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The Lake is a raw account of life in a devastated land and the harsh,primitive circumstances under which people fight to survive.

Riverwise, a volume of slow river prose centred around Afon Teifi, is a book of wanderings andwonderings, witnessings and enchantments, rememberings and endings. Weaving memoir, poetryand keen observation into its meandering course, it shifts across time and space to reflect thebeauty of hidden, fluvial places.

'My great grandfather and grandfather sailed the Horn, in steam and diesel, out of Liverpool. I was the first generation not to sail the Horn or fight a war. Instead, I would go to the end of the world, beyond Patagonia, to Tierra del Fuego. I would do more, I would see the Horn and find lost tribes. The child in me could go even further and sail the waters of Coleridge's albatross and enter the watercolours' blue horizons of my first novel, and sit on Robinson Crusoe's imaginary shore. I had imagined these places; they must exist. All I had to do was look for them.'

Ranging from flash fiction to novelette, these stories are inturn chilling, playful, and melancholy. Every tale is rich with landscapeshaunted by loss and longing.

Gorwelion: Shared Horizons is a climate change anthologyof poetry and prose edited by prize-winning writer andenvironmental activist Robert Minhinnick featuring Welsh,Scottish, Indian and English writers.

This collection with parallel texts in Italian and English gives theEnglish-reading audience a sense of the great variety of the presentpoetic scene in Italy with a selection of twenty-one of the mostrepresentative contemporary poets.

This book comprises the life stories of 40 Black Asian MinorityEthnic women that were finalists/winners for the Ethnic Minority WelshWomen Achievement award (2011-2019).

This book argues for a new Welsh Way, one that is truly radicaland transformational. A call for a political engagement thatwill create real opportunity for change.

In the totalitarian CSR, unruly Karolina and physically handicapped Romana have found a means of escape as part of a successful trick riding team. However, as capitalism looms, both their relationship and their freedom to ride will face a new threat - money. For there will be no room for these two 'imperfect' women while professionalism beckons...

Selected for the first time in a single new edition, these sensual stories by prize-winning author John Sam Jones reveal lucid prose and complex lives. Moving through city steam rooms, rugged North Wales mountains and estuaries facing other places. Risky sex, new romance and easy understanding, a mortgage on a semi or keeping a lid on it all for the sake family, status and belief...Including previously unseen work, and a foreword by David Llewellyn.

Rich with visceral imagery, The Hungry and the Lost is a novel in true Southern Gothic style, pitting the worlds of myth and innocence against the rational grip of progress and modernity.

A collection of new contemporary short stories by Welshwriters, comprising twelve diverse stories about humanrelationships between people and places, representing thewinners of the 2021 Rhys Davies Short Story Competition.

"e;Even Hannibal himself wou'd have found it impossible to have match'd his army over Snowden"e;Daniel de Foe, A tour thro' the whole island of Great Britain... 1924"e;It would be the height of ingratitude to find fault with any thing, where kindness and humanity were so predominant."e;Mary Morgan, A tour to Milford Haven, in the year 1791."e;At Holly well they speake Welsh; the inhabitants go barefoote and bare leg'd - a nasty sort of people. Their meate is very small here, Mutton is noe bigger than Little Lamb, what of it there is was sweete; their wine good being Neare ye Sea side, and are well provided with ffish - very good Salmon and Eeles and other ffish I had at Harding."e;Celia Fiennes, Through England on a Side Saddle, 1698David Lloyd Owen introduces us to the fascinating breadth of travellers' tales from a mysterious and absorbing country: writers who described a land of mountains and valleys, ruined castles, and abandoned monasteries, and give us tales of strange locals who spoke another language and were known as the Welsh.A Wilder Wales highlights the astonishing transformation of Wales from a poor rural backwater to the crucible of the industrial revolution and offers readers an insight into the ways in which outsiders viewed the land and its people.

A newly curated volume of academic essays on RaymondWilliams' work. To be published in Williams' centenary year, as part of theParthian Modern Wales series.

Kohon and Toni Griffiths' stunning translation has the powerto transport you to the 1960s, to Buenos Aires, to those firstoverpowering experiences of sexual love. Odetta in Babylon and theCanada Express invites you to step onto the train, and to let go. Loseyourself in the music and enjoy the journey, wherever it takes you.

Edited and Translated by Alexandra Buchler. A book of poems by Katerina Rudcenkova selected fromher four poetry books by the editor / translator AlexandraBuchler who will also write an introduction.

From a humble background in Barry, where his father was a butcher and local politician in the formative years of the new town, Cyril Lakin studied at Oxford, survived the First World War, and went on to become a Fleet Street editor, radio presenter and war-time member of parliament. As literary editor of both the Daily Telegraph and the Sunday Times, Lakin was at the centre of a vibrant and radical generation of writers, poets and critics, many of whom he recruited as reviewers. He gained a parliamentary seat and served in the National Government during World War II.The different worlds he inhabited, from Wales to Westminster, and across class, profession and party, were facilitated by his relaxed disposition, convivial company, and ability to cultivate influential contacts. An effective talent-spotter and catalyst for new projects, he preferred pragmatism over ideology and non-partisanship in politics: a moderate Conservative for modern times.

Edited with an introduction by Peter Wakelin. Part of the Modern Wales series. Originally published in 1945, Miner's Day tells of the coalmining life of the thirties in south Wales.

Marcia Pullman has been found dead at home in the leafy suburbs of Bulawayo. Chief Inspector Edmund Dube is onto the case at once, but it becomes increasingly clear that there are those, including the dead woman's husband, who do not want him asking questions.The case drags Edmund back into his childhood to when his mother's employers disappeared one day and were never heard from again, an incident that has shadowed his life. As his investigation into the death progresses, Edmund realises the two mysteries are inextricably linked and that unravelling the past is a dangerous undertaking threatening his very sense of self.

Gavdos: a remote island south of Crete, the southernmostpoint of Europe, surrounded by an endless expanse ofsea. To Oksana, who has come from Ukraine with her friendsto recover from illness in the aftermath of Chernobyl, itseems like a dream to live in a blue-and-white housewith a lemon tree. To Penelope, a Greek woman, it is a kind of

When the author is given a small package, containingletters and papers relating to his grandfather's brother, whowas killed in Syria during the Second World War, it leadshim on an extended personal journey.

This ground-breaking volume makes visible a long and diversetradition of queer writing from Wales. Spanning genres fromghost stories and science fiction to industrial literature andsurrealist modernism, these are stories of love, loss andtransformation.

In this acclaimed Greek novel, Auguste Corteau imagineshis own mother's inner life, observing with wit and earthyhumour the saga of her extended family's ups and downs inthe city of Thessaloniki over three generations.

Humorous, serious and sometimes outrageous, Topher Mills'poetry covers swimming, love, work, dialects, sex, politics,death and everything inbetween. From the incidental ordinaryto the waywardly imaginative Sex on Toast gathers Mills'best-known work together with a host of new and uncollectedmaterial.

Robert Clifford is in Cairo to present his latest film fora festival prize. It has taken seven gruelling years ofhis life to make and is definitely NOT a film about hismother. But his moment in the spotlight is not quite as hescripted.

This is a skilful collection by a poet well acquaintedwith relative place: wherever a poem lives, it alwaysremembers its place in the world. Indeed, juxtapositionsand connections - with place, culture, and amonghumans - are where the poet flexes his muscle - 'worksout' his ideas.