"Literary vandalism" and "frankly, crap" was the high praise for Kelman's only Booker Prize winning novel, about Sammy, a middle aged man coming to terms with his blindness. Copied to clipboard Kelman_James_How_Late_It_Was,_How_Late.mobi (513.22 KB) Scotland fiction mobi James Kelman
Image Mo said she was quirky - James Kelman Helen's on her way back from work when she sees a homeless man that reminds her of her long lost brother and sends her into a reverie. 24 hours…
Image Jude the obscure: Thomas Hardy The story of Jude Fawley, a young working-class man whose dreams of becoming a scholar are destroyed by class society.
Image Animal Farm, a fairy story - George Orwell Erroneously considered a damning of collectivism, Orwell's allegorical fantasy is a critique of the Bolshevist and Stalinist regimes set on a…
Image Ham on rye - Charles Bukowski Semi-autobiographical 'coming-of-age' novel, telling the story of a young man growing up in Los Angeles during the Great Depression.