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" <
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> 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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