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gathering blossoms under fire book

Seminal author Alice Walker’s life intimately revealed in GATHERING BLOSSOMS UNDER FIRE

April 27, 2022

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. 

Category: Books, Reviews
Read moreSeminal author Alice Walker’s life intimately revealed in GATHERING BLOSSOMS UNDER FIRE
The Missing World, Concita De Gregorio - credit Piergiorgio Pirrone

Real-life tragedy in THE MISSING WORD becomes comforting fiction

April 27, 2022

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.

Category: Books, Reviews
Read moreReal-life tragedy in THE MISSING WORD becomes comforting fiction
We Move, Gurnaik Johal - Aashfaria A. Anwar

WE MOVE collects sensitive short stories about the South Asian experience

April 27, 2022

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.

Category: Books, Reviews
Read moreWE MOVE collects sensitive short stories about the South Asian experience
Jacqueline Wilson, Baby Love

Jacqueline Wilson’s BABY LOVE: an unflinching teen pregnancy tale

April 27, 2022

Baby Love is the 100th title from Jacqueline Wilson, and perhaps this iconic children’s novelist toughest read of all.

Category: Books, Reviews
Read moreJacqueline Wilson’s BABY LOVE: an unflinching teen pregnancy tale
Gŵyl Crime Cymru's Mark Ellis

“There was a crying need for this” – Wales’ first crime writing festival GWYL CRIME CYMRU returns

April 27, 2022

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.

Category: Books, Interviews, Previews Region: Mid Wales
Read more“There was a crying need for this” – Wales’ first crime writing festival GWYL CRIME CYMRU returns
Yinka, Where Is Your Husband?, Lizzie Damiola Blackburn - credit: Aiden Harmit-Williams

YINKA, WHERE IS YOUR HUZBAND? is a bold journey from loneliness to self-love

April 20, 2022

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.

Category: Books, Reviews
Read moreYINKA, WHERE IS YOUR HUZBAND? is a bold journey from loneliness to self-love
Call Me Nathan - Catherine Castro

CALL ME NATHAN: graphic novel delicately unravels trans teen experience

April 20, 2022

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.

Category: Books, Reviews
Read moreCALL ME NATHAN: graphic novel delicately unravels trans teen experience
The Red Children, Maggie Gee

Maggie Gee disrupts a quiet English town with the arrival of THE RED CHILDREN

April 20, 2022

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.

Category: Books, Reviews
Read moreMaggie Gee disrupts a quiet English town with the arrival of THE RED CHILDREN
Paradais, Fernanda Melchor - credit: Liz Hernandez

Fernanda Melchor’s PARADAIS ferociously eviscerates Mexican society

April 20, 2022

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. 

Category: Books, Reviews
Read moreFernanda Melchor’s PARADAIS ferociously eviscerates Mexican society
Chivalry, Neil Gaiman

CHIVALRY: Neil Gaiman sends a pensioner on an epic Arthurian adventure

April 20, 2022

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.

Category: Books, Reviews
Read moreCHIVALRY: Neil Gaiman sends a pensioner on an epic Arthurian adventure
Melanie Blake - credit Nicky Johnston

“If I can make it, God, anyone can!” – ‘bonkbuster’ queen MELANIE BLAKE on her unlikely author success

April 17, 2022

Self-styled “author returning to escapism” Melanie Blake was a go-nowhere schoolgirl, but the runaway success of Ruthless Women changed all of that.

Category: Books, Interviews
Read more“If I can make it, God, anyone can!” – ‘bonkbuster’ queen MELANIE BLAKE on her unlikely author success
Mischief Acts, Zoe Gilbert - credit Sophie Davidson

Charmingly adventurous, MISCHIEF ACTS charts a mythic journey through time & verse

April 14, 2022

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.

Category: Books, Reviews
Read moreCharmingly adventurous, MISCHIEF ACTS charts a mythic journey through time & verse
Stories I Might Regret Telling You Martha Wainwright - credit Gaëlle Leroyer

Singing royalty MARTHA WAINWRIGHT bares all in fascinating memoir

April 13, 2022

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.

