First published in 1880, The Rebecca Rioter is a novel based the notorious Rebecca Riots in south and west Wales in the early nineteenth century. The story tells the tale …
Seven short stories are included in this volume. Two tales of the supernatural from 1903, and five stories from her earlier work set in New England, domestic tales from the …
The Shop is a work of immense richness and sophistication; compassionate, deeply intelligent and engaging, it is a novel about the power exerted over our lives by our ancestral and …
This book was published in 1913. It was Mayor’s second novel, and the only one of the four she wrote that was well received. Its heroine, Henrietta Symons, is the perfect …
A sports journalist, sent to a Midlands town on a weekly assignment, finds himself confronted by ghosts from the past when he disembarks at the railway station. Memories of one …
The War Baby is a compelling account of bravery and betrayal in the Spanish Civil War of the 1930s. Amid the last, faltering, steps to repulse General Franco’s fascists, a …
E. M. Delafield’s pastiche of her own experience working in the Home Front in a munitions factory during the First World War. It is an early novel, published in 1918, …
Paperback, 640pp Penguin, 2020 This is one of the great untold stories of American history: the migration of black citizens who fled the south and went north in search of …
The Water-castle is a journal of love, romance and discord in 1950s Germany as a Welsh artist and poet, Elizabeth Greatorex, travels with her French husband to meet her former …
The Withered Root recounts the troubled life of Reuben Daniels, reared in a South Wales industrial valley, in the bosom of the Nonconformist culture. Therein lies his downfall and that …
Paperback, 36pp, illus Arc, 2020 A chapbook of 15 beautifully-crafted poems. Each poem is accompanied by an illustration by the poet – ink and watercolour on paper, with occasional crayon …
First published in 1892 in The New England Magazine, The Yellow Wallpaper is a seminal piece of feminist writing, a story that consists of journal entries of a physician’s wife who, …
Tommy Mutch is a working-class lad from the slums of West London, eager to escape the mean streets of Notting Dale. Boxing is in its 1930s heyday and, like many …
Poet, novelist, playwright, diaryist, anthologist and broadcaster, Dannie Abse has contributed hugely to literature in Britain. In There Was a Young Man From Cardiff he presents a series of deceptions …
First published in 1938, James Curtis takes his favourite themes of justice and equality on a rollercoaster ride through the streets of the capital and onto the great roads heading …
This convincingly authentic and harrowing attempt to get to the heart of the human condition is one of Johnson’s finest novels. In his heyday, during the 1960s and early 1970s, …
A gothic tale of passion, violence, cruelty and unexpected tenderness. In this her third novel, Margiad Evans conjures a tempestuous and sometimes sinister world of rural and small-town border life …
Included in this volume are two of Wells’ stories that reflect on science both included in his short story collection. The Star is apocalyptic, and tells of the world’s reactions to …
Paperback, 208pp Steerforth Press, 2007 Tony Galento, in Yankee Stadium on a June night in 1939, entered the record books as one of the few men to put the great …