There has never been a more apt time than now to read Herbert Williams’ most recent novel Love Child. With our own media overflowing with stories of the dubious tactics of newspaper staff, the reader will discover that little except the technology available to reporters has changed in the world of the press in the […]
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Coming of Age For All Ages, Teenage Fiction Recommendations

Gwen Davies

PUBLISHED ON: 03/09/11

CATEGORY: Reviews

My son turned fourteen last month. Despite nights lost to computer games, he does still read. Christopher Paolini published Eragon aged 19. Inheritanc …

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Goodness Gracious Me: Wake up to Wales, Radio Four!

Gwen Davies

PUBLISHED ON: 02/09/11

CATEGORY: Reviews

Following his recent Daily Mail piece slamming Bred of Heaven, reviewer Roger Lewis is a dead cert for the Tacsi gong, a Kingsley Amis-sponsored prize …

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The Empty Family and Touchy Subjects

Sophie Long

PUBLISHED ON: 19/08/11

CATEGORY: Reviews

On paper, Colm Toibin and Emma Donoghue are writers working very much in the same style. Both were born and educated in Ireland, both have lived and w …

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The Tiger’s Wife

Eluned Gramich

PUBLISHED ON: 11/08/11

CATEGORY: Reviews

As I went to Waterstone’s to ask for a copy of the 2011 Orange Prize Winner, the shop assistant rather anxiously informed me that they only had three …

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Psychogeography: Latest Novels and Nonfiction by Iain Sinclair, Jim Perrin, Tristan Hughes and Richard Collins

Gwen Davies

PUBLISHED ON: 08/08/11

CATEGORY: Reviews

Guy Debord’s label, eschewing urban exclusivity, is ‘the study of the… specific effects of the geographical environment, consciously organised or no …

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The Captain’s Tower, Seventy Poets Celebrate Bob Dylan at Seventy

Barrie Llewelyn

PUBLISHED ON: 06/08/11

CATEGORY: Reviews

I jumped at the chance to review The Captain’s Tower: Seventy Poets Celebrate Bob Dylan at Seventy (edited by Phil Bowen, Damian Furniss and David Woo …

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A Visit from the Goon Squad

Charlotte Penny

PUBLISHED ON: 23/07/11

CATEGORY: Reviews

Much has been made of the structure that author Jennifer Egan employs in her Pulitzer- Prizewinning and Orange-nominated novel A Visit from the Goon S …

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Book of the Year Winner Proves Illusion will Nourish, even if it won’t feed us

Gwen Davies

PUBLISHED ON: 18/07/11

CATEGORY: Reviews

‘Don Quixote,’ John Harrison says in his Book of the Year winner Cloud Road, A Journey Through the Inca Heartland, ‘is usually portrayed as an old man …

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Un Ddinas Dau Fyd

Dafydd Saer

PUBLISHED ON: 30/06/11

CATEGORY: Reviews

As a confirmed Llwyd Owen addict, I was gagging for this latest offering, Un Ddinas Dau Fyd. His fifth Welsh language novel in as many years, this fas …

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