By Paul Shanks Journal of Irish and Scottish Studies James Kelman’s reputation as a writer rests on his nuanced rendering…
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Saying Dirty Things in Regional Accents, thanks to James Kelman
By Neil Campbell Salt January 20th, 2025 I first read James Kelman’s stories in the mid-nineties and, while I hugely…
Accolades for James Kelman’s All We Have Is The Story
All We Have Is The Story: Selected Interviews 1973-2022 selected A Best Non-fiction Books of 2024 by Product Magazine UK…
Scotland’s books of the year revealed as author James Kelman gets lifetime achievement award
By Brian Ferguson The Scotsman November 29th, 2024 James Kelman, the controversial Glasgow-born Booker Prize winner who has struggled to…
James Kelman and the ‘part of no-part’
By Sean Sheehan Prisma September 9th, 2024 James Kelman’s most recent novel, “God’s teeth and other phenomena”, was published last…
Keir Starmer’s favourite radical socialist
Political disaffection is key to James Kelman’s work By Boyd Tonkin Unheard July 18th, 2024 Modern politics is a business…
Challenging Capitalist Modernity IV: We Want Our World Back! Resist, Reclaim, and Rebuild
Booker Prize laureate James Kelman was the keynote speaker at the opening night of the conference “Challenging Capitalist Modernity IV:…
CITY LIGHTS LIVE! James Kelman in conversation with Alan Black
By City Lights July 9th, 2022 Booker Prize-winning novelist James Kelman in conversation with Alan Black discussing Kelman’s new novel…
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner with James Kelman
By Unburied Books October 31st, 2023 Author James Kelman joins us to discuss James Hogg’s The Private Memoirs and Confessions…
THE FIGHT TO NOT CONFORM: Kavan Stafford on James Kelman’s ‘God’s Teeth and Other Phenomena’
By Kevan Stafford The Glasgow Review of Books August 19th, 2023 Today, in a new essay for The Glasgow Review…