In a recent essay, Toril Moi, author of Simone de Beauvoir: The Making of an Intellectual Woman makes the case for the contemporary relevance of The Mandarins. Set in the years immediately following the end of World War 2, Beauvoir’s novel charts the tangled relationships … Continue reading Toril Moi on The Mandarins: Acknowledging the Other
6pm – 9pm, Tuesday 4 June 2024 Little Man Coffee, Ivor House, Bridge St, Cardiff CF10 2EE This year marks the 70th anniversary of the publication of Simone de Beauvoir’s The Mandarins. Winner of the Prix Goncourt in 1954, The Mandarins is an evocation of French intellectual life during the … Continue reading Simone de Beauvoir’s The Mandarins – 70 Years Later
Thank you to everyone who braved the rain and the cold to attend our BookTalk on Writing the City last Monday. We met in the welcoming space of Cardiff University’s Special Collections and Archives, where our guest authors Rachel Dawson and Emma Harding talked about … Continue reading Watch: Writing the City with Emma Harding and Rachel Dawson
Meredith Miller will be coming to BookTalk on Tuesday 19 March to discuss her new novel Fall River. You can book your free place and find more info via TicketSource. One young woman disappears, while another comes home. Set in the Cornish borders around the … Continue reading FALL RIVER: an interview with Meredith Miller
On Tuesday 19 March we’ll be BookTalking with Meredith Miller about her new novel Fall River. You can book your free place and find out more info via Ticket Source. A dark, psychological portrait of life in the borderlands, Fall River is published on 21 … Continue reading ‘Not From an Astronomer’ – a short story by Meredith Miller
The first BookTalk of the year will see novelist Meredith Miller in conversation with Kevin Morgan. Register for free for this event at TicketSource. We are meeting at milk&sugar, which is located in Cardiff University’s SBARC | SPARK building, Cardiff, CF24 4HQ, at 7pm, Tuesday 19 … Continue reading Britain’s Internal Borderlands – Meredith Miller in conversation with Kevin Morgan
Rachel Dawson’s novel Neon Roses is mostly set in Wales, the action beginning in the Dulais Valey before moving to Cardiff and then to London and Manchester. In this interview for Nation Cymru, Rachel discusses her relationship with Wales, and the new horizons that opened … Continue reading ‘When I write about the liberatory power of finding your community, I’ve been writing for my friends’ – Rachel Dawson interview
Emma Harding, author of The Berliners will be joining us at Special Collections and Archives next Monday for Writing the City with fellow-novelist Rachel Dawson. As well as writing her own fiction, Emma has a long career writing and directing for the radio, with a … Continue reading ‘Cappuccino for Salerio!’ – Emma Harding on adapting Shakespeare for radio
Acclaimed novelist Rachel Trezise (Fresh Apples, Cosmic Latte) offers a glowing review of Rachel Dawson’s Neon Roses at Nation Cymru. Praising the novel’s vibrant language and working class perspective, Trezise declares Neon Roses to be a welcome look at the era of the Miners’ Strike, … Continue reading ‘…hammer blows delivered by an affable feather-light touch’
A massive thank you to everyone who came to last week’s insightful talk on Joseph Zárate’s Wars of the Interior, a prize-winning exposé of the corruption and violence that underpins the world’s appetite for gold, oil and wood. Joseph Zárate was joined by his translator … Continue reading Video: Joseph Zárate’s Wars of the Interior
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