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Daily Express Scores Dovetail by Jeremy Hughes 4/5!
Jeremy Hughes Dovetail was reviewed by the Daily Express' Anita Jardine, who gave it a 4/5 Score and the following endorsement: "Impressive debut novel... devised by an original mind and told in tight, well-crafted prose.... That Hughes still holds the reader's attention until the final shattering revelation is a tribute
to his skill." Score" 4/5.
The Vagabond's Breakfast on Sandy Toksvig's Excess Baggage, Radio Four, Sat 18 June, 10am
Richard Gwyn was interviewed by comedian and broadcaster Sandy Toksvig for her travel programme Excess Baggage, broadcast on Radio Four on Saturday 19 June at 10am. He talked about those parts of The Vagabond's Breakfast set in northern Spain for the programme's special on Catalunya Excess Baggage
Major NWR Hay Interview with Richard Gwyn and Horatio Clare
Excerpts from The Vagabond's Breakfast ran during the week of 9-13 May alongside a rave review of Scott Pack's which compares Gwyn's writing on illness with the writing of Hilary Mantel and Joan Didion, plus Scott interviews Richard Gwyn about the book.
Scott Pack's extract selection from The Vagabond's Breakfast
Extract 1: 'Fingers' In which fingers are lost to an industrial saw
Extract 2: 'Brain Fog' In which an alarm clock is stuffed with bread
Extract 3: 'Roberto Bolano' In which the author thinks he may have met Roberto Bolano
Extract 4: 'Welcome to Tunisia'
Review on Me and My Big Mouth
Scott Pack talks to Richard Gwyn about The Vagabond's Breakfast
Telegraph Hay Festival 2011: Richard Gwyn in "Running for the Hills" with Horatio Clare and NWR editor Gwen Davies. Richard Gwyn is the author of The Vagabond's Breakfast, Horatio Clare of Truant, Notes from the Slippery Slope, and Gwen Davies is the new editor of the New Welsh Review.
Richard Gwyn at Hay 2011
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The Independent's Book of a Lifetime: Borges' Fictions is Richard Gwyn's choice Richard Gwyn's Book of a Lifetime
Thursday 12 May 2011, Meet Jayne Joso at the Big Green Bookshop, Wood Green, N22 6BG. London public launch of Perfect Architect. 7pm
3am Magazine Interviews Jayne Joso!
Read Interview
Disability Magazine Interviews Romy Wood
Read Interview
Penny Simpson will be appearing at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, August 13-29, 2011, where she will be reading from her new novel, The Deer Wedding
Archive News
Joso Cerys BBC Six Music choice
Jayne Joso at Ladyfest Ten
Deer Wedding at Art Roath Festival
Chris Keil at Wales at Wordstock
Bamboo Grove WMC launch sells out
Deer Wedding launch
Bumping Nominee, Portico Prize for Literature
Soothing Music shortlisted for TPBP
Tony Bianchi in conversation at Hay Festival 2010
Faith, Hope and Love launch
Fflur Dafydd in Wrexham libraries promotion
Jeb Loy Nichols on Rhys Davies Shortlist 2010
Penny Simpson in Best European Fiction anthology
Fflur Dafydd Scoops Top Welsh Fiction Prize, Aug 09
Fflur Dafydd Selected for Prestigious Iowa Residency, Sept 09
Fflur Dafydd Oxfam Hay Emerging Writer of the Year, May 09
Alan Bilton at Edinburgh, August 09
Gee Williams shortlisted for Wales Book of the Year, June 09
Essential Writers Interview with Editor Gwen Davies
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