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2015 NEW TITLES

BIRLINNARENA SPORTJOHN DONALD

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A History of Scotland Alistair Moffat Sikkim Andrew DuffNicola Sturgeon: Biography David TorranceSalmond: Against the Odds David TorranceSelf-Sacrifice Struan StevensonMy Remarkable Journey Mohammad SarwarReflections of a Clyde-built Man Jimmy ReidSY StorY Donald Murray & Douglas RobertsonSet in Stone Alan McKirdyA History of Scotland without the Boring Bits Ian CroftonHow to Read Scottish Buildings Daniel MacCannellFamous for a Reason Charles MacLean101 Gins Ian BuxtonThe Scottish Berries Bible Sue LawrenceVenison Bible Nichola FletcherClaire MacDonald’s Game Cookbook Claire MacdonaldScotland Forever Iain GaleCruachan! Marian PallisterWestern Ferries Roy PedersenTobermory Nic Davies, Sam Jones and Brian SwinbanksLittle Sparta Jessie SheelerThe Rivals Murdo FraserOn Foot Through Clydesdale Iain LeesCeltic Scotland Ian ArmitCorunna Max BenitzThe Scottish Railway Atlas David SpavenThe Music and the Land Freeland BarbourGlasgow: Mapping the City John MooreScotland’s Secret History Charles MacLean & Daniel MacCannellA Darien Journey John McKendrick

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A History of Scotland Alistair Moffat Sikkim Andrew DuffNicola Sturgeon: Biography David TorranceSalmond: Against the Odds David TorranceSelf-Sacrifice Struan StevensonMy Remarkable Journey Mohammad SarwarReflections of a Clyde-built Man Jimmy ReidSY StorY Donald Murray & Douglas RobertsonSet in Stone Alan McKirdyA History of Scotland without the Boring Bits Ian CroftonHow to Read Scottish Buildings Daniel MacCannellFamous for a Reason Charles MacLean101 Gins Ian BuxtonThe Scottish Berries Bible Sue LawrenceVenison Bible Nichola FletcherClaire MacDonald’s Game Cookbook Claire MacdonaldScotland Forever Iain GaleCruachan! Marian PallisterWestern Ferries Roy PedersenTobermory Nic Davies, Sam Jones and Brian SwinbanksLittle Sparta Jessie SheelerThe Rivals Murdo FraserOn Foot Through Clydesdale Iain LeesCeltic Scotland Ian ArmitCorunna Max BenitzThe Scottish Railway Atlas David SpavenThe Music and the Land Freeland BarbourGlasgow: Mapping the City John MooreScotland’s Secret History Charles MacLean & Daniel MacCannellA Darien Journey John McKendrick

The Scots Kitchen F. Marian McNeillOrkney: A Historical Guide Caroline Wickham-JonesLismore Robert HayNone Dare Oppose John MacleodAlways a Little Further Alastair BorthwickPara Handy Neil MunroA Drop in the Ocean Polly PullarThe Guga Hunters Donald S. MurrayA Capital View Alyssa PopielShredded Ian FraserHebridean Calendar 2016 Mairi HedderwickHebridean Pocket Diary 2016 Mairi HedderwickHebridean Desk Diary 2016 Mairi HedderwickThe Great Tapestry of Scotland Calendar 2016 Andrew CrummyThe Puffer Cookbook Calendar 2016 David Hawson

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Cradle of Chemistry Robert W. G. AndersonA Maritime History of Scotland Eric GrahamVoices of the Forest Mairi StewartVikings in Islay Alan MacnivenJames I Michael BrownJames II Christine McGladderyThe Campbells of the Ark Ronald BlackOur Ashes Glow with Social Fires Davies, Granger, Jupp, White & RaeburnDr Lachlan Grant of Ballachulish, 187 –1945 Annie Tindley & Ewen Cameron‘A Great Educational Tradition’ Brian R. W. Lockhart

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ISBN: 9781780272801 Price: £25 Format: 234 x 156mm hbkRights WorldAugust 2015320pp

Alistair Moffat

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 (www.britainsdna.com). He is the author of a number of highly acclaimed books and is currently Rector of St Andrews University.

A History of Scotland

From the Ice Age to the recent Scottish Referendum, historian and author Alistair Moffat explores the history of the Scottish nation. As well as focusing on key moments in the nation’s history such as the Battle of Bannockburn and the Jacobite Risings, Moffat also features other episodes in history that are perhaps less well documented. From prehistoric timber halls to inventions and literature, Moffat’s tale explores the drama of battle, change, loss and invention interspersed with the lives of ordinary Scottish folk, the men and women who defined a nation.

Praise for Bannockburn:

‘Moffat’s account of the mustering of the English army and its march north is splendid. He is a master of historical geography and deeply versed in the techniques of medieval warfare’ Scotsman

‘Alistair Moffat’s Bannockburn is a pacy account of the days leading up to the battle’ Saturday Herald

‘A carefully considered account of a well-trodden historical event, Moffat enlightens and educates with an up-to-date interpretation of a battle firmly cemented in Scottish history’ Scottish Field

‘Mr Moffat’s account of the duel between Bruce and de Bohun is totally gripping and he is particularly enthralling about the councils of war on the eve of the second day’s battle’ Country Life

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Andrew Duff

ANDREW DUFF is a freelance journalist based in London and Scotland who writes on India and related subjects. In the UK his work has appeared in The Times, The Financial Times and the Sunday Telegraph, and in India in the Times of India and the India Quarterly. He travelsfrequently in India and East Asia.

SikkimRequiem for a Himalayan Kingdom

ISBN: 9781780272863 Price: £25Format: 234 x 156mm pbkRights: WorldMay 2015320pp

This is the true story of Sikkim, a tiny Buddhist kingdom in the Himalayas that survived the end of the British Empire in India only to be annexed by India in 1975.

It tells the remarkable story of Thondup, the last King of Sikkim, and his American wife Hope Cooke, thrust unwittingly into the spotlight as they sought support for Sikkim’s independence after their ‘fairytale’ wedding in 1963. But as tensions between India and China spilled over into war in the Himalayas, Sikkim became a pawn in the Cold War ideological battle that played out in Asia during the 1960s and 1970s. Rumours circulated that Hope was a CIA spy. Meanwhile a shadowy Scottish adventuress, the Kazini of Chakung, married to Sikkim’s leading political figure, coordinated opposition to the Palace. As the geopolitical tectonic plates of the Himalayas ground together, forming the political landscape that exists today, Sikkim never stood a chance. On the eve of declaring Emergency in India, Indira Gandhi brazenly annexed the country. Thondup died a broken man in 1982; Hope returned to New York; Sikkim began a new phase as India’s 22nd state.

Based on interviews and archive research, as well as a retracing of a journey the author’s grandfather made in 1922, this is a thrilling,romantic and informative glimpse of life in Shangri La.

A History of Scotland

‘Andrew Duff’s book is a remarkable piece of detective work. In addition to the fascinating human stories Duff relates, the book is a very valuable addition to how the Cold War played out in South Asia, and to the history of the foreign policies of China, India and the US … that it is exceptionally well-written makes it all the more compelling to read’ Michael Burleigh, author of Small Wars, Faraway Places

‘A masterly and accessible account … superbly researched, with sources ranging from Scottish missionary teachers’ letters to classified US intelligence records and packed full of extraordinary characters straight out of a James Bond novel. The book has great relevance to today’s Asia; anyone with an interest in India and China’s complex relationship should read this enthralling book’ Prajwal Parajuly, author of The Gurkha’s Daughter

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SalmondAgainst the OddsNEW POST-REFERENDUM EDITION

DAVID TORRANCE was born and brought up in Edinburgh and educated at Leith Academy, Aberdeen University and Cardiff University’s School of Journalism. He was formerly political reporter for STV and is now a freelance writer, journalist and broadcaster. He lives in Edinburgh.

