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
Seven Days is a story of adventure and spirituality as father and son travel the “Rue du Bonjour” across the pilgrim route of the high Pyrenees. It is a journey with a writer grappling with some of th
[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
Basque literature is currently experiencing the most interesting and eclectic period in its history... these concentrated, intense and ilhminating short stories will attract new readers with their abi
A phenomenon in Turkey with more than 120,000 copies sold, Women who Blow on Knots chronicles a voyage reaching from Tunisia to Lebanon, taken by three young women and septuagenarian Madam Lilla. Alth
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
Beautiful widow Joan D'Silva is at Howrah Station, fleeing Calcutta with her 11-year-old son Errol. Also on the same train is Laxhimi, a notorious hijira prostitute: charismatic, sensual and powerful.
We all like choosing the best-ever Welsh rugby team, but here is a XV with a difference. Here they are not players but writers. The exploits of the people’s heroes from Gould to Gareth Edwards are viv
When I met you I was preparing to die... Deep in the savage chaos of the Spanish Civil War a poet searches for answers to what he calls his “conversation with God”. Another poet searches simply for re
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
Translated by Jayde WillBeasts (translated from the Latvian, Zveri) takes the perspective of the educated and curious city dweller who ventures into the natural world. Krisjanis Zelgis’ focuses on the
Narcoses (translated from the Latvian Narkozes) is a collection of fresh, powerfully feminine and open poetry, never derivative nor contrived, but inspired by Gruntmane’s direct and honest personal ex
Information for anyone struggling to conceive or have a child naturally, this straightforward self-help book could be the answer.Written in an easy-to-read style by consultant gynaecologist and obstet
The people of the lost English-Welsh border town Goregree are losers and weirdos, sometimes pathetic, sometimes terrible. They all long for something more, but are trapped by poverty, disease, and add
The poems in this collection explore what it means to be human: where the mythological meets the modern, where fairytales, family and revenge collide, and a haunting mix of love, loss, desire, fear an
To Hear The Skylark’s Song is a wonderfully evocative memoir of growing up in a village in south Wales in the 1960s and 1970s. The village is Aberfan. This is an account of life in a Welsh mining vill
In What I Know I Cannot Say / All That Lies Beneath, Dai Smith combines a novella and a linked section of short stories to create a dazzling fictional synthesis that takes the reader on a tour of the
Loud Music Makes you Drive Faster is Mark’s first collection of poetry, an anthology of his spoken word performances. Surreal, playful and sometimes tender, these poems sit in the tradition of spoken
Ride the White Stallion is the sequel to Farewell Innocence, charting the trials and travails of Ieuan Morgan at the foundry and in his family life. It is an account of a young man’s creative awakenin
Full of wry humour and startling originality, this collection features some of the late Leonora Brito's most acclaimed stories, including 'Mama's Baby (Papa's Maybe)', 'The Last Jumpshot', and 'Dat's
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
The lives of locals and expatriates intertwine and collide as they strive to negotiate the shifting mores of the ever-changing emirate of Dubai in this debut short story collection. In one story, a yo
Tattoo is narrative, signifier, art work, more. In this rich collection Kate Noakes explores the cultural meanings and stories permanently etched on our skin. Tattoo on Crow Street is Kate Noakes fift
Cheval 8 presents a selection of the writing submitted by the talented young entrants to this year’s Terry Hetherington Award, and includes new work by previous winners. Some of these writers are appe
At the age of fifty, towards the end of the First World War, W. H. Davies decided that he must marry. Spurning London society and the literary circles where he had been lionised since the publication
Wikipedia-obsessed cats, deleted tweets, James Franco’s mother, west Wales, and Barcelona. Both bleak and joyously optimistic,All The Places We Lived is a collection of disparate, yet inextricably con
Carwyn James treated rugby football as if it was an art form and aesthetics part of the coaching manual. This son of a miner, from Cefneithin in the Gwendraeth Valley, was a cultivated literary schola
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 this reprinted travelogue, a UK writer shares his experiences and personal and area history in trekking to Tierra del Fuego and Antarctica. Harrison (Royal Geographical Society) met the Yamana and
Sex, murder and devastating black humour mark these three novellas from the 1940s. In Oscar, the narrator of death and exploitation fails to fend off the evil that envelops him. In Simeon, the abuse o
‘I could see that still no one had been able to get out from the cockpit. It must have been at this moment that I thought I was going to die because I became remarkably calm.’ Trapped
A writer in her late thirties retreats to Landes in France for a while, fleeing from her own suffering after the break-up of a relationship. Little by little, she finds solace in writing about the los
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
“Portugal is not all that far away, or exotic, or dangerous, but it felt like a huge stretch for me to leave my partner, family, job and home and just go off. An overland solo trip lasting months in a
A product of twenty years of research, Stand Up & Sock it to them Sister is an entertaining and powerful statement for not only female stand-up comics but for any woman working in a male dominated env
Starting as an apprentice at Bevan’s foundry, Ieuan Morgan enters a new and testing world. His colleagues soon turn out to be his tormentors while life at home is not without its challenges. It is har
