Review:
Rhwng y Silffoedd
by Andrew Green
From Planet 241

Planet 234

Katie Gramich
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Rhwng y Silffoedd
by Andrew Green

by Andrew Green

Y Lolfa, £8.99

‘Professor Plum, in the library, with the mobile shelving...?’

This is a tasty ragout of a book, part whodunnit, part satire, part campus novel, with an undercurrent of Classical allegory and more than a soupçon of humour. Since its author is the former National Librarian, Andrew Green, it is fitting that the scene of the crime is the library of the University of Aberacheron, while the two amateur sleuths who set about solving the mystery are Menna Maengwyn, the librarian, and her off-and-on lover, Llŷr Meredydd, senior lecturer in Criminology. The victim is Diocletian Jones, the much-hated vice-chancellor with a penchant for closing departments and treating students as paying customers; thus, there is a pleasing plethora of grudge-bearing potential murderers.

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About the author

Katie Gramich is a retired professor of Literature who has published on the work of authors including Gwerful Mechain, Derek Walcott, Kate Roberts and Rhys Davies. She has just completed an MA in Translation Studies and is now exploring other paths not taken.