Autumn 2026
Browse our Bookshelf, selected annually by the Exchange as a window to recent Welsh literary works.
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Pulse
Cynan Jones
Hemingway meets R.S. Thomas in these sensuous, sparse and brutal stories.In this collection of six short, dark stories we enter a world filled with spectres and violence. A man hunts and is hunted by…more
Truth Like Water
Carys Shannon
This is a story of lost women — some who can be found again, and some who can't.In a small estuary village on the Welsh coast, Catrin is mourning the anniversary of her mother's drowning when a…more
A New Welsh Tapestry
Caryl Lewis
Six of Wales’s most celebrated women writers, in one volume of short fiction.Angharad Price's 'Slate Gods' follows a child who finds that a short walk from her village binds the waste slate of a dead…more
Communion
Jon Doyle
'The most simply impressive … it comes from a deep immersion in the specifics of locality and of a moment in time while framing more universal moral and spiritual questions.' — Rowan Williams, New…more
The Hill in the Dark Grove
Liam Higginson
'Witty, tender, ultimately terrifying … a celebration of love's persistence, a summoning of ancient lore, a superb debut.' — Kiran Millwood HargraveCarwyn and Rhian keep sheep in the mountains of…more
Dogs In A Storm
Brennig Davies
Wild, sad and blackly funny: losers and loners, cowboys and ghosts, all quietly desperate for their worlds to change — and totally unprepared when they do.A drama-school graduate with no work in…more
Fel yr Haul
Brennig Davies
A camp, playful novel that explores friendship, loss, and lust through the figure of a medieval Welsh poet in 21st century Wales.Dafydd is a poet. He parties, writes poems, womanizes, and wants to…more
La Salamandra
Miriam Elin Sautin
'A short novel that tickles the senses and invites the Welsh language onto new ground.' — Manon Gwynant, BarnWho was the painter Isabel del Mar? Her daughter Cat, a young photographer, travels from…more
Plesera
Elgan Rhys
A queer coming of age story, set in a north Wales beach town over the course of 20 years.Two young boys meet in 1999, both recognising something in the other, both finding solace in each other’s…more
Ffrwyth
Gareth Evans-Jones
Winner of the National Eisteddfod Prose Medal 2026 - From original sin to generative AI, what is the price of paradise?Ffrwyth tells the story of Eve – first woman, first mother - in her own words.…more
Ynys Gwales
Rebecca Thomas
Winner of the Daniel Owen Memorial Prize 2026. 'A magical and emotional novel that has left us marvelling at the storytelling talent on display.' — the adjudicatorsOff the coast of Pembrokeshire lies…more
Suddo
Mared Llywelyn
A group of four friends celebrate their 30th birthdays by returning to the university town where they first met.Aberystwyth, a university town as well as a seaside town, is the setting for the big…more
To
Meinir Pierce Jones
The roof of a historic cottage is falling apart and the roofer is AWOL; the only thing in a worse state might be Tonwen’s personal life. Which will collapse first?Tonwen Neli Tomos is in her…more
There She Goes, My Beautiful World
Gosia Buzzanca
From Poznan to the summit of Yr Wyddfa, Gosia Buzzanca takes us on a quest to find her way back to herself.A story of migration and the quest for home, or homes, Gosia Buzzanca’s biography takes us…more
Blueprints
Crystal Jeans
‘One of Wales’s most exciting contemporary writers: one whose memoir-in-essays means having the guts to say this matters, and which lays (almost) everything bare.’ - Kathryn TannIn this collection of…more
It Might Not Be True: a memoir of life and love
Francesca Rhydderch
A memoir about the intertwining of memory and the body.When the author Francesca Rhydderch begins to experience mysterious and debilitating symptoms that doctors believe to be neurological, she finds…more
Ghost Stations: Essays and Branchlines
Patrick McGuinness
'Patrick McGuinness writes of the other country of childhood with Proustian élan and Nabokovian delight.' — John BanvilleIn Ghost Stations, Patrick McGuinness writes about his own history, the…more
