Please Helen Calcutt EdPunctuation killed my wife. So opens Christopher Merediths novel, Please. Octogenarian Vernon, whos never written anything longer than a memo, tries to write the story of his apparently unremarkable courtship and marriage from the 1960s to today. How should he do it? His lifelong obsessions are language and reading; most of what he knows about the world comes from dictionaries and reference books, and from these and the language of old novels he
writing in French lilting love poems
the novel radiates backwards and forwards in time
Butterflies hold a symbolic importance throughout
strip-searching every sneeze/ for an invisible assassin suited in capsid” – though
Walmsley is adept with the multi-faceted aspects of human endeavour
who was accused of cheating while playing cards with the Prince of Wales
This magnificent and radical portrayal of a known historical character adds to our understanding of a trauma that continues to exist just below the surface of contemporary life
he develops a cult following
misogyny and homophobia
FEATURE ON Syrian poet Saniya Salih (1939-1995)
The second part of the book considers nine other case of miscarriages of justice in South Wales between 1982-2016 for a variety of crimes including murder
nervous of becoming trapped in easy certainties
