Patrick Doyle, a Glasgow schoolteacher drowning in despair, can no longer control his students or his life and retreats into the world of corrugated cardboard pipes--a musical sanctuary of his own invention

A Disaffection (Vintage Classics)

Literature & Fiction

james-kelman

Contemporary

TRAFALGAR SQUARE +

LEAN TALES

Agnes Owens

Alasdair, Gray

Morag McAlpine

You Have to Be Careful in the Land of the Free

Gardners Books

If It Is Your Life

Hamish Hamilton

<p>Physical description: 53 p. ; 18 cm. Subject: Modern fiction.</p>

Where I Was

Panguin

Jeremiah Brown is 34, Scottish and an inveterate gambler. He's lived in the US for several years, drifting from job to job and woman to woman. Then he meets a young singer, has a daughter and things look up. But before long, Jeremiah's life slips back into its familiar pattern.

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'KIERON SMITH, BOY'

In Mo Said She Was Quirky James Kelman, the 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 it was more than that. Some things were important. You had to fight for them. Only Helen wasn't as strong as people thought. She tried to be but didn't always succeed. Nobody does, not all the time. Trust, love, relationships; parents, children, lovers; death, wealth and home. The ordinary stuff of life - but extraordinary too when you think about it. As Helen did, each waking hour, till that strangest of moments on the way home from work when this skinny down-at-heel guy crossed the road in front of her. Brian? Her long-lost brother? How could it be? But it was his shape, his very presence. Could it be? So begins Mo Said She Was Quirky - James Kelman's inspired and absorbing story of twenty-four hours in the life of a croupier - an ordinary young woman, as ordinary, as unique, as each and every one of us.  Praise for If it is your life: "Like Kelman's best work, it is tender and funny in a way that may surprise". (Daily Telegraph). "A collection by turns heart-breaking, profound and bitterly funny. It also amply demonstrates Kelman's skill in writing about women, his rich understanding of the psychological dance that goes on between couples and strangers". (Scottish Herald). "Kelman portrays his world with bleakly beautiful honesty". (The Times). James Kelman was born in Glasgow, Scotland. His story collections include Greyhound for Breakfast, The Burn, The Good Times and most recently If it is your life. His novel How late it was, how late won the 1994 Booker Prize. Other novels include Translated Accounts, You Have to be Careful in the Land of the Free and Kieron Smith, boy. In 2009 and 2011 James Kelman was shortlisted for the MAN Booker International Prize. Mo said she was quirky was the Saltire Society Book of the Year for 2012.

Mo Said She Was Quirky

Hamish Hamilton Ltd.

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.

A Chancer

Picador

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A Disaffection

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A Disaffection (Vintage Classics)

LEAN TALES

You Have to Be Careful in the Land of the Free

If It Is Your Life

Where I Was

You Have to Be Careful in the Land of the Free

'KIERON SMITH, BOY'

Mo Said She Was Quirky

A Chancer

A Disaffection