Autumn 2022

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

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Dychmygu Iaith

Mererid Hopwood

'What is language?' This question has been under extensive discussion by philosophers, scientists, educationalists and sociologists. In an attempt to throw new light on the subject, this volume turns…more

Blue Woman

Jonathan Page

Blue Woman is the fictional life of Rose Hartwood, an eminent 20th Century Welsh artist, which charts with great subtlety and sensitivity the ebbs and flows of her personal and professional lives. We…more

Homelands

Eric Ngalle Charles

In Homelands, his debut collection, Eric Ngalle Charles draws on his early life raised by the matriarchs of Cameroon, being sent to Moscow by human traffickers, and finding a new home in Wales. Rich…more

The History of Wales in Twelve Poems

M. Wynn Thomas

Down the centuries, poets have provided Wales with a window onto its own distinctive world. This book gives a sense of the view seen through that window in twelve illustrated poems, each bringing…more

Welsh (Plural): Essays on the Future of Wales

Grug Muse

What does it mean to imagine Wales and 'The Welsh' as something both distinct and inclusive? In Welsh (Plural), some of the foremost Welsh writers consider the future of Wales and their place in…more

Autobiography

Margiad Evans

Margiad Evans was the pseudonym of Peggy Eileen Whistler (1909-1958), a poet, novelist and illustrator with a lifelong identification with the Welsh border country. Evans wrote ground-breaking…more

Allegorizings

Jan Morris

Soldier, journalist, historian, author of forty books, Jan Morris led an extraordinary life, witnessing such seminal moments as the first ascent of Everest, the Suez Canal Crisis, the Eichmann Trial,…more

Tosturi

Menna Elfyn

This new collection of Welsh language poems – the poet’s first such publication for a decade – comprises elegies and eulogies; poems that challenge and poems of compassion, as the poet responds to…more

Delirium

Robert Minhinnick

This collection of short prose begins with a real 1945 diary kept in Burma, and Minhinnick telling stories to his mother in her care home. It includes a series of pictures of war-stricken Baghdad,…more

Pridd

Llŷr Titus

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…more

Drift

Caryl Lewis

Nefyn has always been an enigma, even to her brother Joseph with whom she lives in a smallcottage above a blustery cove. Hamza is a Syrian mapmaker, incarcerated in a military base a few miles up the…more

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Grug Muse

Grug Muse’s second poetry collection exists in the ‘bargaining space between softness and stability'; in the bodies of water that represent both escapism and threat. Geological layers and stratum, in…more