Cardiff’s longest running book club

“It’s worse, much worse, than you think.”  When Wallace-Wells published this magazine article in July 2017, little would he have known it would become the New York magazine’s most read piece. This book, with the same title, is the longplay offspring, with over a 100 pages of footnotes, it’s clearly and importantly a very well…

Bydd honna meet-up dwyieithog, felly darllenwch pa fersiyn/au bynnag sydd orau gennych | This will be a bilingual meet-up so please read the English or Welsh version … or both! ***SAESNEG ISOD | ENGLISH BELOW*** Nofel ffuglen chwedlonol a wyddonol gan Islwyn Ffowc Elis a gyhoeddwyd gan Plaid Cymru yn 1957 yw Wythnos yng Nghymru…

The first of two new interconnected novels from bestselling, Booker Prize-shortlisted author Ali Smith. A characteristically oblique and audacious tour de force revolving loosely around the concept of resistance in a dystopian society. This is the logical evolution of the world Smith presented in the seasonal quartet: of brutal detention centres in which a for-profit…

A blazing fictional dystopia presented as memoir, Hailey’s masterly novel revolves around the relationship between teenage Emilia and her mother Rachel, whose decision to suddenly stop speaking kickstarts an all-encompassing global ‘event’. Inspired by Rachel’s example, other women join her and together they build the Community. Eight years later, Rachel and thousands of her followers…

A Vietnamese-American poet’s debut mines his extraordinary family story with passion and beauty This is a letter from a son to a mother who can’t read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family’s history that began before he was born. It tells of Vietnam, of the…

Robert Aickman, perhaps the greatest English writer of supernatural fiction, more than once expressed the view that the ghost story as a form was analogous to poetry. What he was getting at is that it is delicate, shaded, requires a deal of sensitivity from the writer, and has many competing elements that have to be…