Category: Reviews
Expeditions Unpacked: What the Great Explorers took into the Unknown
The concept behind Ed Stafford’s Expeditions Unpacked: What the Great Explorers took into the Unknown is quite simple: what did the world’s best explo …
Read moreHello Friend We Missed You
Hello Friend We Missed You is Richard Owain Roberts’ debut novel, and continues the characteristic bleak yet humorous style found in his previous shor …
Read moreA Beginner’s Guide to Japan
Pico Iyer is often referred to as one of the best travel writers of the twenty-first century. I had not heard of him, I’m embarrassed to reveal. But t …
Read moreThe Rhino Conspiracy
The Rhino Conspiracy by Peter Hain is a dynamic, fast-paced thriller based in apartheid South Africa. It is emotional and compelling, educational and …
Read moreThe Hare Book and The Hedgehog Book
In an essay in the current issue of New Welsh Reader [Issue 124], I confessed to my obsession with hares. And I drew on Jane Russ’ The Hare Book for i …
Read moreMy Mother Taught Me How to Sing and Graveyards in My Closet
Welsh boys and their mothers, eh? A cup of milky tea, a hunk of barabrith and mammy’s becardiganed cwtch – these have a Proustian ability to melt the …
Read moreKidnapped by my Father: BBC One Wales
Yemen is one of the world’s shadowlands. We only see it on the news, usually under a pall of smoke after mortars or aerial bombings. It’s a source of …
Read moreWhat We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About #MeToo: Essays on Sex, Authority and the Mess of Life
With extensive experience in journalism and editing at the Nation, the American author seeks out her own topics of interest in this exciting insight i …
Read moreWe Could Be Anywhere by Now
The poems in Katherine Stanfield’s second collection bristle with curiosity and the desire to understand the world through personal experience. Embedd …
Read moreJust So You Know: Essays of Experience
What does it mean to be marginalised? While the term itself is eschewed by some contributors, this is the question that the essay collection Just So Y …
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