Zoe Wicomb’s award-winning STILL LIFE is a unique & inventive take on colonial history
An author attempting to write a biography about forgotten Scottish poet Thomas Pringle forms the subject for Zoë Wicomb’s novel.
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An author attempting to write a biography about forgotten Scottish poet Thomas Pringle forms the subject for Zoë Wicomb’s novel.
Fox: Neighbour Villain Icon takes a deep dive into the life of the red fox, with essays by natural history experts and other academics.
Book Lovers explores a tale of personal growth, grief, breaking down barriers and expectations upon women.
James Lacey's photos of decaying buildings in A World In Ruins serve as a form of preservation in the face of demolition.
Zen koans, true spellcasters, new visions of reality, transmutations of the everyday and, in one case, a lot of cow talk. It's all in Mab Jones' monthly poetry column.
Valérie Perrin’s Three – translated from French by Hildegarde Serle – is a gripping and epic story about a trio of friends.
Set over the course of a single day in Dublin, acclaimed essayist Emilie Pine’s debut novel tells the separate, overlapping stories of its eponymous characters.
Beautifully bound in a thick, matt-textured hardback, Rivers Of Wales is a delight to hold as well as read, with extremely high production values.
Pre-pop pop, as chronicled in Let's Do It, is a story of systemic racism, sexism and necessarily concealed sexuality - basically all of the last century’s entertainment industry.
I Belong Here is moving and beautifully written, but so much more: it is an inspirational testament to strength and resilience that is unquestionably informative and compelling.
Sophie Haydock’s debut novel The Flames is an electrifying blend of fact and fiction: a well-researched look at Egon Schiele, Viennese painter and protege of Gustav Klimt.
Philippa Holloway’s The Half-Life Of Snails is a vivid and emotional exploration of human connections and the surrounding landscapes.
Psychiatrist John Barker was inspired to found The Premonitions Bureau in 1966 after hearing of a Welsh schoolgirl who had foreseen the Aberfan disaster.
Spring’s Green Shadow’s focus on women’s emancipation lends contemporary relevance to scenes from a century past, in what remains a magnificent read.
Revealing testimonies from Shaun Ryder, Rufus Wainwright, Lisa Maffia, Lloyd Cole and more make Exit Stage Left an enlightening, humorous and extremely entertaining read.
Karla Brading speaks to a novelist who has written variously in Welsh and English, and has a new title Seed, her debut kids’ novel, out this month.
An endearing clash of people combine with a twisting plot for the latest book from Beth O'Leary, The No-Show.
A deeply affecting read, and an almighty wake-up call to the music industry, music writer Ian Winwood digs into why drugs and alcohol are so prevelent in rock 'n' roll.
A delight to read and an absolutely fantastic opportunity to leave behind one’s own reality and delve into another, Welsh crime novelist Beverley Jones leaves you reeling for more in The Beach House.
Siouxsie & The Banshees bassist Steven Severin describes John McGeoch as the “BEST. GUITARIST. EVER” in The Light Pours Out Of Me, and his praise is not unfounded.
Furious at the constant trolling she and her female peers have been subjected to, internationally-renown journalist Nina Jankowicz has decided to fight back.
Cardiff University professor Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones takes a different approach to chronicling the rise of the Persian empire: telling the story from a Persian standpoint, rather than a purely from a Western one.
Following Kennedy’s superb short story collection, The End Of The World Is a Cul De Sac, it’s no surprise that her debut novel has proved to be such an impressive story.
With 20 short stories featuring everything from an avenging gorgon to a little girl impaling the schoolyard bully on a spike, there is enough crime on display in Cast A Long Shadow to make even Wind Street at closing time look quiet.