ISBN: 9781780272979Price: £12.99 Format: 198 x 129mm pbkRights: WorldAugust 2015448p16pp b/w plate section

David Torrance

Nicola SturgeonA Political Life

ISBN: 9781780272962Price: £9.99Format: 198 x 129mm pbk Rights: WorldMarch 2015208pp8pp col plate section

Praise for Salmond: Against the Odds:

‘[A] very thorough and conscientious study’ Paul Henderson Scott

‘Torrance’s work is a classic’ Dorothy Grace Elder

‘Torrance is a scrupulous, respectful biographer’ Harry Reid, The Herald

Alex Salmond is known throughout Scotland, the UK and beyond as the leader of the Scottish National Party and Scotland’s First Minister, but relatively little is understood about Salmond as a human being, what makes him a Nationalist, what shaped his political views, and what sort of country he believes an independent Scotland can be. In this biography, with which close colleagues and friends have co-operated, and utilising a raft of published and unpublished material, acclaimed political biographer David Torrance turns his attention to one of the most capable and interesting politicians Scotland has produced in the last few decades.

Self-evidently a rising star within the SNP, when the party formed its first (minority) administration in 2007 Sturgeon swiftly became one of the Scottish Government’s most successful ministers. Her reputation for efficiency and shrewd political judgement grew even more during the referendum negotiations of 2012 and the subsequent independence campaign. By the time Alex Salmond resigned as First Minister and SNP leader in the wake of a No vote Sturgeon was viewed as his inevitable successor. As the country prepares for a General Election, Nicola Sturgeon could hold the balance of power in her hands, not just in Scotland, but in the United Kingdom.

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STRUAN STEVENSON has served as a Conservative Euro MEP for Scotland since 1999. He is President of the Climate Change, Biodiversity and Sustainable Development Intergroup and Chairman of the European Parliament’s Delegation for Relations with Iraq. In 2010 he was appointed by the Organisation for Security and Cooperation Europe (OSCE) as a Personal Representative (Roving Ambassador) of the Chairman in Office (Kazakhstan) responsible for Ecology and Environment with a particular focus on Central Asia. His book, Stalin’s Legacy, was published in August 2012 and So Much Wind in February 2013.

Self-SacrificeLife with the Mojahedin

ISBN: 9781780272887 Price: £9.99 Format: 234 x 156mm pbkRights: WorldJune 2015272pp

Struan Stevenson

The People’s Mojahedin of Iran (PMOI) is an Iranian opposition movement in exile and the key component of the National Council of Resistance of Iran. Regarded as a terrorist organization in the EU until 2009, and in the USA and Canada until 2012, it renounced violence in 2001. Whilst its leaders are based in Paris, some 3,500 are currently held in Camp Liberty, near Baghdad Airport, in appalling conditions.

In this book, former MEP Struan Stevenson tells how he became an active collaborator and supporter of the PMOI, visiting Baghdad and Erbil on several occasions and meeting political and religious leaders, despite being warned to sever links with the organization by the UK government and MI5, and facing constant threats and smear campaigns from the Iranian mullahs.

He exposes the brutality of the clerical regime in Iran and their execution of over 130,000 PMOI supporters, interspersing his own story with short interviews with PMOI political prisoners who were tortured and held in inhumane conditions.

His excoriating conclusion lays the blame for the escalating crisis in the Middle East firmly at the door of failed UN, EU and US policies.

Praise for So Much Wind:

‘A timely and important book . . . This should be compulsory reading for all national and local politicians, to encourage them to stop more wind turbines being erected; either that, or voters make the choice for them’ Martin Livermore of the Scientific Alliance

‘Thought-provoking’ Scottish Field

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ISBN: 9781780273167Price: £20Format: 234 x 156mm hbk Rights: WorldAugust 2015288pp16pp colour plate section

MOHAMMAD SARWAR is a prominent Pakistani politician, who is the current Governor of Punjab, representing the conservative Pakistan Muslim League (N). A 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 Mohammad SarwarWITH BOB WYLIEThis is the inspirational account of how Mohammad Sarwar rose to fame, fortune and 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.

Mohammad Sarwar

JIMMY REID was born in Glasgow in 1932 and died in 2010. His rectorial address at Glasgow University was described by the New York Times as ‘the greatest speech since the Gettysburg Address’

Reflections of a Clyde-built Man

Jimmy Reid first came to prominence as spokesperson for workers at Upper Clyde Shipbuilders during the famous Work-in of June 1971–October 1973. By locking out the management and completing orders themselves, workers ensured that Edward Heath’s Conservative government backed down on their proposal for closing the yards, and 6,000 jobs were saved. Reid went on to become rector of Glasgow University (1971–74), serve as a Communist councillor, and stand for parliament for both the Communist and, later, Labour parties. He joined the SNP in 2004. As a journalist and broadcaster he contributed to a wide range of newspapers, and was instrumental in setting up the Scottish Left Review in 2000. This reissue of his classic book displays the extraordinary range and power of his writing and public speaking.

Jimmy Reid

ISBN: 9781780273327Price: £8.99Format: 198 x 129mm pbk July 2015

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My Remarkable JourneyThe Autobiography of Mohammad SarwarWITH BOB WYLIE

Mohammad Sarwar

Reflections of a Clyde-built Man

Jimmy Reid

SY StorYA Portrait of Stornoway Harbour

DONALD S MURRAY is an author and journalist. His poetry, prose and verse have been shortlisted for both the Saltire Award and Callum Macdonald Memorial Award. His work has also appeared in national anthologies and on BBC Radio 4 and Radio Scotland. He won a Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship in 2012 and a Jessie Kesson Fellowship in 2013. His most recent book, The Guga Stone, was nominated as one of the Guardian Best Nature Books of 2013.

DOUGLAS ROBERTSON has exhibited widely throughout Scotland and the UK, and has collaborated with Donald Murray on a number of projects.

ISBN: 9781780272603Price: £12.99 Format: 198 x 129mm pbkRights: WorldJanuary 2015192 pp

Donald Murray & Douglas Robertson

Donald S Murray tells in his inimitable verse and prose Stornoway’s story from the days when Mesolithic people sheltered there to its present-day life as a bustling, modern harbour, casting light on men and boats, native herring girls and island visitors, the town’s triumphs and tragedies. Accompanying the work are 20 striking and distinctive illustrations from Douglas Robertson, as well as over 30 photographs. All of this comes together to capture both the past and present of the port, making the book a delight both for those who know the town well and the many holiday-makers who explore its harbour during summer months.

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.

ISBN: 9781780271514 Price: £9.99 Format: 246 x 189mm pbkRights: WorldJune 201596pp

The land that was to become Scotland has travelled across the globe over the last 3,000 million years – from close to the South Pole to its current position. During these travels, there were many continental collisions, creating mountain belts as high as the present-day Himalayas. The Highlands of Scotland were formed in this way. Our climate too has changed dramatically, from the deep freeze of the Ice Age to the scorching heat of the desert. Alan McKirdy traces Scotland’s amazing geological journey, explaining for the non-specialist reader why the landscape looks the way it does today. He also explores how Scots and those working in Scotland have played a seminal role in the development of the science of geology, understanding Earth processes at a local and global scale.9781841586267

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Set in StoneThe Geology and Landscapes of Scotland

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IAN CROFTON has written a wide range of non-fiction books, including a number that look at the quirkier aspects of history and other subjects, e.g. History without the Boring Bits, Science Without the Boring Bits, and A Curious History of Food and Drink. Born in Edinburgh, he studied at the University of Sussex before working as an editor at Collins in Glasgow. He now works freelance.

As an antidote to more sober accounts of Scotland’s history, Ian Crofon offers a colourful chronology of the eccentric, the infamous, the bawdy, the horrific and the hilarious people and events that have spattered across the pages of our nation’s story.

