industry. The author’s extensive use of original sources suchas log-books and diaries shows that hundreds of whaling vessels, sailing variously from sixteen east-coast Scottish ports, harvested more than20,000 bowhead whales at East Greenland, Davis Strait and Baffin Bay during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. And they did so under almostunimaginably demanding and hazardous conditions. More than 110 ships were lost, while others were often detained within the pack-ice, causingthe whale men to suffer starvation, disease, scurvy, frostbite and death.

Chelsea W. Sanger

ISBN: 9781906566777Price: £25.00Format: 234 x 156mm pbkRights: WorldApril 2016272pp8pp b/w plates

CHESLEY SANGER grew up in Newfoundland. He gained a PhD in the Origins of the Scottish Northern Whale Fishery from the University of Dundee. He has published a number of books, including Twentieth-Century Shore-Station Whaling in Newfoundland and Labrador, 2006 (with A.B. Dickinson), which received the Canadian Nautical Research Society Award for Best Book. He alsoreceived the New Bedford Whaling Museum Waterman Award for ‘contribution to the history of whaling’ (2008). He is an Emeritus Professor at the Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada.

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R. ANDREW MCDONALD is Professor of History at Brock University, Canada, where he was the founding director of the Centre for Medieval andRenaissance Studies. He is the author of many books, book chapters, and articles on medieval Scottish, Hebridean, and Manx history, including The Kingdom of the Isles: Scotland’s Western Seaboard, c.1100–c.1336, co-editor of The Viking Age: A Reader and co-editor of Alba: Celtic Scotland inthe Middle Ages.

The history of the so-called Canmore kings in Scotland, from the reign of Malcolm lll (1058–1093) down to that of Alexander lll (1249–1286), is marked by an array of insurrections led by discontented dynasts and native warlords with grievances against these kings. Although none of the challenges ultimately proved successful, they nevertheless form a much-neglected theme across a formative era of Scottish history, which they in part define.

This book demonstrates that the Canmore kings maintained their grip on power in large measure through crushing rivals and quashing numerous insurrections; their claim to be the founders of the medieval kingdom is valid, but the roles of violence and military confrontations in the consolidation of their power and the formation of the medieval kingdom are given new emphasis here.

From well-known events like the invasion of Somerled of Argyll in 1164 to lesser-known challenges like that from Donald MacWillliam in the 1180s, the book offers a systematic exploration of the leaders of insurrection, their aims and motivations, their military capabilities, and the reasons behind their failure as well as the overall impact of insurrection upon the Scottish kingdom.

R. Andrew MacDonald

ISBN: 9781910900000Price: £20.00 Format: 234 x 156mm pbkRights: WorldApril 2016202pp

Outlaws of Medieval ScotlandChallenges to the Canmore Kings 1058-1266

Tim ClarksonChelsea W. Sanger

9781904607793£20.00 pbk

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ISBN: Volume 1 - 9781910900017ISBN: Volume 2 - 9781910900024ISBN: Volume 3 - 9781910900031Price: £25.00Format: 234 x 156mm pbkRights: WorldMay 2016

John Lorne Campbell (Editor)

JOHN LORNE CAMPBELL FRSE LLD OBE (1906–1996) was a Scottish historian, farmer, environmentalist and folklore scholar. He recorded a disappearing Gaelic heritage, and wrote and published extensively about Gaelic and Highland culture and life. His biography, The Man Who Gave Away His Island is also published by Birlinn.

Hebridean Folk SongsVolumes 1 - 3VOLUME 1: A COLLECTION OF WAULKING SONGS BY DONALD MACCORMICKVOLUME 2: WAULKING SONGS FROM BARRA, SOUTH UIST, ERISKAY, AND BENBECULAVOLUME 3: WAULKING SONGS FROM VATERSAY, BARRA, ERISKAY, SOUTH UIST AND BENBECULA

The classic three volumes of Hebridean folk songs, reissued simultaneously for the first time since their original publication (1969, 1977, 1981), contain 135 songs connected with the waulking of homespun tweed cloth in the Hebridean isles.

Volume 1 is based on waulking songs collected by Donald MacCormick in South Uist in 1893. Volumes 2 and 3 are based on John Lorne Campbell’s recordings of songs made between 1938 and 1965 in Barra, South Uist, Eriskay and Benbecula. The translations for all the songs in Volumes 2 and 3 and many of those in Volume 1 are by John Lorne Campbell, who also wrote detailed notes discussing the songs. Multiple versions of the same song are compared with each other and with versions drawn from unpublished manuscript sources. Francis Collinson’s meticulous musical transcriptions of the songs, and musicological analyses, are invaluable.

The songs are from the repertoires of some well-known singers of their generation, including Miss Annie Johnson, her brother Calum and Miss Mary Morrison, all of Barra, Mrs Neil Campbell of South Uist, and Miss Nan MacKinnon of Vatersay.

