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What's On in Wales - Your Ultimate Guide
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.
The Couple At The Table is the perfect escape from the mania of the current world, without compromising on thrill-factor.
“Radical, reformist and revolutionary women” pepper the pages of Nan Sloane's Uncontrollable Women, which should be welcomed into political literature as a map of the path taken to get to where Britain is today.
2021 has welcomed some real crackers into the literary universe and Megan Thomas has picked out one from every month of the year to see you into 2022.
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.
A crime-heavy week (with a bit of feminist sci-fi for good measure) as we ease into September with five new novels.
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 ANDREA VICTRIX Llorenç Villalonga (Fum d’Estampa) Described as the “best dystopian literature ever written in Catalan,” Andrea Victrix is a gripping novel …
THIS WEEK’S NEW BOOKS REVIEWED | FEATURE THE EMPEROR’S FEAST: A HISTORY OF CHINA IN TWELVE MEALS Jonathan Clements (Hodder & Stoughton) The Emperor’s Feast is neither a cookbook nor …
THIS WEEK’S NEW BOOKS REVIEWED | FEATURE THE AMAZINGLY ASTONISHING STORY Lucy Gannon (Seren) There can’t be many people brave enough to call their memoir The Amazingly Astonishing Story, …
HOW LOVE ACTUALLY RUINED CHRISTMAS (OR COLOURFUL NARCOTICS) | BOOK REVIEW Gary Raymond (Parthian) What’s worse: a Love Actually fan reading Gary Raymond’s new book, How Love Actually Ruined …
The motif of fire burns through the pages
