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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…
June 17, 2011
‘Real Swansea’
Published 22nd April 2008 by Nigel Jenkins. Welcome to the breezily resurgent, ´ugly, lovely´ city of Swansea. Once a dynamic port and the metallurgical capital of the world, it was later famous for a vibrant artistic life, which included poets Dylan…
June 17, 2011
‘Real Aberystwyth’
Released 9th April 2008 by Niall Griffiths. Aberystwyth: two languages, a university, a farming community, a port turned marina, a holiday resort, seat of the National Library of Wales and the Welsh Books Council, home to writers and spies. It is a s…
June 17, 2011
Niall Griffiths
Niall Griffiths lives near Aberystwyth, and has published seven fiction books to date. His 2004 novel, Stump, won the Welsh Book of the Year Award. He has been published by Bloomsbury and Cape and his work continues to receive strong critical acclaim…
June 17, 2011
‘Real Wrexham’
Published 4th December 2007 by Grahame Davies. “Sometimes I read something and it seems to be so ‘right’ it is beautiful – and that is how this short passage seems to me…Grahame Davies is an accomplished poet, journalist and critic and is also fascin…
June 17, 2011
‘Real Newport’
Released 12th December 2006 by Ann Drysdale. Britain’s youngest city as you’ve never seen it before. Just another Victorian port or an Elizabethan maritime centre? A featureless South Wales town or a growing city on the verge of massive and original…
June 17, 2011
Ann Drysdale
Ann Drysdale is a prize-winning poet and former journalist on the South Wales Argus, with a wealth of knowledge of Newport and its people. Her ability to look at both from an oblique and humorous standpoint is unsurpassed. Books by Ann Drysdale Real…
June 17, 2011
‘Real Cardiff Two: The Greater City’
Published 14th November 2004 by Peter Finch. In the sequel to the hugely popular Real Cardiff, Peter Finch explores the city further, hunts for the legendary peripherique and discovers rubbish dumps, walled housing estates and dead-end lanes. He walk…
June 17, 2011
‘Real Cardiff’
Released 22nd July 2004. Peter Finch’s hugely popular alternative guide to the capital of Wales: “One of the best books I have ever read about a city.” Jan Morris. Peter Finch discovers the real Cardiff – lost rivers, itinerant poets, the old race co…
