Re: RARA-AVIS: Anglo-Welsh hardboiled

From: John Williams ( johnwilliams@ntlworld.com)
Date: 15 Oct 2002


Joy

Anglo-Welsh hardboiled is a rarefied field indeed. The purest example is Sean Burke's recently published Deadwater. My own last two books, Five Pubs, Two Bars & A Nightclub and Cardiff Dead, are definitely Anglo-Welsh but somewhere on the edge of hardboiled. Malcolm Pryce's Aberystwyth Mon Amour, is a wonderfully clever Chandler pastiche, but again not entirely hardboiled. Other than those there are arguably hardboiled elelemnts in the work of Niall Griffiths (especially Kelly & Victor) and there is a certian Highsmithian quality to Anna Davis's Melting.

Hope that helps your friend (btw for what it's worth I am currently in the final stages of editing a collection of new Anglo-Welsh writing (not just crime) for Bloomsbury in the UK

John
----- Original Message ----- From: "Joy Matkowski" < jmatkowski1@comcast.net> To: < rara-avis@icomm.ca> Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 1:58 PM Subject: RARA-AVIS: Anglo-Welsh hardboiled

> I've just learned that a friend has begun a graduate degree program in
> Anglo-Welsh literature. I thought with all the BritNoir I read in the last
> few months, I'd have some titles and authors to recommend, but I don't.
Does
> anyone have suggestions?
>
> Joy
>
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