Book subscription: James Robertson's underrated classics to read again and again

Name: Book subscription: James Robertson's underrated classics to read again and again
Brand: Scottish Book Trust
Price: 15.0 GBP
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**Start a subscription anytime. Order before midnight on 30th November to receive your first book in the first week of December. Gift subscriptions and gift cards available.**

Think classics aren’t for you? Think again with this entertaining selection of underrated page-turning books shared by Booker-prize nominated author James Robertson.

James Robertson is one of Scotland’s most versatile and best-loved authors, but more than that, he's a lifelong reader of good books. Join him on a tour of titles he has read more than once and intends to read again, whether you’re a confident reader or a beginner hoping to get into classics.

Discover cracking stories, enduring questions about how to live in the world that are still relevant today, voices that sing from the pages of history and stay with you, and modern classics to make you look at Scotland in new and unexpected ways – all in (mostly!) short reads of between 200-300 pages.

Whether you want to try something new, expand your reading horizons or find more books with #booktok classics energy, there’s something here for you. Perfect for fans of I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman, I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy, and non-fiction by Robert Macfarlane.

Please note that we recommend this book subscription for adults, aged 18 and over, as the books selected contain adult themes and content.

What's in the book subscription?

Subscribe now, and each month for the length of your subscription, you will receive a book box containing:

One beautifully wrapped mystery book chosen by our curator
An exclusive postcard with their reason for choosing the book
What to read next: recommendations from our expert team
A reflective reading postcard to support you to access the wellbeing benefits of reading for pleasure

More about the curator

James Robertson is a poet, writer of fiction, translator and editor. Born in 1958, he grew up in Bridge of Allan, studied History at Edinburgh University and worked as a bookseller for eight years before becoming a full-time writer in 1993. He has written seven novels to date, The Fanatic (2000), Joseph Knight (2003), The Testament of Gideon Mack (2006), And the Land Lay Still (2010), The Professor of Truth (2013), To Be Continued… (2016) and News of the Dead (2021). His short stories are published in Republics of the Mind (2012) and 365 Stories (2014). He also writes in Scots for young readers and has translated The Gruffalo and eight other books by Julia Donaldson into Scots.

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