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New year feels like a blank page - fresh, full of potential, and waiting to be written on with purpose. As I begin this blog....

Growing up, Christmas was always a big family gathering — the kind where the house felt too small for all the noise, the laughter, and the clatter of dishes. But as the years went by and I got older, so did everyone else, and the celebrations slowly became quieter. Eventually, Christmas became just me and my parents. Then in 2022, a few weeks before Christmas, I lost my Dad. As you can imagine, everything about Christmas changed in an instant. The lights felt dimmer, the trad

As you may know, I’m a proud committee member of the Wrexham Carnival of Words - our city's vibrant annual literary festival. Over the last 12 years, the festival has continued to grow, which is truly fantastic to see. Now, something equally exciting is on the horizon under the carnival banner. Talks with Wrexham creatives, organisations, businesses and others are well underway to celebrate the 150th anniversary of 1876 – Wrexham’s “Year of Wonder” . In 2026, the city will

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I pressed pause on the daily grind and hit the road with my wife Emily and our closest friends for our now-annual escape to Dinas Dinlle.

Dave McCall, who writes historical fiction under the pen name David Ebsworth, recently collaborated with Wrexham’s Carnival of Words to...

Wrexham's Carnival Of Words highlights for this year's week-long festival of words provided fans of crime thrillers with a chance to see...

After years of running a pre-existing website, I began to notice that it had gradually lost its direction. Over time, it became less...

Recently I started re-reading The Child Taker by Conrad Jones, it's a book I enjoyed the first time round on my kindle but this time I...

This sequel to Shadow Man by Cody McFadyen is as gripping as the first novel. The team are back to investigate a spate of gruesome ...

Cody Mcfadyen's Shadow Man dives immediately straight into part of a story that sets you on a dark train journey of emotions and feelings...

I love the story of Alice's adventures in Wonderland as it takes us away to another world where the usual rules don't apply, to a world...