Poet, editor, novelist and publisher, James Robertson is an active and prolific writer and was the first Writer-in-Residence at the Scottish Parliament in 2004.
He has written three novels, stories, poetry, anthologies, compiled a Scottish Dictionary of Quotations and runs an independent publishing company called Kettillonia.
His second novel Joseph Knight won the two major Scottish literary prizes in 2003/4 – the Saltire Scottish Book of the Year and the Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year.
His greatest success to date has been with the best-selling novel The Testament of Gideon
Mack (Richard & Judy Book Club) which was published to huge critical acclaim in 2006 and long-listed for the Man Booker Prize.
He is passionate about the Scots language and is co-founder of the successful children’s
Itchy Coo Press which produces very popular books in Scots for children such as Katie’s
Ferm and Katie’s Moose: A Keek-a-boo Book for Wee Folk.
