Reader Profiles
Regularly, the reading habits of two members of the BHS community are
profiled. Staff, pupils and members of the wider community answer three
questions about their reading. Keep checking this website to see what
our school community is reading. You might find their recommendations
useful when making your own reading choices.
Mr James Robertson,
visiting author. Mr
Robertson tutored the BHS Creative Writers Group in February 2009.
He incorporated Scots language into his activities and was
enthusiastically received by the 25 pupil members who benefited from
his expert advice.
In James Robertson, Scotland has a
writer of the highest literary quality and cultural acuity. He
recently served as the Scottish Parliament’s first Writer in
Residence and his second novel, Joseph Knight, won the two major
Scottish literary prizes in 2003/4 – the Saltire Scottish Book of
the Year and the Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year. He has
published novels, stories, poetry, anthologies, compiled a Scottish
Dictionary of Quotations and is also editor of an educational Scots
imprint, Itchy Coo Books. His latest novel is The Testament of
Gideon Mack, which was nominated for the Man Booker Prize. His visit to BHS was
funded in part by a grant from Scottish Book Trust’s Live Literature Scotland fund.
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What was your favourite book when you were at secondary
school? “The mill on the floss” by
George Eliot.
I totally fell in love
with Maggie Tulliver.
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My all-time favourite book:
Not sure;
maybe something by Robert Louis Stevenson, such as “Dr Jekyll
and Mr Hyde” or “Kidnapped”.
“At
swim-two-birds” by Flann O’Brien is also favourite.
The funniest book I
ever read is “The mating season” (a Jeeves and Wooster novel) by P.G. Wodehouse.
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What I’m reading now:
“The
bull calves” by Naomi Mitchison.
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W. McGhee,
Campsie House
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