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Tale of forgotten Welsh hero Ifor Bach resurrected in new book

If you’ve heard his name it’s probably thanks to the club in Cardiff, or the school in Abertridwr – but…

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How live-tweeting Cardiff’s 1919 race riots helped us uncover a forgotten part of Welsh history

Yasmin Begum One hundred years ago, Cardiff was home to some of the most vicious race riots ever seen in…

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Review: The Blue Tent is a portal to a magical Wales

Jon Gower It’s already turning out to be a bumper year for fiction from Wales with superb novels such as…

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Review: Gwen’s mud-filled horror gives us a slice of Welsh history on screen

Ben Gregory Over the last week, I have been fortunate enough to attend three events which tells us a lot…

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Review: I, Eric Ngalle – One man’s journey crossing continents from Africa to Europe

Jon Gower For its 30th anniversary, the Hay Festival selected 30 young novelists, scientists, philosophers, performers and activists who will…

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Review: Dim Croeso ’69 – Gwrthsefyll yr Arwisgo

Jon Gower The 1969 Investiture of Charles Philip Arthur George as Prince of Wales was a seismic event in modern…

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Review: On the Red Hill – Where four lives fell into place

Jon Gower This is a rustic and compelling tale of two gay relationships and the way they intertwine.  When Mike…

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What’s in a review? Eric Ngalle, Jim Perrin and the Wales Arts Review

Jasmine Donahaye Every so often, a critical book review sets off a bit of a storm. These reviews have usually…

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Review: Cadoc and the Drowned Boys chooses palatability over the darker aspects of the story

Jafar Iqbal There’s a lot to unpack in the story of St Cadoc. Credited as the man who brought Christianity…

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Review: John Jenkins: The Reluctant Revolutionary?

Jon Gower When Archbishop Makarios, the first leader of a newly independent Cyprus ordered the insurgents who had been fighting…

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Review: Throw Me to the Wolves has plenty of verve and oodles of telling insight

Jon Gower This sophisticated and sassy novel, set in the Kentish Medway, mixes up the police procedural with a forensic…

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Review: Years and Years is a bleak projection shot through with brilliant imagination

Jon Gower This time-travelling series by the outrageously gifted Welsh writer Russell T. Davies takes us into the chillingly plausible…

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