One of the defining moments of my own childhood, was when, a few months after the Aberfan disaster, we drove up to Brecon along the valley road, and looked across the valley to a field of white crosses, like the images of Flanders on Armistice day, only no red poppies among the white...
A Terrible Kindness (Faber, January) by Jo Browning Wroe explores the aftermath of the Aberfan disaster. There are lots of big names whose works are coming out in translation. Days of Old (Lilliput, May) by Maylis Besserie, ...