Good on the FT

Here’s Monocle Arts Review’s take on Addlands with the ever-insightful Sharmaine Lovegrove.

I should have put up this Spectator review, really. It’s nice, I’m told. I’m not much good at reading my own reviews. They make me jumpy – though I did see that Addlands is “where the new nature writing meets the novel”, which seems fair enough.

Among the eight and a half hours and many different vehicles it took me to get from deepest Kent to deepest Radnorshire yesterday I happened to hear Mariella Frostrup flagging up: “A special recording of BBC Radio 4’s Open Book… investigating the best new literature from Wales.” She pronounced my name correctly and everything. The recording’s in Cardiff Central Library, Thursday 7th July at 1pm, with the result going out that Sunday and the following week. Tickets are free (I think). Apply here if you’d like to come along…

Will be reading from Addlands and talking with Rebbecca Ray, which is always a pleasure, at the Radnor Fringe Festival in Llandrindod Wells this Sunday, 6:15pm…

Things are coming out in a bit of a flurry today. I don’t think I wrote anything on this page at all in 2015. But then Melissa Harrison hadn’t written this lovely review of Addlands in 2015.

I was talking about Addlands and Welsh borders writing last night on BBC Wales, with the ever-insightful Phil Rickman. From 9 mins 40 or so.

I’ll be appearing at Wealden Literary Festival this Saturday (18th June) with Cynan Jones. 4pm. The Garden Tent. I haven’t seen Cynan for a long time, but to judge by his very fine Cove, which is coming out in November, I think, to say nothing of The Dig and so on, we will be talking fiercely and agreeing quite a lot of the time.