Emma Shepherd It’s been 10 years since I first encountered Sue Timms, singing songs about her comfy life in Roath…
Jon Gower From penniless exile to adroit wielder of power, this book follows the route to power of a steely…
Jude Rogers “When I moved back to Wales…” I begin – and then I stop myself. I didn’t move back…
Katy Cox The Bridgend-based cellist explains how she turned her experiences as the mother of two autistic sons into a…
Lottie Williams finds an account of a walk through Wales leaves an imprint on her soul. Sarn Helen: A Journey…
Caroline Bracken finds killer lines, companionable words and big subjects in three new volumes of poetry Pearl and Bone Leaving room…
Rhodri Davies Why does a Welshman from the Rhondda come to choose the 1978 World Cup in Argentina as the…
Laura Mochan Creativity is the language of the soul; the imagination is the tool by which it is expressed. Be…
Jon Gower It would be hard to find a more repellent, boorish and out-and-out misogynistic central character in a novel.…
Carwyn Graves Many of our native foodstuffs are celebrated in Welsh folklore and tradition, from the oats that were once…
**CONTENT WARNING: This extract includes a description of suicide** Cardiff-based novelist Carole Hailey’s newly published, debut novel has just been…
Tom Bullough It would have been 2008, I suppose, when I decided I had to walk Sarn Helen: the Roman…
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