Shortlisted for Saltire Fiction Book of the Year 2016
'A celebration of what it is to be human' Spectator
Murdo, a teenager obsessed with music, dreams of a life beyond home. His recently widowed dad, Tom, stumbles towards the future, terrified of losing what remains of his family. Both are in search of something as they set out from rural Scotland on a journey to the American South.
'A true original ... A real artist' -- Irvine Welsh, Guardian
'The greatest British novelist of our time' Sunday Herald
'Probably the most influential novelist of the post-war period' The Times
'A writer of world stature, a 21st century Modern' Scotsman
'The greatest living British novelist' Amit Chaudhuri
Author
About James Kelman
James Kelman was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1989 with A Disaffection, which also won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction. He went on to win the Booker Prize five years later with How Late it Was, How Late, before being shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize in 2009 and 2011.
