The Trick Is to Keep Breathing
By: Janice Galloway
3.84
Format: 236 pages, Paperback
Janice Galloway's inventive first novel is about the breakdown of a 27-year-old drama teacher named…
Want to Read"It's asking for trouble to listen to music alone."-Janice Galloway, The Trick Is to Keep Breathing
"You would think there's a natural limit to tears: only so much the body can give at one sitting before it runs dry."-Janice Galloway, The Trick Is to Keep Breathing
"No matter how dark the room gets I can always see. It looks emptier when I put the lights on so I don't do it if I can help it. Brightness disagrees with me: it hurts my eyes, wastes electricity and encourages moths, all sorts of things. I sit in the dark for a number of reasons."-Janice Galloway, The Trick Is to Keep Breathing
"I already read everything. I read poems and plays and novels and newspapers and comic books and magazines. I read tins in supermarkets and leaflets that come through the door, unsolicited mail. None of it lasts long and it doesn't give me answers. Reading too fast is not soothing."-Janice Galloway, The Trick Is to Keep Breathing
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1. The House with the Green Shutters
By: George Douglas Brown
3.51
Format: 247 pages, Paperback
Published in 1901 and described by George Douglas Brown as a brutal and bloody work , this bestsell… read more
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2. Lanark
By: Alasdair Gray , Janice Galloway
4.10
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
This work, originally published in 1981, has been hailed as the most influential Scottish novel of … read more
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- british literature
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"Glasgow is a magnificent city,"-Alasdair Gray, Lanark
"The body of the last Flealouse contained the flesh of everything that had ever lived. It was content."-Alasdair Gray, Lanark
"Glasgow is still full of churches built in the last century. Half of them have been turned into warehouses."-Alasdair Gray, Lanark
"You suffer from the oldest delusion in politics. You think you can change the world by talking to a leader. Leaders are the effects, not the causes of changes."-Alasdair Gray, Lanark
3. Men Should Weep
By: Ena Lamont Stewart
3.24
Format: None pages, Paperback
Written for Glasgow Unity in 1947, this extraordinarily moving play of women surviving in the east … read more
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4. The Trick Is to Keep Breathing
By: Janice Galloway
3.84
Format: 236 pages, Paperback
Janice Galloway's inventive first novel is about the breakdown of a 27-year-old drama teacher named… read more
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- literary fiction
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- 20th century
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"It's asking for trouble to listen to music alone."-Janice Galloway, The Trick Is to Keep Breathing
"You would think there's a natural limit to tears: only so much the body can give at one sitting before it runs dry."-Janice Galloway, The Trick Is to Keep Breathing
"No matter how dark the room gets I can always see. It looks emptier when I put the lights on so I don't do it if I can help it. Brightness disagrees with me: it hurts my eyes, wastes electricity and …"-Janice Galloway, The Trick Is to Keep Breathing
"I already read everything. I read poems and plays and novels and newspapers and comic books and magazines. I read tins in supermarkets and leaflets that come through the door, unsolicited mail. None …"-Janice Galloway, The Trick Is to Keep Breathing
5. The Driver's Seat
By: John Lanchester , Muriel Spark
3.61
Format: 103 pages, Paperback
Alternative cover edition of ISBN 0141188340 Lise is thin, neither good-looking nor bad-looking.… read more
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"Sonra bu kumaş leke de tutmaz "diyor tezgahtar kız."-John Lanchester, The Driver's Seat
"It's a whydunnit in q-sharp major and it has a message: never talk to the sort of girls that you wouldn't leave lying about in your drawing-room for the servants to pick up."-John Lanchester, The Driver's Seat
6. The Silver Darlings
By: Neil M. Gunn
3.99
Format: 208 pages,
The tale of lives won from a cruel sea and crueller landlords. The dawning of the herring fisheries… read more
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7. Morvern Callar
By: Alan Warner
3.31
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Morvern Callar, a low-paid employee in the local supermarket in a desolate and beautiful port town … read more
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8. Our Fathers
By: Andrew O'Hagan
3.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
First Canadian publication of the powerful debut novel from the author of Be Near Me. Finalist for … read more
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9. How Late it Was, How Late
By: James Kelman
3.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
One Sunday morning in Glasgow, shoplifting ex-con Sammy awakens in an alley, wearing another man's … read more
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10. Trumpet
By: Jackie Kay
3.87
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
In her starkly beautiful and wholly unexpected tale, Jackie Kay delves into the most intimate worki… read more
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11. The Changeling
By: Robin Jenkins
3.66
Format: None pages, Paperback
Thirteen-year-old Tom Curdie, the product of a Glasgow slum, is on probation for theft. His teacher… read more
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12. Venus as a Boy
By: None
3.85
Format: None pages, Paperback
Drinking late one night in an East End club, a writer is approached by Pascal, the friend of a man … read more
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13. The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
By: James Hogg , John Carey
3.88
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
James Hogg wrote about the supernatural powerfully and convincingly, especially in his best-known n… read more
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15. Girl Meets Boy
By: Ali Smith
3.99
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
Girl meets boy. It's a story as old as time. But what happens when an old story meets a brand new s… read more
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16. Poor Things
By: Alasdair Gray
3.94
Format: 318 pages, Paperback
One of Alasdair Gray's most brilliant creations, Poor Things is a postmodern revision of Frankenste… read more
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"Besides, a life without freedom to choose is not worth having."-Alasdair Gray, Poor Things
"She also said the wicked people needed love as much as good people and were much better at it."-Alasdair Gray, Poor Things
"Baxter knows a lot more than I do, I told her. Yes, said Baxter, but I will never tell people all of it."-Alasdair Gray, Poor Things
"You, dear reader, have now two accounts to choose between and there can be no doubt which is most probable."-Alasdair Gray, Poor Things
17. 1982, Janine
By: Alasdair Gray
3.53
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
1982, Janine is a liberal novel of the most satisfying kind. Set over the course of one night insid… read more
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18. Sunset Song (A Scots Quair, #1)
By: Lewis Grassic Gibbon
4.95
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Divided between her love of the land and the harshness of farming life, young Chris Guthrie finally… read more
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19. The Testament of Gideon Mack
By: James Robertson
3.64
Format: 211 pages,
The Testament of Gideon Mackis James Robertson's acclaimed novel exploring faith and belief. For Gi… read more
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20. Trainspotting
By: Irvine Welsh , None
3.87
Format: 334 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Ils sont quatre amis inseparables qui ont en commun une enfance, une ville, des voisins, le chomage… read more
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21. The Weatherhouse
By: Roderick Watson , Nan Shepherd
3.44
Format: 330 pages, Paperback
The women of the tiny town of Fetter-Rothnie have grown used to a life without men, and none more s… read more
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