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Our Town review – Michael Sheen brings warmth and wit to Welsh National Theatre opener

Thornton Wilder’s classic American play is transposed for this company’s inaugural production. The result is heartfelt, though its emotional bite can seem uncertain

The Guardian - UK

Dylan Thomas was ‘serial plagiarist’ as a schoolboy, publisher claims

Welsh poet is alleged to have stolen work of other authors wholesale while at school in Swansea

The Independent UK

Country pub of the week: The Sailors' Safety, Newport

Rambler, beach-goers and even Dylan Thomas have all been regulars

Evening Standard

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From Dylan Thomas’ shopping list to a note from Sylvia Plath’s doctor: newly uncovered case files reveal the hidden lives of famous writers

Exclusive: Hardship grant applications to the Royal Literary Fund, including unseen letters by Doris Lessing and a note from James Joyce saying that he ‘gets nothing in the way of royalties’, show authors at their most vulnerable

The Guardian - UK

A Child’s Christmas in Wales review – exquisite Dylan Thomas adaptation has magic in every scene

Joy radiates from the stage as an ensemble cast from the Emma Rice Company bring Thomas’s twinkling poem to life

The Guardian - UK

Bingo halls, nuclear bunkers and the Tom Cruise trail: the best of this year’s Open House

A castle that inspired Dylan Thomas, a former cinema where the Beatles played or Tom Cruise’s filmic legacy are all hidden gems available for a sneak peek – for one day only

The Guardian - UK

Cover Her / Scenes from Under Milk Wood reviews – music for an unsettlingly vivid torture scene

New works at Spitalfields music festival by Litha Efthymiou and Ninfea Cruttwell-Reade brought a 3rd-century teenage martyr and the chattering rhythms of Dylan Thomas’s poetry vividly to life

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‘Dizzying coastal paths, quiet beaches and dolphins’: readers’ highlights of the UK coastline

Fishing villages, lighthouses, seabirds and beachside cafes star in our tipsters’ favourite spots from Derry to Cornwall

The Guardian - UK

Artists, Siblings, Visionaries by Judith Mackrell review – the remarkable lives of Gwen and Augustus John

Gwen’s talent vastly outshone her brother’s – but both are treated with subtlety in this outstanding dual biography

The Guardian - UK

‘Publishing is a dream, but this has also been one of the hardest years of my life’: Palestinian author Yasmin Zaher

The novelist has been awarded the Dylan Thomas prize for young writers. She talks about giving up medical training to pursue fiction – and the childhood memories that inspired her winning debut, The Coin

The Guardian - UK

“Genuinely, I listen to the early stuff and I shudder when I hear my vocals”: How IQ singer Peter Nicholls learned to stop hating his voice, love songwriting and keep albums shorter

After watching a YouTube review, the 45-year veterans resisted the temptation to make Dominion another double LP. But they made enough music to limit the time before their next release

Louder

The Coin by Palestinian writer Yasmin Zaher wins the Dylan Thomas Prize – an expert from the judging panel explains why

Yasmin Zaher’s remarkable novel The Coin has won the Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize for writers under the age of 40.

The Conversation

Palestinian author Yasmin Zaher wins Dylan Thomas prize with ‘audacious’ novel The Coin

£20,000 award for writers aged 39 or under goes to story ‘tackling trauma and grief with bold and poetic moments of quirkiness and humour’

The Guardian - UK

Where tourists seldom tread, part 16: a trio of small historic cities

From Swansea, with its sweeping bay and artistic soul, to Doncaster’s Roman heritage and Carlisle’s literary past, this selection proves size doesn’t matter

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Eley Williams and Ferdia Lennon shortlisted for Dylan Thomas prize

Yael van der Wouden, Seán Hewitt, Yasmin Zaher and Rebecca Watson also in running for Swansea University’s £20,000 writers’ award, with winner announced on 15 May

The Guardian - UK

Jess Kidd: ‘My older sister taught me to read with Mills & Boon’

The author on growing up with tales of swooning heroines, the thrill of Dylan Thomas and the genius of George Saunders

The Guardian - UK

Italy 22-15 Wales: Six Nations 2025 – as it happened

Wales slumped to their 14th consecutive defeat after a hugely disappointing display in Rome

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Gwen Watkins obituary

Codebreaker at Bletchley Park during the second world war who went on to become a successful author

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Heir to $292 Million Pie Fortune Murdered Childhood Best Friend 'In the Most Barbaric and Cruel Way'

Dylan Thomas, heir to a $292 million Welsh pie fortune, was sentenced to life imprisonment for the premeditated murder of his childhood best friend.

Evening Standard

Pie company fortune heir sentenced to life in prison for best friend’s murder

William Bush, 23, was killed by Dylan Thomas, his childhood friend and the grandson of pie company tycoon Sir Stanley Thomas, in Cardiff.

The Independent UK

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Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter has died at his home in Plains, Georgia

The Guardian - UK

Heir to pie fortune found guilty of murdering best friend in Cardiff

Dylan Thomas, 24, who stabbed William Bush, 23, on Christmas Eve, had previously admitted manslaughter

The Independent UK

Heir to pie company fortune stabbed best friend to death on Christmas Eve

Dylan Thomas, 24, the grandson of pie company tycoon Sir Stanley Thomas, murdered William Bush, 23, on December 24, 2023

Evening Standard

Pie company fortune heir found guilty of Christmas Eve murder

Dylan Thomas, 24, the grandson of pie company tycoon Sir Stanley Thomas, murdered his friend William Bush, 23

Evening Standard

Jury retires to consider verdicts in Christmas Eve murder trial

Dylan Thomas has admitted manslaughter but denies the murder of William Bush in Llandaff on December 24, 2023.

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