Chapter 1. Crossing the breach between page and place: illuminating the relations between location and identity Part I. Capital Cardiff Chapter 2. Stalking the soul of the city: a finchian plotline through Cardiff BayChapter 3. Plotting relations: writing roots into the heart of CardiffChapter 4. Edge(y) territories: the hyperlocal world of Lloyd RobsonChapter 5. Tessa Hadley's Roath: the meeting place of suburban dreams Part II. Kaleidoscopic Aberystwyth Chapter 6.

At the spinning extremes of existence: the thriving boiling seething places of Niall GriffithsChapter 7. One part memory and one part imagination: the entangled plots of Richard CollinsChapter 8. Poetic refraction and stovepipe hats: the gumshoe mystery that is Malcolm Pryce's Aberystwyth Part III. Nations Chapter 9. Reading gave me worlds: Gillian Clarke's autobiographical plotlinesChapter 10. Durability and change: eternity and belonging in the plots of Grahame Davies Part IV. Borderlands Chapter 11. Entangling Owen Sheers: 'a conversation of place and page over time'Chapter 12.

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