Sammy's had a bad week - his wallet's gone, along with his new shoes, he's been arrested then beaten up by the police and thrown out on the street - and he's just gone blind. He remembers a row with his girlfriend, but she seems to have disappeared. Things aren't looking too good for Sammy and his problems have hardly begun.

Tammas, a 20-year-old Glaswegian, is a loner and a compulsive gambler. Betting gives him as good a chance as any of discovering what he really seeks from life, since society offers him no prospect of a better alternative. James Kelman won the 1994 Booker Prize for How Late it Was, How Late .

Coping with the boredom of being a busconductor, and also aware that his plans to emigrate to Australia won't come to anything, Robert Hines is a young Glaswegian leading a drab life. There are compensations, however, in his wife and child, and his eccentric, anarchic imagination. Presenting this story, this novel provides a slice of Glasgow life.

Rejected by his brother and largely ignored by his parents, Kieron Smith finds comfort - and endless stories - in the home of his much-loved grandparents. But when his family move to a new housing scheme on the outskirts of Glasgow, a world away from the close community of the tenements, Kieron struggles to find a way to adapt to his new life.

Tammas is 20, a loner and a compulsive gambler. Unable to hold a job for long, his life revolves around Glasgow bars, home with his sister and brother-in-law, the dog track, betting shops, casinos and occasionally a day at the races.

Set among the tenements and bedsits of Glasgow, this title presents a collection of short stories which throw light on the exploits of young and old.

A collection of stories set in the tenements and cheap casinos of Glasgow, Manchester and London.

Rejected by his brother and largely ignored by his parents, Kieron Smith finds comfort - and endless stories - in the home of his much-loved grandparents. But when his family move to a new housing scheme on the outskirts of the city, a world away from the close community of the tenements, Kieron struggles to find a way to adapt to his new life.

Sammy's had a bad week - his wallet's gone, along with his new shoes, he's been arrested then beaten up by the police and thrown out on the street - and he's just gone blind. He remembers a row with his girlfriend, but she seems to have disappeared. Things aren't looking too good for Sammy and his problems have hardly begun.

Features twenty first-person narratives that portray ordinary people - men and boys facing uncomfortable truths, encountering betrayal or struggling to understand women and work.

A collection of essays in which the author deals with a wide range of issues literary, artistic, political and philosophical - Russian writers who influenced him, the lives of the Impressionists, Chomsky's key role in 20th-century thinking, the Caribbean Artists' Movement, and the struggling Scottish steel industry.

So when he nips out for a quick drink on the eve of returning to his native Scotland after twelve years in America, anything could happen. Anything at all. Just one quick drink to help him sleep but there's something about this town and this bar that reminds him of his ex.

A collection of short stories which follow the lives of young men, social misfits, whose lives are spent waiting - waiting for their next giro or menial job - in the pub, the dole office, the snooker table and the greyhound track.

Patrick Doyle is a 29-year-old teacher in an ordinary school. Disaffected, frustrated and increasingly bitter at the system he is employed to maintain, Patrick begins his rebellion, fuelled by drink and his passionate, unrequited love for a fellow teacher.

A collection of short stories by a master of paranoia and a prose stylist.

A brilliant and disturbing new novel from Booker-prize winner James Kelman.

A collection of photographs of the East Wirral area of Merseyside taken over 15 years. This is a region where people have traditionally taken casual work as and when it was available, with few guarantees for their future. These photographs are a response to the disaffection of this community.

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Set in an unnamed place that appears to be under military rule, this book comprises of various 'transcribed and/or translated' first-hand narratives of non-English speakers, reminiscent of accounts of incidents in Rwanda, Yugoslavia and even the Cultural Revolution in China.