Stuart Kelly (literary critic)

Stuart Kelly
Occupation	Literary critic and author
Language	English
Alma mater	University of Oxford
Employer	The Scotsman

Stuart Kelly is a Scottish critic and author. He is the literary editor of The Scotsman . ^[1]

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 ^[2] ) and The Minister and the Murderer (2018). Kelly writes for The Scotsman, Scotland On Sunday, The Guardian and The Times . In 2013 Kelly was a judge for the Man Booker Prize. ^{[3] [4]} In 2016/17 Kelly was president of The Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott Club. ^[5]

In October 2013, in an article that was published by The Mirror , Kelly claimed that 106 missing episodes of Doctor Who had been uncovered. ^[6] He claimed to have obtained this information from a friend, who told him the episodes were discovered in Ethiopia. As of 2025, no missing episodes have been found in Ethiopia. ^[7]

Bibliography

• The Book of Lost Books (2005) ^{[8] [9]}
• Scott-land: The Man Who Invented a Nation (2011) ^{[10] [11]}
• The Minister and the Murderer (2018) ^[12]

References

1. "Stuart Kelly". The Guardian . Archived from the original on 16 June 2023.
2. Flood, Alison (2011-04-15), "Biography dominates Samuel Johnson prize longlist", The Guardian.
3. The Man Booker Prize
4. Robinson, David (17 December 2012). "Scotsman's Stuart Kelly to join Booker Prize judges panel". The Scotsman.
5. "Stuart Kelly". The Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott Club. 2016. Retrieved 2 February 2020.
6. Watts, Halina (5 October 2013). "Over 100 long-lost Doctor Who episodes found by dedicated fans - in Ethiopia". The Mirror. Retrieved 15 January 2025.
7. "THE DESTRUCTION OF TIME: TIMELINE". THE DESTRUCTION OF TIME. Retrieved 22 January 2025.
8. Queenan, Joe (30 April 2006). "Treasure Hunt". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 18 September 2016.
9. Simon, Scott (10 June 2006). "Recovering Literature's 'Lost Books'". NPR. Retrieved 18 September 2016.
10. McVey, David (26 August 2010). "Scott-land: The Man Who Invented A Nation, By Stuart Kelly" . The Independent. Archived from the original on 25 May 2022. Retrieved 18 September 2016.
11. "Episode 1, Stuart Kelly - Scott-land: The Man Who Invented a Nation". Book of the Week . BBC Radio 4 . Retrieved 18 September 2016.
12. Morrison, Blake (25 January 2018). "The Minister and the Murderer by Stuart Kelly review – should a killer be allowed into the church?". The Guardian. Retrieved 15 August 2021.

External links

• Susan Haigh, "An interview with Stuart Kelly", Dundee Review of the Arts, 24 February 2014