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ISBN: 9781906566791Price: £30.00Format: 234 x 156mm hbkRights: WorldMay 2016608ppb/w throughout, 32pp col plates

Peter C.O. Jupp, Douglas J. Davies, Hilary J. Grainger, Gordon D. Raeburn and Stephen R.G. White

PETER JUPP is an Honorary Fellow of the University of Edinburgh

DOUGLAS DAVIES is a Professor of Theology and Religion at Durham University

HILARY GRAINGER is a Dean and Professor of Architectural History at the University of the Arts, London, and Chair of the Victorian Society

GORDON RAEBURN is a lecturer in Historical and Philosophical Studies at Melbourne University

STEPHEN WHITE is a retired Senior Lecturer from Cardiff Law School.

Cremation in Modern ScotlandHistory, Architecture and the Law

Changes in funeral practice provide a lens through which to inspect changes in wider social identity, values and religious beliefs. This book reveals how, in Scotland, as in other societies, death ways and funeral arrangements are closely related to other aspects of life, from religious beliefs to political convictions, from family relationships to class structure, from poverty to prosperity.

The book adopts an interdisciplinary approach, analysing particularly the part played by Scottish law and architecture. Until recently, Scotland’s 28 crematoria have been the ‘invisible buildings’ of the twentieth century, absent from architectural histories. The book analyses the challenge this new building type provided for architects: a building with no architectural precedent, at once secular and religious, functional and symbolic. From archives previously unstudied and from primary and secondary legal materials, it traces the development of Scottish law on burial and cremation. It will be an invaluable aid to those wishing to know the historical background to the Burial and Cremation Bill currently going throughthe Scottish Parliament.

In just forty years the people of Scotland made a striking change to their age-old custom of burying their dead. In 1939, 97 per cent of Scots funerals ended with burial; by 1977 over 50 per cent ended with cremation. This book tells the story of this change. It interprets the crises inburial practice in nineteenth-century urban Scotland and constructs the very first account of how Scottish cremationists pioneered a radicalalternative to burial.

Hebridean Folk SongsVolumes 1 - 3VOLUME 1: A COLLECTION OF WAULKING SONGS BY DONALD MACCORMICKVOLUME 2: WAULKING SONGS FROM BARRA, SOUTH UIST, ERISKAY, AND BENBECULAVOLUME 3: WAULKING SONGS FROM VATERSAY, BARRA, ERISKAY, SOUTH UIST AND BENBECULA

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Hebridean Pocket Diary 2017

ISBN: 9781780273396 Price: £9.99Format: 300 x 300mm calendarRights: WorldMay 201624pp

This beautiful stationery collection features distinctive full-colour paintings by one of Scotland’s best-loved authors and artists, Mairi Hedderwick, in a wonderful celebration of the extraordinary natural beauty of the Hebrides throughout the seasons.

The paintings have been collected over the past forty years and show the changing faces of the landscapes. Mairi’s sketches range across many of the isles from Arran to Tiree, expertly capturing the essence of these beautiful and diverse islands, from wind-swept machair and dramatic cliffs to rolling hills and secluded woods.

Following the huge success of the previous diaries and calendars, this new 2017 collection is set to enjoy continued success.

Hebridean Calendar 2017

Hebridean Desk Diary 2017

ISBN 9781780273419 Price: £7.99Format: 156 x 110mm hbkRights: WorldMay 2016 128pp

ISBN 9781780273402Price: £12.99Format: 230 x 170mm hbkRights: WorldMay 2016128pp

MAIRI HEDDERWICK was born in Gourock, Scotland. As a student she took a job as a mother’s help on the Isle of Coll in the Hebrides, beginning a life-long love affair with islands and their small communities. Her children were brought up there and now some of her grandchildren. Mairi’s island world is delightfully reflected in the imaginary island of Struay where her perennially popular Katie Morag stories are set. As well as creating children’s books Mairi writes and illustrates travel books for adults. She also illustrated the acclaimed Janet Reachfar books, which are published by Birlinn. She continues to live on Coll.

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The National Library of Scotland has the most comprehensive range of Scottish maps in existence, from medieval times to the present day.

This stunning calendar features 12 of the most beautiful and historically significant maps from the library’s collection, covering all parts ofthe country and spanning a period of half a millennium.

This is a wonderful companion to Birlinn’s bestselling Scotland: Mapping the Nation; Edinburgh: Mapping the City and Glasgow: Mapping the City and a brilliant addition to their successful stationery range which includes works featuring Mairi Hedderwick and the Great Tapestry of Scotland.

