Sign in | Register | Email newsletters

Location: set your location

RBS Talks - Dava Sobel

Mari Strachan

Filtered by:
Mari Strachan

Sorted by date / most viewed.

Mari Strachan - Blow on a Dead Man’s Embers

Mari Strachan - Blow on a Dead Man’s Embers

Historical between-the-wars family drama with an eye for detail

3 Aug 2011

(Canongate) Life, thinks Non Davies, a rural housewife in the mid-Wales of 1920, is like a tablecloth: ‘smooth and rough, worn thin so that it is almost a hole in places.’ It’s a prosaic description from a woman who presents a similarly functional…

Mari Strachan

Mari Strachan

5 Mar 2009

From The Catcher in the Rye to The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, literature in English is littered with novelists attempting to capture the bold yet naive voice of adolescence. In her debut novel, The Earth Hums in B Flat, Welsh writer…

2 articles.

Sorted by date / most viewed.