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How Late It Was, How Late

James Kelman
Kieron Smith, boy

James Kelman

I had cousins at sea. One was in the Cadets. I was wanting to join. My maw did not want me to but my da said I could if I wanted, it was a good life and ye saved yer money, except if ye were daft and done silly things. He said it to me. I would just have to grow up first.

James Kelman’s triumph in Kieron Smith, boy is to bring us completely inside the head of a child and remind us what strange and beautiful things happen in there.

Here is the story of a boyhood in a large industrial city during a time of great social change. Kieron grows from age five to early adolescence amid the general trauma of everyday life—the death of a beloved grandparent, the move to a new home. A whole world is brilliantly realized: sectarian football matches; ferryboats on the river; the unfairness of being a younger brother; climbing drainpipes, trees, and roofs; dogs, cats, sex, and ghosts.

This is a powerful, often hilarious, startlingly direct evocation of childhood.
You Have to Be Careful in the Land of the Free

James Kelman

Jeremiah Brown, a Scottish immigrant in his early thirties, has lived in the United States for twelve years. He has moved as many times, from the east coast to the west coast and back again, all in the hope his luck would change. To add to his restlessness and indecision, he now has a nonrefundable ticket to Glasgow to visit his mother for the first time in seven years. The question is, will the visit help him get over the pain of separation from a woman he met and loved in New York and with whom he had a little girl, or will it make it worse? In this rich, funny, superbly crafted novel, Kelman has once again created a memorable character-compulsive, obsessive, self-doubting, beer-loving, and utterly engaging-and a singular portrait of an immigrant's America
Seven Stories (AK Press Audio)

James Kelman

Here, for the first time in any audio form, AK Press Audio is proud to present award-winning revolutionary Scots writer James Kelman reading from a selection of his finest stories. Seven stories are showcased here, including the legendary one minute "Acid" and the 42-minute "a wide runner." Also features "the same as here again," "Roofsliding," "Learning the Story," "The Witness," and "Are you drinking sir?"
JAMES KELMAN was the first of the "new" generation of Scottish working class writers, paving the way for the likes of Irvine Welsh. He has written numerous novels and collections of short stories, including “how late it was, how late,” which won the 1995 Booker Prize, amongst considerable controversy. His collection of essays Some Recent Attacks: Essays Cultural And Political is published by AK Press.
Busted Scotch: Selected Stories
An Old Pub Near the Angel

James Kelman
Lean Tales

James; Owens, Agnes; Gray, Alasdair Kelman
Greyhound for Breakfast

James Kelman
The Busconductor Hines

James Kelman

Living in a no-bedroomed tenement flat, coping with the cold and boredom of busconducting and the bloody-mindedness of Head Office, knowing that emigrating to Australia is only an impossible dream, Robert Hines finds life to be ‘a very perplexing kettle of coconuts’. The compensations are a wife and child, and a gloriously anarchic imagination.
The Busconductor Hines is a brilliantly executed, uncompromising slice of the Glasgow scene, a portrait of working-class life which is unheroic but humane.
The Good Times

James Kelman
A Disaffection

James Kelman
Some Recent Attacks

James Kelman

James Kelman is justly celebrated as a major European novelist, short story writer, and playwright. Yet crucially his "artistry, authenticity and a voice of singular power" (Independent) flow from being an engaged writer and a cultural and political activist. In this collection of essays, polemics, and talks, Kelman directs his linguistic craftsmanship and scathing humor at the racism, class bias, and elitism of the English literary scene, the Labour Party's establishment role, the treatment of asbestos victims, the media, and other political and cultural questions. Essays include "Artists and Value," "Art and Subsidy," "Some Recent Attacks on the Rights of the People," "A Brief Note on the War Being Waged Against the Victims of Asbestos," and "The Importance of Glasgow in My Work."
James Kelman lives and will probably die in Glasgow.
A Chancer

James Kelman
The Burn

James Kelman
Translated Accounts : A Novel

JAMES KELMAN

In Translated Accounts, the Booker Prize-winning author of How late it was, how late, offers us a harrowing glimpse into a realm where power is unchecked and liberties are few or nonexistent. Taking us into an unnamed territory that appears to be under military rule, Kelman creates a world that many know or have known, a world that may one day be thrust upon us, conjuring a grim awareness of the instability that lurks behind the veneer of order in any country. Filtering the dark visions of Franz Kafka through the verbal brilliance of Samuel Beckett, Kelman has written a novel that is often shocking, yet surprisingly poignant, and totally unforgettable.
East End Anthology
Here Lies

Lydia Davis, Charlotte Carter, Adrian Dannatt, Deborah Levy, James Kelman, A.L. Kennedy, ZZ Packer, George Saunders, Lynne Tillman, Lewis Warsh, Mac Wellman

Here Lies is an anthology of short stories about lying. The premise is that every story either features the telling of a lie or the presence of a liar.
Kelman, James (Writers in brief)

James Kelman
Kieron Smith, Boy. James Kelman

James Kelman
Novel

James Kelman