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June 17, 2011
Patrick McGuinness
Patrick McGuinness is a Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Oxford University and a Fellow of St Anne’s College where he has taught since 1998. He lives in North West Wales. His poetry is published by Carcanet and he has won an Eric Gre…
June 17, 2011
‘Daniel’s Beetles’
Released 16th May 2011 by Tony Bianchi. Daniel’s Beetles is the author’s translation of his prizewinning novel, Pryfeta Daniel is six. One afternoon, while playing with insects in the garden, he sees his father fall to his death. Is he upset? It’s di…
June 17, 2011
‘Real South Pembrokeshire’
The latest release in The Real Series. Released 13th June 2011 by Tony Curtis. Poet, and past resident and frequent visitor Tony Curtis roams south Pembrokeshire, from costal resorts of Tenby and Saundersfoot, west to the surfers of Stackpole and Bar…
June 17, 2011
Tony Curtis
Tony Curtis is Emeritus Professor of Poetry at the University of Glamorgan where he introduced Creative Writing in 1981; he ran this discipline as both an undergraduate and post-graduate subject for nearly thirty years. He was born in Camarthen in 19…
June 17, 2011
‘Real Bloomsbury’
Published 15th November 2010 by Nicholas Murray. “His (Murray) amiably informative and well-illustrated book is the ideal companion to any tour.” The Independent Birthplace of Christian Socialism. Site of the British Museum, University College, RADA…
June 17, 2011
Nicholas Murray
Nicholas Murray is a biographer, poet, novelist and critic. The author of acclaimed biographies of Matthew Arnold, Andrew Marvell, Aldous Huxley and Franz Kafka, he is also the Royal Literary Fund Writer for Queen Mary College University of London. V…
June 17, 2011
‘Real Llanelli’
Published 3rd December 2009 by Jon Gower. Llanelli stands on several borders in Wales. Industrial town, or still belonging to its rural Carmarthenshire hinterland? Welsh or Englishspeaking? Plaid or Labour? Shaped by its workers or by the small numbe…
June 17, 2011
Jon Gower
Jon Gower is a producer with Boomerang, one of Wales’ most dynamically creative TV and radio companies. He was BBC Wales’ Arts and Media correspondent from 2000-2006, when he also presented First Hand, BBC Radio Wales’ arts programme. Jon has also wo…
June 17, 2011
‘Real Cardiff Three’
Published 26th November 2009 by Peter Finch. Since Peter Finch began his capital trilogy in 2002, Cardiff has changed enormously. In Real Cardiff Three Finch checks out the new, from Torchwood to St David’s 2, while continuing his authorial dig, reve…
June 17, 2011
‘Real Liverpool’
Published 1st January 2009 by Niall Griffiths. In population terms, Liverpool isn’t a huge city (it is dwarfed by Birmingham), but it looms colossally in the history (recorded and mythical) of the British Isles, and indeed the world. Real Liverpoolis…
June 17, 2011
‘Real Wales’
Published on 1st January 2009 by Peter Finch. In this ambitious offering from the Real… series, following acclaim for Real Cardiff and Real Cardiff Two, Finch takes on the alien land he didn’t know was his, until he grew and went to see it: Real Wale…
June 17, 2011
‘Real Merthyr’
Published 1st November 2008 by Mario Basini. About Mario Basini Mario Basini is a journalist and columnist with the Western Mail. He writes and broadcasts on a wide range of subjects and has presented programmes on BBC Wales, BBC Radio Wales and Radi…
