by Giles Broadbent | May 14, 2020 | Books
Dylan Thomas Day celebrates the poet and his achievements. But how should you tackle the sozzled Welsh wordsmith – and what is Under Milk Wood? Here’s the single thing you need to know about the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas. He wrote Under Milk Wood. That should be enough....
by Giles Broadbent | Apr 16, 2020 | Books
Surviving Hell – the title of Nick Dunn’s story of injustice and perilous prisons – seems a fitting tagline for our current Covid-19 predicament, don’t you think? The autobiography, which I edited for Mirror Books and which is on sale now, tells a twin-track tale. In...
by Giles Broadbent | Nov 5, 2019 | Books
Will by Will Self is a down-and-dirty picture of the earlier years of the famed nihilistic writer – but can he escape the pitfalls of the drug memoir? The man, the memoir Like a dull colleague’s dream painstakingly recounted despite a lack of narrative or point,...
