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Book Launch Photo Blog: A Van of One's Own
We had a fab launch of Biddy Well's travel memoir crossing Portugal in A Van of One's Own at the Carnival Bookshop in Cardiff last Thursday. You can pick up a copy from our website and all good bookshops if you missed it.
Book Launch Photo Blog: To Hear the Skylark's Song by Huw Lewis
Huw Lewis to Launch Memoir at the Pierhead
Huw Lewis is a former Welsh Assembly member and Minister for Education in the Welsh Government, and is set to launch his memoir about growing up in Aberfan, To Hear the Skylark's Song, this Wednesday 5th July at the Pierhead, National Assembly for Wales. The weekend will see Huw attending the Penarth Literature Festival. On Sunday the 9th, at 2pm, he'll be in conversation with Dai Smith. You can see the pair discussing Huw's memoir at the All Saints Church in Penarth, tickets for the event are £5 and are available here. Huw was also featured on Radio Wales' Sunday...
Sunday Times: Novelist Ece Temelkuran on Why She 'Adopts' Daughters
'There are surveys that call my age group “the childless generation”. I am 43 years old — a fact I remind myself of when I am tempted to buy ripped jeans — and, like many of my friends, I am childless. But the world is still a place where it is common to ask why you did not have children and whether you regret it. The planet still sees our situation as “curable”, I guess. But one thing is sure: if one does not have a child, one always stays someone’s child and never officially becomes an adult.'
Two Cardiff Authors Open a Bookshop to Sell New Novels
Cardiff-based authors Lloyd Markham and Crystal Jeans have opened a bookshop in Duke Street Arcade, Cardiff to sell their new novels with their Festival of Bad Ideas this week. The Carnival bookshop popped up on Sat 1 July stocking copies of Bad Ideas\Chemicals, the dark, weird debut novel by Lloyd Markham published by Parthian that has already garnered a cult buzz amongst other top writers:
‘A dark and witty take on small town life.’
– David Towsey
‘bleak, weird, grim, cool... it will probably become a cult classic.’ – Rhian Elizabeth
'Some writers try to do weird. Some writers do weird. Lloyd Markham is weird.' – Christopher Meredith
The shop also stocks Crystal Jeans' second novel Light Switches are my Kryptonite by Honno:
'In Sylvester, Crystal Jeans has created a character as evocative and alluring as her own name. Her book is an amazing piece of literary ventriloquism; convincing, moving, funny, flawlessly sustained, and utterly compelling.' – Niall Griffiths
as well as her first novel, The Vegetarian Tigers of Paradise (Honno) recently longlisted for the Polari First Book:
'Think Caitlin Moran in Gabalfa, Cardiff - dysfunctionality made humorous and page-turningly entertaining and moving.' – Tony Curtis
