Permafrost Charlotte Gann Lloyd Jones’s novel Mr Cassini

Lloyd Jones’s novel Mr Cassini won the Wales Book of the Year Prize in 2007 and his novel Mr Vogel has won the McKitterick Prize

Jim Godbolt began a lifelong involvement with jazz in the 1930s

"Dawe's prose is a convincing argument for insisting that all writers become poets first"

Hans Werner Cohn

Permafrost Charlotte Gann Lloyd Jones’s novel Mr CassiniPermafrosts no bullshit lesbian narrator is an uninhibited lover and a wickedly funny observer of modern life. Desperate to get out of Barcelona, she goes to Brussels, because a city whose symbol is a little boy pissing was a city I knew I would like; as an au pair in Scotland, she develops a hatred of the colour green. And everywhere she goes, she tries to break out of the roles set for her by family and society, chasing escape wherever it can be