Pestilence

William Owen Roberts

From the elegance and refinement of Cairo’s Madrasa Academy sets out Salah Ibn al Khatib, whose mission is to avenge his wronged family by killing the King of France. In a bizarre and exotic journey the luckless Salah encounters whores and rogues, popes and priests, bishops, kings and queens. And as he penetrates the dark and Boschian heart of Europe something implacable and murderous accompanies him: pestilence ...

The Plum Tree

John Gwilym Jones

Published in 1946, Y Goeden Eirin was hailed as a masterly collection by one of the most accomplished exponents of the short story in the Welsh language. This new translation - The Plum Tree - makes the writing of John Gwilym Jones available to English-speaking readers for the first time. Intensely interested in how literature works, Jones produced engaging and accessible stories which bear comparison to Joyce and other modernists ...

Pumping up Napoleon

Maria Donovan

Pumping Up Napoleon is an assured collection of fifteen short stories with an offbeat take on human relationships, and the relationship of the rather unreliable human body to mind and spirit. ‘Offbeat’ includes dog massage, cloning your own four-foot son for organ transplants, and a university lecturer’s romance with a resurrected Napoleon Bonaparte…