Janice Galloway: a web archive  the official site for and about Janice Galloway's work, with essays, interview materials and articles from the author.
Bio Background Events Books Collaborations and Other work Bibliography Interviews Essays and Academic Free Classics! Links Agent and representation Mail this site		This is Not About Me paperback She deserves medals for it ... Every page has you tipping your hat, gazing into space at what language can help create... staggeringly well done, with not a lazy line or thought and it does make you, as I now hope Janice can herself do, smile - The Observer One of the best, most moving, yet completely unsentimental, accounts of growing up that you will ever read - The Scotsman A model of how to write ... It is a book unlike any other, in which Galloway has captured what it means to start to become yourself - The Guardian Her way of seeing has made her who she is, which is one of our finest contemporary writers, and this her most enjoyable, brave and telling book to date - Sunday Herald This is a dazzling book … Galloway is brilliant on the minute detail of childhood perception. She is also brave, funny, resilient and in spite of everything full of emotional generosity - Daily Mail Janice Galloway's fiercely moving book about her childhood in 1950s and 1960s Scotland is as far from a misery memoir as it's possible to imagine - Metro Blistering, terrifying, always moving - Independent on Sunday Sentences blazing with light ... a gorgeous draft of terror - The Observer As her subtle fiction has already demonstrated, the stories we tell and the stories we are can be very different things... sublime prose and fierce honesty set this book apart - The Telegraph
	Janice Galloway is one of Scotland’s best-known and most versatile authors. The author of The Trick is to keep Breathing, Blood, Foreign Parts, Where You Find It, Pipelines, Clara and Rosengarten, her work includes work includes novels, short stories, song cycles, plays, the opera libretto Monster and a broad range of collaborative texts with musicians and visual artists. News: This is not about Me has just won the non-fiction Scottish Mortgage Trust Book of the Year 2009. Presentation of the awards will be held at the Borders Book Festival, 19th June this year. Janice's Collected short stories scheduled for publication October 2009 from Cape/Vintage Books.