James Robertson transforms the supernatural experience of a faithless minister into a mesmerising exploration of the nature of belief
James Robertson
James Kelman famously brought Scottish vernacular to the Booker Prize in 1994. James Robertson, however, has gone further: he publishes Scots-language books for children
Robertson, books and Scotland are inextricably entwined. As well as his own fiction - which reflects the areas of Scotland he knows best - he has a doctorate on the fiction of Walter Scott, was assistant manager of Waterstones in Glasgow, runs an independent publishing company as well as Itchy Coo, his Scots-language imprint, and has translated Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du Mal into Scots (Fae the Flouers o Evil). In 2004, he became the first writer-in-residence at the Scottish Parliament building, later turning the experience into a sequence of sonnets.
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