Buzz Magazine
What's On in Wales - Your Ultimate Guide
Whether it’s paperback, hardback or audio, we’ve got it covered when it comes to all the best new writers, authors and book releases.
Gathering Blossoms Under Fire comprises entries from the journals of Alice Walker, spanning a life’s journey and memories of one of the most important writers of the 20th century.
Words have long been used to help explain our place in the world, but as Concita De Gregorio’s novel The Missing Word makes clear, for parents who have lost a child there is no name.
In this golden age of the short story, it can be difficult to stand out from the crowd, but Gurnaik Johal has managed to achieve just that with his debut collection, We Move.
Baby Love is the 100th title from Jacqueline Wilson, and perhaps this iconic children’s novelist toughest read of all.
As Wales' first crime writers' festival Gwyl Crime Cymru returns this month, Billie Ingram Sofokleous found out what to expect from the cloak and dagger lovers' event.
For those of us still singing along enthusiastically to Beyonce’s Single Ladies, this wonderfully titled novel - Yinka, Where Is Your Huzband? - will resonate from the first page to last.
Catherine Castro’s graphic novel Call Me Nathan, illustrated by Quentin Zuttion, frankly but delicately tells the story of Nathan - assigned female at birth, and dealing with his own identity and sexuality.
In The Red Children, Maggie Gee encourages thought and questions about the way we live and interact with one another, and how differences on the surface can be overcome.
The tale of two outcast teens plotting a horrific act of violence in a gated Mexican community, Paradais is a quick read, yet its dazzling language and brutal worldview will stay with you long beyond its end.
In Chivalry, Neil Gaiman tells the tale of Mrs. Whitaker, a widowed pensioner who discovers the Holy Grail in an Oxfam shop and soon has a series of magical encounters.
Self-styled “author returning to escapism” Melanie Blake was a go-nowhere schoolgirl, but the runaway success of Ruthless Women changed all of that.
Already in receipt of a plethora of positive reviews, Mischief Acts by Zoe Gilbert sees mythical figure Herne the hunter careening through the centuries, pursued in turn by his own creator.
Born into a family of strong musical talent, Martha Wainwright could be excused for finding it hard to find her place in the world, as Stories I Might Regret Telling You details.
Rebecca Lee has worked for 20 years at Penguin, and has parlayed her experience as well as that of multiple interviewees into How Words Get Good.
In all four cases examined in Alia Trabucco Zerán's When Women Kill, there is a narrative of injustice – these women were misrepresented, even as perpetrators of heinous crimes.
From debut author Tom Watson, Metronome has the dystopia of Orwell and the horror of Andrew Michael Hurley, while remaining original.
Bird nerd Tim Birkhead's Birds And Us takes us on a journey through a 12,000-year relationship with our feathered friends.
In Lambda, David Musgrave provides some affecting commentary on current political, emotional and health crises, as well as the future of technology.
Shadowlands profiles settlements of greatly varying sizes that no longer exist. The modern-day interest factor might lie in what they once were, what they now are, or the reason they ceased to be.
Within the pages of Wayward, her first memoir, what becomes apparent is that Vashti Bunyan’s reasons for wanting to escape run far deeper.
Bestselling writer and criminologist Christopher Berry-Dee has spent a long time in the minds of serial killers and now turns his attention to perhaps the most notorious of them all: Jeffrey Dahmer.
In this month's roundup, Mab Jones brings you brand new poetry from Rae Howells, Ben Silverson, Alison Brackenbury and more.
An authentic, intelligent reinvention of a familiar story, Woman, Eating is one vampire tale you won’t regret inviting inside your home.
A hybrid of memoir, history, and literary exploration, The Undercurrents defies easy, fixed definition, the same way that history does.
