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This Is Not About Me – Janice Galloway

Posted in Edinburgh Book Festival 2008, galloway janice on August 31, 2008 | 2 Comments »

 
ISBN: 978-1847080615
Published by Granta
UK Publication Date 1.9.2008  (Pre-released at the Edinburgh Book Festival 23.08.2008)
It’s been too long since the release of Clara.  (6 years!)  So, when news filtered through that Janice Galloway was releasing something new at the EBF, it was a foregone conclusion that I would be there, would purchase it and that everything could go [...]

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Words 2007 / The Trick Is To Keep Breathing / Foreign Parts / Janice Galloway

Posted in galloway janice, prizewinners, scottish literature on October 8, 2007 | 1 Comment »

I’m feeling a little bit spoilt here in Lanarkshire – 40 miles from the Edinburgh Book Festival (August) , 20 miles from Glasgow’s AyeWrite festival (February) and now only 10 miles from North Lanarkshire Libraries Words Festival (October). It’s wonderful – I suppose it goes some way towards making up for the weather!
Anyway, last Monday night saw the [...]

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Focus on Scottish Literature

Posted in atkinson kate, book group reads, galloway janice, gibbon louis grassic, gray alasdair, greig andrew, mccall smith alexander, meek james, prizewinners, scottish literature, smith ali on September 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

My face-2-face reading group celebrates its 3rd anniversary in October and so this is a good time to review the impact it has had on my reading.
At one stage the 20 Scots decided that it was about time that I, the Sassenach in their midst, became educated in the ways of Scottish Literature. So we [...]

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Clara – Janice Galloway

Posted in book group reads, desert island books, galloway janice, historical fiction, scottish literature on June 23, 2007 | 3 Comments »

There aren’t enough adjectives to describe this glorious novel. However, here are 3 for starters: intelligent, informative, ingenious.

It is the story of the love, courtship and marriage of Robert and Clara Schumann. Clara, a young naive girl, musical prodigy in her own right, falls for Robert Schumann. Her bullying father opposes the union but, this is the [...]

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