By Oliver Barton The Abergavenny train was incredibly crowded. Gary managed to get his mobile out to see what he could do about his bag left on the Paddington train. The battery was completely flat. Jammed there among people and cases, he mused. If only they knew he was worth £384 million, what […]
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Category Archives: Literature
Books for Mum
Emma from Bookish in Crickhowell gives us her Mother’s Day book recommendations. Daughters In Law by Joanna Trollope Back on form, Trollope explores the shift in family dynamics as children grow up and fly the nest. A gentle read with beautifully written characters. Black Swan, £7.99 The Winter of our Disconnect by Susan […]
Gary’s Lucky Day
By Oliver Barton Gary gazed at the passing countryside, and toyed with what he would do with the money. £384 million. He would give his parents and his brother and his few close friends a million each. Or perhaps half a million. It wouldn’t do to spoil them. Of course he would spend some on […]
The Wild Rover
Emma from Bookish in Crickhowell gives us an insight into what’s good to read this month The end of this month sees the ever popular Crickhowell Walking festival enter its 5th year, I thought it apt to introduce you to ‘The Wild Rover – A Blistering Journey along Britains Footpaths’ by Mike Parker (bestselling […]
Flash Fiction Competition
Regular readers of the Abergavenny Focus will know that each month we publish a very short story – sometimes called flash fiction – by a member of the Abergavenny writing group The Word Counts. Now YOU have a chance to get YOUR flash fiction published in the Focus by submitting a story to our free-to-enter […]
The Last Hundred Days
Emma from Bookish in Crickhowell gives us an insight into what’s good to read this month. Set during Ceausescu’s last hundred days in power, Patrick McGuinness’s accomplished debut novel explores Bucharest in 1989, a world of danger, corruption and repression A young English student arrives in the city and finds himself in a job he […]
SOUP OF THE DAY
By Cath Barton Henry enjoyed a liquid diet. That was what he told everyone he met, and mostly he met people in The Three Feathers, where he occupied the stool at the extreme left-hand end of the bar, next to the pile of menus. Goodness knows why he’d chosen that spot, because people were […]
The Prince’s Pen
Emma from Bookish in Crickhowell gives us an insight into what’s good to read this month The eleven stories in the Mabinogion come from two medieval Welsh manuscripts, with roots in Celtic mythology, Arthurian romance, and their own view of the Island of Britain. In Serens New Stories from the Mabinogion, old tales are at […]
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