His most recent book is a biography of Michael Marra, Arrest This Moment, published by Big Sky. His novel Joseph Knight won both the Saltire Book of the Year and Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year awards in 2003/04, and The Testament of Gideon Mack was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize and various other awards. James Robertson’s breathtaking novel is a portrait of modern Scotland as seen through the eyes of natives and immigrants, journalists and politicians, drop-outs and spooks, all trying to make their way through a country in the throes of great and rapid change. He starts off with a proposed exhibition by a well-known photographer, Angus Pendreich. And the Land Lay Still is nothing less than the story of a nation. He set up the pamphlet-publishing imprint Kettillonia in 1999 but spend most of his time now working on adult fiction and books for bairns in Scots. James Robertson: And The Land Lay Still Robertson decides to go for broke on this one and tell the story of Scotland from around 1950 to the present-day or, at least, till the end of the 20th century. He is a founder, editor and contributing author to the Scots language children’s imprint Itchy Coo. His first book, a collection of short stories, was published in 1991, and since then he has published more than twenty books, for both adults and children.įrom 1993 to 1995 he was writer-in-residence at Brownsbank Cottage, the former home of the poet Hugh MacDiarmid, near Biggar in Lanarkshire. James Robertson is a poet, novelist, short story writer and editor, writing in English and Scots.
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