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Reviews for Flags & Bones
As a fellow writer I’d have to say that Ben is enviably good, forever upping his game and delivering high-octane opinion set within corruscating prose. Sharp, yes, but compassionate too, caring about unfairness much as he does about the words that shine brilliantly through. – Jon Gower
Flags and Bones is a terrific book: an omnium gatherum of Wildsmith’s wit, eloquence and righteous state of the nation anger. His writing is fresh, furious and very, very funny. In Ben Wildsmith Welsh political writing has found – for good or ill (or do I mean good and ill?) – the commentator it deserves. – Patrick McGuinness
Ben’s pen is a spike on which he skewers the empty, self-regarding, and never-to-be-enlightened heads of those who have power. Their ridiculous preening, their moral squalor, their sheer worst-of-us-ness is exposed and explored with a lacerating, caustic wit. Nurture your fury, and let Ben Wildmith put some fun into it.- Niall Griffiths
Flags & Bones is serialised on Cambria Stories
Reviews for The Great Welsh Auntie Novel
“A veritable Tonypandemonium, full to the brim with bright life and vivid character, all told with oodles of humour and tongue-in-cheek self-awareness.
With a Chaucerian cast of characters such as Dai Toads, the dictatorial teacher, and dedicated layabouts MauMau and Parrot, this novel places Tonypandy Square as the centre of the universe and witnesses life whirl all around it.
It’s a pulsing story for the ages gathered from a small town which claims a big place in Welsh history just as it does in one boy’s clearly aching, breaking heart.” – Jon Gower
“Entrancing, moving and genuinely funny. John Geraint entertains and entrances as he shows how History was indeed what once lived us, and in between the cracks of memory still does.” Dai Smith, historian and novelist
