An Indigo Summer

This spiritual and psycho-geographical memoir and cultural history of the colour indigo shows how creativity can heal and span generations, writes Liza Penn-Thomas

PUBLISHED ON: 10/05/23

CATEGORY: Reviews

The love and respect that Orrell expresses for her mother is wonderful to read. The author celebrates women like her mother who balance family life wi …

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Delicacy: A Memoir about Cake and Death

Ed Garland gobbles up this rigorous, crafted and very funny exploration of the links between cake and human distress by the Welsh comedian and Ghosts actor

PUBLISHED ON: 28/02/23

CATEGORY: Reviews

[Katy Wix’s] positivity is convincing because it is thoroughly rooted in experience. Her writing in Delicacy is not painful or raw or brutal. It is ca …

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Voyager: Constellations of Memory

Elaine Margolin is startled by this author’s ability to meld past and present, the personal and the political, but above all her concern with comprehending the mindset of perpetrator-turned-confessor

PUBLISHED ON: 01/02/23

CATEGORY: Reviews

Elaine Margolin is startled by this author’s ability to meld past and present, the personal and the political, but above all her concern with comprehe …

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And… A Memoir of My Mother: Negotiating Personal and Racial Identity in Wales

For Amy McCauley, this memoir about colonialism’s violence and its cultural and linguistic erasure, conveys the fragmentation caused by childhood trauma, but does not fully process that trauma

PUBLISHED ON: 31/01/23

CATEGORY: Reviews

For Amy McCauley, this memoir about colonialism’s violence and its cultural and linguistic erasure, conveys the fragmentation caused by childhood trau …

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A Line in the World: A Year on the North Sea Coast

Elaine Margolin admires the acceptance of uncertainty that is at the heart of this travel-based memoir tracing a journey around Skagen Odde peninsula in the far north of Jutland, Denmark

PUBLISHED ON: 28/09/22

CATEGORY: Reviews

Elaine Margolin admires the acceptance of uncertainty that is at the heart of this travel-based memoir tracing a journey around Skagen Odde peninsula …

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A Ray of Darkness

Pippa Marland finds in this classic female autobiography, endorsed by current international epilepsy neurologists, an unrelenting commitment to honesty

PUBLISHED ON: 02/08/22

CATEGORY: Reviews

Pippa Marland finds in this classic female autobiography, endorsed by current international epilepsy neurologists and representing startlingly contemp …

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Painting the Beauty Queens Orange: Women’s Lives in the 70s

Jemma L King, a former Miss Wales finalist, is enchanted to read a prose anthology which explores a quiet revolution of rural entrepreneurship, decimalisation and cultural throwbacks such as the Miss Prestatyn pageant

PUBLISHED ON: 02/08/22

CATEGORY: Reviews

Jemma L King, a former Miss Wales finalist, is enchanted to read a prose anthology which explores a quiet revolution of rural entrepreneurship, decima …

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The Sound of Being Human: How Music Shapes our Lives

Ed Garland finds fascinating this tour through the musical past, which is also a poignant account of loss

PUBLISHED ON: 28/04/22

CATEGORY: Reviews

The Museum of Portable Sound will bring you into contact with an extensive collection of strange sonic entities. You can listen to an old MiniDisc pla …

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Planet Blues

PUBLISHED ON: 26/04/22

CATEGORY: Essays, Feature length, Reviews, review-essay

It’s early winter. I’ve just been for a walk in a field. It’s part of the large estate that surrounds my home – a rented, retired 1830s farmhouse – an …

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The Listening Project

Ed Garland is inspired by a hybrid form of fiction built from and creatively perceived through restricted signals, exploring varieties of listening and sensory experience

PUBLISHED ON: 01/03/22

CATEGORY: Reviews

The Listening Project follows the life of a woman called Imogen, whose difficulties arise both from her hearing loss and from family tensions over her …

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