We are delighted to see so many of our authors taking part in events this year, including Denise Mina, Alexander McCall Smith, Helen McClory, Stuart Kelly, Mara Menzies, Eilidh Muldoon, and Michael Pedersen. Get your ticket to see them in person now!

TRANSPORT YOURSELF TODAY

THE WORLD THROUGH WORDS

Until July 30th we are offering 20% off a specially curated selection of fiction and non-fiction titles set across the globe. Learn the hilarious true story of a Scottish immigrant in rural Japan with Iain Maloney’s Only Gaijin in the Village; visit Burma in Jan-Philipp Sendker’s global bestselling novel, The Art of Hearing Heartbeats or follow the trail of the ill-fated pioneers of the Darien colony in Darien: A Journey in Search of Empire by John McKendrick.

Find these powerful stories and many more on our website!

CHINA’S NEW TYRANNY

AUTHOR IAN WILLIAMS ON BLOOMBERG RADIO

Ian Williams, author of Every Breath You Take: China’s New Tyranny, spoke to Bloomberg Radio this week about China’s surveillance state and deteriorating relations with the West. Ian also discussed the recent Microsoft hack – for which the Biden administration has accused China, straining that relationship still further. You can listen to this superb of-the-moment interview online, and order a copy of Every Breath You Take here.

THE GREAT TAPESTRY OF SCOTLAND

THE STORY OF A NATION

The Great Tapestry of Scotland is on the move. Later this summer this much-loved work of creative genius will move to a new, permanent centre, purpose built as a national gallery, standing proud in the Scottish Borders. The vision of bestselling author Alexander McCall Smith, historian Alistair Moffat and artist Andrew Crummy – and the jaw-dropping work of more than 1000 stitchers under the guidance of Dorie Wilkie –  the tapestry leads you through our story from ice age to present day.

OLD SINS CAST LONG SHADOWS

A RATTLE OF BONES

The third  book in Douglas Skelton’s acclaimed Rebecca Connolly thriller series publishes this August. Set against the stunning backdrop of the Scottish Highlands, it is a tale of injustice and mystery, and the echo of the past in the present.

You can read an exclusive extract from A Rattle of Bones on the Birlinn website here, and prepare yourself for Rebecca’s next pulse-pounding investigation.

‘Another beautifully written and compelling tale… Engrossing stuff’
Denzil Meyrick

IN A TIME OF DISTANCE

AUDIOBOOK NOW AVAILABLE
We recently published Alexander McCall Smith’s debut poetry collection, In A Time of Distance, a beautiful book musing on human connection in these trying times. In the newly published audiobook edition, Alexander’s warm narration leads the listener on a poetic journey. The audiobook is available now on Audible and iTunes.

CELEBRATING OUR SPORTING OBSESSION

BUTCH WILKINS AND THE SUNDANCE KID

From Euro 2020, to the triumphant return of Wimbledon, to the 2021 Open Championship and the Tokyo Olympics, this summer has brought audiences together around TV sets across the globe to tune in. After a tumultous year these events have brought an injection of energy into our lives as we cheer and cry our way through all the highs and lows.

In celebration of our sporting obsession we join Nige Tassell on a nostalgic and thoroughly relatable journey in his memoir, Butch Wilkins and the Sundance Kid. Sweet, wise and witty, it is a hymn to televised sport in the 1980s – as well as to the decade itself – combining humour, insight and poignancy.