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I remember reading a story by Janice Galloway for the first time; its urgency of voice, that certainty of expression, I wondered why I hadn't heard of her before; then discovered that she was altogether new to writing. She really is a fine writer.

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by. Janice Galloway (Author) as one of Scotland's best young writers' Sunday Telegraph. There is ample proof in Blood of Galloway's unassailable talent. Marvellously funny and beautifully paced' Glasgow Herald. Janice Galloway's first novel, The Trick is to Keep Breathing, now widely regarded as a Scottish contemporary classic, was published in 1990 and won the MIND/Allen Lane Book of the Year.

Janice Galloway asked to meet at the Mitchell, Glasgow's impressive public library. It's a characteristic little story for Galloway: a kind of anti-epiphany. In a moment of misguided sentimentality, I'd assumed the library was a place of treasured safety and familiarity for her – after all, in her new volume of memoirs, All Made Up, she records libraries as the sole bright spot of her university career: "I hid in the library more often than not, reading the starts of books to find which ones spoke. A lesser writer might have been tempted to render the meeting as a manufactured closure.

Janice Galloway (born 1955 in Saltcoats, Scotland) is a writer of novels, short stories, prose-poetry, non-fiction and libretti. She is the second daughter of James Galloway and Janet Clark McBride

Janice Galloway (born 1955 in Saltcoats, Scotland) is a writer of novels, short stories, prose-poetry, non-fiction and libretti. She is the second daughter of James Galloway and Janet Clark McBride. Her parents separated when she was four and her father died when she was six. Her sister Nora, sixteen years older, died in 2000 from smoking-related illness

Janice Galloway is a writer of novels, short stories, prose-poetry, non-fiction and libretti. Posts About Janice Galloway.

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Award-winning writer Janice Galloway on her novel The Trick Is to Keep Breathing. Through the wit and irony that helped gain her international acclaim, Galloway crafts a picture of modern life and depression. Yet even as she sees her family and friends metamorphose into suspicious characters, Galloway's protagonist and the reader find the trick in living rests with the simplest things. Photo: Janice Galloway (left) and Harriett Gilbert.

Galloway writes about a sunless world of grimy streets, drunken men, and brutalized women. Many of the pieces are little more than brief sketches of a mood, place, or character; others resemble scenes from a play. All are relentlessly downbeat, even macabre. A story collection from Scottish writer Galloway-reflecting a typically bleak late-20th-century British landscape and informing ethos-makes its American debut. Galloway writes about a sunless world of grimy streets, drunken men, and brutalized women.

BLOOD is a virtuoso work: the writing sinewy and beautiful. the integrity of vision coruscating; the whole driven by the author's restless experimentation with form. And at least two stories, 'Blood' itself and 'Fearless', will certainly end up in anthologies: not Best Scottish Writers, or Best Women Writers, but quite simply, Best' New Statesman and Society

Janice Galloway’s first novel, The Trick is to Keep Breathing (1989), now widely regarded as a Scottish contemporary classic, was published in 1990 and won the MIND Book of the Year/Allen Lane Award.

Janice Galloway’s first novel, The Trick is to Keep Breathing (1989), now widely regarded as a Scottish contemporary classic, was published in 1990 and won the MIND Book of the Year/Allen Lane Award. Her second novel, Foreign Parts (1994), won the E. M. Forster Award while her third, Clara (2002), about the tempestuous life of 19th-century pianist Clara Wieck Schumann, won the Saltire Society Scottish Book of the Year Award in 2002. Collaborative texts include an opera with Sally Beamish and three cross-discipline works with Anne Bevan, the Orcadian sculptor. Her 'anti-memoir', This.