To Be Continued

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I have all that a man newly turned fifty can reasonably desire, other than a job, a settled relationship and confidence in the future . . .' Douglas Findhorn Elder is all washed up. Or so he thinks. He has split up with his partner, jumped (before he was pushed) from his job at an ailing Edinburgh newspaper, and moved back into his now-empty childhood home. But on the night of his fiftieth birthday, after a few too many glasses of red wine, he makes a new friend- a talking toad called Mungo. And life takes an unexpected turn. Soon Douglas is travelling to the Highlands, Mungo in tow, on the wild goose chase of a lifetime. Awaiting them at crumbling Glentaragar House - if they ever get there - are its sprightly geriatric proprietor, her enigmatic granddaughter, an alcoholic teetotaller with a three-way personality split, a whisky-smuggling conspiracy, and maybe even a shot at redemption . . .I have all that a man newly turned fifty can reasonably desire, other than a job, a settled relationship and confidence in the future . . .' Douglas Findhorn Elder is all washed up. Or so he thinks. He has split up with his partner, jumped (before he was pushed) from his job at an ailing Edinburgh newspaper, and moved back into his now-empty childhood home. But on the night of his fiftieth birthday, after a few too many glasses of red wine, he makes a new friend- a talking toad called Mungo. And life takes an unexpected turn. Soon Douglas is travelling to the Highlands, Mungo in tow, on the wild goose chase of a lifetime. Awaiting them at crumbling Glentaragar House - if they ever get there - are its sprightly geriatric proprietor, her enigmatic granddaughter, an alcoholic teetotaller with a three-way personality split, a whisky-smuggling conspiracy, and maybe even a shot at redemption . . .
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.