From the Royal High School riot to Marocco the Wonder Horse, from the War of the One-Eyed Woman to the MP cleared of stealing his exmistress’s knickers, Scottish History without the Boring Bits includes a host of little-known tales that you won’t find in more conventional works of history, including the chatelaine who struck a general over the head with a leg of mutton, the cow that gave birth to fourteen puppies, the clan chief who ripped out the throat of his enemy with his teeth, the surgeon who was so fast with the saw that he inadvertently took off his patient’s testicles as well as his leg, and the mathematician who calculated that the Christian religion would finally disappear in the year 3153.

Ian Crofton’s alternative history of Scotland looks at the country’s past with a quizzical eye.

Ian Crofton

Scottish History without the Boring BitsA Chronicle of the Curious, the Eccentric, the Atrocious and the Unlikely

ISBN: 9781780272658 Price: £12.99 Format: 198 x 129mm hbkRights: WorldMay 2015208pp

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Daniel MacCannell

How to Read Scottish Buildings

DANIEL MACCANNELL lives in East Lothian, where he runs the Historical Detective Agency Ltd. He has studied Scottish, English, Dutch and French buildings, landscapes and townscapes for more than twenty years, and was awarded a Ph.D. in History and Art History by the University of Aberdeen in 2010. This is his fifth book for Birlinn.

ISBN: 9781780271187 Price: £9.99 Format: 164 x 134mm pbkRights: WorldMarch 2015208pp

Scotland has a huge and diverse amount of built heritage. Yet most writing about this fascinating subject is overly technical – an alphabet soup of L-plans, Z-plans and bartizans.

How to Read Scottish Buildings is a unique, informative and refreshing companion to Scottish architecture that dispenses with jargon to enable us to appreciate Scottish buildings with regard to their ages, styles, influences, and functions, as well as the messages that their builders, owners and occupants intended them to convey.

Readers will be able to answer for themselves a whole host of questions about function, style, age and building techniques that will make a visit to any historic Scottish building a rewarding and enriching experience.

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Charles MacLean

CHARLES MACLEAN has spent the past 30 years researching, writing and lecturing about Scotch whisky. He is the author of nine books on the subject, including the standard work on whisky brands, Scotch Whisky, and the authoritative, Malt Whisky, both of which were short-listed for Glenfiddich Awards. His Scotch Whisky: A Liquid History won Wine & Spirits Book of the Year in the 2004 James Beard Awards and Best Drink Book in the World at the Food Media Awards. He is a consultant to the whisky industry, and to Bonhams International Auctioneers, and sits on the judging panel of the International Wine & Spirits Awards.

Famous for a ReasonThe Story of the Famous Grouse

ISBN: 9781780272528Price: £35Format: 280 x 220mm hbkRights: WorldSeptember 2015352pp

From humble beginnings in Perth in the early nineteenth century Matthew Gloag established a thriving whisky business that found favour with the royal household and the Scottish public alike. The family business he established struck gold in 1896 when they created the The Famous Grouse – a blended whisky that became a national favourite. Through innovative and entertaining marketing campaigns it has developed into a much-loved and bestselling brand.

Celebrated whisky writer Charles MacLean has been granted unique access to the company archives and granted interviews with surviving family descendants and compiled a fascinating story rich in anecdote and social historical commentary. Illustrated throughout in full colour.

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Praise for Whiskypedia:

‘Whisky’s finest guru’ The Sunday Times

‘Charles MacLean writes like no other expert on the subject. His prose is informed and highly entertaining’ Independent

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ISBN: 9781780272993 Price: £12.99 Format: 178 x 114mm hbkRights: WorldAugust 2015

Ian Buxton

IAN BUXTON has been working in and around the whisky industry for about 20 years, but has been drinking professionally for a good deal longer. He began writing regularly for Whisky Magazine shortly after it launched, and now also writes for The Keeper, Country Life, Scotland Magazine, Scottish Field and in Russia for Whisky and Magnum magazines. Ian has published three books: Whisky History, Hints & Tips, a facsimile edition of Aeneas MacDonald’s 1930 classic Whisky and 101 Whiskies to Try Before You Die.

101 GinsTo Try Before You Die

We’re in the middle of a new Gin Craze. From being the drink of choice of middle-aged, Jaguar-driving golfers and an easy target for stand-up comedians, today it’s harder to find anything hipper on the international bar scene.

But how do you choose? Is Edinburgh Gin a style, or just a brand name? Can a rose-flower and cucumber infusion properly be called gin? Can gin be aged in wood or does that just make it a strange tasting young whisky? What tonic to choose, and why? Perhaps it’s safer to stick to the classic brands your parents drank?

From Adnams to Zuidam; Beefeater to Bombay and London to Plymouth (and beyond) this new book from best-selling drinks writer Ian Buxton will be the authoritative guide to the new world of gin. It may have taken more than 250 years, but gin has now shaken off its reputation for debauchery and ruin to take its place as one of the hottest of world spirits.

Not that a hint of debauchery and ruin does its image any harm.

Praise for 101 Whiskies to Try Before You Die:

‘Whiskey expert Ian Buxton does away with connoisseur pomp to deliver this smartly designed little guide to the best brown stuff around’ Time Out (New York)

‘Concise and comic . . . you don’t need to be a whiskey aficionado for this to warm your cockles ’ Scottish Field

‘Rather like a drop or two of water in a dram of single malt, Ian Buxton’s lively guide opens the subject of whisky up and lets it breathe...entertaining, enlightening, opinionated and irreverent’ The Skinny

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Sue Lawrence

SUE LAWRENCE is an acclaimed 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), Eating In (2011), and most recently, Scottish Baking. She lives in Edinburgh.

The Scottish Berries Bible

ISBN: 9781780272665 Price: £4.99Format: 155 x 110mm pbkRights: WorldJune 2015112pp

The latest in Birlinn’s bestselling Food Bible series features the succulent soft fruits for which Scotland is so renowned and shows how to get the best out of them, illustrated with Bob Dewar’s delightfully quirky cartoons. Sue combines new and traditional recipes, including Bramble Clafoutis, Strawberry Risotto, Chocolate Raspberry Brownies, Duck with Blackcurrants and Blaeberry Polenta Cake. Sue is a real cook’s cook, providing recipes that are easy to cook but reliably produce delicious results. As Nigella Lawson says, ‘There couldn’t be a book by Sue Lawrence that I wouldn’t want to own and, indeed, I’d be horrified to learn that there were any titles I don’t own. She writes beautifully, is as much chatty historian as cookery writer and her recipes always interest me and make me ravenous.’

The Venison Bible

NICHOLA FLETCHER, MBE, has advised businesses all over the world on venison production and processing, and is a member of the Guild of Food Writers. She is past Chairman of the British Deer Farmers Association Promotions Committee, and was also a Director of Scottish Farm Venison Ltd. As Deputy Chair of the Food Trust of Scotland she is a champion of the small specialist food producer and a founder member of the Scottish Food Group. She was awarded the 1994 Scottish Food Achievement Award for her work for the Scottish venison industry.

ISBN: 9781780272825Price: £4.99Format: 156 x 111mm pbkRights: WorldJuly 2015112 pp

Nichola Fletcher

A new addition to Birlinn’s bestselling Food Bible series, illustrated with Bob Dewar’s delightfully quirky cartoons. Nichola Fletcher is widely known for her work with venison and game. She and her husband John started Britain’s first deer farm in 1973, and Nichola has devoted her life since then to helping people to appreciate, understand and cook venison and other game meats. The Fletchers have been nominated for a Slow Food Award, and were joint winners of the Best Food Producer category in the 2006 BBC Food & Farming Awards for their work with venison. This book will combine new and traditional recipes for venison.

