Bringing together the best of Wales’ review-essays, including a comparison of new editions of nature classics, ‘Back to the Land’ by Pippa Marland. The books under review, Thomas Firbank’s I Bought a Mountain and Margiad Evans’ Autobiography take contrasting blustering and humble approaches to stepping over the sub/urban doorstep into nature. A showcase of new nonfiction, previewing forthcoming titles from some of Wales’ key English-language publishers, exploring books on anti-Welsh media vitriol covering the early Manic Street Preachers, and historical flooding and the riches of an Eton-owned Benedictine fishery on the Gwent Levels. In original fiction: a wonderful story about a teenage boy on the cusp of bodily and emotional change, ‘Trout’, by Satterday Shaw, and a second, finely crafted story about the effect of geographical dislocation on teenage identity emergence, ‘Another Place’ by Philippa Holloway, set on Crosby beach. Plus Editorial by Gwen Davies and a new opinion feature, Last Page, by Richard Lewis Davies, in which the writers note that magazines in Wales are undergoing a transition, during which readers and subscribers will need to step up to the plate if a commitment to expressing – without interference – our particular place and time, is to be maintained.
EDITORIAL
Half-in, half-out Gwen Davies
NONFICTION
Bears at the Fridge: From Goldcliff to Whitson Preview extract from This Stolen Land by Marsha O’Mahony
The Kinnock Factor: The Manics and Anti-Welshness Edited abridged preview from International Velvet by Neil Collins
FICTION
Another Place Story by Philippa Holloway
Trout Story by Satterday Shaw
ESSAYS
Dark Formula Timothy Laurence Marsh on why reckless travel writing matters
Books for Alien Girls JL George’s personal and practical reflections on the role neurodivergence can and should play when writing fiction
REVIEW-ESSAYS
Back to the Land Pippa Marland on two nature memoir classics, one of hubristic bluster, the other humbly receptive
‘Queer Old Codgers’ Claire Pickard on the portrayal of highly nuanced gay identities and history in recent nonfiction titles and a major short story anthology
THE LAST PAGE
Back to the Future Richard Lewis Davies on how a culture with ambition needs critics and readers
Over de auteur
Pippa Marland returned to academia in 2011 after a career in music. She completed a funded Ph D in ecocriticism at the University of Worcester, looking at the concept of ‘islandness’ in literary nonfiction. The result, Ecocriticism and the Island: Readings from the British–Irish Archipelago, was published by Rowman and Littlefield in 2022. She has also co-edited a collection for Routledge entitled Walking, Landscape and Environment and is the co-author of Modern British Nature Writing, 1789–2020: Land Lines (Cambridge University Press, 2022). As a creative writer, she is the co-editor of, and a contributor to, Gifts of Gravity and Light: A Nature Almanac for the Twenty-first Century (Hodder and Stoughton, 2021). Pippa was recently a Leverhulme Early Career fellow in the Department of English at Bristol University, exploring the representation of farming in British nature writing. She continues to lecture in the Department of English at Bristol University.
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