Agnes Owens is the author of the novels Gentlemen of the West, Like Birds in the Wilderness, A Working Mother, and For the Love of Willie, shortlisted for the 1998 Stakis Prize. She is also the author of the short-story collection People Like That and has contributed stories to Lean Tales, alongside friends and collaborators James Kelman and Alasdair Gray. Bad Attitudes, her most recent book, comprises two novellas: Bad Attitudes, is a wickedly dark tale of Scottish council-housing and murder, and Jen's Party, in which a soon-to-be fifteen-year-old reluctantly finds an extraordinary birthday party being organised by an extraordinary aunt. The book was longlisted for the 2003 Saltire Literary Awards. Her new book, Don't Call Me is Agnes Owens' complete life work in short stories - everything from "Gentlemen of the West", "Lean Tales", "People Like That" and 14 brand new unpublished stories. Witty and dark, Owens' spare prose shocks and delights. Her talent for pithy, unsettling tales is as sharp as ever, confirming her place as one of Scotland's finest contemporary writers.
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