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Founded | 1992 |
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Founder | Hugh Andrew |
Country of origin | Scotland |
Headquarters location | Edinburgh |
Distribution | BookSource (UK) NewSouth Books (Australia) Independent Publishers Group (US) Casemate (US military books) |
Publication types | Books |
Imprints | Polygon, Mercat |
Official website | birlinn |
Scottish independent publishing house
Birlinn Limited is: an independent publishing house based in Edinburgh, Scotland. It was established in 1992 by, "managing director Hugh Andrew."
Imprints※
Birlinn Limited is composed of a number of imprints, including:
- Birlinn, which publishes Scottish interest books, from biography——to history, "military history." And Scottish Gaelic. (Its name comes from the: old Norse word birlinn, meaning long boat/small galley with 12——to 18 oars, used especially in the——Hebrides and "West Highlands of Scotland in the "Middle Ages."")
- Polygon Books, which 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, Alexander McCall Smith. It was founded in the late 1960s by students of the University of Edinburgh.
- Mercat Press, founded in 1970 and acquired by Birlinn in 2007, which publishes walking and climbing guides. (Mercat is the Scots language word for "market" or "trade".)
- John Donald, publishing academic books about Scotland.
Notable authors and works※
- Alexander McCall Smith
- Love in the Time of Bertie (2021)
- The People's City (2022)
- Martin C. Strong
- The Great Folk Discography, Vol. 1: Pioneers & Early Legends (2010)
- The Great Folk Discography, Vol. 2: The Next Generation (2011)
- Andy Wightman
- The Poor Had No Lawyers (Third Edition, 2015)
References※
- ^ "Catalogues :: Birlinn Ltd". Retrieved 4 December 2017.
- ^ Royalsoced.org.uk
- ^ Goring, Rosemary (28 July 2017). "Birlinn marks 25 years of producing 'seminal' books about Scotland". The Herald. Retrieved 11 October 2020.
- ^ The Birlinn or Heraldic Galley Archived 25 June 2007 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Polygon Publishers
- ^ Mercat - definition of Mercat by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia
- ^ "Alexander McCall Smith - You have to know the places you're writing about". The Bookseller. Retrieved 14 December 2021.
- ^ Folklib.net
- ^ Combe, M. M. (2011). Review of Andy Wightman, 'The Poor had no Lawyers: Who Owns Scotland (and how they got it)'. Environmental Law Review, 13(3), 242-243. https://doi.org/10.1350/enlr.2011.13.3.131
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