James Kelman - Böcker

"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 o...

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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 pu...

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James Kelman's inimitable voice brings the stories of lost men to light in these twenty one tales of down on their luck antiheroes who wander, drink, hatch plans, ponder existence, and survive in an unwelcoming and often comic world. Keep Moving a...

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Patrick Doyle is a twenty-nine-year-old teacher in an ordinary comprehensive school. Isolated, frustrated and increasingly bitter at the system he is employed to maintain, he begins his rebellion, fuelled by drink and his passionate, unrequited lo...

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Sammy's had a bad week - his wallet's gone, along with his new shoes, he's been arrested then beaten up by the police and thrown out on the street - and he's just gone blind. He remembers a row with his girlfriend, but she seems to have disappeare...

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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.

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These 35 short stories--most published in this country for the first time--bring to mind, "at various moments, such diverse masterpieces . . . as James Joyce's "Dubliners" . . . and the parables of Kafka" ("The Village Voi...

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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, badly beaten and, he slow...

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Patrick Doyle is a twenty-nine-year-old teacher in an ordinary comprehensive school. Isolated, frustrated and increasingly bitter at the system he is employed to maintain, he begins his rebellion, fuelled by drink and his passionate, unrequited lo...

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WINNER OF 1994 THE BOOKER PRIZE. Sammy''s had a bad week. Most of it''s just a blank space in his mind, and the bits that he can remember, he''d rather not. His wallet''s gone, along with his new shoes, he''s been arrested then beaten up by the po...

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WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE A passionate, scintillating, brilliant song of a book Guardian Sammy's had a bad week. Most of it's just a blank space in his mind, and the bits that he can remember, he'd rather not. His wallet's gon...

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"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 o...

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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 pu...

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Based on the incendiary and inspiring talks James Kelman gave between 1991 and 2018 in support of Kurdish resistance, The State is Your Enemy: Essays on Kurdish Liberation and Black Justice acts as a primer on the historical and current political ...

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James Kelman's inimitable voice brings the stories of lost men to light in these twenty one tales of down on their luck antiheroes who wander, drink, hatch plans, ponder existence, and survive in an unwelcoming and often comic world. Keep Moving a...

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Based on the incendiary and inspiring talks James Kelman gave between 1991 and 2018 in support of Kurdish resistance, The State is Your Enemy: Essays on Kurdish Liberation and Black Justice acts as a primer on the historical and current political ...

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Shortlisted for Saltire Fiction Book of the Year 2016 'A celebration of what it is to be human' Spectator Murdo, a teenager obsessed with music, dreams of a life beyond home. His recently widowed dad, Tom, stumbles towards the future, te...

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SHORTLISTED FOR SALTIRE FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR, 2017 LONGLISTED FOR THE EDGE HILL PRIZE, 2018 A local tries to sell his sister to a trucker as he passes through town; a couple put their children to bed and hear a loud scratching at the wall; a m...

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Rooted in autobiography, Grant's work covers a fifteen year period. It focuses on the part of Merseyside where he was brought up and still lives. There is little industry, work is often casual and infrequent and their are few guarantees for the fu...

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"e;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 you say, yes, stop, now I shall move on."e;This exhilarating collection of es...

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Novelist, playwright, essayist, and master of the short story. Artist and engaged working-class intellectual. A proud husband, father, and gran...

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Novelist, playwright, essayist, and master of the short story. Artist and engaged working-class intellectual. A proud husband, father, and gran...

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