New poetry for January: stuffed toy gaslighting, tonguing wit, reality in Penarth
Mab Jones gets the poetic wagon on the road for 2023 with five new titles for January - including a healthy crop of content from south Wales.
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Mab Jones gets the poetic wagon on the road for 2023 with five new titles for January - including a healthy crop of content from south Wales.
A powerful and moving story, River Sing Me Home tells the tale of Rachel, who in 1834, has fled her life as a slave on a plantation in Barbados, aiming to find her lost children.
Love, Leda, daring queer fiction unearthed 51 years after its author’s suicide aged 32, is a powerful time capsule of a clandestine subculture.
Focussing on the meeting of two women in medieval England, For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy On My Little Pain, Victoria Mackenzie’s debut novel, is a work of powerfully concise and evocative fiction.
Bloodbath Nation is both a memoir and an examination of the social and political impact of gun ownership and violence in America, where yearly deaths from gunshots are nearly greater than traffic accidents.
Fflur Dafydd’s The Library Suicides, an English-language rewrite of her novel Y Llyfrgell, is an intense character study, set in a dystopian world and set in the National Library Of Wales.
The Witnesses Are Gone delves into life and death, gaslighting, the occult, film, and nuclear power in its modest page count.
Love Me Tender concerns a woman, Constance, who decides to reclaim her identity, and as a 'voice novel', it's extremely sharp.
Unfinished Business is a profoundly tragic novel about the cruel passage of time and the increasingly seductive embrace of memories as chilly old age approaches.
Michael Moorcock might be forgiven for wanting to rest on his laurels at this point, having long been regarded as one of British science fiction’s most important voices. But here he is - still going strong at 82.
Much like Adam Kay’s This Is Going To Hurt, Dean Burnett links humorous and touching personal stories with scientific knowhow in Emotional Ignorance.
Rich and enthralling, Age Of Vice is a staggering literary thriller, set by Deepti Kapoor in contemporary India.
Despite Patrick Duff's colourful claims of interactions with the spirit realm, memoir The Singer is grounded and self-deprecating for the most part.
One can randomly dive into Rick Rubin's book and forage some valuable words of wisdom: The Creative Act is worthy of being a bible for creative souls.
An explorative murder mystery forms joint venture Mad Honey from acclaimed authors Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan.
The story of Sun Records - recounted in new book The Birth Of Rock 'n' Roll - The Illustrated Story Of Sun Records - is one of the most fascinating in the history of popular music.
Real-life tales of personal joy and struggle and thought-provoking speculative fiction populate Buzz writers' choices for the best books of 2022.
Following on from 2019’s Walking Cardiff comes writer Peter Finch and photographer John Briggs’ followup/breakout book Walking The Valleys.
It’s fair to say that The Jam left a big dent in the music scene and popular culture, but why did frontman Paul Weller decide to break up the band right in the middle of its pomp?
Niche yet accessible and engaging, The Delaware Road is is multifaceted and interesting if you’re curious about British counterculture, hauntology and electronic music.
Lucy V Hay - aka Lizzie Fry - gives Kill For It a captivating protagonist in Cat Crawford – a reporter who takes an obsession with her job too far.
What unfolds in Seaside Towns is a compelling love triangle between two men and the lure of the past.
A Sabbatical In Leipzig, Adrian Duncan's second novel, acclaimed in his native Ireland, was published in 2020 but is only now getting a British reprint.
No Surrender is a well-presented, substantial representation of a feminist classic which deserves to be explored further.