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    Angels of Cairo

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Terminal Boredom: Stories

Lloyd Markham admires a classic collection of Japanese stories in translation whose strength lies in their function as sci-fi vignettes as well as period pieces of the burnt-out sixties and hungover seventies

PUBLISHED ON: 23/07/21

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The first English-language publication of the works of late artist provocateur and cult sci-fi writer Izumi Suzuki, Terminal Boredom: Stories, is a di …

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Laura Wainwright on a clever, funny and ultimately very moving novel that explores how language is ‘the very stuff of us’

PUBLISHED ON: 23/07/21

CATEGORY: Reviews

Is there any writer, of any genre, who can’t relate to the following thoughts?   I struggle to make it say what I wish, let alone wrestle it into …

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Poem by Roy Marshall

PUBLISHED ON: 22/07/21

CATEGORY: Poetry

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Under the Thumbs

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PUBLISHED ON: 22/07/21

CATEGORY: Poetry

Just above the water: my ten toes. A distinct arch in a hot heaven of foam. Both little toes particularly little, noticeably curled. The next equally …

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PUBLISHED ON: 22/07/21

CATEGORY: Poetry

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Not one for the literary crime lover, this roadtrip novel – pat, porny, pacy – is a killer ‘dom noir’ thriller, writes Chris Moss

PUBLISHED ON: 01/07/21

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BE Jones has pretty much mastered the page-turning thriller style. She delivers the utterly confusing prologue readers seem to adore. Her characters a …

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Chris Moss assesses six essays that articulate the relationship between class and some of the most significant Welsh artworks of the past two centuries, gives them due recognition within the international art world, and explores the collusion of Wales in neglect of its own artists and its failure to value the quality of ‘insiderness’

PUBLISHED ON: 01/07/21

CATEGORY: Reviews

As well as death and taxes, it’s highly probable the British nations will always have their social classes. After all, accurate histories of the twent …

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Road Trip

Pam Thompson recommends a compassionate, complex poetry collection of the Windrush generation and rural Gwent

PUBLISHED ON: 01/07/21

CATEGORY: Reviews

Marvin Thompson was born in London to Jamaican parents and now lives in south Wales. His debut collection, Road Trip https://www.peepaltreepress.com/b …

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