This gloriously surreal romp proves once and for all that the important things in life - friendship, romance, a funeral hearse stuffed with crates of bootlegged whisky - come when you least expect them.
James Robertson was born in Scotland in 1958. He is the author of The Testament of Gideon Mack and And the Land Lay Still, among other novels, and has won the Saltire Society Scottish Book of the Year Award twice. The Testament of Gideon Mack was longlisted for the 2006 Man Booker Prize. Robertson is also the author of four short-story collections, most recently 365- Stories, as well as poetry collections and children's books in both English and Scots. He runs the independent publishing house Kettillonia and also co-founded the Scots language children's books imprint Itchy Coo.%%%James Robertson is the author of The Fanatic, Joseph Knight, The Testament of Gideon Mack, And the Land Lay Still, and The Professor of Truth. Hamish Hamilton published his most recent novel, To Be Continued. Joseph Knight won the Saltire Society Scottish Book of the Year and the Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year, The Testament of Gideon Mack was longlisted for the 2006 Man Booker Prize, and And the Land Lay Still won the Saltire Society Scottish Book of the Year. Robertson is also the author of four short story collections, most recently 365- Stories, five poetry collections and numerous children's books written in English and Scots. He runs the independent publishing house Kettillonia, and he is co-founder and general editor of the Scots language imprint Itchy Coo, which produces books in Scots for children and young adults.
A real romp of a road novel featuring a talking toad. I can't
wait
*Val McDermid, The Observer*
Publisher's description. A madcap Highland adventure about midlife
crises, new friends, and second chances. Douglas Findhorn Elder is
fifty years old, recently dumped and suddenly jobless. Mungo Forth
Mungo is a talking toad. And as luck would have it, this toad is
determined to help his hapless human chum to sort his life
out...
*Penguin*
Joyful, warm-hearted, funny ... but buried within are serious
points about the stories we tell about ourselves, how history
shapes our identity, scarred landscapes and self-selecting
communities. In heartsore times we need more books like this.
*Guardian*
Funny and fun ... To Be Continued manages to be sad and happy at
the same time. You can engage with the post-modern games and
references if you like, or you can just sit back and laugh, and
cry. A Scottish baroque novel, full of tricks and trinkets, written
with warmth and wit.
*The National*
Robertson manages to skilfully join the quirky with the serious;
the surreal with the real. His take on contemporary Scotland is
insightful, eccentric and highly readable.
*The Scotsman*
To Be Continued, with its harem-scarem scenarios and surreal
twists, was written to entertain.
*Sunday Herald*
A wildly eccentric tale laced with dry, deprecating wit
*The Times*
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