Do you know if the book, Joseph Knight is available in the USA? I tried to find it on-line without success. Andrea In a message dated 4/29/2003 4:01:38 AM Eastern Standard Time, CARIBBEAN-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: > Back, after a long absence!.... > > .... with a book recommendation. Recently published, a reviewer comments: > "The Scottish author James Robertson was much praised for his first novel= > , > The Fanatic. His second, Joseph Knight, is a book of such quality as to > persuade you that historical novels are the true business of the writer, > that it's through the past that we might understand ourselves best, that > it's in the past that the imagination can be most free, but also most > authentic. Based on fact, and built out of hefty chunks of alternately > tender and shocking fiction, the novel revolves around an 18th-century > incident in which a black slave brought to Scotland from Jamaica fled his > master and was subsequently set free by the courts on the grounds that th= > e > slave laws of Jamaica had no place in Scotland. The slave, Joseph Knight, > had been the property of Sir John Wedderburn, a former Jacobite, who as a > teenager had fled the butchery of Culloden and sailed to the West Indies > with his brothers to rebuild the family fortune......". >

<ANDREADRAMSEY@cs.com> wrote in message news:1c3.8cb04e5.2bdfbfc3@cs.com... > Do you know if the book, Joseph Knight is available in the USA? I tried to > find it on-line without success. > Andrea It was only available in the UK mid-April. I had to get my copy sent over (I live in France). No doubt Amazon in the States will have it soon (the book's already on www.amazon.co.uk and www.amazon.fr) Peter The Wedderburn Pages : www.wedderburn.ws - including the G.H.O.S.T. glossary - Genealogy: Help with Old Scottish Terms