Praise for That Was A Shiver

“Brilliant … this collection shows a writer who is still at the top of his game, brimming with creativity, vitality and artistic integrity”—Irish Independent

“Like the best short story writers—James Joyce, Kafka, John Cheever, Alice Munro—he has reinvented the form.”—The Herald

“In his thought-provoking short story collection James Kelman demonstrates why he is one of the few authors who really matter.”—The Scotsman

 “The mixture of the precisely but surreally bureaucratic and the casually macabre is perfectly judged.”—Sunday Times

Praise for James Kelman:

“A true original . . . A real artist”—IRVINE WELSH

“Kelman brings alive a human consciousness like no other writer can”—ALAN WARNER

“[You Have to Be Careful in the Land of the Free] may be the best book we've had thus far about the political and social reverberations of 9/11 in this country.”—Dwight Garner, New York Times Book Review 

 “James Kelman possesses an astonishing voice . . . Read a page of Kelman and you can't help but laud his sheer virtuosity.”—Michael Dirda,  Washington Post Book World 

“Probably the most influential novelist of the postwar period.” —The Times

“One of the most influential writers of his generation.”—The Guardian