Literary Fiction
<p>In New Stories from the Mabinogion ten great authors have taken the Celtic myth cycle as a starting point to give us masterly re-workings with a modern twist in a series both various and wonderful. We have reached the orbit of Mars, the Tower of London and the edges of India, travelled in time to WW2 and forward to the near future, seen...
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<p>Fountainville is a strange, lonely town on the edge of everywhere, with its own healing secrets, as revealed by Luna, assistant to Begum, the Lady of the Fountain, in this retelling of celtic Mabinogion myth by poet and novelist Tishani Doshi. Under their care the town flourishes, but when the mysterious Mr Knight arrives at their house...
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<p>Enid wants a dog and wants to be a spy, but listening in on adult conversations doesn’t seem to bring her any nearer to understanding their troubled world. For all that,when times get tough and she has to stay with the Erbins, particularly her rich and spoilt cousin Geraint, she has plenty of verbal ammunition to help her fight...
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<p>Ibrahim is walking from Cardiff to London. He has his reasons and he’s not doing it for charity. What he hasn’t counted on is bumping into seventy-five-year-old cockney Reenie doing the same thing, before he’s even reached Newport.</p><p>With her life’s luggage in a shopping trolley,...
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<p>Port au Prince, Haiti. The police roam the streets and no-one is safe. Fignolé, musician, political radical is missing. His sisters Joyeuse and Angelique search for their young brother amid the colourful bustle, urban deprivation and political tension of the city. Eventually they will find him, but in the process they will also have found...
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<p><strong>Winner of Wales Book of the Year, English Language Fiction 2014</strong><br />Francesca Rydderch has been shortlisted for the BBC Short Story Award 2014<br /><br />This is a story of war told from the edges. Four interweaving accounts relate the intimate havoc wrought by military conflict on...
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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>"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><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>"...a darkly comic triumph full of uncomfortable truths" <strong>- </strong><em><strong>ShortList Magazine</strong></em><br /><br />"Read it. You will hold in your hands a work of consummate skill."<em><strong> - Planet</strong></em...
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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>"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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<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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<p><strong>WINNER OF WALES BOOK OF THE YEAR PRIZE 2012</strong><br /><br /><strong>WINNER OF THE 2012 WRITERS GUILD AWARD FOR 'BEST FICTION BOOK'</strong><br /><br /><strong>LONG-LISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2011</strong></p><p><strong>SHORT-...
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<p><em>Daniel's Beetles</em> is the author's translation of his prizewinning novel, <em>Pryfeta</em></p><p>Daniel is six. One afternoon, while playing with insects in the garden, he sees his father fall to his death. Is he upset? It’s difficult to say, because Daniel would prefer...
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<p><em>"..Collins deftly pieces together the anatomy of a relationship, imagining what could have been, and offering a hint of hope for what might still come to pass"</em> <strong>-- </strong><strong>The Guardian</strong></p><p><em>"...this is another powerful,...
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<p><strong><em>"This read will draw you into its story within minutes"</em> </strong>Woman Magazine</p><p><em><strong>"..witty, wry and charming"</strong></em><strong> </strong>Western Mail</p><p><em>The Colour of...
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<p> </p><p>Zillah Bethell brings events to life in a rollercoaster, almost caricature-like style, rather than a realistic reconstruction of history and hardship, although the details of the setting are keenly researched and acutely dramatised. Her protagonist is Eveline, a young woman longing for action,...
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<p><br /><br /><em>"..both tales include passages of razor-sharp humour as well as great beauty and poignancy..."</em> <strong>- New Welsh Review</strong></p><p>Iraq-bound young squaddie Ronnie takes something dodgy and falls asleep for three nights in a filthy hovel where he...
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<p><strong>‘The successful recreation of myth requires a wiliness that exceeds that of the original myth makers, and Lewis patiently and skillfully demonstrates that wiliness’ – The TLS</strong></p><p> </p><p>A dangerous tale of desire, DNA, incest and flowers plays...
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<p> </p><p>Impoverished and oppressed, they’d been promised paradise on earth: a land flowing with milk and honey. But what the settlers found after a devastating sea journey was a cold South American desert where nothing could survive except tribes of nomadic Tehuelche Indians, possibly intent on massacring...
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