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.
After the assassination of a top Nazi official, Detective Rolf Schneider unearths a web of corruption and secrecy in high places. From his visit to meet Hitler to a nerve-shredding flight into Stalingrad, this tightly plotted page-turner from debut author David O’Donnell will keep you in suspense to the final page.
When Russian tanks rolled into Ukraine, Jen Stout left Moscow abruptly, ending up on a border post in southeast Romania, where she began to cover the human cost of Russian aggression. Night Train to Odesa begins in Russia and continues to focus on people in Ukraine. It is the account of a young female reporter with no backup or security.
Inspired by terrifying actual events at theCultybraggan POW camp in Perthshire, Black Camp 21 is a thriller that takes readers on a gut-wrenching journey from the battlefields of France to its shocking climax in a camp which still stands today.
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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. 
