New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1989.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in Glasgow, Kelman's territory, especially in its harsher, poorer areas where despair and unhappiness permeate the lives of his characters. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction in 1989. 357 pp. ISBN: 0-374-140243.