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Morgan Davies loves this inspirational adventure about hope, which encourages children to follow their dreams
Read moreMorgan Davies praises the original English-language debut novel by Caryl Lewis, an uplifting and tender love story which has mythic elements and a dys …
Read moreA Ray of Darkness
Pippa Marland finds in this classic female autobiography, endorsed by current international epilepsy neurologists and representing startlingly contemp …
Read morePainting the Beauty Queens Orange: Women’s Lives in the 70s
Jemma L King, a former Miss Wales finalist, is enchanted to read a prose anthology which explores a quiet revolution of rural entrepreneurship, decima …
Read moreThat Green Eyed Girl
Suspense and intrigue grip TK Quentin as they read and listen to this moving queer debut novel of suppressed identity, notable for its elegant and sop …
Read moreThe Burning Bracken
JL George judges this meditative chronicle of one woman’s relationship to the rural landscape to be a powerful and worthy addition to the current wave …
Read moreAn Important Work of Ecofiction: The Burning Bracken
In a mentored review of this debut novel, T.K. Quentin judges it to be an important novel of ecofiction, which explores themes of ecocriticism and als …
Read moreThe Leading Question
Roger Elkin The High Window Press This collection has Elkin rising to his own challenge: Who will set down their narrative th …
Read moreThe 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, Wyl …
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