With
awards season well underway, we’ve put together a collection of titles for this
week’s blog to help you find the words behind the film.
These
titles are available now or coming soon to your local Torfaen library or via
your device of choice using the BorrowBox service (freely available to all
Torfaen library members).
If
Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin - Tish is nineteen and pregnant whilst
her lover Fonny, father of her child, is in jail. Flashbacks from their love
affair are woven into the compelling struggle of two families to win justice
for Fonny. James Baldwin brings a spare and impassioned intensity to his story,
charging it with universal resonance and power.
Somebody
to Love by Matt Richards and Mark Langthorne - Biographers Mark Langthorne and
Matt Richards skilfully weave Freddie's pursuit of musical greatness with
Queen, his upbringing and endless search for love, with the origins and
aftermath of a terrible disease that swept across the world in the 1980s.
The
Wife by Meg Wolitzer - Joe and Joan Castleman are en route to Helsinki. Joe is
thinking about the prestigious literary prize he will receive there, while Joan
is plotting how to leave him. For too long she has played the role of
supportive wife whilst quietly being the keystone of his success. But behind
the compromises, the disappointment and disillusionment there lies a secret…
Can
You Ever Forgive Me? by Lee Israel - Before turning to her life of crime Lee
Israel had a legitimate career as an author of biographies. Her first book was
a New York Times bestseller and her second made a splash in the
headlines. By
1990, almost broke and desperate to hang onto her Upper West Side studio, Lee
made a bold, irreversible career change: inspired by a letter she’d received
once from Katharine Hepburn...
Gyda’r tymor gwobrau wedi dechrau, rydym wedi llunio
casgliad o deitlau ar gyfer blog yr wythnos hon i’ch helpu chi i ganfod y
geiriau y tu ôl i’r ffilm.
Mae’r teitlau hyn ar gael nawr neu’n dod yn fuan i’ch
llyfrgell leol yn Nhorfaen neu eich dyfais gan ddefnyddio gwasanaeth BorrowBox (ar
gael am ddim i holl aelodau llyfrgell Torfaen).
If Beale Street Could Talk gan James Baldwin - Mae Tish yn bedair ar
bymtheg ac yn feichiog tra bo ei chariad Fonny, tad ei phlentyn, yn y carchar.
Mae ôl-fflachiau o’u carwriaeth yn cael eu plethu mewn stori gymhellol am ddau
deulu sy’n ceisio cael cyfiawnder i Fonny. Mae James Baldwin yn creu stori
ddwys, rymus dros ben.
Somebody to Love gan Matt Richards a Mark Langthorne - Mae’r cofianwyr Mark Langthorne a Matt Richards yn plethu
taith Freddie i ganfod hynodrwydd cerddorol gyda Queen, ei fagwraeth a’r
chwilio diddiwedd am gariad, gyda tharddiad ac adladd afiechyd erchyll a
ysgubodd ar draws y byd yn y 1980au.
The Wife gan Meg Wolitzer - Mae
Joe a Joan Castleman ar y ffordd i Helsinki. Mae Joe yn meddwl am y wobr
lenyddol glodfawr y bydd yn ei hennill yno, tra bo Joan yn cynllwynio sut i’w
adael. Mae hi wedi chwarae rôl y wraig gefnogol yn rhy hir, wrth fod yn
gonglfaen ei lwyddiant, yn dawel bach. Ond y tu ôl i’r cyfaddawdu, y siom a’r
dadrithiad, mae cyfrinach …
Can You Ever Forgive Me? gan Lee Israel - Cyn troi at fywyd o drosedd, roedd gan Lee Israel yrfa
ddilys fel awdur bywgraffiadau. Roedd ei llyfr cyntaf yn rhestr goreuon y New
York Times ac ymddangosodd yr ail ar dudalennu blaen y papurau newydd.
Erbyn
1990, bron heb arian o gwbl ar ôl ac eisiau cadw gafael ar ei stiwdio yn yr
Upper West Side, newidiodd Lee ei gyrfa yn llwyr, wedi ei hysbrydoli gan lythyr
a gafodd unwaith gan Katharine Hepburn…
