Empaperment

With a title drawn from the work of TH Parry Williams – a master of the 20th-century essay form, on whom Price has written extensively – the subtlety and capaciousness of these writings reveal Price a successor as much as a researcher of his extraordinary talents. With subjects ranging from phonetics to cakes, from cleaning to Karl Marx, it is Price’ s gift for sensitive, intelligent scrutiny that holds the volume together, her capacity to expand the meaning of the seemingly smallest mundanity.

Angharad Price is a novelist, essayist and playwright. Her novel O, Tyn y Gorchudd won the Prose Medal at the 2002 National Eisteddfod and was named Wales Book of the Year in 2003. It was translated into English as The Life of Rebecca Jones. Her novels, Caersaint and Nelan a Bo, were shortlisted for Wales Book of the Year, as was her collection of essays, Ymbapuroli. Her play Nansi was produced by Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru. She is the author of acclaimed studies on Welsh literature and is Professor of Welsh and Creative Writing at Bangor University.