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  • Richard Owain Roberts’s ‘Hello friend we missed you’

    Richard Owain Roberts’s ‘Hello friend we missed you’

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    Andrew Green
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    Hello friend we missed you is Richard Owain Roberts’s first novel.  Published by Parthian, it was nominated for this year’s Guardian ‘Not the Booker’ prize.  It duly won the award in October 2020 after a readers’ vote. In the book Roberts sets himself a big challenge: how to engage us as readers with a protagonist…

  • ‘Ymharadwys’: Pentre Eirianell

    ‘Ymharadwys’: Pentre Eirianell

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    Andrew Green
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    Yn ddiweddar digwyddodd imi fod mewn sgwrs ebost â thenant presennol Pentre Eirianell.  Hwn yw’r hen dŷ fferm ar ymyl Bae Dulas ar Ynys Môn lle magwyd ‘Morysiaid Môn’ – Lewis, Richard, William, Elin a Siôn (neu John) Morris – yn gynnar yn y ddeunawfed ganrif. Gwelais i’r tŷ am y tro cyntaf ym Medi…