Best Selling Books by James Kelman

Fou de musique, Murdo, seize ans, quitte l''Écosse avec son père pour rendre visite à sa famille dans le sud des États-Unis, une façon de surmonter le deuil de sa mère et de sa sœur, emportées par un cancer à quelques années d''intervalle. Entre deux bus longue distance, il s''égare et tombe sur une répétition improvisée dans un jardin avec des musiciens de zydeco qui l''invitent à jouer avec eux en Louisiane. En attendant, Murdo se réfugie dans sa chambre au sous-sol, échafaude des plans sur des atlas remplis de noms nouveaux et cherche un moyen de rejoindre le grand festival. Avec son père, les relations sont difficiles, marquées par l''incompréhension et la maladresse, malgré tous leurs efforts et l''amour qu''ils se portent. Spécialiste des âmes d''écorchés, Kelman nous embarque ici dans la tête d''un adolescent banal et génial, anxieux et naïf, avec la juste distance et une incroyable tendresse. Un immense roman sur le deuil impossible et la musique qui sauve, et fait entrer la lumière.

All We Have is the Story collects fifty yearsof interviews, both published and unpublished, revealingJames Kelman''s thinking on a breadth of topics fromwriting and literature to class and race to sports andphilosophy.

James Kelmans großer, 1994 mit dem Booker Prize ausgezeichneter Roman liegt nun erstmals in deutscher Übersetzung vor. Spät war es, so spät erzählt die Geschichte eines Glasgower Kleinganoven, der erblindet und unfreiwillig in die Mühlen des Polizeiapparats gerät. Spät war es, so spät ist eine schwarze Komödie über das Leben, virtuos erzählt, schonungslos und ergreifend zugleich.

Booker Prize winner James Kelman''s new novel, Dirt Road, tells the story of a teenage boy who travels with his father from Scotland to Alabama to visit with relatives after the death of his mother. In the American South, he becomes swept up into the world of zydeco and blues. ""A powerful meditation on loss, life, death, and the bond between father and son. . . . Kelman has created a fully–realized, relatable voice that reveals a young man’s urgent need for connection in a time of grief." —Publishers Weekly (starred review) After his mother’s recent death, sixteen–year–old Murdo and his father travel from their home in rural Scotland to Alabama to be with his émigré uncle and American aunt. Stopping at a small town on their way from the airport, Murdo happens upon a family playing zydeco music and joins them, leaving with a gift of two CDs of Southern American songs. On this first visit to the States, Murdo notices racial tension, religious fundamentalism, the threat of severe weather, guns, and aggressive behavior, all unfamiliar to him. Yet his connection to the place strengthens by way of its musical culture. Murdo may be young but he is already a musician. While at their relatives’ home, the grieving father and son experience kindness and kinship but share few words of comfort with each other, Murdo losing himself in music and his reticent and protective dad in books. The aunt, “the very very best,” Murdo calls her, provides whatever solace he receives, until his father comes around in a scene of great emotional release. As James Wood has written of this brilliant writer’s previous work in The New Yorker, “The pleasure, as always in Kelman, is being allowed to inhabit mental meandering and half–finished thoughts, digressions and wayward jokes, so that we are present” with his characters. Dirt Road is a powerful story about the strength of family ties, the consolation of music, and one unforgettable journey from darkness to light.

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The traditional songs of Ireland have a haunting, emotionally charged atmosphere of their own, tinged as they are with a sense of heartfelt longing and loss. The three songs in this collection, Danny Boy, Roisin Dubh and Carrickfergus have been masterfully arranged by 2009 Emmy nominated British composer, Howard Goodall.

The majority of the 18 stories in A Lean Third have been substantially revised by the author, making these new versions of great interest to academics and fans alike. Of particular note is a 3000 word afterword, written especially for this edition. The author gives revealing insights into the background of many of the stories and his lifestyle at the time of writing. A fascinating and essential new edition.

Un desafecto plasma el mundo de Patrick Doyle, un profesor de secundaria de Glasgow próximo a la treintena, en cuadros que describen una semana de su vida en crisis. Pero la crisis de Patrick no es sólo la crisis de los treinta.

Robert Hines est un jeune employé de bus de Glasgow, il rêve de devenir conducteur mais aux yeux des inspecteurs de la compagnie, il est trop original, il a trop de mal à se plier aux règles, aux horaires. Confronté à un quotidien " désastreux et étrangement banal ", il n''y survit que grâce à son amour pour sa femme et son fils et une imagination magnifiquement anarchique. Dans ce roman drôle, intelligent et réellement original, James Kelman met en scène avec une verve et un humour sans complaisance le dur milieu ouvrier de Glasgow : la religion, le foot, l''alcool, les copains, la pesanteur aliénante des réunions enfumées... Il décrit une vie de travailleur, sans héroïsme, simplement humaine, en créant un personnage attachant et inoubliable.

Na zijn vrijlating uit de gevangenis wordt een Engelsman blind als gevolg van een incident met de politie, wat echter moeilijk te bewijzen is.

Appeal regarding change of use from shop to licensed betting office.