Underpinning all of them are insistent and vital questions- who are we? What are we doing here? What happens next? And, again and again, Robertson interrogates the matter of what a story is, and why stories are crucial to humans both as individuals and as members of families and wider communities.
James Robertson was born in Scotland in 1958. He is the author of The Fanatic, Joseph Knight, The Testament of Gideon Mack, And the Land Lay Still, and The Professor of Truth. Joseph Knight won the Saltire Society Scottish Book of the Year and the Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year, The Testament of Gideon Mack was longlisted for the 2006 Man Booker Prize, and And the Land Lay Still won the Saltire Society Scottish Book of the Year. Robertson is also the author of four short story collections, most recently 365: Stories, five poetry collections and numerous children's books written in English and Scots. 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. His forthcoming book, To Be Continued, will be published in August 2016 by Hamish Hamilton.
A masterclass in the ventriloquism of fiction . . . a fertile mind
and a great generosity of ideas
*Guardian*
An anthology of possibility about what the short form can do
*Scotsman*
the sheer diversity on display. . . keeps us turning the pages and
trawling the months.
*National*
There is a huge diversity of subject matter and form across these
stories, demonstrating the Scottish novelist's wide-ranging eye,
and there is also a lightness; a wink and a playful nod that
perhaps Robertson doesn't get to display in his more serious,
longer pieces of fiction.
*Big Issue*
If you're looking for a Christmas present that keeps on giving . .
. or if you fancy this yourself and can drop huge hints in
someone's ear, then I don't think you could go wrong with 365
*dovegreyreder*
What can you say in a few words? Everything, it seems. 365 worlds
pressed between two covers
*Scotsman*
Perfectly crafted
*Herald*
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