Award History
| Award | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|
| James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction | 2012 | Winner |
About This Book
Alan Warner's sixth novel is set in the Scottish Highlands in the 1970s and follows Simon Crimmons, a young man from a working-class family who takes a job as a railway signalman trainee. With quiet authority Warner charts Simon's coming-of-age, his sexual awakening, and the doomed social world of small-town Scotland on the cusp of Thatcherism. The novel won the James Tait Black Prize for Fiction in 2012.
About the Author
Alan Warner is a Scottish novelist born in Connel, Argyll in 1964. He studied at Glasgow Polytechnic and worked on railways before becoming a writer. His debut novel Morvern Callar (1995) was hailed as a landmark of new Scottish fiction and was adapted into a film directed by Lynne Ramsay in 2002. Read more →
