Autumn 2014

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

Bookshelf Autumn2014

Down to the Sea in Ships

Horatio Clare

Shortlisted for the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year 2015In this ground-breaking account of life on two massive container ships, award-winning writer Horatio Clare uncovers the hidden…more

Other People's Countries: A Journey into Memory

Patrick McGuinness

Wales Book of the Year 2015 | Winner of the 2014 Duff Cooper PrizeShortlisted for the 2015 James Tait Black Memorial Prize | Shortlisted for the 2015 PEN Ackerley prize | Longlisted for the…more

The Dig

Cynan Jones

Winner of the Fiction Category, Wales Book of the Year 2015Beyond the picturesque views of tourist Wales life on the farms can be hard and cruel. A sheep-farmer, numbed with grief at the…more

The Museum of Disappearing Sounds

Zoë Skoulding

In this new collection established poet Zoë Skoulding leads her readers unerringly through a journey along mysterious paths, where the familiar suddenly becomes uncertain, and heavy with potential…more

Rhyw Flodau Rhyfel (Some Flowers of War)

Llŷr Gwyn Lewis

Winner of the Creative Non-Fiction Award, Wales Book of the Year 2015When the author is given a small package, containing letters and papers relating to his grandfather’s brother, who was killed…more

Broc Rhyfel (Dealers)

Martin Davis

War brings chaos and horror to the disintegrating former Yugoslavia, but for Welsh arms-dealer Keith Jones at first it is simply another lucrative business opportunity. Then, after he meets the…more