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Cast a Long Shadow - Welsh Women Writing Crime - cover

Cast a Long Shadow - Welsh Women Writing Crime

Katherine Stansfield, Caroline Oakley

Publisher: Honno Press

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Summary

All original collection of the best of Welsh women's crime short fiction from new and established voices… A striking collection of the widest range of crime short stories from contemporary urban thriller to historical rural mystery and the speculative and uncanny. Includes stories from Tiffany Murray – winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize and an inaugural Hay Festival International Fellow; Eluned Gramich – winner of New Welsh Writing Award and shortlisted for Wales Book of the Year; Alison Layland – whose first thriller was a LoveReading Debut of the Month and Kittie Belltree – poet and Disability Arts Cymru Creative Word Award 2020 Winner. Plus a host of previously unpublished talent ripe for discovering.
Available since: 04/21/2022.
Print length: 224 pages.

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