Giving voice to the dispossessed and crafting stories of lives on the edge, lives almost lost, lives held in the balance, James Kelman writes about the things that touch us all. With honesty...more details Format:Hardback Pages:280
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Kelman James
ISBN:9780141014890
Rejected by his brother and largely ignored by his parents, Kieron Smith finds comfort - and endless stories - in the home of his much-loved grandparents. But when his family move to a new housing scheme on the outskirts of Glasgow...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:280
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James Kelman
ISBN:9781846970405
Tammas is 20. Hes a loner and a gambler, and he cant hold down a job. He flits from the dog track to the casino to the races to his sisters and back again...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:320
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James Kelman
ISBN:9781846970375
Set among the bedsits and tenements of Glasgow, Kelmans first collection of short stories is as vibrant and acerbic as
when it appeared in America in 1973....more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:192
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James Kelman
ISBN:9780099421849
James Kelman has long been regarded as one of the finest writers of fiction in the world. In this brilliant collection of essays he deals with matters literary...more details Format:Book
James Kelman has long been regarded as one of the finest writers of fiction in the world. In this brilliant collection of essays he deals with matters literary...more details Format:Hardback
Passionate, exhilarating and darkly humorous, The Burn is an extraordinary collection of short stories by a master of paranoia and an unsurpassed prose stylist....more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:256
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James Kelman
ISBN:9780749399498
A collection of short stories featuring characters who are wound up as tightly as a drum, full of anxiety, thwarted compassion and frustrated desire. James Kelman won the 1994 Booker Prize for "How Late it Was...more details Format:Paperback
Busted Scotch is a selection by James Kelman of 35 short stories -- most of them published in this country for the first time -- from over two decades of his work. They reveal the author as a tough-minded master of the short form...more details Format:Paperback Pages:262
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James Kelman
ISBN:9780749395957
Tammas, a 20-year-old Glaswegian, is a loner and a compulsive gambler. Betting gives him as good a chance as any of discovering what he really seeks from life...more details Format:Paperback
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James Kelman
ISBN:9780099283096
Patrick Doyle is a 29-year-old teacher in an ordinary school. Disaffected, frustrated and increasingly bitter at the system he is employed to maintain...more details Format:Paperback
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James Kelman
ISBN:9780099276975
These 20 first-person narratives portray ordinary people in a language that makes glory of their lives. The narrators are men and boys who come face to face with uncomfortable truths...more details Format:Paperback
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James Kelman
ISBN:9781417711079
From "one of the new, true masters of millennial English" (Russell Banks), James Kelman's first new work since his Booker Prize-winning novel, How late it was, how late....more details
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James Kelman
ISBN:9780749386160
A collection of 47 short stories which reflect the broad scope of Kelman's writing since 1972. Ranging from casual tragedy to wild farce, from the concrete to the lyrical...more details Format:Paperback
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James Kelman
ISBN:9780099546276
Winner of the 1994 Booker Prize, this witty, controversial, and brilliant bestselling novel has been compared to the works of Joyce, Beckett...more details Format:Paperback / softback
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James Kelman
ISBN:9780393327991
One Sunday morning in Glasgow, shoplifting ex-con Sammy awakens in an alley, wearing another man's shoes and trying to remember his two-day drinking binge. He gets in a scrap with some soldiers and revives in a jail cell...more details Format:Paperback Pages:373
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James Kelman
ISBN:9780749398835
Winner of the 1994 Booker Prize, this witty, controversial, and brilliant bestselling novel has been compared to the works of Joyce, Beckett...more details Format:Paperback
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James Kelman
ISBN:9780241142417
Rejected by his brother and largely ignored by his parents, Kieron Smith finds comfort - and endless stories - in the home of his much-loved grandparents. But when his family move to a new housing scheme on the outskirts of the city...more details Format:Hardback Pages:416
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James Kelman
ISBN:9780151013487
"I had cousins at sea. One was in the Cadets. I was wanting to join. My maw did not want me to but my da said I could if I wanted, it was a good life and ye saved yer money...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:422
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James Kelman
ISBN:9781846970382
The tales in Not Not While the Giro are dark and witty portrayals of unemployment and the tedium of working life. First published in the early 1980s...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:208
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James Kelman
ISBN:9780749390280
A collection of short stories which takes the reader from the pub to the Labour Exchange, from the snooker tables to the greyhound track. James Kelman won the 1994 Booker Prize for "How Late it Was...more details Format:Paperback
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James Kelman
ISBN:9780141014906
'Kelman portrays his world with bleakly beautiful honesty . . . a fine collection and an excellent window on Kelman's brooding world' The Times
'Perhaps you don't know the Man Booker International-shortlisted James Kelman but you should. You only have to read one phrase to recognise his utterly distinctive voice: lyrical...more details Format:Book Pages:280
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James Kelman
ISBN:9781873176801
James Kelman is justly celebrated as a major European novelist, short story writer, and playwright. Yet crucially his "artistry, authenticity and a voice of singular power" ("Independent") flow from being an engaged writer and a cultural and political activist. In this collection of essays...more details Format:Paperback Pages:95
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James Kelman
ISBN:9781846970399
Robert works on the buses and lives in a no-bedroomed Glasgow flat with his wife and child. His job is boring, the weather is lousy, and hes becoming increasingly aware that his plans to emigrate wont come to anything. Life...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:240
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James Kelman
ISBN:9780385495806
From "one of the new, true masters of millennial English" (Russell Banks), James Kelman's first new work since his Booker Prize-winning novel, How late it was, how late....more details Format:Paperback Pages:256
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James Kelman
ISBN:9781846970559
The Good Times was James Kelmans first work after winning the Booker Prize for his novel How late it was, how late. Tender and lyrical, this is a dazzling collection from one of the worlds masters of the short-story form....more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:256
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James Kelman
ISBN:9781846970566
Set in an unnamed place that appears to be under military rule, this novel is reminiscent of accounts of incidents in Rwanda, Yugoslavia and the Cultural
Revolution in China...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:304
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James Kelman
ISBN:9780099422198
Since the publication of How late it was how late, James Kelman has been working on Translated Accounts. The novel is set in an unnamed territory or country that appears to be under military rule. It is narrative in the first person...more details Format:Paperback
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James Kelman
ISBN:9780436274640
Set in an unnamed country that appears to be under military rule. The narrators and most of the characters remain anonymous. The language used is an atypical English form...more details Format:Hardback
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James Kelman
ISBN:9780141023045
In Where I Was, James Kelman introduces us to a superb collection of memorable characters, down on their luck but far from hopeless....more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:64
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James Kelman
ISBN:9780156031721
In the superbly crafted and critically acclaimed You Have to Be Careful in the Land of the Free, James Kelman has created an unforgettable character and a darkly comic portrait of a post-9/11 America. Jeremiah Brown...more details Format:Paperback Pages:410
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James Kelman
ISBN:9780241142332
Jeremiah Brown, a 34-year-old Scot, gambler and drifter, has lived in the USA for several years, fathering a child by a now defunct relationship. He is about to make his first trip home in years when he recalls a time with his ex-girlfriend...more details Format:Paperback Pages:448
So when he nips out for a quick drink on the eve of returning to his native Scotland after twelve years in America, anything could happen. Anything at all...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:280