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James Kelman
James Kelman was born in Glasgow in 1946. After leaving school at 15 he worked in the printing industry and as a bus driver. In 1971 he attended creative writing night classes and in 1973 an American company published his first collection of short stories, An Old Pub Near The Angel. Greyhound for Breakfast won the 1987 Cheltenham Prize; A Disaffection won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize; How Late It Was, How Late won the 1994 Booker Prize amidst a storm of controversy. He has also written many plays for stage and radio. He lives in Glasgow with his wife and family.Picture by Murdo MacLeod.
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And the Judges Said...
ISBN: 9781846970528
Category: Essays, Fiction
Author: James Kelman
Publication Date: July 2008
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A collection of captivating essays in which Kelman discusses a wide range of issues connected to his views about the world, and the people and events that have influenced his writing.
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Burn, The
ISBN: 9781846970535
Category: Fiction
Author: James Kelman
Publication Date: July 2009
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An extraordinary collection of short stories by a master of paranoia and an unsurpassed prose stylist.
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An extraordinary collection of short stories by a master of paranoia and an unsurpassed prose stylist.
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Busconductor Hines, The
ISBN: 9781846970399
Category: Literature, Fiction
Author: James Kelman
Publication Date: August 2007
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James Kelman provides a brilliantly executed, uncompromising slice of Glasgow life – an intelligent, funny and humane novel. First published by Polygon in 1984.
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Chancer, A
ISBN: 9781846970405
Category: Literature, Fiction
Author: James Kelman
Publication Date: August 2007
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Polygon relaunches James Kelman’s backlist with four classic titles – Not Not While The Giro, The Busconductor Hines, A Chancer and his very first short story collection, An Old Pub Near The Angel in 2007. Each book features a new afterword in which the mature author reflects on his work and its development.
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Good Times, The
ISBN: 9781846970559
Category: Fiction
Author: James Kelman
Publication Date: July 2009
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Features twenty first-person narratives that portray ordinary people - men and boys facing uncomfortable truths, encountering betrayal or struggling to understand women and work.
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Features twenty first-person narratives that portray ordinary people - men and boys facing uncomfortable truths, encountering betrayal or struggling to understand women and work.
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Greyhound for Breakfast
ISBN: 9781846970542
Category: Short Stories, Fiction
Author: James Kelman
Publication Date: July 2008
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A brilliant collection of stories set in the tenements and cheap casinos of Glasgow, Manchester and London.
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Not Not While the Giro
ISBN: 9781846970382
Category: Literature, Fiction
Author: James Kelman
Publication Date: August 2007
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This collection, written with irony and great tenderness, confirmed James Kelman’s status as one of the most significant writers in the UK, and remains as powerful, relevant and truthful as it was in the early 1980s.
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Old Pub Near the Angel, An
ISBN: 9781846970375
Category: Literature, Fiction
Author: James Kelman
Publication Date: August 2007
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Set among the tenements and bedsits of Glasgow, James Kelman’s first collection of short stories shine a light on the exploits of young and old.
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Selected Stories (Kelman)
ISBN: 9781841951591
Category: Fiction
Author: James Kelman
Publication Date: June 2008
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James Kelman’s oblique, wry and open-ended short stories reveal him to be a master of the form and this selection offers some of his best work.
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James Kelman’s oblique, wry and open-ended short stories reveal him to be a master of the form and this selection offers some of his best work.
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Translated Accounts
ISBN: 9781846970566
Category: Fiction
Author: James Kelman
Publication Date: July 2009
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Set in an unnamed place that appears to be under military rule, this book comprises of various 'transcribed and/or translated' first-hand narratives of non-English speakers, reminiscent of accounts of incidents in Rwanda, Yugoslavia and even the Cultural Revolution in China.
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Set in an unnamed place that appears to be under military rule, this book comprises of various 'transcribed and/or translated' first-hand narratives of non-English speakers, reminiscent of accounts of incidents in Rwanda, Yugoslavia and even the Cultural Revolution in China.
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