Capturing the joys, frustrations, injustices, excitements, revels, battles, games, uncertainties, questions, lies, discoveries and sheer wonder of boyhood, Kieron Smith, boy is a story of one boy and every boy.
James Kelman was born in Glasgow in 1946 and left school in 1961. He started writing at the age of twenty-one: ramblings, musings, sundry phantasmagoria, stories, whatever. His literary awards include the Cheltenham Prize for Literature (1987), James Tait Black Memorial Prize (1989) and the Booker Prize (1994).
