A01=James Robertson
Author_James Robertson
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Category=FYB
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Product details
- ISBN 9781873631249
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 31 Mar 1999
- Publisher: Bonnier Books Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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This collection of short stories is laced with a mixture of expectation and menace, hope and fear. Men and women, strangers and lovers, the old and the young, test and joust with each other, unsure of the ground yet rooted to it. In 1991 James Robertson won the Sloan Prize.
James Robertson is a co-founder of Itchy Coo. He writes books for both adults and children, in English and in Scots. His novel The Testament of Gideon Mack was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize in 2006 and featured on the Richard and Judy Book Club in 2007. For Itchy Coo his translations include Julia Donaldson’s The Gruffalo and Room on the Broom, Roald Dahl’s Fantastic Mr Fox and A.A. Milne’s Winnie-the-Pooh.
