Category: Reviews
The Sheriff of Geneva
Yes, Chef! The spitting tension and steamy press of a professional kitchen is fertile creative ground. Hard-boozing, hard-bonking and filthy-mouthed – …
Read moreThe City Beneath: A Century of Los Angeles Graffiti
The text and prolific illustrations that make up The City Beneath provides a hundred-year cultural history of Los Angeles and its environs, fro …
Read morePier Closing Time
There is no such thing as realism. Photographers might choose to capture the gritty, the depressing, the down at heel, but they do so by selection, by …
Read moreThe Tall Owl and Other Stories
Ed Garland’s book of criticism, bibliotherapy and memoir, Earwitness, which New Welsh Review published in 2019, raised my awareness of the neglected s …
Read moreIn the Sweep of the Bay
The woman behind plate glass could not have been in their thoughts, they were not performing to impress and entertain her. Far out, they rode on the w …
Read moreSecret Britain: Unearthing Our Mysterious Past
Secret Britain: Unearthing Our Mysterious Past is an informative, immersive book, into which the author weaves poetry, dusting old stories with magic. …
Read moreThe Worrier’s Guide to the End of the World: Love, Loss, and Other Catastrophes through Italy, India, and Beyond
Torre DeRoche is one of the most immersive, enigmatic travel writers in the industry, blessed with an easy, relaxed form of prose. The Worrier’s Guide …
Read moreLand of the Dawn-lit Mountains: A Journey across Arunachal Pradesh, India’s Forgotten Frontier
Not only was Land of the Dawn-lit Mountains shortlisted for the 2018 Edward Stanford Travel Writing Award, but it has also been given high praise by o …
Read moreThe Works of Gwerful Mechain [A Broadview Anthology of British Literature edition]
As every schoolgirl or boy lucky enough to be introduced to Chaucer knows, sex and the sacred were sweaty bedfellows during the Medieval period. If th …
Read moreSouth Wales Monuments and Transmissions, 1996–2004 and Not Still: Rhondda Photographs, by Paul Cabuts
Not Still, the title of Paul Cabuts’s stunning collection of images of the Rhondda Valley, comes from Border Country, Raymond Williams’ classic novel …
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