* Hogg's enduring masterpiece is a triumph and deserves to be read, enjoyed and discussed by a new generation. -- Ian Rankin, From His Introduction * Hogg's masterpiece is a psychological thriller, a metaphysical puzzle and a theological and philosophical maze all in one. Its inconsistencies and unresolved questions are what make it at once so gripping and yet so hard to grasp. A strange, disturbing obsession of a book, and a key text of Scottish literature. -- James Robertson, Author Of The Testament Of Gideon Mack * James Hogg's Confessions is one of the great works on that sinister border between the supernatural and the psychological - a borderland that Scottish authors seem to have explored with a particular relish. Its atmosphere is unique, its penetration is shocking, and the truthfulness of its account of religious mania is both timeless and timely. -- Philip Pullman