recently I read a book called Welsh Psycho after a close friend recommend it and it made me so nostalgic about hiking around the breakons, just looking for other books like that ig
Try “On the Black Hill” by Bruce Chatwin. Its about two brothers living in the Welsh borders. Lots of descriptions about the landscape and Welsh countryside. Also “How Green Was My Valley” is pretty good if you want something classic about Welsh mining towns.
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By ‘other books like that’, do you mean ‘stone cold Welsh bangers’? Because if so, then my time has come:
* Rubbernecker, by Belinda Bauer – murder mystery set in Cardiff
* Until Our Blood Is Dry, by Kit Habianic – novel about the 1980s miners’ strikes, set in Ystrad
* Grits, by Niall Griffiths – basically Trainspotting, but set in Aberystwyth
* The Fortune Men, by Nadifa Mohamed – novel about the wrongful 1952 conviction and execution of Mahmood Mattan in Tiger Bay
* None So Blind, by Alis Hawkins – first in a trilogy of detective novels about a blind coroner in the Teifi Valley
* One Moonlit Night, by Caradog Prichard – classic Welsh coming-of-age novel
* Resistance, by Owen Sheers – historical fiction novel about a village of women in WW2
* Under Milk Wood, by Dylan Thomas – poem / radio drama about the inhabitants of a fictional Welsh village called Llareggub (try reading it backwards)
* Morlais, by Alun Lewis – 1930s coming-of-age novel set in a mining village
* The Long Dry, by Cynan Jones – very weird novella about a Welsh farmer
* The Hiding Place, by Trezza Azzopardi – family drama with a nice bit of murder set in the Maltese mafia community of Tiger Bay
* Submarine, by Joe Dunthorne – darkly funny novel about a teenage boy living in Swansea
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Try “On the Black Hill” by Bruce Chatwin. Its about two brothers living in the Welsh borders. Lots of descriptions about the landscape and Welsh countryside. Also “How Green Was My Valley” is pretty good if you want something classic about Welsh mining towns.
By ‘other books like that’, do you mean ‘stone cold Welsh bangers’? Because if so, then my time has come:
* Rubbernecker, by Belinda Bauer – murder mystery set in Cardiff
* Until Our Blood Is Dry, by Kit Habianic – novel about the 1980s miners’ strikes, set in Ystrad
* Grits, by Niall Griffiths – basically Trainspotting, but set in Aberystwyth
* The Fortune Men, by Nadifa Mohamed – novel about the wrongful 1952 conviction and execution of Mahmood Mattan in Tiger Bay
* None So Blind, by Alis Hawkins – first in a trilogy of detective novels about a blind coroner in the Teifi Valley
* One Moonlit Night, by Caradog Prichard – classic Welsh coming-of-age novel
* Resistance, by Owen Sheers – historical fiction novel about a village of women in WW2
* Under Milk Wood, by Dylan Thomas – poem / radio drama about the inhabitants of a fictional Welsh village called Llareggub (try reading it backwards)
* Morlais, by Alun Lewis – 1930s coming-of-age novel set in a mining village
* The Long Dry, by Cynan Jones – very weird novella about a Welsh farmer
* The Hiding Place, by Trezza Azzopardi – family drama with a nice bit of murder set in the Maltese mafia community of Tiger Bay
* Submarine, by Joe Dunthorne – darkly funny novel about a teenage boy living in Swansea