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Incest, murder, delusion, and a devastating, tragic humor mark these three novellas that Gwyn Thomas wrote in 1946: The Dark Philosophers, Oscar, and Simeon. In this book the grimly humorous philosophers gather in an Italian café in the terraces to tell the tragic tale of comeuppance and manslaughter that they engineer.

A collection of new contemporary short stories by Welsh writers, comprising twelve diverse stories about relationships between people and places, representing the winners of the 2022 Rhys Davies Short Story Competition. Including short biographicalnotes on the authors.

Beautiful, emotional and richly imagistic, Mari Ellis Dunning presents mothers in many forms: those experienced, chosen, unwitting, and presumed, asking us to consider the true nuances of motherhood - delicate as pearl, durable as bone.

In this clear and absorbing memoir John Sam Jones writes ofa life lived on the edge. It is story of journeys and realisation,of acceptance and joy.

'A major novelist' -- Punch'Warmth, liveliness, honesty and compassion' -- The Sunday TimesStan Barstow's landmark 'Brit-Lit' novel of the sixties immortalized Vic Brown, the amiable working class lad from the North and led the way for author's like Nick Hornby writing similar slice-of-life drama. Still as fresh and alive today, it spawned two sequels: The Watchers on the Shore (1966) and The Right True End (1976). First published in 1960, it has long been used as a set text in British schools. It has also been translated at various times into a film starring Alan Bates (1962) of the same name, a television series (1973) starring Clive Wood, a radio play and a stage play. A Kind of Loving was the first of a trilogy, published over the course of sixteen years, that followed hero Vic Brown through marriage, divorce and a move from the mining town of Cressley to London. This new edition includes an afterword by David Collard.

Gwyn Thomas was born, the last of twelve children, into a Rhondda mining family in 1913. After a childhood marked by the strikes of the 1920s, he went off to study Spanish at Oxford University and in Madrid, where he met the poet Federico García Lorca and witnessed the turmoil which would lead to the Spanish Civil War. On his return, amidst the economic mire of the 1930s and his own burgeoning teaching career in Barry in the 1940s, he picked up his pen and began to write. For more than forty years, until his death in 1981, as novelist, screenwriter, master of the short story, and prizewinning playwright, Gwyn Thomas delivered compelling and comedic portraits of his world of South Wales. His creative genius earned enduring fame on both sides of the Atlantic and on both sides of the European Cold War divide. As a provocative and insightful broadcaster, he embraced the possibilities of radio and television, whilst leaving his hosts and guests alike in fits of knowing laughter. This landmark biography, enriched with unrivalled access to private papers and international archives, tells the remarkable story of one of modern Wales's greatest literary voices.

The history of Wales as a destination and confection of English Romanticwriters is well-known, but this book reverses the process, turning a Welshgaze on the rest of the world.

This title is the second part of Miren Agur Meabe's triptych. In2020 she published her fifth poetry collection, Nola gorde errautsakolkoan (Holding Ashes Close to the Heart) - which is the final partof the triptych. It won the 2021 Spanish National Poetry Award.

Strange Animals is collection of experiences - its thread is the author'sjourney from childhood home to settling across an ocean, moving throughthe vagaries of modern love as she travels to new cities and a newfoundmaturity, whilst contemplating the end of youth and what one loses andgains in the process.

The Herring Man is a modern-day fable, beautifullyillustrated by the author, about dealing with grief andsearching for hope.

Global problems like climate change feel terrifying, too big for one person totake on. But what if, instead of being overwhelmed, we were to look for hope inthe smallest details? A dying moth falling against a kiss. A distracted lover's hippressing into a table. A single carder bee, dying on the driveway of a suburbangarden in Wales.

The Lake is a raw account of life in a devastated land and the harsh,primitive circumstances under which people fight to survive.

Riverwise, a volume of slow river prose centred around Afon Teifi, is a book of wanderings andwonderings, witnessings and enchantments, rememberings and endings. Weaving memoir, poetryand keen observation into its meandering course, it shifts across time and space to reflect thebeauty of hidden, fluvial places.

'My great grandfather and grandfather sailed the Horn, in steam and diesel, out of Liverpool. I was the first generation not to sail the Horn or fight a war. Instead, I would go to the end of the world, beyond Patagonia, to Tierra del Fuego. I would do more, I would see the Horn and find lost tribes. The child in me could go even further and sail the waters of Coleridge's albatross and enter the watercolours' blue horizons of my first novel, and sit on Robinson Crusoe's imaginary shore. I had imagined these places; they must exist. All I had to do was look for them.'

Ranging from flash fiction to novelette, these stories are inturn chilling, playful, and melancholy. Every tale is rich with landscapeshaunted by loss and longing.

Gorwelion: Shared Horizons is a climate change anthologyof poetry and prose edited by prize-winning writer andenvironmental activist Robert Minhinnick featuring Welsh,Scottish, Indian and English writers.

This collection with parallel texts in Italian and English gives theEnglish-reading audience a sense of the great variety of the presentpoetic scene in Italy with a selection of twenty-one of the mostrepresentative contemporary poets.

This book comprises the life stories of 40 Black Asian MinorityEthnic women that were finalists/winners for the Ethnic Minority WelshWomen Achievement award (2011-2019).

Selected for the first time in a single new edition, these sensual stories by prize-winning author John Sam Jones reveal lucid prose and complex lives. Moving through city steam rooms, rugged North Wales mountains and estuaries facing other places. Risky sex, new romance and easy understanding, a mortgage on a semi or keeping a lid on it all for the sake family, status and belief...Including previously unseen work, and a foreword by David Llewellyn.