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'Chilled-out' Kelman raises the temperature

Review: Forget rumours that James Kelman has mellowed, says Alan Taylor who heard him talk at the Edinburgh International Book Festival

James Kelman, 11.30am ***** Dan Cruickshank, 1.30pm *** Every now and then the Book Festival, where normally feathers remain studiedly unruffled, springs splendidly to abrasive life.