Tag: memoir

Feature-length in-person interview by New Welsh Review editor Gwen Davies with Nemesis, My Friend author Jay Griffiths, Birdsplaining author Jasmine Donahaye and Rachel Hewitt, author of In Our Nature: How Women Break Boundaries in the Great Outdoors. Subjects discussed include winter sports, teenage girls' inhibition in relation to nature and the outdoors, and the colonial origins of ornithology

PUBLISHED ON: 14/07/23

CATEGORY: Interview audio

Feature-length in-person interview by New Welsh Review editor Gwen Davies with Windstill author Eluned Gramich and Birdsplaining author Jasmine Donahaye, about domestic violence, belonging and nature

PUBLISHED ON: 14/07/23

CATEGORY: Interview video

Eleanor Williams on a shattered stone sword, memorial to her family hero, Resistance fighter and highest ranking civil servant in France, Jean Moulin

PUBLISHED ON: 12/07/23

CATEGORY: Essays

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

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

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

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

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

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

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