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<p>Tom Browning is 36. Bored and frustrated at home, he has reached the point of cynicism as a music teacher in a comprehensive school. Asking a class to respond to the lyrics of some pop music, it is Tom, afraid of growing fat, bald and middle-aged, who discerns a spurious truth in the hope and yearning of the words. He promptly falls in...
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<p>In this new mystery Inspector Chard is confronted with another murder in bustling Victorian Pontypridd. On the face of it the case appears unremarkable, even if it isn’t obviously solvable, but following new leads takes Chard into unexpected places. A second murder, a sexual predator, industrial espionage and a mining disaster...
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<h2> </h2><p><br /><strong>For the first time at an Olympic Games, the 10 men's Boxing events at London 2012 will be joined by three women's events. </strong><br /><br />Written in honest, original prose, sharp with imagery and a love of place, debut author Louise...
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<p>1893: A train to the bustling industrial town of Pontypridd crashes, and in the chaos of the disaster a killer covers up a violent murder. Two years later Thomas Chard’s arrival to take up his post as inspector in the burgeoning police force coincides with the grisly discovery of a body in the River Taff. Chard grapples with the...
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<p><strong>‘Tulloch’s new novel is full of wit, smart observation and, yes, Philip Larkin.’ – <em>The TLS</em></strong></p><p><strong>‘A really clever look both at Larkin, at Hull, at the 1950s’ – Michael Arditti on BBC Radio 4...
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<p> </p><p>Winner of the Glen Dimplex Award for fiction 2009</p><p> </p><p><strong>“Walking Clifton Street, in any direction, is like going to your own funeral.”</strong><br /><br /><em>Last Bird Singing</em> is a blacker than black...
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<p>Connolly, old, recently widowed, body declining, is marooned in the house of his son in Wales. An Irishman from Carlow he joined the British army to escape poverty and found himself on the wrong side of the Irish conflict and the wrong side of the Irish Sea. At the end of his life Connolly can only wonder what form an ’Irish...
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<p> </p><p>Zillah Bethell brings events to life in a rollercoaster, almost caricature-like style, rather than a realistic reconstruction of history and hardship, although the details of the setting are keenly researched and acutely dramatised. Her protagonist is Eveline, a young woman longing for action,...
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<p>Richard Parry is a painter who cannot paint, a writer who doesn’t write. </p><p>His obsession is Lulu, that ‘orphan off the street’, his aboriginal ‘green child’.</p><p>But on returning from Australia to his hometown he finds it has become...
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<p>The IRA are loose in Wales, aiming to assassinate Prince Charles and Diana at Cardiff castle. The hit-squad’s divided in lust and loyalty. The plan may already be compromised …<br /><br />Detective Sergeant Will Morgan has problems: a youngster murdered, another on the run, an unsuitable rookie to break in...
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<p> </p><p> </p><p><strong>‘A blast from the past…beautifully told’ – Maureen Lipman<br /><br />‘This is a five star read – one to take to bed at night and enjoy until the small hours… Kathryn Simmonds&rsquo...
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<p>Siân James brings her customary narrative flair and ear for dialogue to this beautifully-observed novel of love, scandal and grief set in wartime rural Wales.<br /><br />For three years, young teacher Rhian Evans has lived a life of isolation in her small village, patiently awaiting the return of her soldier-husband, Huw....
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<p>'Who made an ache under my rib?' asks the poet on the first page of <em>Love from Wales</em>, and just what makes the Welsh a passionate race? This selection of poetry and prose on the theme of love by Welsh poet Tony Curtis and novelist Sian James offers some lively answers.<br /><br /><em>...
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<p>Innovative, erudite and enormously entertaining, <em>Love on the Borders</em> is the work of a unique literary mind: wideranging, encyclopaedic, insightful and enormously readable, it follows spirited 40-something Celestine as she walks the length of Offa’s Dyke - the ancient earthwork which traces the boundary...
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<p><strong>WINNER OF WALES BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2007</strong><br /><br /><em>Mr Cassini</em> a remarkable follow-up to the award-winning Mr Vogel.<br /><br /><em>Mr Cassini</em> is an amazing journey through the geography of one man’s troubled mind as he tries...
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<p>Winner of the' McKitterick First Novel Award'</p><p>Shortlisted for the 'Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction'</p><p>"ONE OF THE MOST REMARKABLE BOOKS EVER WRITTEN ON THE SUBJECT OF WALES." So said Jan Morris of Lloyd Jones’ extraordinary...
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<p><strong>“A book which well justifies a description as a good read, with more twists than the river Severn.” – Nation Cymru</strong></p><p><strong>“...another fast paced, thrilling romp through the criminal underworld of Victorian Society.” &ndash...
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<p>"Lloyd Jones's novella has the epic scope of the novels of Umberto Eco... the quirkiness and attention to details of John Irving." <em>– <strong>New Welsh Review</strong></em><br /><br />"Jones captures a magic largely absent from the modern world."...
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<p>When Arthur Noone arrives at South Missouri State University to research American usage of English, words almost fail to describe the fix in which he finds himself. Bored with academe and escaping a broken marriage, the weak-willed Arthur is desperate to have a good time with American beer and women. In a fruitless wait for a new woman...
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