![]() ![]() Nor does he show any sign of forsaking the big issues in his new novel, And The Land Lay Still. His tale of an embittered Church of Scotland minister confronted by the reality of evil was exceptional not just because it asked such huge questions of itself and then answered them so successfully, but because in writing it at all Robertson was taking a direct swipe at one of Scotland's key texts, James Hogg's The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner. His first novel, The Fanatic, dealt with the Covenanters the second, Joseph Knight, took on the slave trade and his third, The Testament of Gideon Mack, gave Satan himself a starring role. His subject is Scotland, always Scotland, but his theme is faith – faith in a God, faith in a country, faith in a person or a principle. N o one is ever going to accuse James Robertson of a lack of ambition. ![]()
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