![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Twenty-one years after his wife and daughter were murdered in the bombing of a plane over Scotland, Alan Tealing, a university lecturer, still does not know the truth of what really happened on that terrible night. James has published four previous novels: THE FANATIC JOSEPH KNIGHT, which won the Scottish Book of the Year Award and the Saltire Prize THE TESTAMENT OF GIDEON MACK was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize and has sold more than 250,000 copies in the United Kingdom and finally, AND THE LAND LAY STILL, which won the Saltire Prize. He has also edited many books including the SELECTED POEMS of Robert Fergusson, and two books by the 19th-century geologist and folklorist Hugh Miller. James published a second book of stories, THE RAGGED MAN’S COMPLAINT (1993), a collection of poems, SOUND-SHADOW (1995) and SCOTTISH GHOST STORIES (1996) before co-compiling the DICTIONARY OF SCOTTISH QUOTATIONS in 1996. He also founded the pamphlet-publishing imprint Kettillonia and is general editor of the Scots language educational imprint Itchy Coo. After publishing his first collection of stories, CLOSE (Black & White Publishing) in 1991, James was appointed writer-in-residence at Brownsbank Cottage, the Lanarkshire home of the poet Hugh MacDiarmid. He studied history at Edinburgh, at both under-graduate and post-graduate levels. James Robertson was born in Kent in 1958, but grew up in Bridge of Allan in Scotland. ![]()
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