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LIMBO Dan Fox (Fitzcarraldo Editions) Dan Fox returns with another penetrating and subversive study into contemporary culture and its rabbit holes. His previous book, Pretentiousness: Why It Matters, argued the …
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LIMBO Dan Fox (Fitzcarraldo Editions) Dan Fox returns with another penetrating and subversive study into contemporary culture and its rabbit holes. His previous book, Pretentiousness: Why It Matters, argued the …
HARD TIMES Ostap Vyshnya, trans. Yuri Tkach (Glagoslav) Ostap Vyshnia’s Hard Times, a collection of short stories and satire from 1920s Ukraine, took me by surprise upon reading. Hugely popular …
HALFWAY B.E. Jones (Constable) On a dark winter’s day in wild and woolly west Wales, six desperate characters head for a closed-down deserted pub called Y Seren, The Star, or …
Girls Be Good Bojan Babić, trans. Nataša Miljković (Glagoslav) Grim reading ahead. These 20 connected stories all detail the journey of 20 toy lemurs, built in a factory in Yugoslavia …
Slip of a Fish Amy Arnold (And Other Stories) This year’s Northern Book Prize Winner, Amy Arnold’s Slip Of A Fish, is mesmerising. It’s published by And Other Stories, who …
Invisible Britain Austerity is over, Theresa May declared confidently at October’s Tory Party conference. Tell that to those featured in a new book edited by Paul Sng and published by …
CROCODILE Daniel Shand (Sandstone Press) We meet Chloe, who is sent to live with her grandparents while her mother tries to get her life together. Through flashbacks, we learn of …
THAT SUMMER FEELING Mark Hodkinson (Pomona) That Summer Feeling can quite accurately be labelled as a book of struggle. From girl trouble to family misfortune to a slightly absurd university lecturer, …
A SIMPLE SCALE David Llewellyn (Seren) An intriguing premise: music plagiarism forms the basis for this gripping and fast-paced novel. Spanning three decades and two countries, Welsh writer David Llewellyn’s …
A BROWN MAN IN RUSSIA Vijay Menon (Glagoslav) A fairly short book, yet one where even the title of it intrigued this reader. Vijay Menon’s memoir provides an unrestricted look …
TIRZAH AND THE PRINCE OF CROWS Deborah Kay Davies (One World) The words ‘coming of age tale’ are usually enough to make me reach for literally anything else, but Tirzah …
Peter Finch (Seren) Peter Finch has been writing about Cardiff since the turn of the millennium. Considering this is the fourth volume of his {Real Cardiff} series, he’s still got …
CARDIFF BOOK FESTIVAL 2018 BUZZ recently took the opportunity to check out the many choices on offer at the third Cardiff Book Festival. All events took place at Jurys Inn, …
DRIVE YOUR PLOW OVER THE BONES OF THE DEAD Olga Tokarczuk, trans. Antonia Lloyd-Jones (Fitzcarraldo Editions) From the winner of the 2018 Man Booker International Prize comes an acutely subversive …
A YEAR IN PEMBROKESHIRE Jamie Owen and David Wilson (Graffeg) “A love story in prose and pictures” is how broadcaster Jamie Owen aptly describes this collaboration with photographer David Wilson. …
HER WATCHFUL EYE Julie Corbin (Mulholland) Have you ever felt that someone’s watching you? Like the song? Well, they are. It’s a fact that there are more cameras on the …
THE FARM Hector Abad, trans. by Anne McLean (Archipelago Books) A story about a farming family’s conflict against drug dealers, paramilitaries and guerrillas in the Colombian mountains; anything connected to …
DEAR EVELYN Kathy Page (And Other Stories) Dear Evelyn, British/Canadian writer Kathy Page’s seventh novel, provides the reader the chance to experience her realistic and often dark style, through the …
DOWN THE ROAD AND ROUND THE BEND Roy Noble (Graffeg) As one of Wales’ proverbial national treasures, Roy Noble is perfectly placed to write a book like this. Down The …
SLAV SISTERS Edited by Natasha Perova (Dedalus) To honour the centenary of women’s votes in the UK, Dedalus has published Slav Sisters to memorialise women’s literature in 20th century Russia and …
THE ALADDIN TRIAL Abi Silver (Lightning And Eye) A classic thriller set in London, where the dynamic legal team of Judith Burton and Constance Lamb are drafted in following the …
A TERRIBLE COUNTRY Keith Gessen (Fitzcarraldo Editions) A Terrible Country follows the story of Andrei Kaplan, a Russian who emigrated to America, as he returns to Moscow to look after his …
As Ant Middleton prepares to go on a tour of the UK, the former soldier, current author, and all-round hardman chats to Buzz’s own ex-military man Carl Marsh about his …
UP TOP – FROM LUNATIC ASYLUM TO COMMUNITY CARE Hugh Purcell and Margaret Percy (Y Lolfa) Up Top was what the Talgarth locals called this hospital, a colossal structure of a …