Tag: urban
The Shaking City
Many of us find ourselves reflecting on the past with a certain fondness as we head towards uncertain times. There is an absolute quality to history, …
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Impeccable
Jameel Sandham’s self-published crime thriller, Impeccable, eerily reminiscent of Ivrine Welsh’s best-selling hit Trainspotting, offers a gritty depic …
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The Dead City Rollers by RT Stroud
Ffion Lindsay cannot imagine RT Stroud’s cinematic debut novel being set anywhere other than Swansea, a place where according to her personal experien …
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Water, Water, Nowhere
Mattie tried to remain composed while she faced the IriScan, keeping her features relaxed so the pigment algorithm of her irises could be analysed. It …
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The Homeless Heart-throb
‘His urine was starting to scare him,’ notes the narrator of ‘Dogs Only’, one of the milder stories in this sharp new collection (interwoven into nove …
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Things that Make the Heart Beat Faster
In the closing story of João Morais’ striking debut collection, we meet Kung Fu. He has stopped a silver Corsa on the Cowbridge Road and the traffic i …
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The Treatment
On a night when the millennium was young, Craig Norman, then my boss at The G*******, took me to the Tiresias. It was Craig’s birthday and Craig was a …
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The Woman at the Well
When I got out at the station I found the only way of getting to the house was on foot. Jameson, a little man with a thin moustache and turn-down coll …
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The Buddha and the Pear
Sometimes we pay too much attention, sometimes not enough. I’d taken the long route home again, back down Penglais hill from the library, not out of c …
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