Tag: humour
Well-laid Hedges and Cider
‘Coming to Mrs Wallet’s?’ Tom Johns was lighting his bicycle lamp, shielding the rather damp match that he had taken from a small tin and struck on hi …
Read moreLest We Forget
The recent actions of Black Lives Matter (BLM) protesters tearing down statues of the slave owner Edward Colston in Bristol has drawn public attention …
Read moreEarly Twentieth-century Welsh Plays in English, Vol 1: ‘A Dirty Broth’
The first volume of a two-book series devoted to Welsh writing for the theatre, A Dirty Broth, contains the complete texts of just three plays. You m …
Read morePravda Ha Ha
Jemma L King is intrigued by this exploration, comic in parts, in which a return to Russia 30 years on from the fall of the Berlin Wall, reveals the r …
Read moreParch (series 2)
The second series of the S4C drama, Parch, came to a hauntingly ambiguous end two Sundays ago, having delighted audiences for eight weeks with its fin …
Read moreNo Good Brother
The opening paragraph of Tyler Keevil’s third novel draws the reader in immediately: The end of the story is pretty well known, since people wound up …
Read moreBad Ideas/Chemicals by Lloyd Markham
‘Some authors try to do weird. Some writers write weird. Lloyd Markham is weird.’ When I read Chris Meredith’s recommendation of this début novel, I a …
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