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Clara by Janice Galloway
Category: Fiction
This is a fictional but meticulously researched account of Clara Schumann, the celebrated 19th Century pianist and composer who dedicated her life to her husband Robert.
Clara by Janice Galloway
Category: Fiction
Based on the life of Clara Schumann, this novel considers the place of love in a life of increasing isolation and alienation. Clara, herself a celebrated pianist, composer and teacher, was the wife of Robert Schumann, and cared for him through a series of crippling mental illnesses.
Jellyfish by Janice Galloway
Category: Fiction
Long-listed for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award Sex and Love and Parenthood In this sparkling and powerful new collection, Janice Galloway takes on David Lodge's assertion - 'Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children; life's the other way round’ and scen ...Show more
Poor Things by Alasdair Gray; Janice Galloway (Introduction by)
Category: Fiction | Series: British Literature Ser.
"The greatest Scottish novelist since Sir Walter Scott." Anthony Burgess
The Complete Short Stories of Muriel Spark by Muriel Spark; Janice Galloway (Introduction by)
Category: Short Stories | Series: Canons Ser.
From the cruel irony of 'A member of the Family' to the fateful echoes of 'The Go-Away Bird' and the unexpectedly sinister 'The Girl I Left Behind Me', in settings that range from South Africa to the Portobello Road, Muriel Spark probes the idiosyncrasies that lurk beneath the veneer of human respectabi ...Show more
The Trick Is To Keep Breathing by Janice Galloway
Category: Fiction
Janice Galloway's inventive first novel is about the breakdown of a 27 year old drama teacher named Joy Stone. The problems of everyday living accumulate and begin to torture Joy, who blames her problems not on her work or on the accidental drowning of her illicit lover, but on herself. While painful a ...Show more
The Trick is to Keep Breathing: (Scottish Classics) by Janice Galloway
Category: Fiction
From the corner of a darkened room Joy Stone watches herself. Memories of deaths - her married lover and her mother - re-surface and boil over. Life has become all about finding the trick to keep going. Told with shattering clarity and wry wit, this is a Scottish classic fit for our time.
This is Not About Me by Janice Galloway
Category: Biography
From her earliest years with a boozy, accident-prone father and a reluctantly pragmatic mother Janice Galloway's grew up as a watcher - careful and vigilant. Then her parents' marriage broke up and mother and daughter moved to an attic above a doctor's surgery. When her big sister Cora returned home, wi ...Show more
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