Birlinn (publisher)
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.
- 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.
- John Donald, publishing academic books about Scotland.
Digital Publishing and Ebooks
In collaboration with TannerRitchie Publishing and Edinburgh University Press, Birlinn publishes Scotland's History Online, a major collection of new and backlist academic Scottish historical research aimed at academic libraries and individual researchers.
Notable authors and works
- Alexander McCall Smith
- * Love in the Time of Bertie
- * The People's City
- Martin C. Strong
- * The Great Folk Discography, Vol. 1: Pioneers & Early Legends
- * The Great Folk Discography, Vol. 2: The Next Generation
- Andy Wightman
- * ''The Poor Had No Lawyers''