The first lockdown in Wales was one of the most significant events in recent Welsh history. Will Hayward records some of the personal hardships and difficulties suffered by Welsh people. He also explores the positive ways people responded to their situation, and how the Welsh government managed the crisis. Available now. 

Sarah Philpott shows us how to eat well, eat cheaply and eat to reduce environmental impact in her new book The Seasonal Vegan. Full of delicious, seasonal recipes it's the vegan cook book everyone wants in their kitchen. Buy now. 

In The Owl House, Daniel Butler paints a vivid portrait of one of the most remote and sparsely populated areas of Britain, through his relationship with two barn owls which nested at his ancient farmhouse in rural mid-Wales. Available now.

A city burns in a crisis − because the status quo has collapsed and change must come. Every value, relationship and belief is shaken and the future is uncertain. In the twenty-six stories in Angela Graham's debut A City Burning, children and adults face, in the flames of personal tragedy, moments of potential transformation. On the threshold of their futures each must make a choice: how to live in this new ‘now’. Available now.

By turns laugh out loud funny and deeply sad, The Amazingly Astonishing Story is award-winning TV writer Lucy Gannon's childhood memoir, a frank and surprising look into a child’s tumultuous mind. "The saddest happiest funniest book I’ve read for ages..." – Dawn French. Available now. 

London is a long way from Orkney, and Ed is a long way from Claire, but in this compelling novel from award-winning author Peter Benson, the two discover that in Stromness, anything is possible. Publishing 26 October. Pre-order now.

Let Me Tell You What I Saw is the first ever dual-language (English/Arabic) publication of substantial extracts from Adnan Al-Sayegh’s ground-breaking epic poem, Uruk’s Anthem, one of the longest poems ever written in Arabic literature, which gives voice to the profound despair of the Iraqi experience. Available now. 

Daryl Leeworthy's brand new biography celebrates the achievements of this pioneering television writer, evolutionary anthropologist and political activist, reestablishing her position as a significant figure in the canon of English language writing from Wales. Available now. 

This award-winning study by Colin Hughes is a wonderful evocation of Italian immigration in south Wales from the turn of the century to the postwar years, when the Italian café was central to life in many small communities in the Valleys. With foreword by Welsh-Italian actor Victor Spinetti, Lime, Lemon & Sarsaparilla is a revealing history of our recent past. Available now.

“A splendid and sensitively-written account..." – Hywel Francis