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Novelist, playwright, essayist, and master of the short story. Artist and engaged working-class intellectual, husband, father, and grandfather as well as committed revolutionary activist.From his first publication (a short story collection An Old Pub Near the Angel on a tiny American press) through his latest novel (God's Teeth and other Phenomena) and work with Noam Chomsky (Between Thought and Expression Lies a Lifetime—both published on a s...

Novelist, playwright, essayist, and master of the short story. Artist and engaged working-class intellectual, husband, father, and grandfather as well as committed revolutionary activist.From his first publication (a short story collection An Old Pub Near the Angel on a tiny American press) through his latest novel (God's Teeth and other Phenomena) and work with Noam Chomsky (Between Thought and Expression Lies a Lifetime—both published on a s...

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Jack Proctor, a celebrated older writer and curmudgeon, goes off to residency where he is to be an honored part of teaching and giving public readings, he soon finds the atmosphere of the literary world has changed since his last foray into the public sphere. Unknown to most, unable to work on his own writing, surrounded by a host of odd characters, would-be writers, antagonists, handlers, and members of the elite House of Art and Aesthetics, ...

James Kelman has been a legend in the literary world since the late 1980s. He received notoriety with the publication of How Late It Was How Late, which won the Booker Prize and caused a stir when some members of the committee protested the award because they believed the book had excessive profanity. Kelman writes fiction and non-fiction and is deeply involved in class politics, in global struggles for self-determination, and in fightin...

Incendiary and heartrending, the sixteen essays in The State Is the Enemy lay bare government brutality against the working class, immigrants, asylum-seekers, ethnic minorities, and all who are deemed of ?a lower order.? Drawing parallels between atrocities committed against the Kurds by the Turkish State, and the racist police brutality, and government sanctioned murders in the UK, James Kelman shatters the myth of Western exceptionalis...

James Kelman has been a legend in the literary world since the late 1980s. He received notoriety with the publication of How Late It Was How Late, which won the Booker Prize and caused a stir when some members of the committee protested the award because they believed the book had excessive profanity. Kelman writes fiction and non-fiction and is deeply involved in class politics, in global struggles for self-determination, and in fighting what...

Incendiary and heartrending, the sixteen essays in The State Is the Enemy lay bare government brutality against the working class, immigrants, asylum-seekers, ethnic minorities, and all who are deemed of ?a lower order.? Drawing parallels between atrocities committed against the Kurds by the Turkish State, and the racist police brutality, and government sanctioned murders in the UK, James Kelman shatters the myth of Western exceptionalis...

Jack Proctor, a celebrated older writer and curmudgeon, goes off to residency where he is to be an honored part of teaching and giving public readings, he soon finds the atmosphere of the literary world has changed since his last foray into the public sphere. Unknown to most, unable to work on his own writing, surrounded by a host of odd characters, would-be writers, antagonists, handlers, and members of the elite House of Art and Aesthetics, ...

The world is full of information. What do we do when we get the information, when we have digested the information, what do we do then? Is there a point where ye say, yes, stop, now I shall move on." James Kelman here offers something of why a book such of this is in front of the public. The State relies on our suffocation, that we cannot hope to learn "the truth." But whether we can or not is beside "the point." Finally, there is no "point."...

The world is full of information. What do we do when we get the information, when we have digested the information, what do we do then? Is there a point where ye say, yes, stop, now I shall move on." James Kelman here offers something of why a book such of this is in front of the public. The State relies on our suffocation, that we cannot hope to learn "the truth." But whether we can or not is beside "the point." Finally, there is no "point." ...

WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE `A passionate, scintillating, brilliant song of a book'Guardian Sammy's had a bad week. and he might have been trying to fix a bit of business up with an old mate, he's not too sure.

James Kelman was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1989 with A Disaffection, which also won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction. He went on to win the Booker Prize five years later with How Late It Was, How Late, before being shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize in 2009 and 2011. Both Dirt Road and That Was a Shiver were shortlisted for the Saltire Fiction Book of the Year in 2016 and 2017.

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, the dog track, betting shops, casinos and occasionally a day at the races.

Confronts the issues of language, class, politics, gender and age.

A first collection of plays by James Kelman, whose novel "A Disaffection" won the 1989 James Tait Black Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. The plays provide evidence of Kelman's linguistic craftsmanship, ironic humour and ear for dialogue.

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A new collection of short stories from the acclaimed Scottish author, who won the Booker Prize in 1994 with "How Late It Was, How Late". His most recent novel, "Dirt Road", was shortlisted for the Saltire Fiction Book of the Year.