![]() ![]() He's carved out a place for himself as an important figure in the country's burgeoning creative self-belief, establishing a small poetry pamphlet press called Kettillonia, and Itchy Coo, an extremely successful publisher of children's books in the Scots language as well as holding a number of high-profile posts, most notably the first writer-in-residence of the Scottish parliament.Īlthough not solely a political novel, the politics of Scotland run like a seam through And the Land Lay Still. For 20 years, after beginning his career with short stories and poetry in both English and Scots at the beginning of the 1990s, the unassuming author has been there or thereabouts on the Scottish literary scene. That feeling is inescapable when reading And the Land Lay Still, the fourth novel by the Scottish writer James Robertson. ![]() Whether it's the sheer heft of the new novel, or the structure, the premise or the prose, books occasionally come with an aura about them – a quality that quietly states: "This is the big one." ![]() Sometimes you can just tell when an author has taken a big step up in ambition. ![]()
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