Trezza Azzopardi News Today

In our latest collaboration with the Western Mail, Emma Schofield looks at what can be learned of our cities from two contemporary Welsh novels.

Cardiff-born Trezza Azzopardi’s debut novel, The Hiding Place, was nominated for the Booker Prize in 2000 and won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize.

Author Joanne Harris faces growing pressure to be axed from her position as Chair of the Society of authors after she was accused of mocking death threats to writers.

Radical feminist Julie Bindle, novelists Christina Dalcher, Anne Fine, Alex Marwood and Paula Byrne along with journalist Helen Joyce expressed deep disquiet in an open letter to the trade union.

The comedian, 48, kept a low-profile as he left the Hollywood club while puffing a cigarette shortly after he enthusiastically backed JK Rowling in her spat with the transgender community

Comedian Dave Chappelle (pictured) is being blasted after making transphobic remarks in his sixth Netflix special, The Closer. Some critics are calling on the streaming service to axe the standup special

During his sixth Netflix special, The Closer, Chappelle, 48, joked about Rowlings argument that transgender women were not actually women and were a threat to her identity.