Primary
An Old Pub Near the Angel Puckerbrush Press (USA), 1973
Three Glasgow Writers (with Alex Hamilton and Tom Leonard) Molendinar Press, 1976
Short Tales from the Nightshift Print Studio Press, 1978
James Kelman (Writers-in-Brief) National Book League, 1980
Not Not While the Giro Polygon Press, 1983
The Busconductor Hines Polygon Press, 1984
A Chancer Polygon Press, 1985
Lean Tales (with Agnes Owens and Alasdair Gray) Jonathan Cape, 1985
Greyhound for Breakfast Secker & Warburg, 1987
A Disaffection Secker & Warburg, 1989
Hardie and Baird, and other plays Secker & Warburg, 1991
The Burn Secker & Warburg, 1991
Some Recent Attacks (essays) AK Press, 1992
How late it was, how late Secker & Warburg, 1994
Busted Scotch W. W. Norton (USA only), 1997
Seven Stories (audio cassette, read by James Kelman) Sound House-AK Audio, 1997
The Good Times Secker & Warburg, 1998
Translated Accounts Secker & Warburg, 2001
And the Judges Said ... (essays) Secker & Warburg, 2002
You Have To Be Careful in the Land of the Free Hamish Hamilton, 2004
Secondary
James Kelman edition : Number 57 : Chapman Magazine, Chapman 1989
‘Resisting Arrest: James Kelman’Cairns Craig in ‘The Scottish Novel Since the Seventies’ Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh 1993
Family and the Scottish working-class novel, 1984-1994 : a study of novels by Janice Galloway, Alasdair Gray, Robin Jenkins, James Kelman, A.L. Kennedy, William McIlvanney, Agnes Owens, Alan Spence and George Friel / Horst Prillinger. Frankfurt am Main ; Oxford : Peter Lang, c2000
A study of narrative form in the short fiction of James Kelman / John Douglas Macarthur Thesis, Glasgow University 2001
