Winterreise

Pip Woolf & Robert Lloyd

Words, paintings, music, ’Winterreise’ records the responses of an artist, an opera singer and a pianist to Franz Schubert’s ’Die Winterreise’, the song cycle based on the poems of Wilhelm Muller which he wrote just before his death almost two hundred years ago ...

Wishdaughter

Adrian Mourby

Set in contemporary Venice, Tel Aviv, Munich, London and rural Wales, Adrian Mourby’s new novel is a compelling examination of paternity, genius and the potency of the written word. The chance discovery of a letter sets journalist Bill Wheeler off on an investigation into the dark world of Richard Wagner, opera’s greatest composer and the man whom Nietszche described as a ’sickness’ ...

The Witch Bag

Sarah Corbett

"Poetry as white-knuckle ride" is how Poetry Wales described Sarah Corbett’s debut, The Red Wardrobe. Her eagerly-awaited second collection, The Witch Bag, is as powerful as its predecessor, and is sure to cement Corbett’s reputation...

The Woman who Loved an Octopus and other Saint’s Tales

Imogen Rhia Herrad

From the sensuous sea to flight from the world, The Woman who Loved an Octopus is an inspired collection of twelve themed short stories, based on the lives and legends of thirteen Celtic women saints from the first millennium …

“Forget the airbrushed, perma-tanned, size zero saccharine celebrity ‘role models’ gracing the covers of all the glossy magazines today. Imogen Herrad has delved back to tales to Celtic Saints of the fifth and sixth centuries to find some real women to look up to … It is when Herrad transposes her tales to the contemporary world that the full force of her talent becomes apparent … we find that sometimes Herrad roars and sometimes she has a quiet word in your ear, but mostly, as with good music, she sounds better with the volume turned up to eleven”.

Susie Wild, New Welsh Review, December 07

Wowsers

Paul Groves

In Paul Groves’s fourth book, which consolidates his reputation as one of the most able and consistent poets of his generation, we encounter such unlikely stablemates as Rudolf Hess, Virginia Woolf, Dylan Thomas, and Otto...