Short Stories
<p>Reflection and re-evaluation lie at the centre of these thirteen stories. Their characters - mostly women - have reached a point in their lives , sometimes one of crisis, at which they must review what has passed and hazard a guess at what is to come. They are confronted by the dilemma of how to proceed: by boldly cutting free or simply...
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<p><em>Ghosts and Strangers</em> is an exquisite exploration of relationships. Wives and husbands, parents and children, lovers past and present, test and confirm the notion of love, the ingredient in life for which we all look. As the characters dance around each other, in France, Italy and Wales, Emyr Humphreys shows his...
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<p><br />Most of the stories are set in Gwyn Thomas’s native South Wales Valleys during the Depression of the 1920s and 30s. The conditions then - massive unemployment, poverty, emigration, loss of self-esteem - are the basis of Thomas’s art. The result is not a grey or embittered writing; a highly developed sense...
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<p><strong>'I'm not normally a reader of horror stories but found myself irresistibly drawn to these."</strong><br /><em>Maryom's, 'Our Book Review Online' Blog</em></p><p><strong>"Excellent collection"</strong> bookgeeks....
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<p><strong>Longlisted for the Edge Hill Prize 2016</strong></p><p> </p><p>From England to Europe, Africa to South America, these stories from prize-winning short story writer Graham Mort explore relationships: father and child; man and wife; man and his environment.<br /><br /...
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<div>Peter Finch and Grahame Davies are ideally placed to select the writers and writing which reflect the modern Cardiff. Here are revealing and entertaining contributions from some of the finest writers in Britain, all of whom have something personal, original and incisive to say about the city – including Niall Griffiths, Dannie...
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<h2> </h2><p><br /><em>The Great Master of Ecstasy</em> is Glenda Beagan's poignant collection of interlinked short stories. In her clear and thoughtful prose Glenda explores memory, inspiration and mental health, peering over the edge of the natural world with sometimes chilling results.&...
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<p>Glenda Beagan’s stories introduce a host of ordinary and extraordinary characters: Gypsy Hayes, who really can read the future but doesn’t like what she sees; slightly sinister old Mrs Mossop (the ’saddist’); the terribly embarrassed young Hafwen; Mrs Jenkins, Sgubor Fawr, who every so often screams...
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<p><strong>WINNER OF THE EDGEHILL SHORT STORY PRIZE 2011</strong></p><p>From the heat of Africa to the warmth of France or the snowbound dales of northern England, this is an assured and absorbing collection.<br /> <br />Including the Bridport prize-winning story ‘The Prince’,...
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