‘Sue Lawrence is a rock star’ Guardian

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Sue LawrenceNichola Fletcher

ISBN: 9781780272832 Price: £20 Format: 234 x 190mm hbkRights WorldOctober 2015208pp

Claire Macdonald

Claire Macdonald is the author of seventeen best-selling cookery books and has appeared at cookery demonstrations world-wide, as well as owning and running the world-famous Kinloch Lodge on the Isle of Skye for three decades. In recognition of her contribution to Scottish food she was presented a Lifetime Achievement Award by National Farmers’ Union in 2011 and the Royal Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland. Claire was also awarded an honorary doctorate by Abertay University.

The Claire Macdonald Game CookbookOnce the prerogative of country dwellers, game is now found in butchers’ shops and supermarkets all over the country. Yet despite this, many people are still apprehensive about cooking this extraordinary versatile, varied and protein-packed meat.

In this book Claire Macdonald de-mystifies game cooking, with a wide and varied selection of recipes for pheasant, wild duck, partridge and snipe, woodcock, venison, hare, wild boar and wild salmon. In addition to tips on roasting, she also includes useful information on what combines well with different types of game – lentils, beans, root vegetables, dark green vegetables and mushrooms – and sauces and jellies that make excellent accompaniments.

She also shows how game can be combined – game pie, for example, can be composed of pheasant, grouse, a leg of hare or a partridge. Similar recipes include, game pudding with a lemon and thyme suet crust, game stock, game soup, salami of game, game terrine, game with an oatmeal crumble, potted game with walnuts, and game shepherd’s pie.

‘She radiates a love of cooking and . . . a love of eating’ Homes and Gardens

‘Claire Macdonald is one of this country’s most respected cooks’ Sunday Post

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Scotland ForeverThe Scots Greys at Waterloo

IAIN GALE, art critic, journalist and author, comes from a military family and has always been fascinated by military history. He is a member of the Scottish Committee of the Society of Authors and the Friends of Waterloo Committee. He is the editor of Scotland in Trust, the magazine for the National Trust of Scotland, and founded the Caledonian magazine. He lives in Edinburgh.

ISBN: 9781843410683Price: £7.99 Format: 198 x 129mm pbkRights: WorldJune 2015128pp8pp b/w plate section

Iain Gale

One of the most iconic incidents of the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 was the charge of the Scots Greys, a crack cavalry regiment, into the heart of the French army. It was a moment of supreme daring and horse-riding skill, and Sergeant Ewart of the Greys succeeded in snatching one of Napoleon’s coveted eagle standards. However it was also a military blunder. The Greys were quickly surrounded by enemy cavalry and cut to pieces. Of the regiment’s 442 officers and men almost half were killed or injured. In the end the battle was won by the British and their allies and the eagle of the French 45th regiment is now on show in Edinburgh Castle. Iain Gale bring to life this uniquely exciting story of courage and military tactics in the heat of war.

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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 previously taught journalism at Napier University and is currently tutor in English subjects at Argyll College. She also founded the Mhuthanzia Lilanda Initiative, a charity which supports the education of vulnerable young people in Zambia.

Cruachan!The Hollow Mountain

‘Cruachan!’ was the battle cry of the Campbells. In the early 1960s, the invasion of the 3,000 men who hollowed out Argyll’s highest mountain as part of a massive hydroelectric project could have annihilated the local community. Instead, the people of Loch Awe, Dalmally and Taynuilt welcomed the invaders, embraced the project and emerged the winners. Fifty years on, an integrated community still lives under the Hollow Mountain, and the cry ‘Cruachan!’ signifies a Scottish success story. Marian Pallister tells the story of the project – featuring the extraordinary experience of those who worked on the mountain as well as the effects on the local community of one of the biggest civil engineering projects ever to have been undertaken in Scotland.

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Nic Davies, Sam Jones and Brian Swinbanks

Tobermory

SAMANTHA (‘SAM’) JONES is a landscape photographer who runs her business, Islandscape Photography, on Mull. She was RNLI Photographer of the Year in 2011and 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.

ISBN: 9781780273150 Price: £9.99 Format: 248x 190mm pbkRights: WorldJuly 2015112pp

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.

ROY PEDERSEN’S former career with development agencies HIDB and HIE, where he pioneered numerous innovative and successful ventures, and his subsequent services as an SNP Highland councillor, have given him a matchless insight into world shipping trends and into the economic and social conditions of the Highlands and Islands. He is now an author and proprietor of a cutting-edge consultancy.

In the late 1960s, drawing on Scandinavian experience, Western Ferries pioneered roll-on, roll-off ferry operations in Scotland’s West Highlands and Islands. The company’s profitable and efficient operation was, however, deliberately sabotaged by heavily subsidised predatory pricing by the state-owned competitor. This shameful policy, initiated at the highest political level, has been uncovered by recently released official correspondence held in the Scottish archives. The Islay service eventually succumbed, but the company’s service between Inverclyde and Cowal flourished to become by far Scotland’s busiest and most profitable ferry route. What made all this possible was the extraordinary dedication of a succession of enthusiastic, determined and above all colourful individuals.

Roy Pedersen

Western FerriesTaking on Giants

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Cruachan!The Hollow Mountain

Marian Pallister

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The RivalsMontrose and Argyll and the Struggle for Scotland

MURDO FRASER is Deputy Leader of the Scottish Conservatives and MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife. Born in Inverness, he studied law at Aberdeen and worked as a solicitor in Aberdeen and Edinburgh before becoming an MSP in 2001.

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Murdo Fraser

The struggles of the Scottish Civil War of 1644–45 could easily be personified as a contest between James Graham, 1st Marquis of Montrose and Archibald Campbell, 8th Earl of Argyll. Yet at first glance there seems to be more that unites them than separates them. Both came from ancient and powerful families; both were originally Covenanters; both considered themselves loyal subjects of Charles I, then Charles II, who in turn betrayed each of them, and both died at the hands of the executioner.

In this book Murdo Fraser examines these two remarkable men, underlining their different personalities: Montrose, the brilliant military tactician – bold and brave but rash, and Campbell – altogether a more opaque figure, cautious, considered and difficult to read.

The result is a vivid insight into two remarkable men who played a huge part in writing Scotland’s history, and a fascinating portrait of a time of intense political upheaval.

JESSIE SHEELER was brought up in Edinburgh and read Classics at Edinburgh University. In the early 1960s, working with Ian Hamilton Finlay, she co-founded the Wild Hawthorn Press and its poetry magazine Poor. Old. Tired. Horse. She settled with her family in Hampshire where she became Head of Classics at the co-educational boarding school Bedales. She now lives in Scotland on the Solway coast, teaching Latin and desperately trying to keep two and a half acres of unruly garden under control.

Nestled in the Pentland Hills near Edinburgh, Little Sparta is poet and artist Ian Hamilton Finlay’s greatest work. A garden created from an artistic fusion of poetry and sculpture set in a natural landscape, it now contains over 275 art works.

Hamilton Finlay was born in the Bahamas in 1925. His first book, The Sea Bed and Other Stories, was published in 1958 and was followed by a collection of poems The Dancers Inherit the Party in 1961. In that year he also co-founded the Wild Hawthorn Press, which became the vehicle for his own output of poem cards, posters, booklets and small objects. His works are held in major collections worldwide. In 2002 he was appointed CBE on the Queen’s New Year Honours list. He died in 2006.

Little SpartaThe Garden of Ian Hamilton Finlay

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Jessie Sheeler and Robin Gillanders

The RivalsMontrose and Argyll and the Struggle for Scotland

Ian Armit

Celtic Scotland

IAN ARMIT is Professor of Archaeology at the University of Bradford

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This authoritative and handsomely 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.

IAIN C. LEES (the pseudonym for John Lees Carvel) was born in 1895. He was the author of a number of books about Scotland, including the Campsies and the Land of Lennox and Byways from Tyne to Tay. Under his own name he also wrote a number of books on Scottish industry. Carvel was sub-editor of the Scottish Daily Express and political correspondent of the London Evening Star. He died in 1959.

