Birlinn (publisher)

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	www.birlinn.co.uk

Birlinn Limited is an independent publishing house based in Edinburgh, Scotland. Established in 1992 by Managing Director Hugh Andrew,^[2]

Imprints

Birlinn Limited is composed of a number of imprints, including:

Birlinn publishes Scottish interest books, from biography to history, military history and Scottish Gaelic. The name comes from the old Norse word birlinn, meaning a long boat or small galley with 12 to 18 oars, used especially in the Hebrides and West Highlands of Scotland in the Middle Ages.^[3]
Polygon Books 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. Polygon Books was originally set up in the late 1960s by students of the University of Edinburgh.^[4]
Mercat Press, founded in 1970 and acquired by Birlinn in 2007, now an imprint publishing walking and climbing guides. Mercat is the Scots language word for "market" or "trade".^[5]
Academic books about Scotland are published under the imprint John Donald.

Martin C. Strong^[6]
- The Great Folk Discography, Vol. 1: Pioneers & Early Legends (2010)
- The Great Folk Discography, Vol. 2: The Next Generation (2011)

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