Who Stole a Bloater?

Frances Thomas

Meet the Vaughan family: Mamma, Dadda, Davy, his five sisters and baby brother Owen. They live in a small house in a Welsh Valley before the First World War. This charming book chronicles some of their adventures: Bessie’s hunger strike for the latest fashion; Owen’s sudden and mysterious disappearance; Davy’s trip to the colliery to see the pit ponies ...

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 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