FORBIDDEN LIVES: LGBT STORIES FROM WALES | BOOK REVIEW
Norena Shopland (Seren Books) An important and largely untold part of LGBT history is captured perfectly in Forbidden Lives: LGBT Stories From Wales. In a time where LGBT people are …
Norena Shopland (Seren Books) An important and largely untold part of LGBT history is captured perfectly in Forbidden Lives: LGBT Stories From Wales. In a time where LGBT people are …
C.J. Tudor (Michael Joseph Books) On the surface, the small market town of Alderbury, near Bournemouth, seems like a peaceful place to grow up. At least so it appears to …
Cardiff’s very own Jon Ronson talks to Jaydon Martin about psychopaths and Trump, and why they’re not necessarily one and the same… Jon Ronson, author of such best-selling books as …
Cardiff born author Daniel Robinson has just written his first novel Marvin 9T5. A gritty but humorous coming of age story set in mid nineties South Wales. Chris Andrews sat …
Award-winning Welsh writer Nigel Jarrett wrote Slowly Burning about a washed-out tabloid hack, Bunny Patmore, who’s on the crime beat again. Buzz invited the author to say something about it, and the …
Cardiff Book Festival came to the Welsh capital from the 28th of October till the 30th of October, and for its first time did a great job. The event had big British …
Caroline Smith (Seren) Poetry and immigration may not be topics you’d usually associate with each other, but Caroline Smith, an asylum caseworker, shines a light on the world of bureaucracy …
Aled Rhys Hughes (Seren) For five years, photographer Aled Rhys Hughes visited Mametz on the anniversary of the battle which claimed the lives of over 4000 Welsh soldiers, and Mametz …
Joris-Karl Huysmans (Dedalus) Originally published in 1884, Huysmans’ book instantly divided critics between those who saw it as a masterpiece and those with more disparaging opinions. Brendan King’s new translation …
Sion Hughes (Y Lolfa) Delving into the subject of espionage during the Second World War, this Welsh-language story is the second novel from author Sion Hughes. The story follows Richard, …
Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay Fri 12 Aug – Sat 31 Dec To mark the centenary of one of the greatest children’s writers of all time, the Wales Millennium Centre …
Jean-Phillippe Toussaint (Fitzcarraldo Editions) Belgian writer Toussaint begins with a self-effacing disclaimer: that this compendium of intellectually-minded essays about football will be a turnoff to both intellectuals and football buffs. …