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Renewed Welsh Women’s Classic SPRING’S GREEN SHADOW remains a magnificent read

May 18, 2022

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.

Region: South Wales

CAST A LONG SHADOW: Welsh women’s crime anthology mixes melodrama & myth

May 4, 2022

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.

Region: Wales-Wide

“I wanted Fantine to save herself, for better or worse” – writer REBECCA F. JOHN on reclaiming LES MISERABLES from the male gaze

March 11, 2022

With her latest novel Fannie, an ingenious spin on Les Misérables’ tragic Fantine, getting glowing reviews, Joshua Rees spoke to tireless south Wales writer Rebecca F. John.

Region: South Wales

LES MISERABLES gets a feminist reinterpretation from Welsh women’s press in FANNIE

March 2, 2022

Fannie, a femininst reimagning of the tragic Les Miserables heroine Fantine, is as earthy and lyrical as you'd expect from novelist Rebecca F. John.

Region: Wales-Wide

Booklaunch: Spring’s Green Shadow

February 3, 2022

Join Honno Press and Professor Angela V. John for a digital book launch of Spring’s Green Shadow by Cecily Mackworth, as part of the Honno Women’s Classic series. The story …

Region: Wales-Wide

Two new Welsh women’s classics illuminate work of rediscovered writer, Margiad Evans

February 9, 2022

Rediscovered classics A Ray of Darkness and Nightingale Silenced provide a good chance for unfamiliar readers to get to know revived Welsh writer Margiad Evans better.

PAINTING THE BEAUTY QUEENS ORANGE honours pioneering women of the 70s

December 22, 2021

In a decade often viewed through orange and brown-tinted glasses, Painting The Beauty Queens Orange refutes the idea of a beige tapestry of women’s lives.

Region: Wales-Wide

Renewed Welsh Women’s Classic SPRING’S GREEN SHADOW remains a magnificent read

CAST A LONG SHADOW: Welsh women’s crime anthology mixes melodrama & myth

“I wanted Fantine to save herself, for better or worse” – writer REBECCA F. JOHN on reclaiming LES MISERABLES from the male gaze

LES MISERABLES gets a feminist reinterpretation from Welsh women’s press in FANNIE

Booklaunch: Spring’s Green Shadow

Two new Welsh women’s classics illuminate work of rediscovered writer, Margiad Evans

PAINTING THE BEAUTY QUEENS ORANGE honours pioneering women of the 70s

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