Kelman James

A Chancer (Book)

James Kelman

ISBN:9781846970405

Tammas is 20, a loner and a compulsive gambler. Unable to hold a job for long, his life revolves around Glasgow bars, home with his sister and brother-in-law...more details
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An Old Pub Near Angel (Book)

James Kelman

ISBN:9781846970375

This is James Kelman's first collection of short stories - as fresh and sharp as when they first appeared from US publisher "Puckerbrush Press". Set among the tenements and bedsits of Glasgow...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:192

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Burn (Book)

James Kelman

ISBN:9781846970535

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  Pages:256

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Chancer (Book)

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
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Disaffection, A (Book)

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
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Good Times, The (Book)

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
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Greyhound For Breakfast (Book)

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
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How Late It Was, How Late (Book)

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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If It Is Your Life (Book)

Kelman James

ISBN:9780241142424

Release Date: 03 May 2010

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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Keiron Smith, Boy (Book)

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  Pages:280

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Kieron Smith, Boy (Book)

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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Kieron Smith, Boy (Book)

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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Not Not While the Giro (Book)

James Kelman

ISBN:9781846970382

"Not Not While The Giro" is James Kelman's first major collection of short stories - originally published by Polygon in 1983. The reader follows the lives of young men...more details
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Not Not While The Giro (Book)

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
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The Busconductor Hines (Book)

James Kelman

ISBN:9781846970399

Living in a bedsit, just coping with the boredom of being a busconductor, and fully aware that his plans to emigrate to Australia won't come to anything...more details
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The Good Times (Book)

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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The Good Times (Book)

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  Pages:256

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Translated Accounts (Book)

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
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Translated Accounts (Book)

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
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Translated Accounts (Book)

James Kelman

ISBN:9780385495820

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Translated Accounts (Book)

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  Pages:304

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You Have to Be Careful in the Land of the Free (Book)

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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