bookshelves: winter20092010, georgian1714-1830, historical-fiction, philosophy, racism, britain-scotland, seven-seas, slaves, teh-brillianz, published-2003, paper-read Read from January 20 to 28, 2010 Here we have an erudite, scholarly and entirely enjoyable rendition of an actual incident whic...
bookshelves: summer-2013, contemporary, published-2013, radio-4, fradio, politics, mystery-thriller Read from June 02 to July 07, 2013 BABTHUZZAH!BBC blurb: The new novel by leading Scottish author James Robertson is a powerful work of fiction inspired by some of the aspects and events surround...
interesting but the dialogue throughout the book makes it a bit jerky for me. It's about a man who's being a ghost for tourists who then gets drawn into the story of the man he's playing.
BABTHUZZAH!BBC blurb: The new novel by leading Scottish author James Robertson is a powerful work of fiction inspired by some of the aspects and events surrounding the Lockerbie bombing. It's a delicate reinvention of one of the most painful incidents of recent times in Scotland.Twenty-one years aft...
This is a meandering tale that weaves together numerous strands of personal stories with the last fifty years of Scottish history, both political and social. The first character we meet, Mike, is a photographer and the son of a famous (and rather better) photographer, and his story I found interesti...