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Stuart Kelly

Born

in The Borders, Scotland

January 01, 1972

Genre

Nonfiction, Books About Books

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Stuart Kelly is literary editor at Scotland on Sunday and a freelance critic and writer. He was raised in the Scottish Borders and studied English at Balliol College, Oxford, gaining a first class degree and a Master of Studies.

His works include The Book of Lost Books: an Incomplete Guide to All the Books You'll Never Read (2005), Scott-Land: The Man Who Invented a Nation (2010), which was longlisted for the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, and The Minister and the Murderer (2018).

Kelly writes for The Scotsman, Scotland on Sunday, The Guardian and The Times. In 2016/17 he was president of the Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott Club. ...more

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Average rating: 3.55 · 1,308 ratings · 179 reviews · 15 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Thirty-nine Steps by John Buchan, Stuart Kelly (Illustrations) 3.59 avg rating — 45,423 ratings — published 1915 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Lady of the Lake by Walter Scott, Stuart Kelly (Editor) 3.86 avg rating — 1,541 ratings — published 1810 — 463 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Book of Lost Books: An Incomplete History of All the Great Books You'll Never Read 3.47 avg rating — 849 ratings — published 2005 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Gap in the Curtain by John Buchan, Stuart Kelly (Introduction) 3.59 avg rating — 296 ratings — published 1932 — 209 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Highland Widow by Walter Scott, Stuart Kelly (Foreword) 3.33 avg rating — 145 ratings — published 1827 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Scott-land: The Man Who Invented a Nation 3.45 avg rating — 60 ratings — published 2010 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Decadent Handbook: For the Modern Libertine by Rowan Pelling (Editor), James Doyle, Amelia Hodson 3.57 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 2007 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Minister and the Murderer: A Book of Aftermaths 3.73 avg rating — 30 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Demonology 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2003 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shadow Language it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2008 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Coelho is, of course, entitled to his dumb opinion, just as I am entitled to think Coelho's work is a nauseous broth of egomania and snake-oil mysticism with slightly less intellect, empathy and verbal dexterity than the week-old camembert I threw out yesterday.”
― Stuart Kelly The Guardian Books Blog 8 8 12

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“A book is a little thing that is bigger on the inside, and makes the reader bigger inside as well, a Tardis of ink and glue and paper and words.”
― Stuart Kelly

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“Just between Melrose and Bemersyde is a lovely panorama, taking in an oxbow of the Tweed and a fine aspect of the Eildon Hills, which has become known as 'Scott's View', supposedly because the horses stopped there during the funeral cortege. As we have seen, after his death, Scott is over-written onto the places he described. Scott-land is a palimpsest of Scotland and Scott's works.”
― Stuart Kelly, Scott-land: The Man Who Invented a Nation

tags: eildon, panorama, river-tweed, scotland, scottish-borders, walter-scott

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