My Family and Other Rock Stars

Tiffany Murray

Sunday Times and Daily Mail Book of the Week A funny, touching, fascinating memoir of a rural Welsh childhood surrounded by rock stars. ​It's the late 1970s and Tiff lives with her mum, Joan, at…more

Assimilation

Sophie Buchaillard

Charlotte, young and fiercely independent, leaves the constraints of her Parisian childhood for Wales, running away from a traumatic event. Hoping to find peace and somewhere to rebuild her life, she…more

Fox Bites

Lloyd Markham

When Taban wishes for the world to end something out there . . . hears him. Soon the young boy is being stalked by a fox whose salivating jaws drag him into strange dreams. Dreams where he is a…more

Local Fires

Joshua Jones

Chloe enters the local talent show, seeking fame, fortune and a ticket out of town. Meanwhile, her mother, Angie, wakes up hungover on the morning of her fourth wedding day. William ponders his…more

Clear

Carys Davies

1843. On a remote Scottish island, Ivar, the sole occupant, leads a life of quiet isolation until the day he finds a man unconscious on the beach below the cliffs. The newcomer is John Ferguson, an…more

Of Talons and Teeth

Niall Griffiths

An historical novel set in Wales before the Industrial Revolution, as human love tries to flower amidst squalor and serfdom. Wales, a mining village, pre-industrial revolution, its inhabitants…more

Tell Me Who I Am

Georgia Ruth

What happens to ‘lost’ musicians? This accomplished debut novel from award-winning musician Georgia Ruth is woven together with her fourth album, ‘Cool Head’, by a song: the haunting ‘Tell Me Who I…more

Skrimsli

Nicola Davies

Winner of the 2024 Wales Book of the Year: Bute Energy Children’s and Young People Award Who you are if you’ve never seen another face like yours? Where do you belong if you don’t know where your…more

Lace

Catrin Kean

Sequel to Kean’s prizewinning debut, Salt, this novel which will grab the hearts of historical fiction lovers. In the early 1900s in Wicklow, Ireland, the lives of six-year-old Mary and her siblings…more

Y Morfarch Arian

Eurgain Haf

Winner of the Prose Medal at the 2024 National Eisteddfod of Wales Odd-thing. Odd-girl. Odd-bod. Heli Jôs is different. She does unusual, repetitive things, in order to protect her loved ones from…more

Drws Anna

Dafydd Apolloni

We all have our own mirrors, the glass that we peer through to try to make sense of the world, and no two mirrors are the same. Iestyn Llwyd is a translator who lives and works in a small town in…more

Cowboy

Kandace Siobhan Walker

Winner 2024 Wales Book of the Year for PoetryShortlisted for The Forward Prize for Best First Collection The poems in Cowboy are knowing, millennial, internet-sick, funny, with deep currents – of…more

East of the Sun, West of the Moon

Taz Rahman

Longlisted for the 2024 Laurel Prize East of the Sun, West of the Moon is named after the 1935 jazz standard, and like any great jazz tune this collection is full of improvisation and linguistic…more

Leaving The Hills

Tony Curtis

Leaving the Hills is a collection full of stories from everywhere by a great Welsh poet at the height of his powers. In his first poetry collection since From the Fortunate Isles: New & Selected…more

girls etc

Rhian Elizabeth

‘three days after she broke my nose / we pinned up bunting’. Winner of the Literature Wales Book Of The Year Poetry award and Nation Cymru'r People's Choice Award 2025. Set against the darkness of…more

Sut i Ddofi Corryn

Mari George

Overall Winner 2024 Wales Book of the Year I feel for those who don’t believe in miracles, who dismiss them as mere fantasies. What’s the difference, anyway? To me, if the story exists, it’s true.…more

Woof

Elgan Rhys

Published exactly five years after its debut at Cardiff’s Sherman Theatre, this visceral piece of theatre introduced the exceptional talent of Elgan Rhys to enthralled audiences. Woof depicts the…more

