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
Calcutta in 1960 is a city striving to change. The old rulers have gone home and India is still trying to find its own way towards a peaceful, prosperous future. But the world is changing and pressing
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
Consisting of short stories, poems, essays and cartoons and comics, Cawl is an anthology of one multi-prize winning, funny, angry young man’s creative endeavours and social and political frustrations.
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
Norman Schwenk's new collection, Book of Songs, brings together poems and song lyrics of many varieties: love songs and ballads, dance and battle songs, satires and laments; there is a march, a lullab
A beautiful and personal account, this memoir recalls the time spent by Brenda Chamberlain on the Greek Island of Ydra in the early 1960s. Sea and harbor, mountain and monastery, her neighbors and fri
`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
An unsettling story about friendship and secrets, this macabre novel of life on a British estate explores the effects of place and memory. When Phillip and Edwin lost their child Helen a decade ago, t
Safar by Afshan Malik: Ismaat is on a journey between many places. The Pakistan of her youth and imagination, the city of her new life and the hard streets of a cold world. Abbu and Ammi have left her
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
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
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
Originally published in 1960, this popular novel about frustrated youth laid the groundwork for contemporary writers such as Tony Parsons and Nick Hornby. All about love, lust, and loneliness, the boo
A rich depiction of the conflicting cultural, social, and political values in Wales in the 1900s, this powerful and exceptional narrative follows Trystan Morgan as he comes of age. An artist at heart,
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
Based on experiences of the author's family in Germany and?Czechoslovakia before, during, and after World War II,?this haunting novel is told through the diary of 12-year-old Lynette who describes gro
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
The village of Tanygraig on the Welsh-English border is the backdrop of this passionate novel of love and its consequences. Beti, the beautiful and willful daughter of a pub landlord, is pursued by tw
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
