The Owl Service – Alan Garner

A book from 1967 using Welsh myth to create a modern day mystery? Sign me up! I loved being in the Welsh lands for this novel, thinking about the slate and the sheep and the beautiful vistas. It’s such a magical place. And this is a magical novel. Filled with plates whose pattern turns into …

The Welsh Girl – Peter Ho Davies

Love stories are not really my thing, which is lucky because this has more war and POWs than love, and war is definitely my kind of thing. Which is odd because I’m more of a pacifist than a fighter. I suppose I just want to know. Davies shows us a few perspectives on the time …