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All We Have Is the Story - Selected Interviews (1973-2022) by James Kelman
$44.99 AUD
Category: Writing, Language & Reference | Series: Kelman Library
ALL WE HAVE IS THE STORY collects fifty years of interviews, both published and unpublished, revealing James Kelman s thinking on a breadth of topics from writing and literature to class and race to sports and philosophy.
Between Thought and Expression Lies a Lifetime: Why Ideas Matter by James Kelman, Noam Chomsky
$34.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
“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 relie ...Show more
Dirt Road by James Kelman
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'The truth is he didn't care how long he was going away. Forever would have suited him. It didn't matter it was America.' Murdo, a teenager obsessed with music, wishes for a life beyond the constraints of his Scottish island home and dreams of becoming his own man. Tom, battered by loss, stumbles backwa ...Show more
Dirt Road by James Kelman
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
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, terrified of losing what remains of his family. Both are in search of ...Show more
God's Teeth and Other Phenomena by James Kelman
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Kelman Library
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 w ...Show more
How Late It Was How Late by James Kelman
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE'A passionate, scintillating, brilliant song of a book'GuardianSammy'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 an ...Show more
How Late It Was How Late by James Kelman
$14.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 disappeared. Things aren't looking too good for Sammy and his probl ...Show more
Keep Moving and No Questions by James Kelman
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Kelman Library
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 and No Questions is a collection of the finest examples of ...Show more
Kieron Smith, Boy by James Kelman
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 Glasgow, a world away from the close community of the tenements, Kieron struggle ...Show more