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Cast a Long Shadow: Welsh Women Writing Crime

Katherine Stansfield

4/5 ( ratings)

A shadow can mark the passage of time. Hour by hour. Day by day. Year by year. The brighter the light, the deeper the shadow will be. But as that light dies, the shadows lengthen until they cover everything …

20 original crime stories explore the shadows cast by our darkest experiences, and our deepest desires. From cannabis plants stashed in an airing cupboard, to strange and bloody tales of Wales’s past in the heart of Cardiff’s Victorian docklands, and the Valleys’ entrepreneurial striking miners, we travel to Iceland, Turkey, Australia and the Middle East in stories of revenge and retribution that eschew easy ideas of justice. In these pages, women are culprits as well as victims, luring teenage schoolboys to the water’s edge and twisting the knife in the Jack the Ripper legend. Mythic heroines have a new, murderous lease of life, while the concerns of climate change, the pandemic and consent show Welsh women crime writers tackling the urgency of the here and now.

Featuring stories by Eluned Gramich, Alison Layland, Louise Mumford, Katie Munnik, Tiffany Murray, and many more.

Language: English

Pages: 280

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Gwasg Honno Press

Release: April 21, 2022

Cast a Long Shadow: Welsh Women Writing Crime

Katherine Stansfield

4/5 ( ratings)

A shadow can mark the passage of time. Hour by hour. Day by day. Year by year. The brighter the light, the deeper the shadow will be. But as that light dies, the shadows lengthen until they cover everything …

20 original crime stories explore the shadows cast by our darkest experiences, and our deepest desires. From cannabis plants stashed in an airing cupboard, to strange and bloody tales of Wales’s past in the heart of Cardiff’s Victorian docklands, and the Valleys’ entrepreneurial striking miners, we travel to Iceland, Turkey, Australia and the Middle East in stories of revenge and retribution that eschew easy ideas of justice. In these pages, women are culprits as well as victims, luring teenage schoolboys to the water’s edge and twisting the knife in the Jack the Ripper legend. Mythic heroines have a new, murderous lease of life, while the concerns of climate change, the pandemic and consent show Welsh women crime writers tackling the urgency of the here and now.

Featuring stories by Eluned Gramich, Alison Layland, Louise Mumford, Katie Munnik, Tiffany Murray, and many more.

Language: English

Pages: 280

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Gwasg Honno Press

Release: April 21, 2022

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