The Sons of the Stuarts

James Clarke was born in Leicester but spent many years living in Scotland, in Aberdeenshire and in the wonderful Shetlands, where he owned a croft as Laird of Punds. After an accident with a cow he had to return to England as he could no longer sustain the hard working life of a crofter. His life in the Shetlands is told in The Ratscape Chronicles - The Autobiographical Ramblings of an Outcast. Since returning to England he has written several plays, two volumes of poetry (Chocolate Rain and Smoke from the Hills) and three novels. The Sons of the Stuarts is the first novel of the Chronicles of Wetland - not a series or a serial but complete stories in themselves, linked through the zany characters of Wetlund.