Kelman James

If It Is Your Life (Book)

Kelman James

ISBN:9780241142424

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
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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
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A Chancer (Book)

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
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An Old Pub Near Angel (Book)

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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And The Judges Said (Book)

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
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And The Judges Said (Book)

James Kelman

ISBN:9780436275999

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
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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
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Burn (Book)

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
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Busted Scotch: Selected Stories (Book)

James Kelman

ISBN:9780393317770

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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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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Good Times (Book)

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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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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Hardie And Baird and Other Plays (Book)

James Kelman

ISBN:9780436232893

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How Late It Was How Late (Book)

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
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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
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How Late It Was, How Late (Book)

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
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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

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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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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Short Stories (Book)

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
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Some Recent Attacks (Book)

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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The Busconductor Hines (Book)

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
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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
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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
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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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Where I Was (Book)

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

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

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

James Kelman

ISBN:9780141014111

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

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