Collected Stories
  • Published: 15 December 2009
  • ISBN: 9780099540397
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $29.99

Collected Stories

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A collection of some of the best known and most loved works by one of Scotland's 'most gifted and original writers' (Times Literary Supplement)

Comprising stories from her debut collection, Blood, and the critically acclaimed Where You Find It - this collection presents some of the best known and most loved works by one of Scotland's 'most gifted and original writers' (Times Literary Supplement).

Each sharply observed, savagely accurate and brilliantly realised - 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.
  • Published: 15 December 2009
  • ISBN: 9780099540397
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $29.99
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About the author

Janice Galloway

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. Her second novel, Foreign Parts, won the American Academy of Arts and Letters E. M. Forster Award while her third, Clara, about the tempestuous life of nineteenth-century pianist Clara Wieck Schumann, won the Saltire 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 Is Not About Me, was published by Granta in September 2008 to universal critical acclaim. She lives in Lanarkshire.

Also by Janice Galloway

Clara
Where You Find It
Foreign Parts
Blood
The Trick Is To Keep Breathing
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Praise for Collected Stories

A writer of passion and virtuosity

Scotland on Sunday

Spiky, bleak stories ... moving and poignant. Sometimes you have to read them twice

William Leith, Evening Standard

Her stories are suggestively musical examples of rich, Glaswegian gothic

Alfred Hickling, Guardian

Spikey, bleak stories you won't forget ... poignant stories, all of which stand immediate rereading

William Leith, Scotsman

Affectingly raw and full of surprises

Ophelia Field, Sunday Telegraph

Galloway can evoke a life, a relationship, just about the whole human condition, within ten brilliantly written pages

Daily Mail

Scottish writer Janie Galloway has a reputation for going where more polite writers fear to tread..this includes some of the author's most distinctive work...this original collection will wake up the most jaded palate.

Emma Hagestadt, The Independent

Galloway's ear for dialogue is astonishing, almost musical

Olivia Laing, The Observer

Beautifully crafted and true-to-life stories

The Times

Her compassion is compassion with bite, her beauty is beauty that stings, and her comfort always comes with a sense of loss. It doesn't make for an easy read, but as with the best medicine, it's good for you

Lesley McDowell, Independent on Sunday

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 testament to the sharp eye and shrewd brain of Janice Galloway, one of Scotland's finest writers

The Herald

At last, Galloway's stories are back in print in one collection...savagely accurate, engaging and funny, she is one of our great contemporary writers

Independent on Sunday