James Robertson won the £30,000 (US$46,714) Saltire Society Scottish Book of the Year award for his novel And the Land Lay Still,
which "examines the cultural changes in Scotland between the Second
World War and the founding of the Scottish Parliament, and how the
aspirations of many Scots for a socialist Britain gave way to a
resurgent nationalism and a greater demand for home rule," the Scotsman reported.
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