First published in 1932, Iain C. Lees’s book On Foot through Clydesdale is a fascinating and delightful introduction to the history, folklore, traditions and landscape of Lanarkshire – a county often assumed to have been blighted by collieries, steelworks, factories and other industrial enterprises. Yet Clydesdale has areas of extraordinary natural beauty, including the world-famous Falls of Clyde, considered to be one of the most romantic spots in the country.

Clydesdale’s past is also full of historical resonances – the Romans were much in evidence there; William Wallace lived there; Covenanters hid there; and the area was of crucial importance during the Industrial Revolution.

Iain C. Lees explores the well-known parts as well as the hidden gems of Clydesdale in this delightful, nostalgic travel classic.

Iain C. Lees

On Foot Through Clydesdale

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MAX BENITZ was born in London in 1985. He read Modern History at the University of Edinburgh and South Asian History at the University of Calcutta. After graduating in 2008 he took a local media job in Kabul and then worked at the Royal United Services Institute where he focused on the British Army’s role in Afghanistan. He is best known for his leading role in Peter Weir’s Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World.

The Peninsular War began, as would the two world wars, in near disaster for Britain. Lieutenant General Sir John Moore lost nearly a quarter of his men during the retreat to Corunna and was killed as the army reached safety. Eyewitnesses and historians have disagreed about the campaign ever since. Moore, the son of a Glasgow doctor, was at odds with the Tory administration of the time; partisan accounts have variously stated that he rescued an army placed in an impossible situation or charged him with being the architect of its ruin.

What is undisputed is the atrocious conduct of many British troops as they passed through the towns and villages of Leon and Galicia in the winter of 1808-9. Drunkenness, theft and arson became the army’s emblems. Were they poorly led or did this volunteer army, effectively, choose to riot in response to the course of the campaign?

To attempt to answer these and many other questions, author Max Benitz walked the route of the retreat in the winter of 2013-14. His forthcoming book seeks to tell the story of this controversial episode in British military history and place it in its appropriate cultural and political context.

CorunnaA Retreat

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David Spaven

DAVID SPAVEN was born and brought up in Edinburgh, and has lived and worked in Inverness, London and Glasgow. He spent his whole working life in the rail industry and is the author of a number of acclaimed railways books, including Mapping the Railways (HarperCollins, 2011) and Britain’s Scenic Railways (HarperCollins, 2012).

The Scottish Railway Atlas

Published to coincide with the reopening of the Borders railway.

The rich diversity of Scotland’s railway network has never before been the subject of a specialist atlas. This book showcases 100 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 – who co-wrote the best-selling Mapping the Railways on the history of Britain’s rail network – this beautiful atlas allows the reader to understand the bigger story of the effects of the railways on the landscape and the impact of Scotland’s distinctive geography on the pattern of railway development over a period of nearly 200 years.

The unique map selection is supported by an informative commentary of key cartographic, geographic and historical features. This sumptuous atlas will appeal not just to railway enthusiasts and those who appreciate the beauty of maps, but also to readers fascinated by the role of railways in Scotland’s modern developments.

ISBN: 9781780272382Price: £30 Format: 278x 218mm hbkRights: WorldSeptember 2015224pp

Praise for Britain’s Scenic Railways:

‘The author, Julian Holland and David Spaven, are clearly old hands at exploring the country’s railways – and it shows’ BBC Country File

Praise for Waverley Route:

‘Extremely well-researched, and elegantly written’ Daily Express

‘Marvellous’ David Parker, Scottish Borders Council

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FREELAND BARBOUR is one of Scotland’s leading accordionists and has performed with many of the world’s greatest traditional musicians. A BBC music producer for a number of years, Freeland has taught at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. He runs a music publishing company and is the owner and former manager of Castlesound, one of the leading independent recording studios in the UK. He now lives in Edinburgh.

Freeland Barbour has been a very well-known figure on the Scottish music scene for many years. He is a former member of ground-breaking folk group Silly Wizard, and a founder member of two of the country’s most successful ceilidh dance bands, the Wallochmor Ceilidh Band and the Occasionals. His compositions for Scottish dancing are hugely popular and have been recorded and performed all over the world. In this book he recalls his life in music, presenting a tour in words, photographs and musical notation through the lands that have inspired him – covering the whole of Scotland and beyond. His compositions are gathered here with the work of some of Scotland’s leading photographers, in a book that is a both an invaluable resource for the working musician and wonderful tribute to Scotland’s landscape and traditions.

Freeland Barbour

The Music and The LandThe Music of Freeland Barbour

ISBN: 9781780273006 Price: £30Format: 310 x 240mm hbkRights: WorldJuly 2015320pp

GlasgowMapping the City

JOHN MOORE is a specialist on Scottish cartography and has published widely on the subject over a period of many years. He is currently Collections Manager at Glasgow University.

ISBN: 9781780273198Price: £30Format: 250 x 246mm hbkRights: WorldOctober 2015304ppColour throughout

John Moore

Maps can tell much about a place that traditional histories fail to communicate. This lavishly illustrated book features 80 maps that provide fascinating insights into topics such as the development of the Clyde and its shipbuilding industry, the villages which were gradually subsumed into the city, how the city was policed, what lies underneath the city streets, the growth of Glasgow during the Industrial Revolution, the development of transport, the city’s green spaces, the health of Glasgow, Glasgow as a tourist destination, the city as a wartime target, and its regeneration in the 1980s as the host city of one of the UK’s five National Garden Festivals. Together, they present a fascinating insight into how Glasgow has changed and developed over the last 500 years.

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Freeland Barbour

The Music and The LandThe Music of Freeland Barbour

John Moore

CHARLES MACLEAN has spent over thirty years researching, writing and lecturing about Scotch whisky. He has written more than a dozen books on the subject including the standard work. on the history of Scotch whisky, Scotch Whisky: A Liquid History. In 2009 he was elected Master of the Quaich, the industry’s highest accolade.

DANIEL MACCANNELL has studied Scottish, English, Dutch and French buildings, landscapes and townscapes for more than twenty years, and was awarded a PhD in History and Art History by the University of Aberdeen in 2010. This is his fifth book for Birlinn.

Bloody street battles, shocking levels of public corruption and cat-and-mouse chases across Highland hills: the story of illicit distilling and smuggling whisky in Scotland is as full of excitement and intrigue as the most outlandish work of fiction.

The result of the most extensive research ever carried out into illicit distilling, this book dispels a number of firmly established assumptions about this highly significant yet widely misunderstood aspect of Scottish history, establishing illicit distilling in its rightful place as the historic predecessor to and a cornerstone of Scotland’s present multi-million-pound whisky industry.

Scotland’s Secret HistoryThe Illicit Distilling and Smuggling of Whisky

ISBN: 9781780273037 Price: £14.99 Format: 250 x 246mm pbkRights: WorldOctober 2015144pp

A Darien Journey

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.

ISBN: 9781780273204Format: 234 x 156mm Rights: WorldOctober 2015288pp16pp b/w plate section

John McKendrick

The Company of Scotland and its attempts to establish a colony on the inhospitable isthmus of Panama in the late seventeenth century is one of the most tragic moments of Scottish history. It could have been a triumph, but inadequate preparation and organization ensured it was a catastrophe – of the 3000 settlers who set sail, only a handful returned, the rest having succumbed to disease, and the enormous financial loss was a key factor in ensuring union with England in 1707. Based on archive research in the UK and Panama, and extensive travelling in Darien itself, John McKendrick explores this fascinating and seminal moment in Scottish history and uncovers fascinating new information from New World archives about the role of the English and Spanish, and about the identities of the settlers themselves.

Charles MacLean & Daniel MacCannell

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ISBN: 9781780273013Price: £14.99 Format: 234 x 190mm pbkRights: WorldMarch 2015368pp

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F. Marian McNeill

F. MARIAN McNEILL (1885–1973) was a journalist and writer with a deep love and knowledge of Scots language, lore and traditions. The Scots Kitchen, her most popular book, first published in 1929, gives a delightful account of eating and drinking in Scotland throughout the ages, with definitive recipes for all the old national dishes. It is widely regarded as the most important book on Scottish cookery yet to appear.

