A veteran author whose Scots spin on the Bible has become a global bestseller will host a concert in America with an audience of almost 50 million people

Jamie Stuart, 89, from the East End will travel to Nashville on Tuesday to narrate A Celtic Christmas Concert, which is being recorded for America’s most watched faith TV channel Trinity Broadcast Network (TBN).

It will go out over Christmas on the channel which can be seen on cable around the world.

Organisers had read Jamie’s book, The Glasgow Gospel, which offers a Glaswegian take on some of the gospel stories and invited him to America.

Jamie, an elder at High Carntyne Church, said: “I’m compering the whole event and giving presentations on the Glasgow Bible. I’m very excited. They seem to have fallen in love with it and I reckon it will fit in with the Celtic Christmas idea”

The Glasgow Bible is a compilation of Jamie’s books, The Glasgow Gospel and two volumes of Auld Testement Tales, and has sold more than 150,000 copies around the world.

It was even made into a DVD, featuring actors Tony Roper, Andy Cameron and Johnny Beattie and Govan-born Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson.

TBN Producer Rik Blair said: “I was on tour in Scotland with my group and my drummer came across The Glasgow Bible.

“We all loved it. It’s such a great cultural and humorous take on a very meaningful message.”