Set in post-nuclear Ukraine, THE HALF-LIFE OF SNAILS is a beautiful yet unsettling story
Philippa Holloway’s The Half-Life Of Snails is a vivid and emotional exploration of human connections and the surrounding landscapes.
Philippa Holloway’s The Half-Life Of Snails is a vivid and emotional exploration of human connections and the surrounding landscapes.
Originally published in 2018, Carly Holmes' Figurehead is a book that’s as full of eeriness and enchantment as one could ever wish for.
Uršuľa Kovalyk's The Equestrienne is a YA story about a young girl finding her passion on the backdrop of communist Czechoslovakia.
In between titles offering broadsides against, respectively, bad food on trains and Welsh neoliberalism, we find novels about Turkish gangsters in London, a world without working electricity and a man who get uploaded into his group chat...
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.
Relationship drama, an experimental Welsh novel, Greek mythology updated for the celeb era, the cultural implications of Chinese ear-cleaning and an illicit tryst in a summer house...
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 EASY MEAT Rachel Trezise (Parthian) I admit to being a fan of Rachel Trezise’s writing. Here, she does what she does best: …
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 …
BUZZ CULTURE: RACHEL TREZISE | INTERVIEW FEATURE Easy Meat, the new work by much-admired novelist Rachel Trezise, is another slice of Valleys life, set in the Brexit crunch time …
THIS WEEK’S NEW BOOKS REVIEWED | FEATURE THE FORTUNE MEN Nadifa Mohamed (Viking) A heartbreaking fictional account of a true miscarriage of justice, and the severe consequences in Cardiff’s …
THIS WEEK’S NEW BOOKS REVIEWED | FEATURE DEATH DRIVES AN AUDI Kristian Bang Foss (Parthian) The title’s metaphor makes sense as the plot unfolds. In a bleak world where …
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