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
`Prose that enriches each page and paragraph...a fine writer.' Chris High, Tangled Web`Award-winning author and writer Gee Williams brings readers a treat with Blood, etc... The stories, mature and un
Being the Famous Ones is Jeni Williams's first collection of poetry. Rooted in Wales but engaging with the wider world, the poems are deeply interested in people - in their stories, voices and conver
It's the 1920s. Airships, prohibition, Al Capone, talkies, gramophones, the Empire State building: the world across the pond is bursting with excitement and the future wide open for two small boys at
A collection of many of the author’s best short stories, this volume focuses on the author's hometown of Pontypridd, Wales,?with writing that is as scathing and savage as it is funny and compassionate
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
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
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
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.
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
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
A literary experiment in contrasting Greek mythology with contemporary social values, this collection of poetry focuses on the modern day meaning of the shield of Achilles. Each interlocking poem is i
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
Little Sister: 16-year-old Lisa is young, inexperienced and newly homeless. She finds herself sitting on a black leather suite with nightclub owner John. She could be your little sister.Giant Steps: O
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
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
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
