... a native of the Shetland Isles, has published two books of poetry, 'Shoormal' and 'Nort Atlantik Drift', a sequence of 27 poems in his own distinctive brand of Shetlandic Scots. As a novelist, Jamieson has published three books. 'A Day at the Office' (1991) was named by the Edinburgh-based List magazine as one of the 100 Best Scottish Books of all time, commenting that "each page of this book, a precursor to much modern experimental Scottish fiction, looks more like a work of art than a novel".
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