James Kelman is the author of several works of fiction, including How late it was, how late, which won the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1994. His most recent novel is Kieron Smith, Boy.
‘I had been living abroad for twelve years and I was gaun hame, maybe forever, maybe a month.‘
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