Tag: debut
January at the House in Charles Street, Just Before Dusk
You told me how you worried about those great fat chestnuts, popping and splitting open; bubbling in something. Honestly it was just another, richer p …
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Wicked Game
People read genre novels principally for comfort. It matters little whether the content is satanic, criminal, romantic or vampiric; the familiarity of …
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Burrard Inlet and The Scrapbook
It was a warm spring evening when I went to see Tyler Keevil and Carly Holmes, two of Parthian’s newest authors, launch their books at Aberystwyth Art …
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The Shape of a Forest
Things have been looking great for Jemma L King. The Powys-based poet and academic won the Terry Hetherington Young Welsh Writer of the Year Award in …
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This September Sun
Recently, I found myself wondering what my life would have been like if I had stayed in England. I’d probably own a house, receive a pension, go on ho …
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Here and the Water
Sarah Coles’ debut collection Here and the Water is autobiographical – I’m almost sure of it. Coles writes about domesticity: her children, her enviro …
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Sherman Cymru: The First Six Months
As is often the way with new buildings, it wasn’t finished on time. When we newly hired front-of-house staff arrived for training last January, there …
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