Translated by Lloyd Jones I'm aiming to read more books in translation this year so when I started considering possible options for Reading Wales, also known as #Dewithon, hosted this month by Paula a...

Because I'm trying to control the book buying a little (ahem), I've been tending to chuck interesting-sounding titles onto a wishlist, and I had a bit of a clear out of it recently. However, there wer...

'Honesty' (detail from photo by Anja Huisman). Poems by Diana Wynne Jones. Edited by Isobel Armstrong.Moondust Books, 2019. The cover of this posthumous collection of poems by Diana Wynne Jones, who d...

Is there anything more alive than an eight-, nine-year-old child? No. So imagine losing all that life at once, all that talk and song and dance and fight. In 1966, a coal slag heap collapsed on a row ...

I’m not a big reader of crime fiction (outside of the golden age), but Susan’s review of A Little London Scandal by Miranda Emmerson (2020) piqued my interest. At the time I bought a copy for my Dad’s...

Because I'm trying to control the book buying a little (ahem), I've been tending to chuck interesting-sounding titles onto a wishlist, and I had a bit of a clear out of it recently. However, there wer...

Half a Crown by Jo Walton. 3rd in The Small Change Trilogy. Corsair, 2014 (2008). "So let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late." — Bob Dylan, 'All Along the Watchtower' It's approaching E...

King Arthur's Round Table: Caerleon Roman amphitheatre, 'The Book of South Wales, the Wye and the Coast' (1861) The Green Round by Arthur Machen. Ernest Benn, 1933. "Poor Uncle Ernest. What he will sa...