Tag: Fiction
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8pm, 10th Aug 2021 – A Oes Heddwas | Bloody Eisteddfod gan | by Myfanwy Alexander
Daf is a busy, conscientious and humane Police Inspector who knows his patch and does his best to protect and improve the lives of those who belong there and those who come in. In August 2015 the Welsh-speaking world did come to Meifod, near the small town of Llanfair Caereinion, and the author imagines what…
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8pm, 9th Nov 2021 – The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
This story is about what it was like to be a woman during World War II when women’s stories were all too often forgotten or overlooked . . . Vianne and Isabelle Mauriac are two sisters, separated by years and experience, by ideals and passion and circumstance, each embarking on her own dangerous path towards…
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8pm, 8th Dec 2020 – A Boy Called Christmas Book by Matt Haig
A Boy Called Christmas is a tale of adventure, snow, kidnapping, elves, more snow, and a boy called Nikolas, who isn’t afraid to believe in magic.
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8pm, 10th Nov 2020 – The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
The Good Earth, a Pulitzer Prize winning novel, is a riveting family saga and story of female sacrifice – a classic of twentieth-century literature.
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8pm, 8th Sept 2020 – Fleishman Is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner
Fleishman Is in Trouble is a 2019 novel by American writer Taffy Brodesser-Akner. The debut novel was published on 18 June 2019 by Penguin Random House. It tells the story of a Manhattan couple undergoing a bitter divorce.
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8pm, 11th August 2020 – A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
A picaresque novel by American novelist John Kennedy Toole which finally reached publication in 1980, eleven years after Toole’s suicide.
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8pm, 9th June 2002 – In Our Mad and Furious City by Guy Gunaratne
WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE
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8pm, 12th May 2020 – My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
When Korede’s dinner is interrupted one night by a distress call from her sister, Ayoola, she knows what’s expected of her: bleach, rubber gloves, nerves of steel and a strong stomach….
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8pm, 14th April 2020 – I’m Not Scared by Niccolo Ammaniti
“Brilliant Italian writer. Well observed characters, pathos, bathos, thought provoking and thoroughly entertaining. anything by him really” Recommendation from CardiffRead member! Bu who?!?!?
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8pm, February 11th 2020 – Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky
Ilya Kaminsky’s astonishing parable in poems asks us, What is silence?
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8pm, January 14th 2020 – Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker
Booker-winning novelist Pat Barker imagines the untold story of the women at the heart of history’s greatest epic.
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8pm, 8th January – Lullaby by Leïla Slimani
A short, but (bitter?) sweet start to the year? Leïla Slimani is the first Moroccan woman to win France’s most prestigious literary prize, the Prix Goncourt, which she won for Lullaby. A journalist and frequent commentator on women’s and human rights, she is French president Emmanuel Macron’s personal representative for the promotion of the French…
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