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Birlinn (publisher)

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Birlinn

Founded	1992
Founder	Hugh Andrew
Country of origin	Scotland
Headquarters location	Edinburgh
Distribution	BookSource (UK) NewSouth Books (Australia) Independent Publishers Group (US) Casemate (US military books)^[1]
Publication types	Books
Imprints	Polygon,Mercat
Official website	birlinn.co.uk

Scottish independent publishing house

Birlinn Limited is an independentpublishing house based inEdinburgh, Scotland. It was established in 1992 by managing director Hugh Andrew.^[2]^[3]

Imprints

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Birlinn Limited is composed of a number ofimprints, including:

Birlinn, which publishes Scottish interest books, from biography to history, military history andScottish Gaelic. (Its name comes from theold Norse wordbirlinn, meaning along boat or smallgalley with 12 to 18 oars, used especially in the Hebrides and West Highlands of Scotland in the Middle Ages.^[4])
Polygon Books, which publishesliterary fiction andpoetry, both classic and modern, from Scottish writers such asRobin Jenkins,George Mackay Brown, and the author ofThe No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency,Alexander McCall Smith. It was founded in the late 1960s by students of theUniversity of Edinburgh.^[5]
Mercat Press, founded in 1970 and acquired by Birlinn in 2007, which publishes walking and climbing guides. (Mercat is theScots language word for "market" or "trade".^[6])
John Donald, publishing academic books about Scotland.^{[citation needed]}

Notable authors and works

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Alexander McCall Smith^[7]
- Love in the Time of Bertie (2021)
- The People's City (2022)
Martin C. Strong^[8]
- 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)^[9]

References

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^"Catalogues :: Birlinn Ltd". Retrieved4 December 2017.
^Royalsoced.org.uk
^Goring, Rosemary (28 July 2017)."Birlinn marks 25 years of producing 'seminal' books about Scotland".The Herald. Retrieved11 October 2020.
^The Birlinn or Heraldic Galley Archived 25 June 2007 at theWayback 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. Retrieved14 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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Newspapers	Dàna Stornoway Gazette(sporadic) West Highland Free Press(sporadic)
Broadcasting	BBC Alba(BBC Gàidhlig) BBC Radionan Gàidheal
Publishers	Acair Akerbeltz Birlinn CLÀR Ùr-sgeul

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