大象传媒

A review of the short story collection The Good Times from the Scottish author of the Booker Prize-winning How Late It Was, How Late. The critic Maya Jaggi talks about Kelman's use of his working-class Glaswegian background and language.

Also on the programme: the legacy of Russian writer Vladimir Dudintsev; Northern Irish writer, journalist and screenwriter Ronan Bennett on his novel The Catastrophist; Trinidad-born Canadian writer Andr茅 Alexis on his novel Childhood and are self-help books worth it?