Jon Gower This is a novel of uprootings and transplanting, concentrating in the main on the tale of Margaret Lewis who exchanges the green, rain-sodden landscape of her home in the Towy valley for the baked earth of South African grasslands. Her family is still dealing with the death of […]
Jon Gower It’s been a while since I picked up a book and then read it all in a single sitting like a school dinner but this rugby inflected murder mystery fair carried me along to its bravura finish, on a matchday, in front of a capacity crowd. In so […]
Mark Mansfield S4C’s gritty bilingual crime drama Bang returns to the small screen this week for its much anticipated second series. The first outing of the Port Talbot set thriller won best drama awards from BAFTA Cymru and the Celtic Media Festival and the creator and writer of the series […]
Jon Gower If ever there was an author qualified to chronicle the remarkable history of the Welsh community in Liverpool it’s the indefatigable D. Ben Rees, who has written no fewer than 30 books on the subject. This latest title acts as a sort of convenient digest of all the […]
Dylan Wyn Williams ‘Brexit day’ has been and gone, and left a cawl potsh of emotions in its wake. To me, a feeling of sadness, anger, bewilderment, and yes, that very Welsh cliché of hiraeth. Hiraeth for something safe and sound that I took for granted throughout my whole life. […]
Jon Gower In an essay written in the mid 1970s Isaac Asimov offered this definition: ‘Science fiction can be defined as that branch of literature which deals with the reaction of human beings to changes in science and technology.’ While there are many definitions of the genre, this one, by […]
Jon Gower This is a superbly researched and sparkily written account of two pivotal years in the history of a Wales team that fully captured the imagination and allegiance of its author’s childhood. It chronicles a span of just fifteen games when a sometimes derided national team featured a talented […]
Robert Downey Jr.’s latest acting role was inspired by one of the foremost Welsh nationalists of the 19th century, he has revealed. Dr. William Price fought throughout the 19th century to promote Wales’ history, culture and language. The eccentric figure said that he believed himself to be the liberator of […]
David Rees The Tuckers is that rare beast, a new sitcom from BBC Wales, written, produced and performed in Wales by a Welsh writer and performers, continuing the resurgence of Wales made, English language TV comedy begun by Tourist Trap last year. These are the first shows since the end […]
Jon Gower Literary festivals leave all sorts of legacies and in the case of the Penfro festival, an annual event in the Pembrokeshire village of Rhosygilwen, it comes in the form of this bright and buoyant anthology. Showcasing the winners of its prose and poetry competitions, it is, as one […]
