The Land as Viewed from the Sea

Richard Collins

Richard Collins’ debut novel is a dreamlike meditation on land and sea and the illusory nature of love. Two friends work together on a smallholding: one allows the other to read the novel he is writing, ’The Land as Viewed from the Sea’. As the novel unfolds, fiction begins to intrude upon reality, redefining the friends’ relationship, and threatening to change their lives forever ...

"Fresh, surprising and ambitious ... Richard Collins’ dark-hearted love story is a gripping tale that unfolds with immense narrative skill." The Whitbread First Novel Award Judges

Last Bird Singing

Allan Bush

“Walking Clifton Street, in any direction, is like going to your own funeral.”

A blacker than black Cardiff novel by first time novelist Allan Bush. Last Bird Singing  is an extraordinary and stunning evocation of one man’s inner life, dark, haunting and bitterly true. The walls, pubs and streets of Wales’ capital city loom through the blackness of an intense,  brilliantly realised story of loneliness and loss …

“A beautifully bleak ode to Cardiff…poetic, visceral, dark and rain-soaked. I’ve found a new hero in 70-year old Roath resident Allan Bush”. Buzz Magazine, April 2008

“This is a sharp, exciting contemporary novel which provides a poignant reality check on the glossy new brochures of modern life in this particular Celtic tiger economy. Fiction, for sure. But with the ring of authenticity.” Tony Heath, The Tribune, May 08

Last Light Breaking

Patrick Corcoran

Connolly, old, recently widowed, body declining, is marooned in the house of his son in Wales. An Irishman from Carlow he joined the British army to escape poverty and found himself on the wrong side of the Irish conflict and the wrong side of the Irish Sea. At the end of his life Connolly can only wonder what form an ’Irish’ life might have taken for him, and at the worth of his life as an outsider in England ...

Lonely’s Game

R.W. Jones

The IRA are loose in Wales, aiming to assassinate Prince Charles and Diana at Cardiff castle. The hit-squad’s divided in lust and loyalty. The plan may already be compromised … Detective Sergeant Will Morgan has problems …

Love and War

Sian James

Siân James brings her customary narrative flair and ear for dialogue to this beautifully-observed novel of love, scandal and grief set in wartime rural Wales…

Love on the Borders

Martin Bax

Innovative, erudite and enormously entertaining, Love on the Borders is the work of a unique literary mind: wideranging, encyclopaedic, insightful and enormously readable, it follows spirited 40-something Celestine as she walks the length of Offa’s Dyke - the ancient earthwork which traces the boundary between England and Wales - and recalls past passions, conjuring up discarded lovers and imagining what might have been ...