She tramps with humor, love, and loss across the UK, even the globe, seeking a place to call home. Better Houses charts the move from childhood to adult life with wit and wonder. In a state of constan
Jampot Smith is the story of a group of friends as they edge towards adulthood in the sunshine and shadow of Llandudno during the Second World War. For Bernard, the Jampot Smith of the title, for Kath
Extremely controlled studies of constrained desire, loneliness, and incomplete relationships, these tales fostered Edwards' development of a nonrealist world of imagery and symbolism in her own langua
The Withered Root is the story of the last great Welsh revival - a religious thrust of feeling - chapels and coal mines, righteous fervour and fertile, febrile carousal which swept across Wales in the
Enigmatic and even elliptical, these three Catalan plays represent elements of a more "European," less "UK" dramatic style, with echoes of early Pinter. "The Sale" is an apparently nonpolitical work c
A collection about the fluidity of time and place, Rebel Sun charts our gradual unravelling; the compulsion to transform and shape-shift, to slowly unwind roots from the earth – grow fin and fea
Uniting the author's lyrical and philosophical flights of narrative in a satire whose savagery is only relieved by irrepressible laughter, this work explores the underlying meaning of South Wales' his
Starling knows a chemist called Roper, who knows a painter called Jourbert, who knows a man in Mexico who works for the government. Mescal has always had its routes into the world. There has been a ne
John Idris Jones has had a heart attack. He is only forty-seven, thin, fit and attractive. Life isn't meant to be this short, he has to recover. He needs to remember his past to embrace the future. Bu
In July 2013, David Thatcher died of a drug overdose in America. More than you were was written by his daughter, to try to understand what came after. The result is a striking collection of poetry whi
An origami crane in remembrance of Hiroshima. A father's faded old photograph of his 1970s pre-marital sports car. Youths congregated at a bus stop. The sounds of an empty house after the children hav
Robert Mitchum, aka 'Mr. Bad Taste', 'Trouble Himself, 'The Man with the Immoral Face', 'Daddy Bad'. Mitchum was the original Hollywood bad-boy and one of the greatest screen actors of the twentieth c
It's a July 12th bank holiday weekend in Dundrug, "Ireland's Las Vegas", and 16 year old Jerome Maguire, the town's one gothic punk, communist and poet laureate (self-elected), wants to "find out abou
