NOEL GARDNER

The Script Of The Stones – Francis Gooding Have you ever really thought about a certain walk that you’ve taken regularly or perhaps even your whole life? There must be a walk that seems very familiar to you, but when you think about it, do you really know anything about it at all? Francis Gooding’s routine, half-mile clifftop walk along the Gower Peninsula, near Swansea, has culminated in this fantastic piece of work.

The Land And Its People – David Sedaris A great essayist can expose the less palatable parts of their personality and still be funny enough not to alienate their readers. David Sedaris more than succeeds on this front in his winning, sometimes ill-tempered and frequently hilarious new collection, The Land And Its People.

Anju Gaston publishes Pink Soap, her debut novella, with the bare minimum of public profile or tangible online paper trail. Should this excellent, empathetic work find the audience its contents warrant, this state of affairs will struggle to hold.