MARIA DUARTE, FIONA O’CONNOR and ANDY HEDGECOCK review Savage House, Enzo, Madfabulous, and Erupcja
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Light shone on Welsh connection with Liverpool
CHRIS MOSS recommends a revealing account of an overlooked community’s roots in the city
LANDMARK: Dubbed 'the Welsh Cathedral' because of its tall spire, the Grade-II listed Welsh Presbyterian Church in Liverpool is no longer in use
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CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
KENNY MacASKILL relishes a fictionalised account of the life and death of the principled Irish anti-colonialist, executed for betraying his English imperial masters
FIONA O’CONNOR admires an ambitious first novel that loosens South Africa’s rainbow collective to examine the racial tensions within
Aussie mining corporation murder, Liverpudlian ex-cop amnesia, a naive vigilante tries to reset capitalism, and the riddle of the dead psychoanalyst
SYLVIA HIKINS is persuaded by an entertaining play that the true miracle of Lourdes would be for attitudes toward disability to change
The Welsh in Liverpool: A Remarkable History
by D Ben Rees
(Y Lolfa, £19.99)
WHAT do you know about the relationship between Wales and Liverpool?
Let me guess. Liverpool FC legend Emlyn Hughes — from Barrow-in-Furness but whose dad was from Llanelli — actor Nerys Hughes of The Liver Birds and the “Welsh” streets, famous mainly because Ringo Starr lived in one of them.
Or perhaps you know your Welsh Patagonia history, that the clipper Mimosa sailed from Liverpool in 1865, carrying around 153 settlers to the Chubut Valley in Argentina.
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