Nature writer and poet Susan Richardson shares her enthusiasm for Atlantic grey seals, as she takes us on a fascinating journey around the coast of Britain, in search of those places Where the Seals Sing. As graceful in the sea as they might seem clumsy on land, grey seals have visited our shores and enriched our culture for centuries. Yet…
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I must have been living under a rock because I only heard about Folding Rock a fortnight ago. It’s a magazine showcasing new writing from Wales and beyond, has been going for a year and recently published its fourth issue. I quickly subscribed to the magazine and then bought a ticket to its first birthday party and the launch of…
Emma Kavanagh’s Every Time We Burn is a thrilling family drama set in a coastal Californian town in the path of a wildfire. On the anniversary of her mother’s death, Robyn’s birth father is desperate to speak to her. When she arrives at his house, she finds him dead. When Robyn next wakes, everything has changed. Her father is alive….
There is no time limit on reading books from Wales or those written by Welsh authors in this house but St David’s Day on 1 March kicks off a month of Reading Wales in the blogosphere. If you’re interested in finding out more about Welsh writing beyond Dylan Thomas, here’s your chance. Karen at BookerTalk took over the baton last…
Gethan Dick’s novel Water in the Desert Fire in the Night is a story of hope and resilience which sees disparate neighbours band together after most of London (and the world’s population) is wiped out.. Here is a novel about hope, wolves, companionship and resilience, hunger and gold. It’s about an underachieving millennial, a retired midwife and a charismatic Dubliner…
1 March is St David’s Day here in Wales and heralds the start of Dewithon or the Reading Wales Challenge, started by Paula at Book Jotter and now handed over to Karen at BookerTalk. Karen asked me to write about my favourite fiction from Welsh authors, so here’s my top twelve, in alphabetical order of author, because it was hard…
Dominique dreams of her father’s face in the waters of Angel Falls in Venezuela and shortly after, he contacts her for the first time in 30 years. She travels to Paris for answers in My Hummingbird Father. When artist Dominique receives a letter from her dying father, a reckoning with repressed memories and a pull for romantic and familial love…
Marriage to a London doctor and a new life far from her family in Cheshire is even stranger, and much more dangerous than Madeleine Brewster ever could have imagined in Jody Cooksley’s The Small Museum. London, 1873. Madeleine Brewster’s marriage to Dr Lucius Everley was meant to be the solution to her family’s sullied reputation. After all, Lucius is a…
Maggie Armstrong’s linked collection of short stories, Old Romantics, explores a young Dublin woman’s life through from her early adulthood to a fractious blended family life in the pandemic. Whether a catastrophic road trip, an ill-advised career move or a sinister encounter on the beach, these stories dig at the heart of what it is to be alone and alienated…
Maman by F E Birch is a tense and bruising encounter when one of the police’s own finds herself on the receiving end of their procedures and processes. DS Joanna Armstrong, a top child protection detective, becomes the accused when one of her twin babies develops facial bruising – sending her into a spiralling post-natal psychosis. Her life falls apart…