![]() ![]() Michael Marra: Arrest This Moment (2017). Republics of the Mind: New and Selected Stories (2012). It is Spring 1997 and Hugh Hardie needs a ghost for his Tours of Old Edinburgh. James Robertson is represented for film & TV by Yasmin MacDonald at United Agents Synopsis An impressive debut from an exciting new Scottish voice - a stunning novel about history, identity and redemption. He runs the independent publishing house Kettillonia, and he is co-founder and general editor of the Scots language imprint Itchy Coo, which produces books in Scots for children and young adults. Robertson has published five poetry collections and numerous children’s books written in English and Scots. ![]() Robertson is also the author of four short story collections, most recently 365: Stories which has also been turned into an immersive sound installation with music by the folk fiddle player and composer Aidan O’Rourke. The Booker Prize-nominated Scottish author of News of the Dead picks the books that have inspired his storied career, from a ‘beautiful, angry, profound’ Native American novel to the best book he read in 2020. His novels have won numerous prizes including the Saltire Society Scottish Book of the Year (twice) and the Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year, and The Testament of Gideon Mack was longlisted for the 2006 Man Booker Prize as well as being a Richard & Judy Bookclub pick. James Robertson is one of Scotland’s best loved writers. ![]()
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