Tag: fairytale
The Herring Man
Stories should not die… They ought to be remembered by someone, somewhere, somehow. And with this quote, the theme and tone of this book is establishe …
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Your Still Beating Heart
Criminality proves just the tonic for grief in Tyler Keevil’s impressive thriller Your Still Beating Heart. In its opening pages, the heroine, Eira, l …
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The Reckoning
Whether the fog lowered or rose, with it came the wolves, their white-and-grey fur merging with the dense air. They came after the bloodletting …
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Tilt by Rosalind Hudis
For Alicia Byrne Keane, Rosalind Hudis’ debut collection, with its themes of disability and loss, is tinged with fairy-tale and reveals an artist’s ey …
Read moreContemporary Literature from Wales
Gwen Davies on recent fiction in English from Wales, Robin Chapman on the rejection of politicisation in Welsh-language literature since devolution, S …
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