Borrowed for a short time
Tyler Keevil
Linked stories about the incomer, and the long, uncertain work of calling a place home.Blending fiction and creative non-fiction, Borrowed for a Short Time draws on Tyler Keevil's own move from…more
Paradwys Goll
Malachy Owain Edwards
'Not a writer of one diaspora, but a writer of diasporas.' — Simon Brooks, BarnBorn in London and raised in Ffynnon Taf, on the edge of Cardiff between the city and the valley, Malachy Owain Edwards…more
Ni allwn Allwn ni
Diffwys Criafol
Essays on motherhood, care, class, grief and community by one of the sharpest cultural critics writing in Welsh today.Roughly translated as ‘We Can’t, Can We’, this is a pair of essays from one of…more
Croesi Cyfandir ar Ddwy Olwyn
Grug Muse
'A glimpse of life in all its complexity … a cracking book.' — Menna Elfyn, Western MailIn 2016 Grug Muse rode a bicycle alone across the United States: four thousand miles from Cape Cod to Portland,…more
Yn Ei Dro - Cymru'r Ddwy Olwyn
Gruffudd ab Owain
A tour of Wales in 14 bike trips.In a collection of essays that will whet the appetite of any cyclist, ab Owain takes the reader on a journey across 14 regions of Wales on a mission to broaden his…more
Do I Look Like An Atmosphere
Zoë Skoulding
‘Zoë Skoulding’s new poems inhabit places of acute attention and listening on an earth whose nature is changing, and human nature along with it. - Erìn Moure.Taking its title from a line in Hôtel du…more
The Storm's Flora
Laura Wainwright
Winner of the Wales Book of the Year Poetry Award: a debut that finds what grows back on damaged ground.Orchids come up on the scrubland by Uskmouth power station. The Usk swim at Newport was…more
Chronic Women
Hanan Issa
A powerful and unflinching collection of poems about living with long-term health conditions.This bilingual anthology bears witness to a range of conditions as 14 women poets share their reality of…more
Yn y Freuddwyd
Nia Morais
These poems move between dreaming and waking without ever quite announcing which is which. They are rooted in Cardiff, where Nia Morais was born and raised, and they give voice to strong women from…more
Crocodeil yn Berwi Tegell
Non Prys Ifans
Trauma gave these poems their life; craft gave them their shape.Like surges of grief, these poems are also almost unruly in their variety – from fragmented meditations to prosaic streams of…more
Sgwâr
Steffan ap Carys
Short, surreal poems that find the strange at the root of the everyday.The poems of Sgwâr are brief fragments, flashes of ordinary life seen through a lens bent just slightly out of true. From that…more
Huw Fyw
Tudur Owen
‘Remember, never try your best, it might save your life one day’Huw Fyw is the Huw that lived. Huw Farwodd is the Huw that died. Both left their Anglesey village to fight in the Second World war, but…more
Dynolwaith
Leo Drayton
A solo play about transition, fragile support, and who stays when it matters.It is 2015, and Jac is transitioning. Around him tensions rise, relationships strain, and the support he has relied on…more
Vanishing Edge
Zillah Bethell
Winner of the English-language Children & Young People category at the 2026 Wales Book of the Year AwardsStrange things are happening in Port Talbot, and Charlie and Apricot find themselves at…more
The Wicked Lies of Habren Faire
Anna Fiteni
A dark fae romantasy, set in a south Wales mining town.Life in the mining town of Llanedwen is ruled by the coal mines and their owners. Fairy tales are an escape for Sabrina, until one day her…more
Behind The Sky
Megan Angharad Hunter
Winner of Wales Book of the Year 2021 in its original Welsh-language version, tu ôl i'r awyr.Deian and Anest are eighteen, living in north-west Wales, and each is fighting something they cannot name…more
Told By Animals
Myrddin ap Dafydd
In Celtic legend, animals and birds are everywhere. Here the creatures tell the stories themselves.Twelve Celtic legends, retold in the voices of the animals and birds who move through them.…more