Tag: Cardiff
Where We Live Now: Covid Toponyms
[We] read in place-names a record of important events and reconstruct something of the culture of the namers at the time they assigned names to the pl …
Read moreGwen Davies reviews Y Gymru ‘Ddu’ a’r Ddalen ‘Wen’: Aralledd ac Amlddiwylliannedd mewn Ffuglen Gymreig, er 1990 by Lisa Sheppard
Gwen Davies stakes a claim for fiction in the creation of empathy, that missing life-skill in those at risk of mental health breakdown and lawbreaking …
Read moreImpeccable
Jameel Sandham’s self-published crime thriller, Impeccable, eerily reminiscent of Ivrine Welsh’s best-selling hit Trainspotting, offers a gritty depic …
Read morePairing Wales and South America
Richard Gwyn on the central, serious, importance of make-believe to Latin American life and literature, and the gestation of his festival, Fiction Fie …
Read moreDocklands: A Ghost Story
Damian Walford Davies’ poetry collection Docklands, A Ghost Story is the tale of an unnamed well-to-do architect working in a thriving Victorian Cardi …
Read moreWater, Water, Nowhere
Mattie tried to remain composed while she faced the IriScan, keeping her features relaxed so the pigment algorithm of her irises could be analysed. It …
Read moreBrando’s Bride : The incredibly true story of Anna Kashfi and her marriage to one of Hollywood’s greatest stars
Marlon Brando is one of those movie heartthrobs we don’t quite get anymore – and I mean ‘get’ in both senses of the word. Odd-looking, with his sly ey …
Read moreThe Homeless Heart-throb
‘His urine was starting to scare him,’ notes the narrator of ‘Dogs Only’, one of the milder stories in this sharp new collection (interwoven into nove …
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