macCloud Falls

Robert Alan Jamieson was born in Lerwick on Up Helly Aa, 1958 and grew up in the crofting community of Sandness. He attended the University of Edinburgh as a mature student and subsequently held the William Soutar Fellowship in Perth. He was a co-editor of Edinburgh Review, 1993–98, and writer in residence at the universities of Glasgow and Strathclyde, 1998–2001. Since then he has tutored creative writing at the University of Edinburgh.

Jamieson is a writer of endless narrative invention and soaring prose and he tells an important story here. – HARRY MCGRATH, SCOTTISH REVIEW OF BOOKS