Cân y Croesi

Jo Heyde

‘It’s not the bridge that counts’, says Jo Heyde in this resonant debut collection, ‘but the crossing song.’ Cân y Croesi (Crossing Song) chronicles journeys back and forth from the south of England…more

Parti Priodas

Gruffudd Owen

Hymns, tensions, and dancing on tables. You’re officially invited to Dafydd and Samantha’s wedding… Following its smash-hit launch at the 2023 National Eisteddfod of Wales, and a hugely successful…more

Mymryn Rhyddid

Gruffudd Owen

Winner 2024 Wales Book of the Year Poetry AwardChaired Bard of 2018 National Eisteddfod of Wales In Gruffudd Owen’s award-winning second collection we revisit, a few significant years down the line,…more

Cymru & I

Inclusive Journalism Cymru

In Cymru & I nine new writers look at what Wales means to them as people from backgrounds previously largely underrepresented. Their various viewpoints make this book a new look at Wales, or show…more

Hi/Hon

Sian Northey

“We insist on reclaiming the streets and reimagining the world because it does, after all, belong to all of us.” - Mabli Siriol What does it mean to be a woman in twenty-first-century Wales? Hi/Hon…more

Seaglass

Kathryn Tann

On a windswept stretch of the Durham coastline, there’s treasure to be found: jewels of shining sea glass, swept in by the tide after years at sea. Gathered together in a jar on the windowsill, each…more

I Think We're Alone Now

Abigail Parry

Shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize 2023Shortlisted for English-language Poetry Award, Wales Book of the Year 2024 A bold and far-ranging second collection from a fresh, original new voice in…more

Y Dydd Olaf

Owain Owain

Y Dydd Olaf is a much-acclaimed sci-fi novel in the Welsh language (written in 1968 and first published in 1976), which was the inspiration for musical artist Gwenno Saunders’ 2014 album of the same…more

The Last Day

Owain Owain

A science fiction cult classic, The Last Day is more than a moving call to arms for speakers of minority languages facing extinction; at its core, it’s a tragic human-scale story played out between…more

This House

Sian Northey

Grief, solitude, and the inner call to be freed from her past are the threads that beautifully and tightly intertwine in this novel. Anna has lived alone for decades. She is cocooned by, and marooned…more

Yn y Tŷ Hwn

Sian Northey

On crutches after breaking her leg, Anna returns from hospital to Nant yr Aur, her isolated cottage and beloved haven, and recalls how her life has been bound up with the old house since she first…more

Pryfed Undydd

An obsessional car park security guard. A young man leaving the family home. The profound memories of losing a father. The vacuity of the contemporary macho man. In this impressive debut, Andrew…more

Madws

Sioned Wyn Roberts

A historical fantasy novel set in 1752 when the Julian calendar replaced the Gregorian calendar. It tells the story of Martha, the apothecary's daughter, who is transported to Annwn – the Celtic…more

Trothwy

Iwan Rhys

Winner of the 2024 Wales Book of the Year People’s Choice Award In this warm personal account, author Iwan Rhys documents with rare sensitivity and insight his experience of crossing the threshold…more

Y Delyn Aur

Malachy Owain Edwards

Shortlisted for Wales Book of the Year 202 A unique autobiography by a young author that leads us on a revealing, personal journey.Malachy Edwards explores his mixed-race, multi-cultural and…more

Gororion: Llên Cymru yng nghyfandir Ewrop

Angharad Price

A collection of eight literary journeys, following various trails between Wales and Europe, guided by one of Wales’ finest literary and critical voices. In Gororion (Horizons) we travel in the…more

Ambassador of Nowhere

Richard Gwyn

In Ambassador of Nowhere, Richard Gwyn charts his journey across South America in search of poems for his landmark anthology, The Other Tiger. Criss-crossing the continent, he is driven through lunar…more

Nightshade Mother: a Distentangling

Gwyneth Lewis

Winner of the Literature Wales Book Of The Year Creative Non Fiction award 2025. In this extraordinary memoir, Gwyneth Lewis, the inaugural National Poet of Wales, recounts her toxic upbringing at…more