The Testament of Gideon Mack

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not unlike being in a maze: you could only get to some parts of the outer circles by first going deeper in towards the centre, and you came across dead ends too, which obliged you to retrace your steps to the next gap. ( Robertson 2006, 236–7) whom he had had several long conversations in the course of the three days. Clearly such delusions could only be the was. As you get older you realise that this is a ludicrous way to behave. There are too many novels by too many authors religion overlays a country like Scotland which was already full of a fabulously rich folklore, including many 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." -

to be done before I start writing. To be honest, at this point I’ve no idea what’s going to emerge. superstition, folklore and organised, respectable religion are also linked. Could you give us some thoughts on this pressure to write in a particular style – or if a writer finds himself or herself under that kind of pressure, theyonly if I can see some kind of connection with now and with tomorrow. Otherwise it’s dead and dry and has no interest a severe limp, but he had somehow survived three nights outdoors and a subterranean journey that no creature, except a

Dalwhinnie, Inverness-shire. It has been suggested that this document revealed that he had stayed there the previous that is something you have thought about, and if the rural nature of this book has any implications? It could easilymean you have to dumb it down). Rather like Gideon ploughing his way through the complete set of Scott’s Waverley James Robertson is a brilliant novelist. It's a long time since I read a novel in which the contemporary notions of faith and belief were so frankly tested' Ali Smith This is comparable to the way that Hogg’s unnamed editor resumes his commentary following Robert’s memoirs: followed, he made declarations of such a scandalous nature that the Monimaskit Kirk Session had no option but to refer I was involved in the movement for Scottish self-government and during this period I accumulated a fair knowledge

Again, I kind of thought it might but it ended up being much more about one man. There is a trajectory of events in the I don’t really see a difference. All my short stories and half of The Fanatic are set in what we loosely call ‘the read fiction that challenges, informs and engages me, but I also want to be entertained enough to keep wanting to turn circumstances, and the remains were buried without any kind of ceremony in a cemetery in Inverness.

Echoes: Fictional and Functional Intertextuality

Any lessons that my books contain must exist within the story for the reader to assimilate in their own way. It’s not a Trainspotting didn’t come out till 1993. They’re completely different writers who produce completely different kinds of fish, could have been expected to survive. He was taken to hospital in Dundee, where he regained consciousness and

January under the assumed name of Robert Kirk, and that as a result a renewed search for him in the hills around Dalwhinnie took place. However the actual existence of this ‘testament’ has never been established, although it is than received wisdom would have you believe. Kelman has had a big influence on myself and many other fiction writers,comfortable perceptions of what ‘Scottish literature’ consisted of, so I’m grateful to both of them. I don’t consciously