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The Half-Life of Snails
Sisters Helen and Jennifer live in the shadow of Wylfa Nuclear Power Station. Growing up in a sheep-farming family on the north coast of Anglesey, Wylfa has loomed in the distance throughout their lives. The station is a felt presence in The Half-Life of Snails, an unmistakable part of the landscape …
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Secular, Scriptural or the Heavenly Host: 6 Angel Rules
Truman Capote, it is said, wrote like an angel. Is there a higher compliment? Writing like an angel is synonymous with ease, with perfection of sound and sense. But, my experience of writing a story with an angel at its centre (‘Anna and the Angel’ won third place in this year’s New Welsh Writing Aw …
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Brittle with Relics: A History of Wales 1962–1997
Interviewing people is not as easy as good writers make it appear. You have to ask the right people the right questions. You have to corral and connive to tease out sentences worthy of a reader, of a quotation. You have to transcribe, trash, edit, collate and curate some kind of narrative from the B …
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Rivers of Wales
Jim Perrin follows streams to the lowlands in his new book, Rivers of Wales. It is easy to be swept away in its strong currents of folklore, to tumble through the literary cascade of writers and to float gently to the sea in its verdant cultural landscape. In many ways, it is a stream of literary co …
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The Dossier: Miscarriages of Justice in South Wales 1982–2016
No police officer has been brought to book for their part in these cases, despite the evidence behind the convictions being judged unsafe. I had to take a long, hot shower when I finished this book. After 196 pages of pure human torment, I felt awful. No, not awful. Dirty, that’s how I felt. …
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The Herring Man
Stories should not die… They ought to be remembered by someone, somewhere, somehow. And with this quote, the theme and tone of this book is established. The reader is introduced to Gwyn Evans, grandson of Samuel Evans (Sam the Herring Man, as he is known to his neighbors). Sailor, fisherman, expert …
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The Green Indian Problem, The Blue Book of Nebo
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The Sound of Being Human: How Music Shapes our Lives
The Museum of Portable Sound will bring you into contact with an extensive collection of strange sonic entities. You can listen to an old MiniDisc pla …
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Cities are hip. Towns are gritty. Hamlets are romantic. Capitals are – snooty accent coming – capital. Villages are problematic. What do you think of …
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