And the Land Lay Still

A panoramic novel charting sixty years of change in Scotland, by the author of the bestselling Testament of Gideon MackAnd the Land Lay Still is nothing less than the story of a nation. James Robertson's breathtaking novel is a portrait of modern Scotland as seen through the eyes of natives and immigrants, journalists and politicians, drop-outs and spooks, all trying to make their way through a country in the throes of great and rapid change. It is a moving, sweeping story of family, friendship, struggle and hope - epic in every sense.

“Wonderful, brilliant, panoramic, illuminating. A joy to read”

-- Irvine Welsh Guardian
Gripping, vivid, beautifully realized The Times
Powerful and moving. A brilliant and multifaceted saga of Scottish life in the second half of the twentieth century Sunday Times
Toweringly ambitious, virtually flawlessly realized, a masterpiece and, without a doubt, my book of the year Daily Mail
Big, ambitious, intricately organised . . . it's some achievement New Statesman
Dizzying . . . subtle and profound . . . And The Land Lay Still reads like an alternative history of Scotland told by its everyday people instead of its movers and shakers . . . eminently readable Independent on Sunday
Both epic and domestic, it delivers a wonderful lifelikeness Scotsman
A hugely ambitious and compassionate novel . . . a jam-packed, dizzying piece of fiction . . . already it's being spoken of as the most important novel about Scotland since Lanark Scotland on Sunday

James Robertson is the author of The Fanatic, Joseph Knight, The Testament of Gideon Mack, And the Land Lay Still, The Professor of Truth and To Be Continued. Joseph Knight won the Saltire Society Scottish Book of the Year and the Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year, The Testament of Gideon Mack was longlisted for the 2006 Man Booker Prize, and And the Land Lay Still won the Saltire Society Scottish Book of the Year. Robertson is also the author of four short story collections, most recently 365- Stories, five poetry collections and numerous children's books written in English and Scots. He runs the independent publishing house Kettillonia, and he is co-founder and general editor of the Scots language imprint Itchy Coo, which produces books in Scots for children and young adults.

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