En 1746, exilé en Jamaïque après la bataille sanglante de Culloden, au cours de laquelle furent massacrés les partisans des Stuarts, le jeune John Wedderburn, se faisant passer pour un médecin, fait fortune, aidé par ses frères, dans les plantations de canne à sucre. Vingt ans plus tard, il retourne...
La remise en question de vérités considérées il y a encore peu de temps comme universelles traverse aussi l'univers des sciences et n'épargne pas l'économie. Existe-t-il une nouvelle économie, quels sont ses points de départ et de repère, ses priorités et ses propositions pratiques ? James Robertso...
Au printemps 1997, Andrew Carlin, ancien étudiant en histoire, libraire raté et dépressif, est engagé comme fantôme pour animer la visite guidée des vieux quartiers d'Edimbourg. Il doit apparaître brusquement devant les touristes et incarner un extrémiste religieux condamné au bûcher pour inceste e...
Aujourd'hui, l'argent nous est indispensable, il est au coeur de notre société et nous n'imaginons pas vivre sans. D'abord simple moyen d'échange, il est devenu le fondement de l'économie mondiale et, plus encore, une valeur en soi, un symbole de puissance. Pourtant l'argent n'a pas toujours existé....
Alan Tealing est professeur de littérature anglaise. Sa vie est en suspens depuis la mort, vingt ans auparavant, de sa femme et de sa fille, tuées dans un attentat inspiré par celui de Lockerbie en 1988. Alan est totalement obsédé par «l'Affaire». Il ne peut plus rien faire de sa vie. Il ne croit pa...
If the devil didn't exist, would man have to invent him? For Gideon Mack, faithless minister, unfaithful husband and troubled soul, the existence of God, let alone the Devil, is no more credible than that of ghosts or fairies. Until the day he falls into a gorge and is rescued by someone who might j...
And the Land Lay Still is the sweeping Scottish epic by James Robertson And 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 ...
The impressive debut from an exciting new Scottish voice - a stunning novel about history, identity and redemption. A no. 2 best-seller in Scotland. ...
This is a collection of ghost stories based on a mixture of local history and folklore. The stories are from past and present. Some, such as The Hauntings of Glamis Castle and The Tale of Major Weir are well known, while others are less familiar, such as The Deil of Littledean. ...
365 is James Robertson's innovative collection of 365 stories, each 365 words long. In 2013, James Robertson wrote a story every day. Each was exactly 365 words long. A year later, on a daily basis, the stories were published on the Five Dials website. Now the 365 stories are gathered together in...
The Professor of Truth is the newest novel by Saltire prizewinner James Robertson. Twenty-one years after his wife and daughter were murdered in the bombing of a plane over Scotland, Alan Tealing, a university lecturer, still does not know the truth of what really happened on that terrible night...
A madcap Highland adventure from the Booker-longlisted author of And The Land Lay Still and The Testament of Gideon Mack Douglas Findhorn Elder is in a sorry state. He's just turned fifty, split up from his girlfriend and been pushed out of his job in an ailing national newspaper. On the night of h...
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And 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...
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A Confederate general who ranks with Lee, Jeb Stuart, and Stonewall Jackson but whose achievements have been unfairly neglected until now, finally receives his due in this invaluable biography by a noted historian of the Civil War. Drawing extensively on newly unearthed documents, this work provides...
A critical success on both sides of the Atlantic, this darkly imaginative novel from Scottish author James Robertson takes a tantalizing trip into the spiritual by way of a haunting paranormal mystery. When Reverend Gideon Mack, a good minister despite his atheism, tumbles into a deep ravine called ...
This brand new edition of short stories comprises the best of James Robertson's work, collected together here for the first time. They range in setting from a dysfunctional safari park to a dentist's surgery, from the poverty of hope of a reservation in South Dakota to the nightmare vision of a futu...
Not long after he inherited the Highland estate of Kynachan, young David Stewart was shown, in a dream, the image of his future wife. When, at a ball in Perth, he saw the beautiful Jean Mercer - the woman of his dream - he proposed at once, determined that she should become his Lady of Kynachan. ...
If the devil didn't exist, would man have to invent him? For Gideon Mack, faithless minister, unfaithful husband and troubled soul, the existence of God, let alone the Devil, is no more credible than that of ghosts or fairies. Until the day he falls into a gorge and is rescued by someone who might j...
Future Money explains in plain language and convincing detail how our money system is propelling us toward the self-destruction of our species and what we should do about it. Our present money system frustrates the well-meaning efforts of active citizens, NGOs and governments to deal with our prese...
How can we reshape our economic system so that it will meet the needs of people and the Earth in the 21st century? In this Briefing, James Robertson outlines measures for building a healthier and more equal world. He identifies key ways in which people can work together to transform the economics of...
How did digital media happen ? Through a unique approach to digital documents, and detailed intricate histories of illicit internet piracy networks, The Digital Culture Industry goes beyond the Napster creation myth and illuminates the unseen individuals, code and events behind the turn to digital m...