An imprint of Scottish publisher Birlinn. Literary fiction and poetry, both classic and modern, by writers as highly acclaimed as James Kelman, Liz Lochhead, Agnes Owens, Norman MacCaig, Robin Jenkins, George Mackay Brown and the author of the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series, Alexander McCall Smith, and counts among its authors some of the best in contemporary Scottish writing – Kevin MacNeil, Denzil Meyrick, Michael Pedersen, Shirley McKay and Rosemary Goring – as well as international writers such as Leila Aboulela and Jan-Philipp Sendker. Music journalists Stuart Cosgrove, Tom Doyle, Vic Galloway and Zoë Howe also publish non-fiction with Polygon.
Set in nineteen-sixties Glasgow, The Dear Green Place is an absorbing portrait of the struggles and conflicts of a working-class hero and would-be novelist Mat Craig whose desire to define himself as an artist creates social and family tensions. Published in 1966, it won the Guardian Fiction Book of the Year and Yorkshire Post’s Best First Work.
Robbie Gould is not psychic. Of course he isn’t – that’s not a real thing. So why is a woman standing in his driveway begging him for help in finding her son, who she’s convinced has been kidnapped? Join Gould as he plunges into a bizarre world of rare whisky, drug dealers, bent cops, social influencers and yakuza mobsters to uncover the truth.
Once again veteran adventurer Richard Hannay is called into action on a mission that will test him as never before. An exciting, page-turning adventure, packed with sinister spies, breathless escapes, cliff-hangers galore, and taking the reader on a journey around the Mediterranean, from Gibraltar, to Casablanca, to Morocco and Malta.
Alice Larkin, the headstrong child of a millionaire and former news reporter, has a story to tell, the story of a sixty year old murder. When Rebecca Connelly throws herself into investigating the story, she soon comes face to face with an old adversary and unearths a troubling secret about her own family.
This collection is a visceral depiction of the difficult love between a father and son and what happens when that love is lost. In his debut, Thomas Stewart examines the death of his father whilst exploring questions of grief, guilt, mental health, identity, sexuality and masculinity.
Hannah Lavery's Unwritten Woman is a bold and lavish call for us to see the woman in the stories we read and tell ourselves. It is a celebration of Lavery's home city, but also an exploration of gender, race and belonging.
When pensioner Dot wins the lottery, her newfound friend Max helps her make a bucket list of all the things she’s always wanted to do but never had the chance. Bucket List is a humorous feel-good, life-affirming novel about the power of friendship, community and lemon drizzle cake.
New Edition of Stevenson’s renowned Gothic Masterpiece
by Robert Louis Stevenson
Introduction by Denise Mina
Price: $9.95
ISBN: 9781846976827
Publisher: Birlinn
Pub Date: 2024-09-04
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Polygon
124 Pages
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde follows the story of respectable Dr Jekyll's strange association with the 'damnable young man' Edward Hyde. Dr Jekyll has discovered the ultimate drug: a chemical that can turn him into something else – his monstrous alter-ego. This new edition features an introduction by Denise Mina.
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An imprint of Scottish publisher Birlinn. Literary fiction and poetry, both classic and modern, by writers as highly acclaimed as James Kelman, Liz Lochhead, Agnes Owens, Norman MacCaig, Robin Jenkins, George Mackay Brown and the author of the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series, Alexander McCall Smith, and counts among its authors some of the best in contemporary Scottish writing – Kevin MacNeil, Denzil Meyrick, Michael Pedersen, Shirley McKay and Rosemary Goring – as well as international writers such as Leila Aboulela and Jan-Philipp Sendker. Music journalists Stuart Cosgrove, Tom Doyle, Vic Galloway and Zoë Howe also publish non-fiction with Polygon. 
