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Holly Porter caught up with Gary Raymond to ask a few questions about his forthcoming novel, Angels of Cairo, and writing in general.

Bethan Bates sits down with Swansea poet David Hughes to talk about his new collection Working Out.

This week in Nation.Cymru, Parthian Director Richard Davies published a piece on how Hay has been engaging (or not engaging) with Welsh literature and writers in recent years - and whether it's still held 'in' Wales at all...   Extracts below - for the full read, go to Nation.Cymru.   Writers love being invited to Hay. You’re part of the club, sales will rocket into double figures, you get invited into the Green room and get a free coffee, a chance to smile flirtatiously at Germaine Greer and listen to Stephen Fry talk about his bunions. You used to get paid in...

John Sam Jones’ new memoir, The Journey is Home: Notes From a Life on the Edge came out this month. As John is also the Author of the Month this May, we wanted to take a moment to celebrate him and his work!   In The Journey is Home, John Sam Jones writes of a life lived  on the edge. It is a story of journeys and realisation, of acceptance and joy. From a boyhood on the coast of Wales to a traumatic period studying at Aberystwyth, to a scholarship at Berkley in California as the AIDS epidemic began to take...