David Hawson

DAVID HAWSON is a retired GP from Monymusk in rural Aberdeenshire, an accomplished photographer and a painter who has exhibited with the Royal Scottish Watercolour Society. He has sailed extensively throughout the west coast waters of Scotland and sketches and paints wherever he goes. His Puffer Cookbook, co-authored with Mandy Hamilton, was first published in 2013.

The Puffer Calendar 2017

ISBN: 9781780273426Price: £9.99 Format: 300 x 300mm calendarRights: WorldMay 201624pp

Scottish Maps Calendar 2017In association with the National Library of Scotland

ISBN: 9781780273280Price: £9.99Format: 300 x 300mm calendarRights: WorldMay 201624pp

This beautiful calendar celebrates Vic 32, the last surviving Clyde Puffer, which was found derelict in Whitby harbour and lovingly restored by Nick and Rachel Walker. It is now a familiar sight along the west coast of Scotland as it steams up the Clyde estuary and round the islands of the Hebrides. The wonderful photographs in this calendar show it under its plume of smoke as it sails through some of the loveliest scenery on earth, and David Hawson’s vibrant paintings and line drawings adorn each month. Sales of the calendar support the Puffer Preservation Trust, the registered charity set up to maintain the Puffer and save this iconic vessel for future generations to enjoy.

National Library of Scotland

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Non-FictionKey Titles From 2015

Set Adrift Upon the WorldThe Sutherland ClearancesJAMES HUNTER

In this book James Hunter tells the story of the Sutherland Clearances. His researches took him to archives in Scotland, England and Canada, to the now deserted straths of Sutherland, to the frozen shores of Hudson Bay. The result is a gripping, moving, definitive account of a people’s struggle for survival in the face of tragedy and disaster which includes experiences which have not featured in any previous such account.

ISBN: 9781780272689Price: £25.00Format: 234 x 156mm pbkRights: WorldOctober 2015416pp16pp b/w plates

The Railway Atlas of ScotlandTwo Hundred Years of History in MapsDAVID SPAVEN

ISBN: 9781780272382Price: £30.00Format: 305 x 270mm hbkRights: World English LanguageSeptember 2015224ppcolour & b/w throughout

The rich diversity of Scotland’s railway network has never before been the subject of a specialist atlas. This book showcases 181 topographical and railway maps, telling the story of the country’s railways from the early nineteenth century to the present day, researched and written by David Spaven

GlasgowMapping the CityJOHN MOORE

ISBN: 9781780273198Price: £30.00Format: 250 x 256mm hbkRights: WorldNovember 2015400ppb/w maps/diagrams throughout

Maps can tell much about a place that traditional histories fail to communicate. This lavishly illustrated book features 80 maps which have been selected for the particular stories they reveal about different political, commercial and social aspects of Scotland’s largest city.

EdinburghMapping the CityCHRIS FLEET AND DANIEL MacCANNELL

ISBN: 9781780272450Price: £30.00Format: 250 x 256mm hbkRights: WorldOctober 2014272ppb/w maps/diagrams throughout

Maps can tell much about the story of a place that traditional histories fail to communicate. This is particularly true of Edinburgh, one of the most visually stunning cities in Europe and a place rich in historical and cultural associations. This lavishly illustrated book features 80 maps of Edinburgh which have been selected for the particular stories they reveal.

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ScotlandA History From Earliest TimesALISTAIR MOFFAT

ISBN: 9781780272801Price: £25Format: 234 x 156mm hbkRights: WorldSeptember 2015576pp8pp 4x4

Key Titles From 2015

From the Ice Age to the recent Scottish Referendum, historian and author Alistair Moffat explores the history of the Scottish nation. From prehistoric timber halls to inventions and literature, Moffat’s tale explores thedrama of battle, change, loss and invention interspersed with the lives of ordinary Scottish folk, the men and women who defined a nation.

9781780271606£30.00 hbk

101 GinsTo Try Before You DieIAN BUXTON

ISBN: 9781780272993Price: £12.99Format: 178 x 144mm hbkRights: World English LanguageAugust 2015224ppcolour throughout

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 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 beyond), this new book from a best-selling drinks writer is the authoritative guide to the world of gin.

9781780271330£9.99 pbk

Also Available: The Great Tapestry of Scotland

The brainchild of bestselling author Alexander McCall Smith, historian Alistair Moffat, and artist Andrew Crummy, the Great Tapestry of Scotland is an outstanding celebration of Scottish history and achievement from the end of the last Ice Age to the 21st century. More than 1,000 volunteer stitchers, led by stitch coordinator Dorie Wilkie, worked for 55,000 hours using 300 miles of wool to create the 160 panels of this extraordinary work of art.

‘[T]he most ambitious attempt to capture the past in needle and thread since the Bayeux Tapestry . . . The result is not just visually stunning but intensely moving and occasionally very funny’ – The Times

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