Sea Holly

Robert Minhinnick

A stunning debut novel from this award-winning poet and essayist, Sea Holly is a story of drifting, burnt-out lives, shadowed by the mysterious disappearance of a vivacious young girl …

“The man is a consistent winner.” – Peter Finch, Western Mail, March 08

“Robert Minhinnick has been regarded as the best writer in Wales now for more than a decade and his voice needs to be heard internationally.” Peter Stead, Western Mail, March 08

Shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize 2008

Second Chances

Denis F. Ratcliffe

Critically injured in a mysterious air crash, D. considers the question which has haunted his young life: "what am I doing here?" What he recalls is a disturbing story of a child’s struggle for survival...

Selected Stories of Alun Richards

Alun Richards

Elgar Davies, Hon. Sec. of Pontlast RFC; scandalised Elmyra Mouth; lawyer Bunny Leyshon; Jehoidah Wetter, public convenience attendant; dream girl Dottie Lemon; Esme and her famous fly-half husband. The characters from Alun Richards’s classic short stories are joined by new figures soon to be held in equal affection ...

Shifts

Christopher Meredith


Against the background of a declining steel town, Shifts charts the lives of four closely bound characters, Jack, Keith, Rob and Judith in a story of grief, love, work and betrayal. When the plant closes all four are forced to take control of their lives. The men look to their work and to the past for explanation, while Judith seeks an answer in herself and those around her ...

The Shop

Emyr Humphreys

Eddie Lloyd, troubled son of the famous Welsh actor Orlando Lloyd is introduced to ambitious film-maker Bethan Mair Nichols, and immediately finds himself captivated by the intense young woman.  It transpires that Bethan’s Great Aunt Sulwen has left her a derelict shop in rural Wales.  As the novel and their relationship progresses, Bethan’s legacy becomes increasingly contentious, until a brutal assault allows the couple to reassess their fraught relationship ...

A Short Book About Love

Nicholas Murray

Love in all its guises is the subject of Nick Murray’s wise and witty fiction. Woven into a comic re-telling of the classic legend of Tristan and Iseut - one of the world’s greatest love stories - is the story of Felix, growing up in post-war Liverpool and, in the wake of a father’s death, trying to come to terms with the meaning of what Philip Larkin, called ’that much-mentioned brilliance, love’ ...

The Show-Me State

Lloyd Rees

When Arthur Noone arrives at South Missouri State University to research American usage of English, words almost fail to describe the fix in which he finds himself. Bored with academe and escaping a broken marriage, the weak-willed Arthur is desperate to have a good time with American beer and women. In a fruitless wait for a new woman friend he unwittingly witnesses a gang murder of the wrong man ...

Sidereal Time

Christopher Meredith

Clint and Dustin are coconuts, 10L have turned into three-toed sloths, Gron is becoming Zero Mostel, the lower sixth is an airliner of people about to fall out of the sky, and you, you’ve turned into a three-eyed Martian who speaks a nounless language and has forgotted to pay the child minder ...

Slipping Away from Milford

Rob Watson

At the end of the Fifties the quiet fishing town of Milford haven faces the future as plans for an oil refinery are announced. Traditional values are challenged when big city corruption arrives in the shape of a dead man and a briefcase full of money ...