Autumn 2025
Browse our Bookshelf, selected annually by the Exchange as a window to recent Welsh literary works.
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Bitter Honey
Caryl Lewis
An extraordinary novel from the multi award-winning author of Drift. Hannah has lived at Berllan Deg all her life; her husband came to live at the orchard when they got married. Tonight, she…more
The House of Water
Fflur Dafydd
“A fast-flowing thriller with an unpredictable twist, The House of Water is also a profound look at family, landscape, language and identity.” Erin Kelly Iona Griffri returns home one evening to…more
A Room Above a Shop
Anthony Shapland
From an essential new voice in Welsh literature, an atmospheric and poignant story of a relationship between two small-town Valleys men during the late 1980s. When two quiet men form a tentative…more
Alcatraz: Poems from the Contemporary Welsh
Robert Minhinnick
In Alcatraz: Poems from the Contemporary Welsh, we find youthful energies tackling climate change, global extinctions, even human life beyond our planet. Whether in Wales or Palestine, Manhattan or…more
We Came By Sea: Stories of a greater Britian
Horatio Clare
We Came By Sea is an untold story of Britain’s small boats crisis, a story which shows the best of us. It is the story of the volunteers who help thousands of refugees in Calais, of the lifeboat…more
First Rain In Paradise
Gwyneth Lewis
First Rain in Paradise is a book about falling. Gwyneth Lewis’s highly inventive poems trace an interior landscape carved out by the trauma of childhood emotional abuse through subsequent chronic ill…more
Holl Lawenydd Gwyllt
Llŷr Gwyn Lewis
In this third collection of poetry by Llŷr Gwyn Lewis, he looks through the digital lens of his own upbringing in North Wales, amidst video games and TV adverts, and compares it to the upbringing of…more
My Hummingbird Father
Pascale Petit
A beautifully lyrical debut novel in dialogue with the author’s Ondaatje and Laurel Prize-winning poetry collection, Mama Amazonica. When artist Dominique receives a letter from her dying father, a…more
V & Fo
Gwenno Gwilym
Winner of Welsh Book of the Year 2025 (Fiction) Winner Golwg 360 People's Choice Award 2025 A groundbreaking bilingual romantic comedy offering an unfiltered look at contemporary Welsh life. V…more
Anfarwol: Neu, Diflaniad Theophilus Cibber
Peredur Glyn
Winner of the 2025 Daniel Owen Memorial Prize A genre-defying tour de force that weaves together historical fiction, supernatural elements, and science fiction into a stunning story. In 1758, the…more
Rhuo ei Distawrwydd hi
Meleri Davies
Three generations of women from the same Welsh family form the backbone in this debut book of poetry. The grief and joy of being a woman, a daughter and a mother intertwine through the poems, which…more
Mae
Mererid Hopwood
Mae is the long-awaited second collection of poetry by Mererid Hopwood and pivots on the anchor of the verb ‘to be’. Drawing on ten years of writing since the publication of Nes Draw (Gomer, 2015),…more
maybe i’ll call gillian anderson
Rhian Elizabeth
Rhian Elizabeth’s maybe i'll call gillian anderson is a raw, darkly funny, and deeply affecting collection that navigates the liminal spaces of love, loss, and reinvention as her daughter leaves…more
Tir Dial
Dyfed Edwards
A masterful blend of police procedural authenticity with psychological depth. Set in 1989 Tir Dial, is a fast-paced thriller that returns readers to the dark world of journalist John Gough on…more
Colin yn y Bỳs Sdop
Aled Jones Williams
A quirky collection of ultra-short stories that showcases the author’s mastery of the form. The intriguing Colin lives in a bus stop and waits daily for a list of names from "The Bureaucracy." Once…more
Nelan a Bo
Angharad Price
Shortlisted for the Wales Book of the Year 2025 (Fiction) Angharad Price’s vivid characterisation and evocative prose deliver a story that speaks to universal questions of identity and belonging…more
Y Tŵr
Rebecca Thomas
