Busted Scotch. Selected Stories.

First edition. 8vo. Pp. 262, [1]. Reddish brown backstrip titled in gilt over cream-coloured boards. Jacket design by Debra Morton Hoyt, featuring an illustration by Tom Kendrick and priced at $23.00 to front flap. No equivalent British edition exists.

A collection of 35 short stories, set in various working-class milieux in Scotland and England, and written over a 20-year period, they are selected and arranged for publication here by James Kelman himself. His 1994 Booker Prize-winner How Late It Was, How Late set off a storm of controversy, due to its 'raw' language. "Busted Scotch is filled with strong stories and the best of them are fiercely beautiful. [A] brilliant fictive universe." –Richard Burgin, New York Times Book Review