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Jo Mazelis
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in Swansea, The United Kingdom
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Best British Short Stories 2018
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2018
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Significance
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2014
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A Welsh Alphabet
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2010
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Ritual, 1969
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2016
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Diving Girls
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2003
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Circle Games
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2005
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The Forger's Ink
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New Welsh Review 107, Spring 2015
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Blister and Other Stories
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The Forger's Ink
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"1816 Swansea. It’s October, and the summer has not come.
Orphaned Fanny Imlay is unloved in the house of her stepfather, who claims she ‘makes a luxury of her melancholy’. She writes of a fantasy world called Summerland where the sun always shines an" Read more of this review » |
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| In the Times Poetry Books of the Year, referring to Gray, the point is made that ‘Poets still tend to think their work should be tarted up with gewgaws from Greek myth or Anglo-Saxon’. For those of us (vampires we might be) who watch Netflix document ...more | |
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| It was the book everyone was talking about - by everyone I mean on social media, of course: ‘The Home Child’ by Liz Berry was described as a ‘novel in verse’. Like Maggie Nelson in ‘Jane’ and Mary J Oliver in ‘Jim Neat’, Berry has taken real life mat ...more | |
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| In Brian Howell’s stories there is often an unsettling tilt, something seen or half-seen, or distorted; either because the thing discerned is almost unbelievable or because it is glimpsed in a mirror, or has been created by the effect of shadows on a ...more | |
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| I read this during the first Covid lockdown, a couple of years after it was first published. I'm not sure why, but I didn't read it from 1st page or 1st chapter; instead I jumped about, skimming through, stopping at one photograph, then another, then ...more | |
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“From the proletarians nothing is to be feared. Left to themselves, they will continue from generation to generation and from century to century, working, breeding, and dying, not only without any impulse to rebel, but without the power of grasping that the world could be other than it is.”
― 1984
― 1984
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I'm a professional illustrator (among other things) with a passion for reading. The idea of The Illustrated Book Club is simply to combine these two i ...more