OUT NEXT MONTH: Whose Song to Sing?

I am so happy to see Ben's memoir coming out in hardback next month through Calon Books...

https://www.uwp.co.uk/book/whose-song-to-sing-wildsmith/

Details of launches here: https://linktr.ee/BENWILDSMITH

He's already made it onto Stewart Lee's Cultural List of 2025 and is a Folding Rock Top Pick for 2026.

Loads of lovely blurb quotes too... here's one:

‘This book is everything that a memoir should be: gripping, informative, moving, hilarious, a fascinating doorway into the fun and frozen wastes of being someone else, a glimpse into a life well and vividly lived. Laceratingly intelligent, fearlessly self-analytical, it is, in part, a sequence of joyous, if hard-won, awakenings, into rugby, politics, literature, addiction, adoption, music, Welshness, love of several kinds. All praise.’ – Niall Griffiths

I'm sure I'll see some of you at one or more of the events...

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Arrivals in Kobo ebook sale

Happy International Women's Day! My ebook novella 'Arrivals' (and three other great Parthian titles) can be picked up in Kobo’s US and Canadian stores 'Celebrating Women Around The World' ebook sale , which is running from March 7th-12th. Enjoy! Susie x

BOOK REVIEW: 'It deserves to be read far more widely.'

In her engaging review essay 'Fantastical Doubles and Split Selves' in the latest issue of New Welsh Review , author of The Word, JL George, looks at responses to trauma in three recent novels including Fox Bites by Lloyd Markham . Here are three of our favourite snippets: ‘Lloyd Markham’s first full-length novel Fox Bites , set in early-2000s Zimbabwe, takes a similar tack, colliding social upheaval – as viewed through the sometimes-uncomprehending eyes of a young, neurodivergent boy – with smaller, more personal disruptions. The young protagonist, Taban, suffers bullying and isolation among his peers after his family splits apart: his aunt, uncle, and beloved cousin Caleb moving away to a farm which will later be seized during land reforms.’ ‘Taban must resist the temptation to become part of a cycle of abuse, thereby becoming a conduit for the destruction of his world. Although the stakes of the book eventually become world-threatening in the expected way of science fiction...

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