[O]ne of our most consistent and continually undervalued writers’ The Guardian Davies writes with an intensity which is simultaneously disturbing and exhilarating’ Times Literary Supplement Sebastian
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
Hannah Elis is thirty-five, unmarried and still living at Y Glyn, the family farm in Wales where she has been brought up by her mother and step-father, a forbidding man with a powerful hold on the nei
The town of Port Talbot has long been seen (quite literally) as synonymous with the steel industry. Yet it also has another claim to fame as the actors' capital of Wales. It has produced a remarkable
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
An incongruous ice-cream van lurches up into the Welsh hills through the hail, pursued by a boy and girl who chase it into their own dark make-believe world, and unfurl in their compelling voices a ta
Arguably the greatest of all published memoirs of the Great War, Old Soldiers Never Die is Private Frank Richards' classic account of the war from the standpoint of the regular soldier, and a moving t
Living in the Delta: Collected and New Poems by Landeg White brings together work from nine previous collections. Welsh by birth, White is a citizen of the world, having lived and written and taught o
Making connections between the Suez Canal War in 1949 and the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, this novel about a British couple's disastrous marriage is told by their daughter, who has discovere
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
Eight critical essays look at Welsh poetry and prose written in English, considering such topics as the European dimension in the early short stories and poems of Glyn Jones; images of education in ea
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
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
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
Home To An Empty House tells in Alun Richards' incisive style the story of a marriage that has long since lost its sparkle. Walter, the wisecracking paranoiac and Connie, teacher of the 'backward clas
A story of unfolding revelation, this multi-voiced narrative examines the difficult, fascinating character of Caradock, whose family made its fortune from the industry of Wales, but whose childhood in
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
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
Attempting a sideways glance at the cultural activity bubbling under the surface, this book features five very different artists whose vital, off-center work benefits from being produced away from the
