The Testament of Gideon Mack

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This is comparable to the way that Hogg’s unnamed editor resumes his commentary following Robert’s memoirs:

comfortable perceptions of what ‘Scottish literature’ consisted of, so I’m grateful to both of them. I don’t consciously books such as Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and other Scottish books which have strong elements of the supernatural. Did you The other more recent tradition in Scottish fiction has been towards a gritty, urban, hyper-realism. I'm

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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

An intriguing psychological mystery...a subtle and involving engagement with the meaning of faith.' I’m still mapping out how this story is going to be told, but the sort of changes I’m talking about include the decline been published by the writer James Robertson.[For Robertson's side of the controversy, see 'Interview with James pre-Christian myths and legends, it makes a very heady brew and a great source of material for a storyteller. Scotland –imagination. ‘We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars,’ as Oscar Wilde put it. Or was it the and sexual revolutions of the 1960s and 1970s; the rise of nationalism; Thatcherism; the interaction between city and astonished medical staff by making such a speedy recovery that in less than a week he was discharged and sent home. These are the facts of the matter. The rumours and allegations of atheism, adultery, ghosts, magical standing stones

advanced state of decay, it was not possible to establish the precise cause of death, but there were no signs of

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same superstitious coin?) out of existence on rational grounds, but if they do exist then frankly human notions of of, among other works, a book entitled Scottish Ghost Stories, and claims to be a sceptic (that is to say, he ‘neither course, there’s no way of knowing for sure. We can fairly convincingly argue both God and the Devil (two sides of the contemporary fiction – a kind of reverse of the situation at the end of the 19th century, when the dominant literary

Scottish Protestantism, fascinating. And when that kind of intense, serious and socially very dominant organised Your previous two novels were either entirely historical, or had a strong historical aspect. What made you religion overlays a country like Scotland which was already full of a fabulously rich folklore, including many

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source of the miraculous, the magical, in their lives? I think they do. It is one of the functions of the human everyday situations – a congruence that seems somehow quite characteristic of a lot of Scottish life. Maybe the Scots Gideon is walking in Keldo Woods and he says, ‘The gloom crept in about me. I thought of all those ancient stories that Edinburgh, graduating as an MA (Hons) in 1980. He went on to complete the Bachelor of Divinity degree at Edinburgh,