Radio Scriptwriting

Sam Boardman-Jacobs, Editor

Radio has given all of us some great moments of drama, moments so engaging that we have escaped from our own world into another, and forgotten, too, that the broadcast world is underlain by finely-tuned writing …

Ram With Red Horns

Rhys Davies

When Rhonwen discovers her husband is spending his early retirement playing bowls and conducting an affair, her response is coldly murderous. But the relief of retribution is replaced by a guilt which haunts her in the form of a ram with red horns. Pushed to the point of madness she begins a new life and confronts her husband’s mistress ...

Raymond Williams

Tony Pinkney


Raymond Williams (1921-1988) was one of the most original and influential thinkers of the post-war period. Many know him for his work on mass culture and his left-wing literary criticism, yet he is also the author of six novels, set in his native Welsh border country …

Re:Imaging Wales

Hugh Adams

Re:Imaging Wales promises to be the leading journal for new criticism and an invaluable source of information on the Welsh art scene ...

Real Cardiff

Peter Finch

Peter Finch’s hugely popular alternative guide to the capital of Wales: "One of the best books I have ever read about a city." Jan Morris.

Real Cardiff Two: The Greater City

Peter Finch

In the sequel to the hugely popular Real Cardiff, Peter Finch explores the city further, hunts for the legendary peripherique and discovers rubbish dumps, walled housing estates and dead-end lanes ...

Real Newport

Ann Drysdale (series editor, Peter Finch)

Britain’s youngest city as you’ve never seen it before. Just another Victorian port or an Elizabethan maritime centre? A featureless South Wales town or a growing city on the verge of massive and original redevelopment? The “new Seattle” (Paul Flynn) or a haven for single mothers working the system (John Redwood)?…

“Drysdale lovingly celebrates “The Port’s” hidden histories, investigates local myths and tall stories, and wherever possible, wanders off the beaten track (usually with her dog Otis in tow). For that, she should be applauded…“I look forward to her writing an updated guide when the ambitious plans to improve the city have come to fruition.” Ray French, Planet, Feb 08

"The prose is often laugh-out –loud, the poetry is always excellently crafted. Versatile in traditional forms, Drysdale has some great pastiche and some wryly moving pieces; it’s a successful contrast with the experimental poetry in Peter Finch’s Real Cardiff books … " - Tom Cheesman, New Welsh Review, December 07

 

Red Landscapes: New and Selected Poems

Mike Jenkins

Red Landscapes collects together the two major strands of Mike Jenkins’ poetry: beautiful love lyrics to his wife and family, and the radical social and political poems which spring from his socialism...

The Red Rubber Ball of Happiness

Frances Williams

Frances Williams’ third collection of poetry features a cast of quirky characters: from lovers, friends and children to Andy Warhol, Courtney Love and Wilson ‘Snowflake’ Bently ...

The Red Wardrobe

Sarah Corbett

A voice of considerable power and intensity emerges from the work of Sarah Corbett. She is less interested in the everyday aspects of reality than in "what moves beneath the surface of my own, and...