The Scots KitchenIts Traditions and RecipesNEW EDITIONThis is the first new edition of The Scots Kitchen for over thirty years. Beautifully laid out for a new generation of readers and with charming line illustrations by Ian Macintosh, it is introduced by the well-known cookery writer and broadcaster, Catherine Brown. She describes the impact this pioneering book has had on the whole of Scottish cuisine and traces the fascinating life story of Marian McNeill herself. Notes explain how to use the book so that its treasure trove of recipes can be explored in the modern kitchen. As well as being a practical guide to all aspects of Scottish cooking, this is above all a book to be read for pleasure, to refer to and savour again and again.

OrkneyA Historical GuideNEW EDITION

Orkney lies only 20 miles north of mainland Scotland, yet for many centuries its culture was more Scandanavian than Scottish. Strong westerly winds account for the scarcity of trees on Orkney and also for the tradition of well-constructed stone structures. As a result, the islands boast a large number of exceptionally well-preserved remains, which help us to form a detailed picture of Orcadian life through the ages. Sites and remains to be explored include settlements from the Stone Age, stone circles and burials from the Bronze Age, Iron Age brochs, Viking castles, the magnificent cathedral of St Magnus in Kirkwall, Renaissance palaces, a Martello tower from the Napoleonic Wars and numerous remains from the Second World War.

CAROLINE WICKHAM-JONES studied archaeology at Edinburgh University. She is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, and has conducted research throughout Scotland, Ireland and Scandanavia. She is the author of numerous articles and publications, includingScotland’s First Settlers.

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ROBERT HAY lives on Lismore and is one of the curators of the island museum (Ionad Naomh Moluag). As a professional agricultural and environmental scientist, most recently at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, he has a particular interest in the history of land use. In 2005 he published Lochnavando No More: The Life and Death of a Moray Farming Community 1750-1850 and he has contributed to the Agriculture volume of Scottish Life and Society: A Compendium of Scottish Ethnology, published by John Donald.

LismoreThe Great GardenNEW EDITION

Robert Hay

Visitors to the Isle of Lismore can explore an outstanding heritage of monuments to the past – Bronze Age cairns, medieval castles, the Cathedral of Argyll, carved graveslabs, deserted townships and watermills, not to mention a Stevenson lighthouse. Talking to islanders, they soon realise that there is also a long and unbroken tradition of Gaelic culture. Because of its strategic position at the mouth of the Great Glen and its fertility, as a limestone island, Lismore played an important part in the prehistory and early history of the West Highlands and Islands, not least as the headquarters of the community of Celtic monks founded by St Moluag. Colonised by the Vikings, and forming part of the extensive empire of the Gallgael leader Somerled, it was at the centre of the complex power play between the rulers of Norway and the emerging Scottish nation.

None Dare OpposeNEW EDITION

John Macleod

In 1844 Sir James Matheson bought the Isle of Lewis, awash with hope and good intentions, only, in 1853, to put a rat-faced factor from Tain in sole charge of the estate. Within months Donald Munro, the self-styled ‘Chamberlain of the Lews’, had seized practically every office of civic, legal and industrial power in the community and for the next two decades held the entire island under an absolute reign of terror. In None Dare Oppose, John Macleod paints a stunning portrait of island society in Victorian Scotland held under a capricious and feudal oppression – until one quiet, decent corner of that island fearlessly rose against the subjugation, marching on Stornoway to a gripping court-room finale. It is an astonishing and powerful tale, beautifully accomplished and compellingly told.

JOHN MACLEOD was born in Lochaber in 1966. After his graduation from Edinburgh University, he began his career at BBC Highland in Inverness and quickly established himself as a freelance writer. He has won several awards, including Scottish Journalist of the Year in 1991, and has contributed to many publications including the Scotsman and the Herald. He is the author of a number of highly acclaimed books.

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Alastair Borthwick

ALASTAIR BORTHWICK was born in Rutherglen in 1913 and started his career in journalism. After service in the Second World War, heworked mainly as a radio and TV producer. He died in 2003.

Always a Little FurtherA Classic Tale of Camping, Hiking and ClimbingNEW EDITIONFirst published in 1939, Always a Little Further quickly established itself as a Scottish climbing classic. In portraying a group of rank-and-file climbers from Glasgow who sought merely to enjoy the freedom of the mountains and the fellowship of shared experience, it presents a very different view of mountaineering than is found in many more ‘serious’ books on the subject. These are light-hearted tales, filled with the enthusiasm of carefree youth and displaying a genuine love of the Scottish hills. For this reason Always a Little Further is rightly regarded as a classic reflecting an aspect of mountaineering life hardly touched in other accounts.

Para HandyNEW DELUXE EDITION

Para Handy has been sailing his way into the affections of Scots since he first weighed anchor in the pages of the Glasgow Evening News in 1905. The master mariner and his crew – Dougie the mate, Macphail the engineer, Sunny Jim and the Tar – all play their part in evoking the irresistible atmosphere of a time when puffers sailed between West Highland ports and Glasgow. This definitive edition contains all three collections published in the author’s lifetime, as well as those that were unpublished and a new story discovered in 2001 a wealth of contemporary photographs, depicting the harbours, steamers and puffers from the age of the Vital Spark.. Extensive notes accompany each story, providing fascinating insights into colloquialisms, place-names and historical events.

NEIL MUNRO (1863–1930), a native of Inveraray, was a journalist by profession and for many years was the editor of the Glasgow EveningNews. He is best known for his comic tales about Para Handy, but he also produced a number of historical and contemporary novels, as wellas poetry and non-fiction.

Neil Munro

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Polly Pullar

POLLY PULLAR has worked with animals all her life, as a sheep farmer, wildlife guide, field naturalist, photojournalist and wildlife rehabilitator. She writes and illustrates articles for numerous magazines including the Scots Magazine, Scottish Farmer, Tractor and People’s Friend and is currently the wildlife writer for Scottish Field. She has written a number of books including Dancing with Ospreys, Rural Portraits – Scotland’s Native Farm Animals and Characters, and is co-author of the acclaimed Fauna Scotica: People and Animals in Scotland.

A Drop in the OceanLawrence MacEwen and the Isle of MuckNEW EDITIONPolly Pullar tells the fascinating tale of one of the Hebrides, unique thriving small communities through the colourful anecdotes of Lawrence MacEwen, whose family have owned the island since 1896. A wonderfully benevolent, and eccentric character, his passion and love for the island and its continuing success, has always been of the utmost importance. He has kept diaries all his life and delves deep into them, unveiling a uniquely human story, punctuated with liberal amounts of humour, as well as heart-rending tragedy, always dominated by the vagaries of the sea. Filled with fascinating and extraordinary tales and priceless observations, this is not only a highly entertaining read but is also an important part of Scottish social history.

The Guga HuntersNEW EDITION

Every year, ten men from Ness, at the northern tip of the Isle of Lewis, sail north-east for some forty miles to a remote rock called Sulasgeir. Their mission is to catch and harvest the guga; the almost fully grown gannet chicks nesting on the two hundred foot high cliffs that circle the tiny island, which is barely half a mile long. After spending a fortnight in the arduous conditions that often prevail there, they return home with around two thousand of the birds, pickled and salted and ready for the tables of Nessmen and women both at home and abroad. The Guga Hunters tells the story of the men who voyage to Sulasgeir each year and the district they hail from, bringing out the full colour of their lives, the humour and drama of their exploits.

