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<p>Two doctors and a folklorist meet in northern Brittany in 1898, determined to prove that leprosy still exists. But their ardour for collecting evidence draws them into a dark, watchful landscape where superstition is rife. Many of the stories in <em>All the Souls </em>hover round themes of ‘collecting’ and...
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<p><br />'There's a delicious sense of both open-mindedness and devilry in Maris's work. Her company is quirky, stimulating and sparklingly intelligent. You could say she's like Sylvia Plath with added chutzpah. But, really, Kathryn Maris is like no-one but herself.' <strong>–...
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<p><strong>Shortlisted for the Edge Hill Prize, 2014</strong></p><p> </p><p>"...an amazing body of work...this book deserves tremendous success and a very wide readership." <strong><em>– <a href="http://rereadinglives.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/the-...
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<p>Much in this book, particularly in the second half, absorbed and fascinated me. By the end I felt like I had discovered the indigenous roots of Patagonia along with Herrad.<em> <strong>– New Welsh Review</strong><br /><br />Beyond the Pampas</em> is an entrancing and highly unusual account of...
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<p><em>"This is a book I will take with me as my companion everywhere - up high mountains, on the bus, to bed. Beautiful." </em><strong>- Bettany Hughes</strong><br /><br /><em>More for Helen of Troy</em> is suffused with the atmosphere of the landscapes that inspire the poet...
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<p>‘It seemed as if the whole town had died.'</p><p>Sean O'Brien left his wife and son in County Tyrone to find work as a collier in the South Wales Valleys. Years later Niamh O'Brien is dying and sends her son Jack on a quest to find out what became of his father. Sean ‘Tyrone&...
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<p><a href="http://americymru.net/profiles/blogs/peredur-immune-to-mildness-an-inter... target="_blank">Peredur - 'Immune to mildness' An Interview With Cynan Jones</a></p><p><em>"...a remarkably interesting interpretation of this legendary hero's doing indeed&...
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<p><strong>SHORTLISTED FOR THE RSL Ondaatje Prize 2013</strong></p><p> </p><div>"A family memoir, written with a son’s love of his parents and filled with<br />the gentle particulars of life in Northern Ireland when all one saw from </div><div>the...
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<p>"Lloyd Jones's novella has the epic scope of the novels of Umberto Eco... the quirkiness and attention to details of John Irving." <em>– <strong>New Welsh Review</strong></em><br /><br />"Jones captures a magic largely absent from the modern world."...
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<p>"There are many strong poems in this collection which can help us understand our complex and historied relationship with our coastline and each other". <strong>– <a href="http://www.writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=35201" target="_blank">Write Out Loud</a>...
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<p><strong>SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2012 TS ELIOT PRIZE<br /><br />Shortlisted for Wales Book of the Year 2013</strong><br /><br />Poetry Book Society Recommendation Autumn 2012<br /><br />"contains poems that leave me speechless, at the same time so simple and so complicated that my words...
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<p><strong>‘Her writing is atmospheric and descriptive...’ –</strong> <strong>cypruswell.org</strong><br /><br /><strong>‘I loved Neubert's descriptions of the island, zooming over it with a bird's eye view and her image of it...
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<p><em>"He is a thoughtful, meditative, serious poet and well worth reading."</em><strong><em> </em>- Sheenagh Pugh</strong></p><p><em>Lightning Beneath the Sea </em>is the first collection of poems in English by Grahame Davies, featuring the work that he has honed...
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<p>"Overall, <em>Witch</em> is an intriguing and moving poetry collection, which revisits an old story to throw a new and disturbing light on gender and power." - <strong><em>Planet</em></strong><em> </em><br /><br />"...vividly imaginative, intelligent...
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<p><strong>Winner of Wales Book of the Year 2013,<br />Winner of the Roland Mathias Prize for Poetry 2013<br />Winner of Wales Book of the Year People's Choice 2013<br />Shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection 2012.</strong></p><p> </p><p><em>...
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<p>One of the most significant voices of his generation from Wales, a new book by Duncan Bush is an eagerly awaited event. <em>The Flying Trapeze</em>, his sixth poetry collection and the first to appear after his notable ‘Midway’, is characteristically unsentimental, tough-minded, and fiercely lyrical. Many...
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<p><em>"Owen is one of the finest writers at work today. He always finds the sublime in the everyday and the miracle in the mundane."</em><strong> - Michael Sheen</strong></p><p>While the town awaits the arrival of the Company Man, a stranger appears in the windswept dunes, singing songs...
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<p><em>"In the end this is a book so well written and enthralling that it is almost impossible to set it aside once started. The sound, smells, flavors of Victorian England suffuse every page. For those who enjoy mysteries and the process if investigation and resolution, this book is bound to please" </em><...
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<p>"Animal magic on the borders between youth and maturity<em>"</em> <em><strong>– The Independent</strong></em></p><p>"After Brock shows how natural drama infuses human behaviour with resonant meaning, and vice versa." <strong>–...
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<h2><br /> </h2><p><em>Graham Mort specialises in revealing all that is “underfoot and unsaid” (“Dowser”) in Cusp (Seren, £8.99). It is a far-ranging collection – mentally and physically. “Electricity” is an epic hymn to the life-...
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<p><em>The Keys of Babylon</em> was shortlisted for the <strong>Wales Book of the Year Award 2012 </strong>and long-listed for the<strong> Edge Hill Short Story Prize 2012</strong></p><p>A story from this collection 'El Aziz: some pages from his notebooks' was shortlisted for...
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<p><em>"Dafydd seamlessly amalgamates the extraordinary into the everyday in her reworking of 'Culhwch and Olwen'" </em><strong>The Guardian 2011</strong></p><p>Life is tough for Cilydd, after his wife Goleuddydd, who is nine months pregnant, seems to vanish into thin air...
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<p><em>"...an epic tale of conflict, faith and banishment...this reworked tale provides a graphic depict</em><em>ion of the cruelty of war and torture" </em><strong>The Guardian 2011</strong></p><p>The Invaders' drones hear everything and see all. England is now a...
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<h2><br /><br /><br /><em>"A superb ear for dialogue and a marksman eye for revealing detail."</em> <strong>-- Sunday Times</strong></h2><p><em>“Siân James writes fluently and with lively humour.”</em> <strong>-- The Times</strong...
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