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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.

Rich with visceral imagery, The Hungry and the Lost is a novel in true Southern Gothic style, pitting the worlds of myth and innocence against the rational grip of progress and modernity.

A collection of new contemporary short stories by Welshwriters, comprising twelve diverse stories about humanrelationships between people and places, representing thewinners of the 2021 Rhys Davies Short Story Competition.

"e;Even Hannibal himself wou'd have found it impossible to have match'd his army over Snowden"e;Daniel de Foe, A tour thro' the whole island of Great Britain... 1924"e;It would be the height of ingratitude to find fault with any thing, where kindness and humanity were so predominant."e;Mary Morgan, A tour to Milford Haven, in the year 1791."e;At Holly well they speake Welsh; the inhabitants go barefoote and bare leg'd - a nasty sort of people. Their meate is very small here, Mutton is noe bigger than Little Lamb, what of it there is was sweete; their wine good being Neare ye Sea side, and are well provided with ffish - very good Salmon and Eeles and other ffish I had at Harding."e;Celia Fiennes, Through England on a Side Saddle, 1698David Lloyd Owen introduces us to the fascinating breadth of travellers' tales from a mysterious and absorbing country: writers who described a land of mountains and valleys, ruined castles, and abandoned monasteries, and give us tales of strange locals who spoke another language and were known as the Welsh.A Wilder Wales highlights the astonishing transformation of Wales from a poor rural backwater to the crucible of the industrial revolution and offers readers an insight into the ways in which outsiders viewed the land and its people.

A newly curated volume of academic essays on RaymondWilliams' work. To be published in Williams' centenary year, as part of theParthian Modern Wales series.

Kohon and Toni Griffiths' stunning translation has the powerto transport you to the 1960s, to Buenos Aires, to those firstoverpowering experiences of sexual love. Odetta in Babylon and theCanada Express invites you to step onto the train, and to let go. Loseyourself in the music and enjoy the journey, wherever it takes you.

Edited and Translated by Alexandra Buchler. A book of poems by Katerina Rudcenkova selected fromher four poetry books by the editor / translator AlexandraBuchler who will also write an introduction.

From a humble background in Barry, where his father was a butcher and local politician in the formative years of the new town, Cyril Lakin studied at Oxford, survived the First World War, and went on to become a Fleet Street editor, radio presenter and war-time member of parliament. As literary editor of both the Daily Telegraph and the Sunday Times, Lakin was at the centre of a vibrant and radical generation of writers, poets and critics, many of whom he recruited as reviewers. He gained a parliamentary seat and served in the National Government during World War II.The different worlds he inhabited, from Wales to Westminster, and across class, profession and party, were facilitated by his relaxed disposition, convivial company, and ability to cultivate influential contacts. An effective talent-spotter and catalyst for new projects, he preferred pragmatism over ideology and non-partisanship in politics: a moderate Conservative for modern times.

Edited with an introduction by Peter Wakelin. Part of the Modern Wales series. Originally published in 1945, Miner's Day tells of the coalmining life of the thirties in south Wales.

Marcia Pullman has been found dead at home in the leafy suburbs of Bulawayo. Chief Inspector Edmund Dube is onto the case at once, but it becomes increasingly clear that there are those, including the dead woman's husband, who do not want him asking questions.The case drags Edmund back into his childhood to when his mother's employers disappeared one day and were never heard from again, an incident that has shadowed his life. As his investigation into the death progresses, Edmund realises the two mysteries are inextricably linked and that unravelling the past is a dangerous undertaking threatening his very sense of self.

Gavdos: a remote island south of Crete, the southernmostpoint of Europe, surrounded by an endless expanse ofsea. To Oksana, who has come from Ukraine with her friendsto recover from illness in the aftermath of Chernobyl, itseems like a dream to live in a blue-and-white housewith a lemon tree. To Penelope, a Greek woman, it is a kind of

When the author is given a small package, containingletters and papers relating to his grandfather's brother, whowas killed in Syria during the Second World War, it leadshim on an extended personal journey.

This ground-breaking volume makes visible a long and diversetradition of queer writing from Wales. Spanning genres fromghost stories and science fiction to industrial literature andsurrealist modernism, these are stories of love, loss andtransformation.

In this acclaimed Greek novel, Auguste Corteau imagineshis own mother's inner life, observing with wit and earthyhumour the saga of her extended family's ups and downs inthe city of Thessaloniki over three generations.

Humorous, serious and sometimes outrageous, Topher Mills'poetry covers swimming, love, work, dialects, sex, politics,death and everything inbetween. From the incidental ordinaryto the waywardly imaginative Sex on Toast gathers Mills'best-known work together with a host of new and uncollectedmaterial.