DONALD S. MURRAY was born in Ness in the Isle of Lewis. A teacher, author and journalist, his poetry, prose and verse has been shortlisted for both the Saltire Award and Callum Macdonald Memorial Award. Published widely, his work has also appeared in a number of national anthologies and on BBC Radio 4 and Radio Scotland. He lives and works in Shetland.+

Donald S. Murray

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Alyssa Popiel

ALYSSA POPIEL grew up on Corstorphine Hill, Edinburgh. In her mother’s antique shop she discovered strange objects, books of old and listened to many a tale and song. After studying History of Art (MA Hons) at Edinburgh University, she worked as an arts researcher for BBC Scotland. She now works as a freelance researcher.

A Capital View: The Art of EdinburghA Hundred Artworks from the City CollectionPAPERBACK EDITIONEdinburgh boasts one of the largest and most diverse collections of art of any city in Britain. In this book, Alyssa Poppiel features a hundred artworks from the city collection, from the Enlightenment to the present day, which feature Edinburgh and its surroundings. All are accompanied by extended captions which set the context and provide a huge amount of lively historical and anecdotal material.

Artists include: John Slezer, Paul Sandby, Henry Raeburn, Alexander Nasmyth, Walter Geikie, David Roberts, Sam Bough, John Bell, James Paterson, Francis Cadell, William Crozier, Stanley Cursiter, Jessie M. King, Anne Redpath, and John Bellany.

Praise for A Capital View:

‘A beautifully produced book’ Scotsman

‘Popiel brings a hugely creative mind to this project . . . she deftly captures the immense aesthetic beauty of Edinburgh’ Scottish Field

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Ian Fraser

IAN FRASER is an award-winning journalist, commentator and broadcaster whose work has been published by, among others, The Economist, Financial Times, The Sunday Times, Independent on Sunday, Guardian, Observer, Mail on Sunday, Herald, Sunday Herald, Thomson Reuters, Huffington Post, economia and QFINANCE. He has taught at the University of Stirling, and his BBC documentary, RBS: the Bank That Ran Out of Money, was short-listed for a Bafta. He is a graduate of St Andrews University and lives in Scotland.

ShreddedInside RBS, the Bank that Broke BritainPAPERBACK EDITION

At its zenith, the Royal Bank of Scotland was the world’s biggest bank. It had assets of $3 trillion, employed over 200,000 people, had branches on every high street and was admired and trusted by millions of borrowers and investors. Now the mere mention of its name causes anger and resentment, and its former CEO, Fred Goodwin, is reviled as one of the architects of the worst financial crisis since 1929. In Shredded, Ian Fraser lifts the lid on the catastrophic mistakes that led the bank to the brink of collapse, scrutinizing the role played by RBS’s directors who failed to check Goodwin’s hubris, the colleagues who were overawed by his despotic leadership style, the politicians who created a regulatory free-for-all in which banks went virtually unsupervised, and the investors who egged Goodwin on. As more and more toxic details emerge about the bank’s pre- and post-bailout misconduct, Ian Fraser examines what the future holds for RBS and whether it can ever regain the public’s trust.

‘Impeccably researched and hard to put down at any point … The author pulls no punches’ Philip Augar, Financial Times

‘This book should be posted through the letterbox of every taxpayer in Britain’ David Mellor, former Chief Secretary to the Treasury

‘Explosive’ Tom Harper, Independent on Sunday

‘Magisterial…. the most detailed catalogue to date of the errors and misdemeanours leading up to RBS’s 2008 collapse and the failure – in Fraser’s view – to reform the bank in its aftermath’ Colin Donald, Herald

‘The definitive text. I’m thinking of Barbarians at the Gate about Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and RJR Nabisco. An instant classic’ Max Keiser, The Keiser Report

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Hebridean Pocket Diary 2016

ISBN: 9781780272726 Price: £9.99Format: 300 x 300mm calendarRights: WorldMay 201524pp

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 2016 collection is set to enjoy continued success.

Hebridean Calendar 2016

Hebridean Desk Diary 2016

ISBN 9781780272740 Price: £7.99Format: 156 x 110mm hbkRights: WorldMay 2015 128pp

ISBN 9781780272733 Price: £12.99Format: 230 x 170mm hbkRights: WorldMay 2015128pp

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 brainchild of bestselling author Alexander McCall Smith, historian Alistair Moffat and artist Andrew Crummy, the Great Tapestry of Scotland is an outstanding celebration of 420 million years of Scottish history and achievement. Involving a thousand stitchers who worked on 165 separate panels, the tapestry is one of the biggest community arts projects ever to have been conceived in Scotland.

This stunning calendar features 12 entire panels from the completed Tapestry which show to optimum effect the magnificent colouring and detail of the original. During 2015, the Great Tapestry of Scotland will be exhibited in Stirling, Fife and Ayrshire, with other locations yet to be announced.

Hebridean Pocket Diary 2016

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 2016

ISBN: 9781780272764Price: £9.99 Format: 300 x 300mm calendarRights: WorldMay 201524pp

The Great Tapestry of Scotland Calendar 2016

ANDREW CRUMMY has worked for New Musical Express, the Observer magazine, Design Week, Creative Review and Time Out magazine. He has developed multiple large-scale, collaborative artworks in public and community settings across the world, and has been involved in a huge range of book publications, multimedia events, festivals and educational programmes.

ISBN: 9781780272757Price: £9.99Format: 300 x 300mm calendarRights: WorldApril 201524pp

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.

Andrew Crummy

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Robert G. W. Anderson (editor)

ROBERT G. W. ANDERSON FRSE FSA graduated from St John’s College, University of Oxford, and has held posts at the Royal Scottish Museum, the Science Museum, London and the National Museums of Scotland, Edinburgh. He later became Director of the British Museum, London. He has held visiting academic posts at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University, and at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities at the University of Cambridge. He is an Official Fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge. In 2012 he published The Correspondence of Joseph Black.

Cradle of ChemistryThe First Century of Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh

ISBN: 9781906566869Price: £25Format: 234 x 156mm hbkRights: WorldSeptember 2015224pp16pp b/w plates

A Maritime History of Scotland 1650 – 1790

ISBN: 9781906566845Price: £20Format: 234 x 156mm pbkRights: WorldMarch 2015384ppIllustrations: b/w throughout

Eric Graham

From the mid eighteenth century, many medical students from across the world made their way to Edinburgh, drawn by the reputation of the faculty and the quality and nature of its teaching. Chemistry, in particular, had star performers, notably William Cullen and Joseph Black, whose innovative teaching styles excited and inspired their audiences. This book, which is based on conference papers given at the Crawford tercentenary meeting held at the Royal Society of Edinburgh in October 2013, describes the progress of chemistry at the University of Edinburgh from the appointment of the first professor, James Crawford, in 1713 to the career of Thomas Charles Hope, a century or so later. This is a fascinating study of the period when Edinburgh’s chemistry literacy was higher than at any other time.

The period 1650 to 1790 was such a turbulent one for Scottish seafarers that much of this fast-flowing narrative reads like Treasure Island. Colourful characters abound in a story teeming with incident and excitement. Eric Graham traces the development of the Scottish marine and its institutions during a formative period, when state intervention and warfare at sea in the pursuit of merchantilist goals largely determined the course of events. He charts Scotland’s frustrated attempts to join England in the Atlantic economy – an often bitter relationship that culminated in the Darien Disaster. After the Act of 1707, Scottish maritime aspirations flourished under the protection of the British Navigation Acts and the windfalls of the endemic warfare at sea.

ERIC GRAHAM is a historical researcher and writer. He is a founding member of the Early Scottish Maritime History Exchange (ESME) and is an Honorary Post Doctoral Research Fellow at the Scottish Centre for the Diaspora, University of Edinburgh. He has published widely on Scottish maritime history and lives in Edinburgh.

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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 subsequently worked as a project officer at the Cent re for Environmental History at the University of Stirling and as a research fellow at UHI Centre for History. She is currently a freelance historical researcher specialising in environmental history. She is co-author of The Firth of Forth: An Environmental History.

