Aye Write! Agnes Owens & Laura Hird
Mitchell Library
Glasgow
6pm
£7/£6
Agnes Owens is known for her novels and her short stories including Gentlemen of the West, A Working Mother, People Like That, Lean Tales, and Bad Attitudes. Her new book, The Complete Short Stories, is her complete life work in short stories bringing together her published work with 14 brand new unpublished stories. Witty and dark, Owens’ spare prose shocks and delights.
Laura Hird’s short stories, the latest published as Hope and Other Urban Tales, are set in the low-rent area of Edinburgh. Urban stories, sometime of despair and dysfunction, yet offering humour and hope.
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Add to BasketAgnes Owens: The Complete Short Stories: The Complete Short Stories - Paperback -
£10.99
This complete collection of Agnes Owens’ short stories starts with her first, Arabella, the portrait of a modern witch written in 1978. A uniquely talented and entertaining writer. -
Add to BasketBad Attitudes: Two Novellas - Paperback -
£6.99
'Bad Attitudes' is a tale of Scottish council-housing and murder. This first of two novellas also boasts a missing person, nosy neighbour, and a new housing law for tinkers. In the second novella 'Jen's Party', Jen almost immediately regrets agreeing to Aunt Belle's idea of a birthday party. -
Add to BasketHope And Other Urban Tales: And Other Urban Tales - Paperback -
£9.99
Set in the low-rent areas of Edinburgh, Hird's tales of urban despair and dysfunction are gritty, bleak and darkly funny. Yet the possibility of hope, always just out of reach, unifies this collection, conveying that just as circumstances can reveal darkness in 'good people', so seemingly irredeemable characters can harbour humanity.
