Comprising stories from her debut collection, Blood, and the critically acclaimed Where You Find It, this collection presents some of the best known works by one of Scotland’s “most gifted and original writers” (Times Literary Supplement).Each sharply observed, savagely accurate and brilliantly realized, the stories offer revelatory glimpses into everyday lives — from an unwelcome act of kindness at a bus stop, an evening walk across a London bridge, a welcome but uncomfortable summer break, to a brutal lesson in trust. Here also are unflinching portrayals of relationships: the struggle to love against the odds, the overpowering yearning to communicate, and the extraordinary epiphanies where the world falls away leaving only the lovers.These are painstakingly crafted stories: engaging, funny and terrifyingly true, from a master of the form.

Collected Stories

Literature & Fiction

Galloway, Janice

Short Stories & Anthologies

Vintage Books

Clara

Contemporary

Vintage

From the Scottish author of Foreign Parts comes a collection of short stories that gazes unflinchingly at the struggle to love against the odds.

WHERE YOU FIND IT

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Pets & Animal Care

CAPE.

A collection of short stories in which the main subject is fear. Violence, both random and institutionalized, is seen as a constant threat, and a component of a society which seems designed to intimidate or exclude women.

Blood

Random House Value Publishing

A collection of stories offers a shockingly vivid picture of grimy Glasgow streets, poor Scottish villages, and women and girls confronted by life's threatening realities

Random House]

With "humanism, generosity, and a passionate, beating heart" (The Times, London), Janice Galloway's Clara reignites, from between the lines of history, the great love of Robert and Clara Schumann. In her lifetime, Clara was a celebrated concert pianist and composer, editor and teacher, friend of Brahms -- as well as mother of the eight Schumann children and caretaker of her husband through a series of crippling mental illnesses. In its luminous integrity the novel brings Clara Schumann to life as a woman of genius. Galloway is at once a meticulous researcher of her subjects' remarkable and highly dramatic artistic careers and a virtuoso storyteller whose imagination and empathy lead her to that place off limits to history and biography -- inside the human mind. Distilling the memories, poetry, and musical notes therein, she examines the ways artists divine patterns out of life's chaos. "Passion," writes Galloway of Clara's performance philosophy, "one might take for granted -- its control is the mechanism through which all else flows." Though music may have bent to Clara's will, love served her far more tragically. Dismissing the clichés of Great Art and rejecting the romantic conflation of Madness and Creativity, Clara boldly ventures that in a life marred by alienation and isolation, "Work alone endures."

Clara : A Novel

Genre Fiction

Simon&Schuster

A dramatic collection of stories by the author of Foreign Parts examines the many psychological facets of love, from the unstability of relationships to a hurtful or healing gesture, look, or word, and the uncontrollable desire to communicate. 15,000 first printing.

Where You Find It : Stories

British & Irish

With "some of the greatest words ever written on thwarted love since Romeo and Juliet" (The Times, London), Clara reignites, from between the lines of history, the great love of Robert and Clara Schumann. This impassioned novel gives voice to Clara Wieck Schumann, one of the most celebrated pianists of the nineteenth century, who today is best remembered not for her music but for her marriage. "How often you must purchase my songs with invisibility and silence, little Clara," says Robert, and, for Clara, the price of his love is dear. Shrouded in alternate layers of music and silence, the Schumann union was anything but a lullaby, marked by her valiant struggle for self-expression and his tortuous descent into madness. With Clara, a deeply moving fugue of love, solitude, and artistic creation, Janice Galloway "has taken a melodic line and scored it for an orchestra" (The New York Times Book Review).

Clara: A Novel

Trick is to Keep Breathing

Polygon

Scream, If You Want to Go Faster (New Writing Scotland)

Whyte, Hamish

Association for Scottish Literary Studies

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