James Kelman

A Disaffection is a novel written by Scottish writer James Kelman, first published in 1989 by Secker and Warburg. Set in Glasgow, it is written in the Scottish dialect in a stream of consciousness style, centering round a 29-year-old schoolteacher named Patrick Doyle. The novel won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize …

A Chancer is a novel by the Scottish writer James Kelman published in 1985. This novel is the first to be written by Kelman, but it was published after The Busconductor Hines.