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“Between her debut in 1984 – aged 58 – and her death in 2014, Owens published six short novels and two collections of stories. In contemporary reviews she was likened to Muriel Spark and Beryl Bainbridge: her books thrive on the friction between comedy and sadness.”
—John Self on the working-class genius of Agnes Owens (1926–2014)
https://observer.co.uk/culture/books/article/the-working-class-genius-of-agnes-owens
#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #womenwriters #workingclass #workingclassfiction #workingclasswriters
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“Between her debut in 1984 – aged 58 – and her death in 2014, Owens published six short novels and two collections of stories. In contemporary reviews she was likened to Muriel Spark and Beryl Bainbridge: her books thrive on the friction between comedy and sadness.”
—John Self on the working-class genius of Agnes Owens (1926–2014)
https://observer.co.uk/culture/books/article/the-working-class-genius-of-agnes-owens
#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #womenwriters #workingclass #workingclassfiction #workingclasswriters
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“Between her debut in 1984 – aged 58 – and her death in 2014, Owens published six short novels and two collections of stories. In contemporary reviews she was likened to Muriel Spark and Beryl Bainbridge: her books thrive on the friction between comedy and sadness.”
—John Self on the working-class genius of Agnes Owens (1926–2014)
https://observer.co.uk/culture/books/article/the-working-class-genius-of-agnes-owens
#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #womenwriters #workingclass #workingclassfiction #workingclasswriters
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“Between her debut in 1984 – aged 58 – and her death in 2014, Owens published six short novels and two collections of stories. In contemporary reviews she was likened to Muriel Spark and Beryl Bainbridge: her books thrive on the friction between comedy and sadness.”
—John Self on the working-class genius of Agnes Owens (1926–2014)
https://observer.co.uk/culture/books/article/the-working-class-genius-of-agnes-owens
#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #womenwriters #workingclass #workingclassfiction #workingclasswriters
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“Between her debut in 1984 – aged 58 – and her death in 2014, Owens published six short novels and two collections of stories. In contemporary reviews she was likened to Muriel Spark and Beryl Bainbridge: her books thrive on the friction between comedy and sadness.”
—John Self on the working-class genius of Agnes Owens (1926–2014)
https://observer.co.uk/culture/books/article/the-working-class-genius-of-agnes-owens
#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #womenwriters #workingclass #workingclassfiction #workingclasswriters
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At Dockyard Press, we published The Heavyweight Champion of Nothing by @zakmucha The Herald calls it "a street-level classic" https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/18984540.paperback-reviews-love-pirates-heavyweight-champion-nothing-ministry-truth/