James Kelman: Your Stories are Your Own

Join lifelong literary radical James Kelman, whose commitment to the power and truth of 'ordinary' life - sometimes tragic, but always inspiringly tender and human - remains undimmed. Talking with us about his new collections of short fiction (The Story of the Stone) and selected interviews (All We Have is the Story), the Booker Prize-winner asks us to remember that language and the freedom to create belongs to us all - so, how might we use it?

Categories: Contemporary Fiction, Fiction, Scottish

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Brilliant Fiction

Hundreds of the world’s best fiction writers, including many of Scotland’s most exciting voices, and dozens of debut authors, will share their new and most notable works in the Brilliant Fiction strand. …

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