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JAMIE STUART
160pp
‘From “no mean city” has come no mean achievement, a triumph of imagination and graphic writing which will be welcome far beyond Glasgow. I’ll be surprised if it does not whet your appetite to go back to the Bible and discover, or rediscover, for yourself the riches it contains.’ Professor Robert Davidson
The Old Testament and the New Testament lovingly captured in the lively and colourful Glasgow dialect. Acclaimed as ‘the Scottish publishing event of the year’ (Evening Times) and a ‘work of love’ (The Herald).
The Glasgow Gospel was such a popular success that Jamie Stuart followed it up with the bestselling A Glasgow Bible. A lifelong resident of ‘the dear green place’, Jamie Stuart has now added Proverbs in the Patter to his much-loved list of publications.
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SAMPLE TEXT
In the beginnin
It wis a lang time ago, right enough – thoosans an thoosans o years since. There wis nuthin whaur the earth is the noo – absolutely nuthin at aw.
‘Weel noo,’ God says tae himsel wan day, ‘I’ll fix a wee bit dod o land – doon there.’
So, tae start wi, God ordered up some light tae brek oot ower the darkness.
He then made the skies an the dry land, an gaithered up the watters an the seas. He gied them aw names.
An, wi nae mair ado, two muckle orbs appeared – the sun an the moon – tae gie light tae the earth baith day an night.
An a wee while later, God made thoosans o bright stars tae twinkle in the dark o the night.
The Maker wis fair pleased wi it aw.
‘Noo then,’ he says, ‘we’ll hae oorsels some life aboot the place.’
He gied oot mair orders for the earth tae burst forth wi trees an bright wee flooers.
He filled aw the watters fu o fish.
He made birds tae fly in the skies an sing sweetly amang the trees.
It wis a brilliant warld that God wis stertin aff – an he felt sure he wis makin a guid job o it.
However, no matter how guid it wis, the land still lay empty. So God made hunners o different beasts – lions an tigers, giraffes an gazelles, grinnin hyenas, dogs an frogs, big roarin bulls an huge hippopotami – an thousans o wee creepin craturs.
God then made folk tae look like himsel – man an wumman thegither.
‘They’ll hae herts an minds tae love me,’ God says. ‘I’m gauny pit them in charge o this hale warld – tae keep it in fine fettle.’
The Lord beamed wi gladness at his work. By this time it wis the seeventh day – and the Almighty was due fir a wee rest!
© Jamie Stuart
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