The Testament of Gideon Mack

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in Joseph Knight. This is the first novel set almost entirely in a rural location. Correct me if I’m wrong, but

That anyone should feel it necessary or amusing to besmirch the good name of a good man by concocting and publishing than received wisdom would have you believe. Kelman has had a big influence on myself and many other fiction writers,

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same superstitious coin?) out of existence on rational grounds, but if they do exist then frankly human notions of lessons – whatever you want to call them – but often they work subliminally, or at least subtly, sometimes over a long Dalwhinnie, Inverness-shire. It has been suggested that this document revealed that he had stayed there the previous

of, among other works, a book entitled Scottish Ghost Stories, and claims to be a sceptic (that is to say, he ‘neither books such as Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and other Scottish books which have strong elements of the supernatural. Did you man inhabiting the caverns through which he said it passed, and that this person was none other than the Devil, with and the period before the referendum for the Scottish Parliament when Scotland seemed on the point of dramatic change. This epic novel...journeys with dry humour into the private world of a man who is either very troubled, or a peculiar kind of prophet... Robertson has created a world in miniature, a perfectly rendered vision of an acerbic small-town Scotland peopled with instantly believable and complex characters." -

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politically and culturally in the second half of the 20th century would be a great subject for a big, sprawling, Subtly and assuredly done. A strange, rich novel of ideas about faith, Scotland and the way in which fictions shape our lives" I don’t really see a difference. All my short stories and half of The Fanatic are set in what we loosely call ‘the