Britain, the 1980s. Thatcher. Black Monday. Riots. Strikes. Racism. In 1984, George Orwell’s 1984 became a bestseller again, slotting right into the nightmarish dystopia it had predicted. As ...

Irvine Welsh credited the “verbal culture” of Edinburgh as a major influence on his storytelling at the launch of his new documentary in the city. The Trainspotting author, 64, said his film Choose ...

Welsh writers have been given a prominent platform at this year's Hay Festival. The literary event in Hay-on-Wye, Powys, is one of the world's leading book festivals. While celebrity authors and ...

A movie based on record executive Alan McGee is in the works with “Trainspotting” author Irvine Welsh writing the script. Kaleidoscope Film Distribution will handle worldwide sales on the feature film ...

ACADEMICS warmly welcome the release of each thoroughly comprehensive volume in what has become a chronological range of Welsh writing in English to surpass anything that has come before. ACADEMICS ...

Fourteen writers have been longlisted by literary magazine New Welsh Review for this year’s New Welsh Writing Awards. The short-form writing contest, now in its fifth year, will see books compete for ...

In the sort of bracingly forthright diatribe we rarely hear on this side of the pond, the Welsh writer Julian Ruck has slugged his country’s literary establishment right in its ink-stained face, ...

Melinda Welsh is the founding editor of the Sacramento News & Review who helped launch the alternative weekly publication in 1989. If you have read the words and ideas of an artist, musician, ...

The literary event in Hay-on-Wye, Powys, is one of the world's leading book festivals. While celebrity authors and best-selling writers attract thousands of people to the Welsh border town, ...