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'Hello Friend We Missed You' on the Guardian's Not the Booker Prize longlist
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'The Road to Zarauz' is a 'tight, taut tale'
Nation.Cymru have reviewed Sam Adams's poignant coming-of-age novella, The Road to Zarauz, describing it as a 'tight, taut tale of four young men heading for a sojourn in Spain in the summer of 1954'.
'For the remaining three men who took the road to Zarauz, with its dark curtains of storm and endless sweep of beach, they know that this was the place where, indubitably, their youthful dreams had ended, shattered like Guernica.'
You can read the full review here.
Bookcase Focus: An Interview with Richard Gwyn
'My concerns are primarily with matters of perception, and the many ways that individuals attempt to overcome the recurrent problem of communication. I try not to get hung up on trivia, and at the same time I love detail.'
Wales Literature Exchange, for their annual Bookcase, have selected The Blue Tent by Richard Gwyn as one of their 2019/2020 Welsh literary works recommended for translation.
Click the link here to read what Richard had to say when they interviewed him.
Jodie Bond talks about her writing processes with The Cardiff Review
For their New Welsh Writers series, The Cardiff Review's Jamie Gillingham interviewed Jodie Bond (The Vagabond King) about all things writing. The series 'speaks to new voices in Welsh literature, delving into how they got their start and what advice they might have for other emerging writers.'
Jodie talks about her writing routine, her inspirations, and her experience of the route into publishing.