Y Tŵr follows Dr. Heledd Owen, a Welsh language lecturer, as she relocates to her university's new remote campus, a sinister tower harbouring dark secrets.This biting dystopian campus novel that…more
The Forger's Ink
Jo Mazelis
A Gothic reimagining of the Wollstonecraft-Shelley story from the Jerwood prize-winning author of Significance. It's the 1970s, and a mysterious woman has a cache of letters which claim to tell the…more
Glass Houses
Francesa Reece
Shortlisted for 2025 Wales Book of the Year: FictionGeth and Olwen live in different worlds. Olwen left North Wales for London to become a filmmaker and lives with her banker husband. Geth stayed…more
Cling Film
Bethany Handley
Bethany Handley’s debut pamphlet Cling Film explores existing as a young Disabled woman in Wales in a crossfire of ableism. She asks the reader to travel in her skin, laying bare the barriers that…more
Beast
Pascale Petit
Mythic and familial beasts roam the swamps and moors of Pascale Petit’s Beast. These spirits of the wild haunt the Camargue of Provence, the limestone Causses and gorges of the Languedoc, Indian…more
Love Letters on the River
Carly Holmes
Describing encounters – and missed encounters – with the wildlife that surrounds the Teifi River in west Wales, Love Letters on the River is a lyrical, honest and tender tribute to the many creatures…more
Murder on Ynys Môn: The Anglesey Crossbow Killing
Meic Parry
Building on the success of The Crossbow Killer podcast, a true crime investigation that explores a dark and shocking murder in the idyllic landscape of Anglesey. In the early hours of Good Friday,…more
Y Cyfan a Fu Rhyngom Ni
Iestyn Tyne
Blending memoir, literary criticism, cultural history, and creative writing in an accessible narrative, Iestyn Tyne takes the reader on a thoroughly modern journey into the past. Just over a century…more
Casglu Llwch
Georgia Ruth
Shortlisted for Wales Book Of The Year 2025 (Non-fiction) This collection of meditations and personal essays uses elements from the natural world as springboards for unexpected journeys into the…more
Children of Radium: A Buried Inheritance
Joe Dunthorne
A family memoir like no other, from the author of cult classic Submarine. Joe Dunthorne had always wanted to write about his great-grandfather, Siegfried: an eccentric scientist who invented…more
The Five
Mared Roberts
“Groundbreaking, heartbreaking and heart mending. Get this on your TBR list. These voices are vibrant and innovative - a new generation of talent.” Caryl Lewis The Five follows a year in the…more
Feather
Manon Steffan Ros
Winner of the 2017 Tir na n-Og Award Wales Children’s Fiction Award in its original Welsh-language version, Pluen. Huw always pops in to see his nan on the way home from school – she bakes him…more
Greta
Manon Steffan Ros
From the acclaimed author of The Blue Book of Nebo comes a heartbreaking journey into a small town’s grief when their beloved golden girl is found murdered. Greta Pugh is dead. The small village of…more
Y Cae Ras
Manon Steffan Ros
A powerful coming-of-age story set against the inspiring real-life backdrop of Wrexham FC's Hollywood-backed resurrection. Danny and Mali are happy in their little family, just them and their Mum -…more
Cymry. Balch. Ifanc | Young. Welsh. Proud
Llŷr Titus
A celebration of pride, courage and community, and winner of the 2025 Tir na n-Og Children’s Fiction Award. A refreshing and deeply personal anthology collecting real-life stories from thirteen…more
Beyond/Tu Hwnt
Sioned Erin Hughes
“A groundbreaking bilingual anthology that celebrates the resilience, defiance, and joy of contemporary Welsh Deaf and Disabled voices” Beyond / Tu Hwnt brings together fiction, non-fiction, and…more
Y Pump
Elgan Rhys
A box set of five short novels which interweave, following the stories of five friends in their final year at school. This is an exciting and ambitious project by young authors for young people.more
Earthly Creatures
Stevie Davies
A riveting, historical epic set in 1940’s Germany from the Booker-nominated author of The Element of Water. For all her life, idealistic 20-year-old bookworm Magdalena Arber has been split down the…more