by James Robertson · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9781841151892
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«The Fanatic» is the historical novel by James Robertson, published by Fourth Estate in paperback, with 310 pages, in English.
The novel alternates between Edinburgh in 1997 and seventeenth-century Scotland: Andrew Carlin, hired to play the ghost of Colonel Weir, executed for witchcraft in 1670, comes across James Mitchel, a fanatic tried in 1676 for attempting to assassinate the Archbishop of St Andrews. Betrayals, witch hunts and Puritan exiles connect both eras.
The novel was originally published in 2000; this paperback edition from Fourth Estate is from 2001.
For readers of historical fiction and Scottish literary fiction who enjoy stories that connect past and present.
James Robertson is a Scottish writer who is the author of several novels, short stories and poetry collections. Robertson was born in Sevenoaks, England but grew up in Bridge of Allan, Stirlingshire. He has published seven novels: The Fanatic, Joseph Knight, The Testament of Gideon Mack, And the Land Lay Still, The Professor of Truth, and To Be Continued… and News of the Dead. The Testament of Gideon Mack was long-listed for the 2006 Man Booker Prize.
