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AmeriCymru: Hi Sue and many thanks for agreeing to this interview. Care to introduce yourself and your work for our readers? Sue: Hello! It’s a pleasure to be here. ‘Here’ for me is near Porthmadog in North Wales. However, I lived near Aberystwyth in Mid-Wales until I was ten years old, and then lived on Anglesey (Ynys Môn) until my early twenties. I currently work as a proofreader and editor of English, and as a Welsh-to-English literary translator. But I didn’t start off that way! After school I trained as a cartographer, and then worked drawing maps by hand...
Read MoreTHIS HOUSE by Sian Northey Translated from Welsh by Susan Walton Published by 3TimesRebel Press Plastic-free paperback with French flaps & Wibalin® endpapers Pages: 190 ISBN 978-1-7391287-9-1 Price £12.99 / e-book £6.99 Our first translation from Welsh comes out this March. The fair trade independent publisher 3TimesRebel Press is excited to announce the publication of This House . It is the sixth fiction title in our groundbreaking and debate-sparking catalogue of works in translation written...
Read MoreThe Miners Strike Back is a new satirical novel by ex-miner Kevin Dicks and published by Y Lolfa. It is his debut novel and has been described as ‘ Twin Town meets the Miners’ Strike”. Kevin Dicks said: “The idea for the novel came to me whilst digging in my garden I came across a few rogue lumps of coal. What if an ex-coal miner discovered a seam of coal and opened a small clandestine colliery? I saw comedy in the story and a quirkiness to the story that may appeal to readers. As an authentic voice, perhaps I could capture a little of the miners’ humour before it...
Read MoreWales on This Day Huw Rees and Sian Kilcoyne 20 October 2022 Hardback, £12.99, 200 pages ISBN: 9781915279118, Calon Did you know that the recipe of Tennessee's famous Jack Daniel's whiskey is rumoured to have originated in Llanelli? Or that the world's first radio play was set in a Welsh coal mine? Why was a showing of the Jurassic Park film in Carmarthen so special? And how is Rupert Bear connected to Snowdonia?...
Read MoreWales is known for its stunning scenery and beautiful coastline. Created from several existing coastal paths – such as the Pembrokeshire Coast Path National Trail – the Wales Coast Path has attracted thousands of tourists and walkers since its official launch in May 2012. This week sees the publication of Weatherman Walking – The Welsh Coast , the book accompanying BBC Wales’ beloved weatherman Derek Brockway’s twelfth series of the popular BBC programme. Originally broadcast on BBC Wales, all eight episodes of the series are now being shown on the BBC and are available on BBC...
Read MoreVisit Barrie Doyle's website: click here ... I love reading historical fiction. I was taught history the old, boring, way of memorizing lists of king and prime ministers, battle dates, and significant eras of change such as the Renaissance only to forget them immediately after the test. And yet, I had a fascination with the bygone eras. How did they impact who we are and what we do in the twenty-first century? Have we changed or are people still basically people with the same hopes and fears but just with different technologies and toys? My answer was found...
Read More“I don’t expect everyone to agree with everything in the book – it will be too radical for some, and for others it won’t be radical enough,” says author Llywelyn ap Gwilym about his new bilingual book, Llyfr Du Cymru Fydd / The Black Book of the New Wales (Y Lolfa), which is published this week. The organiser of the AUOB Cymru rallies which attracted thousands to pro-independence marches in Cardiff, Caernarfon and Merthyr pre Covid-19 has written his vision of an independent Wales. Llywelyn ap Gwilym, who is also on the Central Committee of YesCymru, said: “I’ve supported...
Read MoreHi from North Wales I hope that you’re all keeping safe and well. I’ve got a special offer to share with you – perfect for a few enjoyable hours. Audible have given me codes that allow FREE downloads of the audio version of my Inspector Drake novels. The great thing is that you DON’T need to have a subscription to Audible to enjoy the audio books. I only have a LIMITED number of codes and they are only for the US and the UK so if you’re in Canada or Australia or elsewhere my apologies. Some of you may have taken up the offer of codes for Brass in Pocket the 1 st...
Read MoreHi from Wales I hope that you’re all keeping safe and well. My thanks to everyone who has bought Times Like These , the fourth Inspector Marco novel that was launched recently. I’m really pleased with the reviews and comments from readers. “Stephen Puleston does for Cardiff what Rankin does for Edinburgh- uses a Capital city as a perfect backdrop to a series of gruesome murders. If you enjoy a good murder yarn you will love this book.” 5* Amazon review “ This is a very intriguing read I really had no idea who was responsible and there are so many red herrings and dead...
Read MoreHi from Wales I hope that you’re all keeping safe and well in these uncertain and difficult times. Times Like These, the fourth Inspector Marco novel was launched last week, and I’m really pleased with the reviews and comments from readers. “At times I couldn’t turn the pages quick enough. ‘Times Like These’ is superbly written …” 5* Amazon review “Mr Puleston has done it again and written a great well thought out book but also incorporated what is happening in the real world to help keep things feel real.” 5* Amazon review Grab your copy today by clicking this...
