Jane Harris crafts compelling narratives that delve into the complexities of human connection and identity. Her distinctive prose captures the subtle nuances of everyday life, offering profound insights into the characters' inner worlds. Harris frequently explores themes of loss, memory, and the search for meaning amidst challenging circumstances, as her characters grapple with their pasts and strive to define their place in the world. Her work is celebrated for its emotional depth and literary artistry.
The invention of the Jacquard loom in eighteenth-century France paved the way for computing and revolutionary change. This title considers how computing has reinvented image, material and structural processes, highlighting newly advancing 2D, 3D and interactive output.
As she sits in her Bloomsbury home, with her two birds for company, elderly Harriet Baxter sets out to relate the story of her acquaintance, nearly four decades previously, with Ned Gillespie, a talented artist who never achieved the fame she maintains he deserved.Back in 1888, the young, art-loving, Harriet arrives in Glasgow at the time of the International Exhibition. After a chance encounter she befriends the Gillespie family and soon becomes a fixture in all of their lives. But when tragedy strikes - leading to a notorious criminal trial - the promise and certainties of this world all too rapidly disorientate into mystery and deception.Featuring a memorable cast of characters, infused with atmosphere and period detail, and shot through with wicked humour, Gillespie and I is a tour de force from one of the emerging names of British fiction.
Harris' rollicking yet delicate narrative pitch set the book apart ... [The Observations is] a true one-off. Joanna Briscoe Guardian
A darkly humorous and intriguing story of one woman's journey from a difficult past into an even more disturbing present.
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