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What's On in Wales - Your Ultimate Guide
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.
A hybrid of memoir, history, and literary exploration, The Undercurrents defies easy, fixed definition, the same way that history does.
This slim novel is told from the point of view of an unnamed woman who meets with her mother for a trip to Japan. As they explore Tokyo and Kyoto and visit art galleries and restaurants
Part love story, part journalistic memoir from Matthieu Aikins, The Naked Don’t Fear The Water is a powerful, moving study of the physical and psychological borders that divide us.
Claudia Durastanti’s chronicling of her parents' chaotic lives in the autobiographical Strangers I Know make their daughter’s literary career something of a triumph against the odds.
An immense tale set in 18th century Poland, Olga Tokarczuk’s The Books Of Jacob is historical fiction at its finest.
Reviews of newly published titles by Ruth Ozeki, JR Moores, Annie Ernaux, Kate Bowler and Montserrat Roig (that one's newly translated from Catalan to English)
A photographic diary of COVID in Welsh hospitals, a personal account of a more mysterious ailment, an Aussie rocker's attachment to a piece of chewing gum and two novels set in a Johannesburg suburb and on a Greek island.
This week’s five items includes a (sometime) Buzz writer! Big shout out to Emily Garside for that. Plus wildlife illustrator Matt Sewell, August Corteau’s (translated) Greek novel and books by Nancy Tucker and Adam Mars-Jones.
THIS WEEK’S NEW BOOKS REVIEWED | FEATURE CAN THE MONSTER SPEAK? Paul B. Preciado [trans. Frank Wynne] (Fitzcarraldo Editions) In 2019, Paul B. Preciado [pictured, top – credit Marie …
THIS WEEK’S NEW BOOKS REVIEWED | FEATURE BROTHERHOOD Mohamed Mbougar Sarr [trans. Alexia Trigo] (Europa Editions) Brotherhood is an award-winning blurring of the lines between fact and fiction, written …
THIS WEEK’S NEW BOOKS REVIEWED | FEATURE HOT STEW Fiona Mozley (Hodder & Stoughton) A determined change of pace from Fiona Mozley’s enthralling debut, Elmet, which focussed on a family …
