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Collected Stories published in the UK by Cape/Vintage. The stories from Blood and Where you find it reissued in one volume.
"The familiar, muscular writing that marks all Gallway's prose yanks straight out of the nerves of her subjects...Read 'No-one Kisses Like Derek', where the man in question's tongue ("like an engorged mollusc") is discussed by two girls like boys discussing Pele's ability to bend a 90 yard volley. Time to lie down, Dame Barbara." Richmond Review.
"A book that can be felt on your pulses. Galloway is a literary endoscopist: she gets beneath the surface of life and exposes the nerves...Writing has rarely been so visceral." The Independent.
" ... a salutary collection. It heightens and dignifies the human, and does it with writing that veers between the good and the simply superb"- Scotland on Sunday
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This is Not About Me published in the UK by Granta.
"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" The Observer
"One of the best, most moving, completely unsentimental, accounts of growing up that you will ever read" The Scotsman
"A model of how to write ... a book unlike any other, in which Galloway has captured what it means to start to become yourself" The Guardian
"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
"Honed down, chisel perfect" The Telegraph
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Headshook published in the UK by Scotsman, ed Stuart Kelly.
Commissioned stories from 24 contemporary Scottish writers, incluing Janice Galloway, James Kelman, Alison Kennedy, Jackie Kay, Alan Warner, James Robertson, Alan Spence, Alasdair Gray, Ali Smith and others.
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For A' That published in the UK by Dundee University Press.
A compilation of contemplations on the subject of Robert Burns by Janice Galloway, DBC Pierre (Author), Jacqueline Thomson Gavin Wallace, Kirsty Gunn and others.
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Clara published in the UK by Cape/Vintage; in USA by Simon and Schuster.
"Full of humanism, generosity, and a passionate, beating heart" The Times
"Superbly realized in fresh-breathed prose whichnever once turns stale with cliché, this is fiction so well-realised you wonder why biography even bothers. Behind it is a writer who seems not only to have mastered the trick of imagining her protagonists but - infinitely harder - of imagining their imagination as well." The Scotsman Buy:
The trick is to keep breathing published in the UK by Vintage; in the USA by Dalkey Archive Press.
"A contemporary Scottish classic" Scotland on Sunday
"An amazing first novel" Chicago Tribune
"Superbly rendered . . . . A woman with more problems than you, dreadfully well done."--Kirkus Buy:
Foreign Parts published in the UK by Vintage; in the USA by Dalkey Archive Press.
"Immaculately described, with the immediacy of an x-ray and all the urgency of poetry"--Penelope Mortimer, The Telegraph.
"Unsentimental, caustic, brilliantly observed and very funny .. a constrantly changing delight to read" Time Out, London.
"A novel that explores pressing issues with intelligent levity instead of didactic heaviness. Shout it from the rooftops: this novel is not just brainy, it's funny!"--Women's Review of Books. Buy:
Where you find it published in the UK by Cape/Vintage; in USA by Simon and Schuster.
"A book that can be felt on your pulses. Galloway is a literary endoscopist: she gets beneath the surface of life and exposes the nerves...Writing has rarely been so visceral." The Independent. Buy:
Blood published in the UK by Cape/Vintage; in USA by Random House.
"Writing that veers between the good and the simply superb"- Scotland on Sunday
"If blue-collar North America provided us with Dirty Realism, then Janice Galloway's fictive world is that of Dirty Surrealism...(stories) that walk with steady, nerve-cracking skill down a nightmare's edge. Blood is a virtuoso work". - New Statesman. Buy:
Boy Book See published by Mariscat Press.
A slim book of "pieces and poems", edited by Hamish Whyte.
Pipelines published by the Fruitmarket Gallery.
Text and photographs for the collaborative exhibition with Anne Bevan.
Chute published by Les Solaires Intempestifs, Paris.
A monologue commissioned by the Traverse Theatre Edinburgh, available only in French translation by Michel Desprats.
The Picador Book of Contemporary Scottish Fiction published by the Picador.
Distinctly the best compilation of contemporary Scottish work in years, with an insightful introduction by Peter Kravitz.