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How Late It Was How Late

Author: James Kelman

Publisher: National Geographic Books

Published: 2019-12-31

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 1529112702

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 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 disappeared; and he might have been trying to fix a bit of business up with an old mate, he's not too sure. Things aren't looking too good for Sammy and his problems have hardly begun.

Mo Said She Was Quirky

Author: James Kelman

Publisher: Other Press, LLC

Published: 2013-04-23

Total Pages: 323

ISBN-13: 1590516001

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James Kelman, the Man Booker Prize–winning author of How Late It Was, How Late, tells the story of Helen—a sister, a mother, a daughter—a very ordinary young woman. Her boyfriend said she was quirky but she is much more than that. Trust, love, relationships; parents, children, lovers; death, wealth, home: these are the ordinary parts of the everyday that become extraordinary when you think of them as Helen does, each waking hour. Mo Said She Was Quirky begins on Helen’s way home from work, with the strangest of moments when a skinny, down-at-heel man crosses the road in front of her and appears to be her lost brother. What follows is an inspired and absorbing story of twenty-four hours in the life of a young woman.

Dirt Road

Author: James Kelman

Publisher: Canongate Books

Published: 2016-07-14

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 1782118241

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Murdo, a teenager obsessed with music, dreams of a life beyond his Scottish island home. His dad Tom has recently lost his wife and stumbles towards the future, terrified of losing control of what remains of his family life Both are in search of something as they set out on an expedition into the American South. As they travel they encounter a new world and we discover whether the hopes of youth can conquer the fears of age. Dirt Road is a major novel exploring the brevity of life, the agonising demands of love and the lure of the open road. It is also a beautiful book about the power of music and all that it can offer.

Translated Accounts

Author: James Kelman

Publisher: Vintage Books USA

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 9780099422198

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This novel is set in an unnamed country that appears to be under military rule. The language used is an atypical English form, but akin to the basic translation that might appear within a department of an overseas foreign office.

A Disaffection

Author: James Kelman

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2012-03-31

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 1448104858

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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 love for a fellow teacher.

That was a Shiver

Author: James Kelman

Publisher: Canongate Books

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 307

ISBN-13: 9781786890900

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Intimate new stories from the Booker Prize-winning James Kelman, bringing 'alive a human consciousness like no other writer can'. A trucker passes through a town he used to know and a local tries to sell him his sister; a couple put their children to bed and hear a loud scratching at the wall; a Principal and his associate examine the dead body before them; a man looks into a mirror and reflects on becoming more like his father. Sparky, touching and brilliantly daring, these stories reveal profound human feeling in the ordinary and the everyday, and are a reminder of Kelman's exceptional talent.

A Chancer

Author: James Kelman

Publisher: Polygon

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781846970405

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Tammas is 20, a loner and a compulsive gambler. Unable to hold a job for long, his life revolves around Glasgow bars, living with his sister and brother-in-law, betting shops, and casinos. Sometimes Tammas wins, more often he loses. But gambling gives him as good a chance as any of discovering what he seeks from life since society offers no prospect of a more fulfilling alternative.

Bad English

Author: Rachael Gilmour

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2020-07-28

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 1526108860

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Bad English examines the impact of increasing language diversity in transforming contemporary literature in Britain, in the context of its contested language politics. Exploring a range of poetry and prose, it makes the case for literature as the preeminent medium to probe the terms and conditions of linguistic belonging.