Our Bookshelf

Browse our Bookshelves, selected annually by the Exchange as a window to recent Welsh literary works which we recommend for translation.

Pridd

Pridd is a raw and uncanny portrait of the life of the Old Man as he lives out his days in the rural landscape of Pen Llŷn, north Wales, working the earth of the farm that is his home. With the turn of each season, reflections of past happinesses and losses, and all the unavoidable messiness of life, seep into the present day. Over in the fields the ancient stones speak their wisdom with the consciousness of a chorus, and the unnamed threat of a creeping Fox comes ever clearer into view.

In his debut adult novel, Llŷr Titus gives literal and figurative voice to the landscape, and the earth which is our home. A haunting exploration of our relationship with place, tradition, grief and love.

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"Llŷr Titus is a young man, which only makes the talent and richness of his storytelling all the more remarkable [...] his work gives voice to the churning underbelly of the unconscious. It is all poignantly familiar. Exceptionally perceptive, here is an author with the ability to chronicle a conversation."

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