We’re awaiting confirmation from the publishing house for what we hope will be a coup for CardiffRead. Watch. This. Space. Continue reading 8pm, 14th November – TBC – Author in situ

George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four is a classic – but it owes its plot, characters and conclusion to Yevgeny Zamyatin’s 1920s novel We. Orwell even reviewed We, three years before publishing Nineteen Eighty-Four to universal acclaim. Goodreads page Continue reading 8pm, 10th October – We by Yevgeny Zamyatin

Bapsi Sidhwa tells of a time and place of civil unrest, of wrecked friendships and betrayals of trust, of the sullen moods and sudden violence of sectarianism, of a moral wilderness redeemed only by the courageous good sense and pragmatic decency of a few individuals. The description might seem to fit any number of turbulent places in a world where false godliness grins at real … Continue reading 8pm, 12th Sept – Ice Candy Man by Bapsi Sidhwa

The precocious Tempest performed this long form poem on prime time, Saturday  night TV. We urge you to read the piece yourself and then see her perform it. We’ve not done poetry for some time, so we hope you’ll all embrace this! Goodreads page Continue reading 8pm, 8th August – Let Them Eat Chaos – Kate Tempest

From one sentence to one player. Science-fiction writer John Scalzi has aptly referred to “Ready Player One” as a “nerdgasm.” There can be no better one-word description of this ardent fantasy artifact about fantasy culture.   Goodreads page Continue reading 8pm, 11th July – Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

“An extraordinary hymn to small-town Ireland. One family man’s Day of the Dead in County Mayo after the boom and bust… This is a book about Mayo, Ireland, Europe, the world, the solar system, the universe.” Goodreads page Continue reading 8pm, 13th June – Solar Bones by Mike McCormack

The great surprise on this year’s Man Booker Prize shortlist. Published by tiny Scottish imprint Saraband, the novel initially attracted little attention and no mainstream reviews. It reads “as if Umberto Eco has been resurrected in the 19th-century Scottish Highlands.” Brilliantly unputdownable, it should have won the Man Booker. Which is probably why it didn’t. Goodreads page Continue reading 8pm, 9th May – His Bloody Project by Graeme Macrae Burnet