Neither Here Nor There
news / 27th May 2020

It’s nine weeks now since the coronavirus lockdown began and I feel cut off both geographically and culturally from anywhere. The occasional glimpses of the mud brown Bristol Channel through the trees and the accents of the few people I meet on my daily walk assures me I’m still in Wales. And even though I should have left already for France, I don’t feel as if I’m in any place but marooned in a neither here nor there sort of Neverland. Cardiff is just down the road from the seaside village where I have an apartment, though it might as well be in a post apocalyptic other country. When I was a boy, Cardiff felt more like a large town than a city. It was small minded, conservative and swathed in drab colours, only on International Rugby days did it come alive with noise and excitement, the red and white of scarves and the green of leeks. Now the transformation is total and, as the city climbs skywards, brims with character and energy, and has a friendliness I’ve encountered in no other city in the world. Jill and I only moved back to Wales little over a year ago but…

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Bjarni in Berlin at Lit Fest
articles blogs & latest news , news / 31st August 2017

  We are so pleased to be able to announce that Bjarni Bjarnason will be speaking about his latest novel, The Reputation which Red Hand Books has just published in English…so if you fancy a fascinating trip to see our Icelandic star he’s on in Berlin on the 9th of September, 2017… For tickets go to the literature festival website ( http://www.literaturfestival.com/tickets)  but he’s on in the Haus der Berliner Festspiele in the evening and it should be a very interesting evening…(this link is better in German, but we’ve put the English one as well…) http://www.literaturfestival.com/program-en/literaturen-der-welt-en/2017-en/bjarni-bjarnason-mannord?set_language=en http://www.literaturfestival.com/programm/literaturen-der-welt/2017/bjarni-bjarnason-mannord He’s in amazing company as well with an astonishing array of talent from all over the world.. just have a look at the list on this page.. http://www.literaturfestival.com/programm/literaturen-der-welt if you want a bit more info about Bjarni there is also his BlogSpot to check out: http://www.literaturfestival.com/archive/participants/authors/2017-en/bjarni-bjarnason-1?set_language=en What more could you ask for a weekend in September is an Icelander talking in English about his new translation of a novel about living with the afterlife of the financial crash to lovely people in a German Litfest…? Best of luck to Bjarni.  

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Turkish Poetry launch November 2nd

As part of launching the new edition of Turkish Poetry Today 2016 we will also be launching for general view the website at www.redhandbooks.co.uk and also unveiling our latest poet to join our ranks…. Mr Richard Boden.. look out for the details of The English Disease in our newsletter in November this year…

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