Stuart Kelly (literary critic)

Stuart Kelly
FRSL
Alma materUniversity of Oxford
OccupationsLiterary critic and author
EmployerThe Scotsman
Writing career
LanguageEnglish

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]

Kelly was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (FRSL) in 2026.[8]

Bibliography

  • The Book of Lost Books (2005)[9][10]
  • Scott-land: The Man Who Invented a Nation (2011)[11][12]
  • The Minister and the Murderer (2018) [13]

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. ↑ "Kelly, Stuart". Royal Society of Literature. 29 June 2026. Retrieved 14 July 2026.
  9. ↑ Queenan, Joe (30 April 2006). "Treasure Hunt". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 18 September 2016.
  10. ↑ Simon, Scott (10 June 2006). "Recovering Literature's 'Lost Books'". NPR. Retrieved 18 September 2016.
  11. ↑ 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.
  12. ↑ "Episode 1, Stuart Kelly - Scott-land: The Man Who Invented a Nation". Book of the Week. BBC Radio 4. Retrieved 18 September 2016.
  13. ↑ 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.


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