The creation of large new tracts of forest, together with the development of a modern wood-processing sector, was the single biggest transformation to occur in the Scottish countryside during the twentieth century. This book tells the fascinating story of the human side of forestry, drawing on the experiences and reflections of a wide range of individuals from all levels and sectors of the industry as it has developed in Scotland. The book also analyses the evolution of forestry policy. However, at its core are the stories of the men, women and children who have lived and worked in the many communities where forests have loomed large – communities where, especially in the middle decades of the twentieth century, forestry was often the largest source of employment and income, and without which many of these places would have struggled to survive.

Mairi Stewart

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

ISBN: 9781906566647Price: £20Format: 245 x 240mm pbkRights: WorldJuly 2015304ppIllustrations: 120 b/w, 80 col. throughout

The Vikings in IslayThe Place of Names in Hebridean Settlement History

ALAN MACNIVEN is a lecturer in the department of Scandinavian Studies at the University of Edinburgh. He is responsible for honours and postgraduate courses in Viking Studies, Old Norse Studies, and the Material Culture of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic Scotland, and has organised a number of conferences and seminars on similar themes. His research to date has focused on Scandinavian place-names in Scotland and their value as indicators of cultural change. ISBN: 9781906566623

Price: £25Format: 234 x 156mm pbkRights: WorldJuly 2015400ppb/w maps/diagrams throughout

Alan Macniven

The Hebridean island of Islay is well-known for its whisky, its wildlife and its association with the MacDonald Lords of the Isles. Despite a pivotal location on the ‘sea road’ from Norway to Ireland, there are no convincing records of the Vikings ever having been there. However, with no written accounts to go by, the real story of Islay’s Viking Age has to be read from another type of source material – the silent witness of the names of local places. The Vikings in Islay presents a systematic review of around 240 of the island’s farm and nature names. The conclusions drawn turn traditional assumptions on their head. The romance of Islay’s names, it seems, masks a harrowing tale of invasion, apartheid and ethnic cleansing.

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Michael Brown

MICHAEL BROWN is Professor of Scottish history at the University of St Andrews. His main research interests centre on the political society of Scotland c.1250–c.1500 and on the relationships between the various communities of the British Isles during the same period. He has published studies of the practice and ideology of royal and aristocratic lordship in Scotland.

James I

ISBN: 9781906566937Price: £25Format: 215 x 135mm pbkRights: WorldMay 20158pp b/w plates

James II

Christine McGladdery

Conditioned by a childhood surrounded by the rivalries of the Stewart family, and by eighteen years of enforced exile in England, James was to prove a king very different from his elderly and conservative forerunners. This major study draws on a wide range of sources, assessing James I’s impact on his kingdom. Michael Brown examines James’s creation of a new, prestigious monarchy based on a series of bloody victories over his rivals and symbolised by lavish spending at court. He concludes that, despite the apparent power and glamour, James I’s ‘golden age’ had shallow roots; after a life of drastically swinging fortunes, James I was to meet his end in a violent coup, a victim of his own methods. But whether as lawgiver, tyrant or martyr, James I has cast a long shadow over the history of Scotland.

In this study, James II is viewed in the context of the Stewart monarchy, from his struggles to overcome his early adversity and the legacy of his father’s style of kingship, to the serious political crises of his reign. The relations between the king and his subjects, and the complex balance of power in medieval Scotland are examined, particularly the significant crisis precipitated by James II’s attack on the Black Douglases. The role of James II in the wider European context is also studied with a view to shedding light on contemporary perceptions of the Stewart monarchy both at home and abroad. Consideration is also given to later, highly coloured views of James II, which have influenced popular views of the king to the present day.

CHRISTINE MCGLADDERY is a Teaching Fellow at the School of History, University of St Andrews. Her main research interests are the relationship between crown and nobility in fifteenth-century Scotland and the chronicle sources of the period. She is a member of the St Andrews Institute of Scottish Historical Research and the Institute of Mediaeval Studies at the University of St Andrews.

ISBN: 9781904607892Price: £25Format: 234 x 156mm pbkRights: WorldMay 2015224pp16pp b/w plates

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RONALD BLACK (Raghnall MacilleDhuibh) 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 to crush it.

Ronald Black

The Campbells of the ArkMen of Argyll in 1745

ISBN: 9781906566890Price: £30Format: 234 x 156mm pbkRights: WorldJuly 201516pp b/w plate section; maps

Our Ashes Glow with Social FiresCremation in Modern Scotland

ISBN: 9781906566791Price: £30Format: 234 x 156mm hbkRights: WorldNovember 201516pp b/w plate section

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

Changes in funeral practice provide a lens through which to inspect changes in wider social identity, values and religious beliefs. This book reveals how our death ways and funeral arrangements are closely related to other aspects of life. The Scottish Reformation is the key to Scotland’s unique funeral history. When John Knox banned his clergy from liturgical participation at Protestant gravesides, he initiated a process that made the funeral a civil rather than a religious occasion. The book interprets the crises in burial practice in nineteenth-century urban Scotland and constructs the very first account of how Scottish cremationists pioneered a radical alternative to burial. In exchanging burial for cremation, Scots cast off a thousand years of tradition within just three generations.

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Dr Lachlan Grant of Ballachulish, 1871 –1945

ISBN: 9781906566746Price: £25 Format: 234 x 156mm pbk Rights: WorldAugust 201516pp b/w plates

‘A Great Educational Tradition’A History of Hutchesons’ Grammar School

Brian R. W. Lockhart

Dr Lachlan Grant (1871–1945) was a star pupil of Edinburgh medical school, who went on to general practice in the Highlands and Islands, while continuing medical research on problems such as tuberculosis, anaemia and eye health. Grant was deeply involved in industrial disputes at the Ballachulish slate quarries, where he was employed as a doctor for the workers. He was also active both in the Liberal party and the early years of the Scottish National Party, and was a prolific journalist. An active campaigner in the promotion of economic and social development of the Highlands, he placed special emphasis on improved health administration in the region. He was a key a contributor to the Dewar Report (1912), which led to the establishment of the Highlands and Islands Medical Board in 1913, considered by many to be a ‘proto-NHS’.

This is the story of Hutchesons’ Grammar School from the time of its foundation in 1641 until recent days when it has become one of the largest and most successful academic schools in the country. The school began as a charity school for primary-age boys, then became an elementary and secondary school for boys. In 1876, Hutchesons’ Girls’ School opened, finally amalgamating with the Boys’ Grammar School in 1976. The School has produced many well-known alumni, a number of whom are highlighted in biographical profiles in this book. They include John Buchan and R.D. Laing, and among many honours the School has achieved it was named Scottish Independent School of the Year in 2011.

BRIAN LOCKHART is a former Deputy Rector of the High School of Glasgow and former Headmaster of Robert Gordon’s College, Aberdeen. He was a Governor of the Glasgow Educational and Marshall Trust from 1989 until 1996, a Governor of Hutchesons’ Educational Trust from 2005 until 2012 and Convenor of its Education Committee, 2011–12. He is author of a number of major works on the history of Scottish schools, including Jinglin’ Geordie’s Legacy, Robert Gordon’s Legacy, The Town School: A History of the High School of Glasgow and was co-author of Bon Record: A History of Aberdeen Grammar School.

ISBN: 9781906566883Price: £25 Format: 234 x 156mm hbkNovember 2015448pp16pp bw plate section, 8pp col plate section

EWEN CAMERON studied History and International Relations at the University of Aberdeen before completing a PhD at the University of Glasgow. He is Sir William Fraser Professor of History at the University of Edinburgh, co-editor of the Journal of Scottish Historical Studies and serves on the editorial boards of the journals Northern Scotland and Scottish Affairs.

ANNIE TINDLEY gained a PhD at the University of Edinburgh on the modern history of the Scottish Highlands and Islands. She is currently a senior lecturer in History at the University of Dundee, Associate Director of the Centre for Scottish Culture and Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

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