A book remembering the life of Assembly Member Steffan Lewis will be launched at the Senedd on Tuesday. Published in Welsh and English almost a year after his death, Son of Gwent: Cofio Steffan Lewis will include contributions from his family and friends, as well as politicians such as Elin […]
Jon Gower Easily one of the best researched and elegantly expressed books to appear in Wales this year, ‘Brando’s Bride’ also benefits from having at its heart a Hollywood tale with lush, glitzy and dollar strewn romance countermanded by a drug and booze-fuelled tragedy. As if that wasn’t enough it’s […]
Dylan Wyn Williams Compare and contrast. Earlier this year, a BBC Wales commission was shown to the rest of the UK. Pitching In, a light-hearted drama series (dramedy?) with Larry Gavin & Stacey Lamb, set in ‘Daffodil Dunes’ caravan park on Ynys Mׅôn with a mainly Lancastrian cast and a […]
Ifan Morgan Jones It’s unlikely that the writers of Frozen 2 had the political history of 20th century Wales in mind when they sat down to write the movie’s script. But with a plot revolving around an intergenerational attempt to right the wrongs surrounding the creation of an artificial lake […]
Jon Gower Ohio is one of those bellwether US states that can swing one way or another, voting Republican or Democrat on a whim and thus a sought after prize by politicians of both ilks. It is also home to the poet Zoë Brigley who was brought up in Caerphilly […]
Sarah Tanburn Bede and Elin live on their smallholding on the banks of the Severn. They aim for self-sufficiency, to walk as lightly on the Earth as they can, yet they are weighed down by past sorrows and mistakes, especially Bede. Family secrets are hidden, waiting to surface into their […]
Emily Garside Mags is part of a growing – and welcome – trend among bilingual performance pieces where languages mix seamlessly, making the work accessible to all, no matter what their linguistic skills may be. There are sure to be purists who rail against this trend, but frankly it would […]
Jon Gower It’s not often you imagine people having to buckle up before reading a bunch of short stories but with this one you need something to hold you onto or into your seat: this is Formula 1 prose that goes at one hell of a lick. There’s a whole […]
Dylan Wyn Williams On a cold dark October eve, armed with a cuppa and feet up, I was ready for a rare creature on the box. A Wales-set drama shown across the UK. No, not the one with Eve Myles and the irritating soundtrack. Rather, an emotionally charged four-parter […]
Jon Gower Two words, painted white against a red background, seem on the face of it a simple graffito. ‘Cofiwch Dryweryn.’ They exhort us to remember Tryweryn and the drowning of the farming community of Capel Celyn in the 1960s to supply water to Liverpool Corporation. But as this book […]
