Autumn 2016

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

Bookshelf Autumn2016

Nes Draw

Mererid Hopwood

Winner of the 2016 Wales Book of the Year (Poetry)Mererid Hopwood is one of the best-known poets writing today in Welsh who made history as the first woman to win the bardic chair at the…more

Woman Who Brings the Rain

Eluned Gramich

Winner of the 2015 New Welsh Writing Award | Shortlisted for the 2016 Wales Book of the YearIn her prizewinning début, Eluned Gramich takes us on her own journey of discovery into a strange…more

Saith Cam Iolo (The Seven Paces of Iolo)

Aled Evans

It is 1808 and a man sets out to walk from south Wales to London. The stonemason Edward Williams, who has reinvented himself as the poet, antiquarian, literary genius and fraud, Iolo Morgannwg, is…more

Ymbelydredd (Radiation)

Guto Dafydd

Winner of the Daniel Owen Memorial PrizeWhen a young man from a small town in rural north-west Wales has to spend six weeks in Manchester undergoing radiotherapy to treat a tumour, his hospital…more

Rhyd-y-gro

Sian Northey

Three young people, Carys, Steffan and Lora, are sharing an isolated farmhouse, Rhyd y gro, but their lives and relationships change for ever when a stranger, Rhydian moves in with them. Thirty…more

Equivocator

Stevie Davies

Twenty-nine years after his disappearance on the Iranian-Turkish border, Jack Messenger’s remains come to light. Travel writer, possible spy and murder victim, Jack was as enigmatic in life as he…more

Addlands

Tom Bullough

From the birth of Oliver Hamer in 1941 to the imminent birth of his first grandchild in 2011, Tom Bullough’s powerful new novel traces seventy years of rural life through the story of a farming…more