Category: Books, Music, Reviews
Read moreSinging royalty MARTHA WAINWRIGHT bares all in fascinating memoir
How Words Get Good - Rebecca Lee

HOW WORDS GET GOOD: a solid nuts and bolts guide for any budding editor

April 13, 2022

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.

Category: Books, Reviews
Read moreHOW WORDS GET GOOD: a solid nuts and bolts guide for any budding editor
When Women Kill, Alia Trabucco Zerán

WHEN WOMEN KILL examines the misrepresentation of female killers

April 13, 2022

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.

Category: Books, Reviews
Read moreWHEN WOMEN KILL examines the misrepresentation of female killers
Metronome, Tom Watson - credit Jen Kanetsky

METRONOME is a tense survival story from new novelist Tom Watson

April 13, 2022

From debut author Tom Watson, Metronome has the dystopia of Orwell and the horror of Andrew Michael Hurley, while remaining original.

Category: Books, Culture, Reviews
Read moreMETRONOME is a tense survival story from new novelist Tom Watson
Birds and Us, Tim Birkhead

BIRDS AND US: thousands of years of human-bird history in one, beautiful place

April 7, 2022

Bird nerd Tim Birkhead's Birds And Us takes us on a journey through a 12,000-year relationship with our feathered friends.

Category: Books, Reviews
Read moreBIRDS AND US: thousands of years of human-bird history in one, beautiful place
Lambda, David Musgrave - credit Christopher Musgrave

LAMBDA: David Musgrave’s fantastical Britain makes affecting political commentary

April 6, 2022

In Lambda, David Musgrave provides some affecting commentary on current political, emotional and health crises, as well as the future of technology. 

Category: Books, Reviews
Read moreLAMBDA: David Musgrave’s fantastical Britain makes affecting political commentary
Shadowlands, Matthew Green - credit Hayley Benoit

Historian Matthew Green unearths Britain’s lost settlements in SHADOWLANDS

April 6, 2022

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.

Category: Books, Reviews Region: North Wales, South Wales
Read moreHistorian Matthew Green unearths Britain’s lost settlements in SHADOWLANDS
Wayward - Vashti Bunyan

WAYWARD: 60s singer Vashti Bunyan looks back on an unconventional career

April 6, 2022

Within the pages of Wayward, her first memoir, what becomes apparent is that Vashti Bunyan’s reasons for wanting to escape run far deeper.

Category: Books, Music, Reviews
Read moreWAYWARD: 60s singer Vashti Bunyan looks back on an unconventional career
Inside The Mind Of Jeffrey Dahmer

INSIDE THE MIND OF JEFFREY DAHMER, disturbingly, does just what it says on the tin

April 6, 2022

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.

Category: Books, Reviews
Read moreINSIDE THE MIND OF JEFFREY DAHMER, disturbingly, does just what it says on the tin
Rae Howells, The Langauge of Bees - new March poetry

New poetry for March: Rae Howells contemplates THE LANGUAGE OF BEES + Ben Wilkinson channels Verlaine

March 31, 2022

In this month's roundup, Mab Jones brings you brand new poetry from Rae Howells, Ben Silverson, Alison Brackenbury and more.

Category: Books, Reviews Region: Wales-Wide
Read moreNew poetry for March: Rae Howells contemplates THE LANGUAGE OF BEES + Ben Wilkinson channels Verlaine
Claire Kohda, Woman Eating

WOMAN, EATING turns vampirism into biting millennial metaphor

March 30, 2022

An authentic, intelligent reinvention of a familiar story, Woman, Eating is one vampire tale you won’t regret inviting inside your home. 

Category: Books, Reviews
Read moreWOMAN, EATING turns vampirism into biting millennial metaphor
The Undercurrents - view from Kirsty's window - credit Kirsty Bell cropped

THE UNDERCURRENTS vividly brings Berlin history to the present

March 30, 2022

A hybrid of memoir, history, and literary exploration, The Undercurrents defies easy, fixed definition, the same way that history does.

Category: Books, Reviews
Read moreTHE UNDERCURRENTS vividly brings Berlin history to the present
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