James Kelman

How late it was, how late is a 1994 stream of consciousness novel written by Scottish writer James Kelman. The Glasgow-centred work is written in a working class Scottish dialect, and follows Sammy, a shoplifter and ex-convict.

A Disaffection is a novel written by Scottish writer James Kelman, first published in 1989 by Secker and Warburg. Set in Glasgow, it is written in the Scottish dialect in a stream of consciousness style, centering round a 29-year-old schoolteacher named Patrick Doyle. The novel won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize …

The Busconductor Hines is the first published novel of the Scottish writer James Kelman, published in 1984. This novel is the first to be published by Kelman, but it was written after A Chancer.

You Have to Be Careful in the Land of the Free is a novel by the Scottish writer James Kelman first published in 2004.

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, a world away from the close community of the tenements, Kieron struggles to find a …

Not Not While the Giro is a collection of short stories by the Scottish writer James Kelman first published in 1983.

A Chancer is a novel by the Scottish writer James Kelman published in 1985. This novel is the first to be written by Kelman, but it was published after The Busconductor Hines.

The Good Times is a collection of short stories by the Scottish writer James Kelman published in 1998.

Greyhound for Breakfast is a collection of short stories by the Scottish writer James Kelman first published in 1988. The collection was awarded the Cheltenham Prize for Literature in 1987.

Translated Accounts is a novel by the Scottish writer James Kelman published in 2001.