From an author The Queen called “a humorist of the first order” comes the deliciously dark tale of the strange and woeful young womanhood of Margaret, the narrator of Elizabeth …
With passion, humour and remarkable insight Gwyn Thomas captures the world of South Wales in the 1830s during the turbulent years of the Merthyr and Newport Uprisings. As the newly-built …
Illustrated by Jude Cowan Montague B format paperback, 40pp ISBN 978 0 9930763 6 7 These poems are cut-up, assembled as poetic collage from Philip Larkin’s All What Jazz: A …
“Do not be afraid, dear reader,”writes Galán in his afterword, “of this literary endeavour – if a reader is ever found. It can be portrayed as yet another prosaic parody …
This volume includes An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, A Horseman in the Sky and One of the Missing, three American Civil War stories. They were published in book form in …
Angel Pavement is one of the great London novels; it is a vivid picture of ordinary London life before the war at the time of the Great Depression. First published in …
Hardback, 64pp Faber, 2018 In a period when nations are retracting within their borders, the vivid and intricate poems of Jamie McKendrick’s new collection Anomaly are especially timely, and speak …
Paperback, 160pp Bloodaxe, 2014 Translated by Jamie McKendrick Archipelago is a bilingual selection of poems by the leading Italian poet Antonella Anedda drawn from five collections she has published in …
Bartleby, the Scrivener was published in two parts in late 1853. The Lightning-rod Man, based on a true incident, was published in July 1854 (it was anthologised often; it was …
Left in genteel poverty by the death of their father, the Fontayne siblings—Sarah, Philly, Christopher, and Tom—are shaken when their mother, loving but dizzy, takes a liking to Julian, a …
So begins Camilla Lacely’s charming, witty diary of life as a vicar’s wife in a mid-sized town outside of Manchester in the anxious, early days of World War II. The …
Hardcover, 206pp, illus Win By KO Publishers, 2011 Hall of Fame boxer Billy Miske was arguably the most courageous and inspirational figure in boxing history, and his story is long …
Paperback, 656pp, illus Win By KO Publishers, 2018 This book tells the complete story of Jack Johnson, the first black man to fight for and win the world heavyweight championship. …
Five related short stories about a twelve-year-old child and her view of the world, shaped hitherto by her narcissistic mother. In these stories we witness her discovery and awareness of …
In this 1935 novel, writer, soldier and political activist Jack Jones creates a superbly riotous, clear and unsentimental picture of Merthyr life as his home-town reels headlong into the twentieth …
When railway signalman Harry Price suffers a stroke his son Matthew, a lecturer in London, makes a return to the border village of Glynmawr. As Matthew and Harry struggle with …
In Bramton Wick, the setting of Elizabeth Fair’s cheerful debut novel, tensions and resentments—not to mention romance—roil beneath the polite interactions of its charming and eccentric residents. There’s upper crust …
Disillusioned scriptwriter Gregory Dawson is holed up in a Cornish hotel writing a script he must finish. A chance encounter in the bar sends him back in time to the …
Edna Ferber is better known today for her novels written in the 1920s – So Big, which won the Pulitzer Prize, and Show Boat, later a mould-breaking Broadway hit by Jerome …
Caradoc Evans is perhaps the most controversial writer Wales has ever produced. His first book, My People, met with outrage from the pulpit and the popular press, was banned in …