Collected Stories of Alun Lewis

Alun Lewis

Alun Lewis (1915-1944) was one of the few great British writers of the Second World War. His early death at the age of twenty-eight robbed Wales of its most promising poet and story writer ...

Collected Stories of Leslie Norris

Leslie Norris

Leslie Norris was born in Merthyr Tydfil in 1921. Formerly a teacher and headmaster, he has for many years taught literature and creative writing in American universities, most recently at Brigham Young, Utah, where he...

Crystal Spirit

Roger Granelli

Crystal Spirit is the story of David Hicks, arrogant and petulant son of a Welsh collier, set to escape the pit through education, but trapped into marriage and a shopkeeping job he hates. Denied his freedom he grows to maturity through the Labour movement and his experiences as a volunteer in the International Brigade in the Spanish Civil War....

Dark Edge

Roger Granelli

In the 1984 Miners’ Strike two brothers find themselves in the no man’s land between police line and picket line. A union official, Edwin Bowles is deeply involved in organising striking miners and defending his community. His younger brother Elliott is an ambitious policeman who sees promotion in the strike. The two men must face each other in a conflict in which they must both fight ...

Dat’s Love

Leonora Brito

Dorothy, 59, takes up nude modelling; Dooley Wilson’s funeral in Cardiff; the assassination of J.F.K.; what’s going down at the Blue Bayou; the road that was once a canal; Dido Elizabeth Belle, a slave in England. These are just some of the characters and situations in Leonora Brito’s wide-ranging collection of stories ...

Don’t Stand So Close

Lloyd Rees

Tom Browning is 36. Bored and frustrated at home, he has reached the point of cynicism as a music teacher in a comprehensive school. Asking a class to respond to the lyrics of some pop music, it is Tom, afraid of growing fat, bald and middle-aged, who discerns a spurious truth in the hope and yearning of the words ...

The Dylan Thomas Murders

David N. Thomas

Waldo: a loner, an obsessive, the son of a famous writer - but which one? His mother Rosalind: did this old lady really work for MI5? Rachel: poet, Jew, Quaker - why is she taking such risks for the sake of friendship? Martin: her husband: retired academic, amateur detective, who is tested to the limit by events past and present in his new home in rural Wales ...

Eleven

David Llewellyn

In Cardiff’s offices and call centres the twenty-something white collar workers of the new sweatshops email each other with work issues, jokes,arrangements for their social lives, gossip and the products of sheer boredom…

"A compulsive read…" Ray French, The Guardian 

 

Entertainment

Richard John Evans

Vitriolic in its disgust, malevolent in its humour, dazzling in its invective, Entertainment pushes you places you’d rather not go, where life’s more bearable on vodka and whizz, bogs are for shagging other blokes’ birds and the pub singer’s crap and he’s your dad ...

Everything Must Change

Grahame Davies

Everything Must Change is a thoughtful first novel, exploring the place of passionately held, radical beliefs in the modern world. The novel intercuts the story of French philosopher and activist Simone Weil, with that of  21st century campaigner Meinwen Jones, adrift in a post-devolution Wales. Hailed as ‘the first post-national novel’ by Lord Dafydd Elis-Thomas, Meinwen’s inner struggle echoes Simone’s as she devotes herself exclusively to her cause of anti-globalisation and protecting culture…

“Grahame Davies puts flesh and bones on the historical figure with great success…it is a beautiful and assured read.” – Sian Melangell Dafydd, New Welsh Review, March 08