Read MoreHi, The fourth Inspector Marco novel Times Like These is launched today! Grab your copy today by clicking this link. Times Like These - AMAZON . I'll probably have a quiet glass of something bubbly today and cross my fingers that the book will be a success. ... ... Some of the background to Times Like These . After the last Inspector Drake novel I wanted to revisit Detective Inspector Marco, based in Cardiff. When I started to plot the novel it was at the start of the Covid 19 lockdown and it got me thinking about setting a...
Read MoreBeca a Catrin is now available on Amazon. (The Welsh version of Reba and Katherine/Messy Hair Game) Softcover * 36 pages * 8.5 x 8.5 There is also a corresponding coloring book. Ages 3-7 ISBN: 9781945669385 Available on Amazon: Beca A Catrin About the book: Reba and Katherine are two sisters who learn a lesson about patience and forgiveness as their choice create more work for Grandma. The story provides opportunity for interesting discussion about consequences and decision-making. You can listen to a free English audio version on the website. The...
Read MorePlaid Cymru leader Adam Price today publishes an anthology of notable writings which can be seen as a ‘manifesto’ for Welsh independence. Wales – The First and Final Colony by Adam Price, published this week by Y Lolfa, is a collection of writings by the politician and Plaid Cymru leader on the politics, history and culture of Wales. In it, Adam offers his ideas for securing a brighter future for Wales. Adam Price was born to a working class family in a council house in Carmarthenshire the son of Rufus, a miner and Welsh champion boxer, and Angela, who moved to Wales from...
Read More.. .. Mae Dyddiadur newydd A5 Y Lolfa newydd gael ei gyhoeddi. Gellir ei archebu yma am £5.99 (& £2 cludiant os yw’r archeb yn llai na £10). Bydd ein dyddiaduron eraill yn cael eu cyhoeddi yn fuan. Y Lolfa’s new A5 blilingual Diary has just been released. It can be ordered here for £5.99 (& £2 if your order is less than £10). Our other diaries will be available soon. .. ..
Read MoreAmeriCymru: Hi Helena and many thanks for agreeing to this interview. What can you tell us about the history of Honno Press? How did it get started? Helena: Back in 1986 a group of determined women from all over Wales got together to discuss the possibility of establishing a Welsh Women’s Press. It was felt at the time that existing male-dominated publishing houses in Wales discriminated against women writers and were not particularly interested in women’s issues or interests. Nowhere was this better illustrated than in the publication around that time of an anthology of...
Read MoreNew Welsh Review is excited to announce the opening of the fourth iteration of the New Welsh Writing Awards. The 2018 award is the Aberystwyth University Prize for an Essay Collection. To complement the awards, a companion Readers’ Poll for the best essay collection ever published in the English language (including in translation) around the world, is also being launched. Now in its fourth year, the Awards were set up to champion the best short-form writing in English and have previously run non-fiction categories with the WWF Cymru Prize for Writing on Nature, won by Eluned Gramich...
Read MoreMEMOIR THEME FOR NEW WELSH READER New Welsh Reader Autumn Edition (115) Publication date: 1 September 2017 The autumn edition of New Welsh Reader includes exclusive extracts from entries to the New Welsh Writing Awards 2017: Aberystwyth University Prize for Memoir. First place winner Catherine Haines’ memoir gives an insight into a young woman’s experience of anorexia while at Oxford University. As the Cambridge Weight Plan spins out of control, a post-grad’s academic subject, ‘the mind-body problem’, goes through an existential phase to become ‘extraordinary...
Read MoreMORE FROM 'Y TEITHIWR TWP' HERE Cardiff Photos: 4 The last week, I’ve been in and out of Cardiff, or the ‘Diff. I am staying a little over 6 miles outside Central Cardiff with my friends Dawn and Andrew in Gwaelod y Garth. Gwaelod y Garth was once officially part of the Rhondda, but more recently has been incorporated into Cardiff. Consequently, it has become quite posh. I am staying at the foot of Mynydd Y Garth (Garth Mountian), which inspired the fictional location Fynnon Garw for the movie The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill and Came Down a...
Read MoreThe second installment of a new trilogy which tells the compelling story of the early years of Glyndŵr’s uprising is published this week. Glyndŵr: To Arms! by the late Moelwyn Jones is an imaginary novel based on the real life and battles of Owain Glyndŵr. It follows the publishing of the bestselling Glyndŵr - Son of Prophecy last Christmas. The trilogy was completed before the author’s death in 2015. Glyndŵr: To Arms! Offers a portrayal of the life of Wales’ revolutionary hero Owain Glyndŵr, resident bard and Glyndŵr confidant Gruffudd ap Caradog tells of a time...
Read MoreThe dark money the dirtiest companies the black in the white our speckled humanity the rainbows of this world bled white by underhanded organisations of thieves and murderers educated but unelected covetous but unaccountable colourless and colourblind my colour-co-ordinated veins handy for the hospital engineers and their USB sticks
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