Robert Clifford is in Cairo to present his latest film fora festival prize. It has taken seven gruelling years ofhis life to make and is definitely NOT a film about hismother. But his moment in the spotlight is not quite as hescripted.

This is a skilful collection by a poet well acquaintedwith relative place: wherever a poem lives, it alwaysremembers its place in the world. Indeed, juxtapositionsand connections - with place, culture, and amonghumans - are where the poet flexes his muscle - 'worksout' his ideas.

Covering one Sunday tournament in the depths of Languedoc when his team bids to make the National Finals, Bill Rees produces a deeply felt and deeply funny homage to the beautiful game of ping-pong. Rees shows the sport for what it is: painful, exhilarating, tactical, fast (especially when his club mate Alain is at the table), consuming.

Welsh-language translation of The Journey is Home. In this clear and absorbing memoir John Sam Jones writes of a life lived on the edge. It's a story of journeys and realisation, of acceptance and joy. From a boyhood on the coast of Wales to a traumatic period as an undergraduate in Aberystwyth, and on to a scholarship at Berkley on the San Francisco Bay as the AIDS epidemic began to take hold, before returning to Liverpool and north Wales to work in chaplaincy, education, and sexual health. A journey of becoming a writer and chronicler of his experiences with award-winning books and the somewhat reluctant compulsion to become a campaigner for LGBT rights in Wales. The adventure of running a guest house in Barmouth where he eventually became Mayor with his husband, a German academic, whom he had married after a long partnership. Just days after European Referendum they put the business on the market... and then moved to Germany. John is still on that journey.

Kristian Bang Foss' darkly comic, prize-winning road-novel satire sees two unlikely friends set out to defy the Danish welfare state - and Death himself - with both hilarious and tragic consequences.

Cariad County: a place of anarchy and farce, of the grotesque and the slapstick, of tragedy and violent comedy, where the local hunt is disrupted by a camel-riding hero, where the town hall burns down as the town cheers, a place haunted by grotesque revenants from the First World War. This is the world of Nigel Heseltine's short stories.

When a young family inherit a remote mountain-side cottage in north Wales, giving them the chance to change the course of their lives and start over, the one condition of the will seems strange but harmless. They are to care for a cormorant until the end of its life.

Jeffrey Weeks was born in the Rhondda in 1945, ofmining stock. As he grew-up he increasingly felt anoutsider in the intensely community minded valleys, afeeling intensified as he became aware of his gayness. Escape came through education. He left for London, touniversity, and to realise his sexuality.

One woman's account of a pandemic no-one seemed prepared for - from the bed of a north-Wales hospital struggling to care for its multiplying patients. It's a story of mothers and daughters, isolation and survival. It's a testament to everything we owe those providing care - and comfort - on the new front line.

Angels in demons slink into sleepy Welsh villages. Whispers of a witch in Cwmgrach. Astartling set of wings push through a young girl's shoulderblades. An ancient secretbreathes in an Irish heirloom.

By any reasonable measurement, Love Actually is a bad movie. There are plenty of bad movies out there, but what gets under Gary Raymond's skin here is that it seems to have tricked so many people into thinking it's a good movie.

A bitterly intelligent and gruesomely funny journeythrough the worlds of work, sex and rugby. Lewis Davies ruthlessly dissects a passion on a four dayodyssey through the pubs, bedrooms and building sitesof a smouldering town.

Jess has lived peaceably in Shrewsbury with her husband Jacob for many years. He is solid, dependable beautiful to her. She is contented to be his wife, to look after his elderly mother, aunt and cousin, to be a pillar of their family and community. Then, suddenly everything changes. Now Jess must question the entire basis on which she has lived so many years of her life. Must discover whether the identity she has created has really been so valuable to herself and to those around her, and whether there is a different- angry, passionate, fulfillable Jess- waiting to get out.

In a remote Welsh village by the sea, four friends grow up together. Plain but charismatic Del is the ringleader, unstoppable, supremely confident in her ability to get her own way. Neil, shy and stuttering, and Ricky, full of rage and loneliness, are misfits at school until Del takes them under her wing. Steph is the outsider, but she too is mesmerized by Del's devil-may-care approach to life. They hang around together - mucking about in the woods, searching for treasure on the seashore, doing dares, sharing cigarettes. Then, one terrible day, the gang is broken up for good. Meeting ten years later in the now stagnating village, Neil, Ricky and Steph revisit their childhood haunts and re-live the memories that have cast a shadow over each of their lives. Del is, by turns, the beating heart at the centre of all their stories and a gaping absence. Set against the backdrop of the northern Welsh coast, and told through the voices of Neil, Ricky and Steph - the children left behind - Revenant pieces together their memories of childhoods broken by desertion, absence and death, and uncovers the secrets and betrayals of childhood friendships, with thoughtful, shocking brilliance.