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A brief recap of chapters 12-15 and a few shared thoughts

“Death and madness are themes of the book, and as we peer through the moonlight we gradually realise that we are witnessing a slow descent into insanity.” Jan Morris

Here I summarise the last few chapters of One Moonlit Night by Caradog Prichard for the final week of Reading Wales 2020.

Last week we left the unnamed narrator feeling…

As we reach the final week of Wales Readathon 2020, we look at a poem by an award-winning Welsh writer

Born in Cardiff in 1937, the Welsh poet and playwright, Gillian Clarke has published several poetry collections in addition to editing the Anglo-Welsh Review from 1975 to 1984 and co-founding Ty Newydd– the Writer’s Centre in North Wales. Her poetry is studied by GCSE and A level students across…

An end of week recap

This is a Coronatome Special – so called because it’s a tad longer than usual to keep all you self-isolationers occupied.

I hope everyone is coping and keeping safe during these crazy COVID-19 times. Life continues much as usual in our little corner of Mid Wales, until it comes to shopping – and then we are faced with empty shelves where once there were toilet rolls, soap and…

A brief recap of chapters 9-11

“Her face was white as chalk, like a face in a coffin, except her eyes were open, and they were shining black like blackcurrants and when she looked at me, they went through me like steel pins.”

Week three of the 2020 Wales Readathon has almost ended. Here I briefly summarize chapters 9 to 11 of our official Dewithon 20 book: One Moonlit Night by Caradog Prichard.

An end of week recap

Given the current situation with coronavirus (COVID-19), I find it uncanny this is issue 112 of WUTWbecause, as many of you will know, it is a common emergency telephone number in nearly all member states of the European Union as well as numerous other countries. Last week’s 111 is the NHS website (and phone line) we in the UK are asked to access for guidance about the virus.…

A few shared thoughts on chapters 5-8 and other aspects of the novel

“It was Lisa Top House’s fox fur that attracted our attention […]. We could see its head laughing at us from her shoulders with its black eyes shining like stars.”

As the second week of Wales Readathon comes to an end, I briefly summarize chapters five to eight of our official Dewithon 20 book: One Moonlit Night by Caradog…

A Poem by Lynette Roberts

We head into the second week of Wales Readathon 2020 with a work from a forgotten Welsh poet

Today I share with you a poem penned by a writer I greatly admire. She was an experimental modernist, principally admired as a war poet, who published only two collections.

Lynette Roberts(or Evelyn Beatrice Roberts) was born in Buenos Aires in 1909 to parents of Welsh origin. She moved to London as a…

Winding Up the Week #111

An end of week recap

Once again, I bring you a truncated wind-up. My excuse this time is D and I are celebrating our 30th anniversary today and we have friends staying with us in our little lodge over the weekend. Nevertheless, Dewithon kicked off on the 1st March (Saint David’s Day) with a visit to Harlech Castle and a plethora of promotional plugs from fellow book bloggers.

As ever, this is a…