Neal Mason is a mature poet who has been publishing collections of his work since the early 1990s and has appeared in many poetry magazines. I had not previously come…
I often wonder how difficult it is for writers to select which pieces of their work they will include in a collection. The burning question for them must be -…
So, Stranger is the third collection of poems by Topaz Winters and my first foray into her work, so wasn’t entirely sure what to expect, which in some ways creates…
My first visit to the temperate rainforest of Coed Felenrhyd in North Wales was in early autumn. Entering the ancient site was to walk into a cathedral, a multi-layered, multi-faceted…
I hardly know Wales at all. There was that one of our irregular summer childhood holidays when we exchanged the constant drizzle of Frinton for the interminable downpours of Aberdaron…
I love lighthouses, although I'm not sure why is something I could place my finger on but I find something 'otherworldly' about them, representing the edge of our world, standing…
We met at dawn on an industrial estate in the vast, dreary hinterland of my adopted province of Teruel, here in Aragón, North-Eastern Spain, with enough space to park trucks…
Jackie Ronne reclaims her rightful place in polar history as the first American woman in Antarctica. The aim of this book is clearly to set the record straight and to…
I'd been wanting to read A Moroccan Trilogy: Rabat, Marrakesh and Fez by Jerome and Jean Tharaud for quite a while, Morocco is not a country I know very much…
A clever title by a man with a name incredibly familiar to those of us of a certain age. In A River Runs Through Me, Andrew Douglas-Home gets the details…