Hayley Long is the author of several novels, mainly for young adults, including What’s Up with Jody Barton? (shortlisted for the 2012 Costa Book Awards). Her most recent novel, Downside Up, was published in July of this year, and she is currently at work on a new project while also teaching in Norfolk. Here, she […]
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Sarah Waters in Conversation with Sarah Broughton

Sarah Broughton

PUBLISHED ON: 02/10/13

CATEGORY: Blog

In his recent review of Sarah Waters’ Fingersmith, writer and critic Matt Thorne describes her as ‘not simply one of our best historical novelists, bu …

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Interview with Cynan Jones

Kat Dawes

PUBLISHED ON: 23/05/13

CATEGORY: Interview

Cynan Jones lives in the coastal village of Aberarth near Aberaeron, Ceredigion. His new flash fiction story ‘Lifeboat’ is published in issue 100 of N …

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NWR Editor’s pick of early spring 2013 titles from Wales

Gwen Davies

PUBLISHED ON: 08/02/13

CATEGORY: Blog

Out Now: Intermission by Owen Martell Novel on the Bill Evans Trio and 60s NY jazz era] First English novel by Welsh-medium prizewinning author based …

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Niall Griffiths

by Crystal Jeans

PUBLISHED ON: 27/11/12

CATEGORY: Interview

NWR: I know you’ve been busy with your latest novel, A Great Big Shining Star, on which you said in an interview with ‘Interview with Niall Griffiths, …

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Baron Samedi and Other Vital Illusions

Gwen Davies

PUBLISHED ON: 22/11/12

CATEGORY: Blog

NWR’S Winter edition is led by surfer Tom Anderson’s essay on Havana, ‘Castro’s Capitol’. Here he gets to grips with Cuba’s Byzantine currencies of pe …

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Stevie Davies

by Kath Stansfield

PUBLISHED ON: 21/11/12

CATEGORY: Interview

NWR: Many of your novels could be categorised as historical fiction in that they are set in time periods removed from the present day, including the e …

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Tessa Hadley

by Gwen Davies

PUBLISHED ON: 24/10/12

CATEGORY: Interview

NWR: The London Train has an unusual structure in two parts, linked by the Cardiff-Paddington train and the character Paul (a husband in Part 1 but a …

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Tiffany Murray

by James Lloyd

PUBLISHED ON: 11/10/12

CATEGORY: Interview

NWR: Both of your previous novels take place close to the border between England and Wales. In a previous interview you’ve mentioned that when writing …

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Brave New World that Has Such Objects In It

Gwen Davies

PUBLISHED ON: 30/01/12

CATEGORY: Blog

My relationship with physical stuff was never easy. That I was a clumsy child whose most memorable wreckage was the school projector, may have jaded m …

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