That Was a Shiver, and Other Stories

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James Kelman. That Was a Shiver, and Other Stories

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James Kelman was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1989 with A Disaffection, which also won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction. He went on to win the Booker Prize five years later with How Late It Was, How Late, before being shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize in 2009 and 2011. Both Dirt Road and That Was a Shiver were shortlisted for the Saltire Fiction Book of the Year in 2016 and 2017.

Novels The Busconductor Hines A Chancer A Disaffection How Late It Was, How Late Translated Accounts You Have to Be Careful in the Land of the Free Kieron Smith, boy Mo said she was quirky Dirt Road

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Yeah. He put his hand to her shoulder again, massaging, gently, then stroking, stroking lightly, was aware of his breathing, now lying on his side in to her: she had turned her back to him but was not resisting his touch and he was aware too of her body, just her bum, the curve of her, the heat! coming from him too, and if he had closed in to her, only centimetres, god. He swallowed saliva.

Fiona murmured, You’re thinking about the blonde woman.

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