Earlier this year I published a book called My Year of Reading Welshly for which I spent a year reading lots of books by Welsh authors and about Wales. One of the delights was coming across the engaging and witty Five Pubs…, a series of interlinked-ish short stories about Cardiff’s somewhat criminal Butetown underbelly. This first story, in which local gangster Kenny Ibadulla attempts to turn part of his nightclub into a Nation of Islam mosque, is a superb opener.
From Five Pubs, Two Bars, and a Nightclub, Bloomsbury, 1999
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