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In 1954, author Caradog Prichard's mother died in Denbigh ‘seilam’, having spent thirty years inside.
This Malcom Pryce-alike mash-up of detective story with magic and mayhem is a winning combo.
Biographers, dealing as they are with lives passing (or gone), wrestle more than other writers with those inevitables:...

September 26, 1936
Morning broke with its habitual rich cacophony: clank of car on the road; ring of water in the tin bucket. Loud voices, cock-crow, barking dogs joining the chorus.
Political mythology with Horatio Clare and Fflur Dafydd
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Now town teems with men with impossibly black wigs and muttonchops. They are entrants in the festival’s karaokes and competitions. And I ask, who are these people? Why have they come? The clearest answer is they hail from south Wales, especially the valleys, and the English Midlands. What they’re creating is a magnificent working class eisteddfod. And whoever they are, they certainly understand the protocols of alcohol.

The Book of the Year shortlist ceremony in Brecon last night was really well attended and organised
Hay; summer author interviews and books; autumn preview
Faith in science and imperialist mission is at the heart of Tom Bullough’s new novel, Konstantin.
An excellent first offering, giving a thought provoking series of wry, often wistful fresh angles on the fragility of relationships. Readers will want more, anticipating the emergence of a strong, telling voice in fiction from Wales. ...more>>>
I asked everyone what I should say in this piece. My mother told me I shouldn’t write about myself at all, but the time, the place, the culture. It sounded like a good plan for avoiding vanity but I can’t pretend it doesn’t rankle. These things, they’re my material: the time, the place, the culture, and my experiences of them, which I couldn’t extricate anyway. So memoir... not a little like masturbation. Here goes another kid. ...more>>>
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