Dolenni Hud (Visiting Home)

Owen Martell

This is ‘another Wales’: with its title taken from the poem ‘Chicago’ by T.H. Parry-Williams, these six stories are inspired by Welsh place names in North America: Llandaff, Bangor, Narberth,…more

Grace, Tamar and Laszlo the Beautiful

Deborah Kay Davies

Winner of Wales Book of the Year 2009 (English-language)Grace and Tamar are sisters, in conflict but ultimately inseparable. From the moment of her difficult birth Tamar disrupts the previous…more

White Ravens

Owen Sheers

In White Ravens, myth weaves into modern lives and a wartime romance, the horror of death on an industrial scale corrupts the course of love, and hard lessons must be learnt, perhaps too late. A…more

Y Llyfrgell (The Library)

Fflur Dafydd

The National Library of Wales at Aberystwyth seems a quiet bastion of academic research, but in Fflur Dafydd’s new novel it becomes a hotbed seething with revolutionary intrigue.The novel is…more

Petrograd

Winner of Wales Book of the Year 2009 (Welsh-language)This acclaimed historical novel by Wiliam Owen Roberts confirms his status as one of our leading Welsh-language writers. Petrograd is an…more

Y Dŵr (Water)

Lloyd Jones

Anarchy reigns in the city as environmental disaster brings shrinking landmass, food shortages and the collapse of infrastructure, and a family retreats to the ancestral farm in upland Wales. Here…more

The Earth Hums in B Flat

Mari Strachan

Gweni isn’t like other girls. For a start, she can fly in her sleep. This ability allows her to see things that would otherwise go undetected - like the man lying face down in the pool, his…more

Suit of Lights

Damian Walford Davies

This first solo volume in English by bilingual poet Damian Walford Davies amply demonstrates his mastery of form and the breadth of his vision. The impetus may be a found object, a personal…more

Milwr Bychan Nesta (The Soldier)

Aled Islwyn

In this novel - part thriller, part dystopic vision of the future - an elderly widow, Nesta, finds her humdrum life disturbed when she becomes aware that an uninvited guest visits her bungalow at…more

Y Trydydd Peth (The Third Thing)

Siân Melangell Dafydd

George Owens is ninety years old, and has had a lifelong love affair with water. A natural swimmer, from early childhood he has known that water was his natural element and striven to understand…more