Wild Abandon

Joe Dunthorne

'It’s me that should be crying. I’m younger than you.' He caught the tear and rubbed it under his armpit.Meet the brilliant eleven-year-old Albert and his seventeen-year-old sister, Kate. They…more

The Last Hundred Days

Patrick McGuinness

Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize
. Shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award, The Desmond Elliot Prize, and The Authors Club Best First Novel Award. Wales Book of the Year 2012.The bizarre…more

The Vagabond's Breakfast

Richard Gwyn

‘One life is not enough for everything’, says poet and novelist Richard Gwyn, but this dizzying memoir testifies to the many lives he has crammed into his own. At seventeen he left a comfortable…more

Blow on a Dead Man's Embers

Mari Strachan

The 1914-1918 war is over and Davey has returned home to Wales and his wife Non, uninjured physically but severely traumatised. As her husband veers between cold politeness and abject terror of…more

The London Train

Tessa Hadley

In her fourth novel Tessa Hadley returns to the London-Cardiff axis of The Master Bedroom, focusing on Paul and Cora. Both their lives are for a time dominated by travel between the English and…more

Lladd Duw (Killing God)

Dewi Prysor

After years in London’s criminal underworld, Jojo and his vulnerable friend Didi are on the run from their former boss, the Serbian psychopath Zlatko. After the killing of one of Zlatko’s hitmen,…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

Pantglas

Mihangel Morgan

Shortlisted for Wales Book of the Year 2012 (Fiction category)It is 1880 and life in the south Wales village of Pantglas (population 92) follows its usual course, its Welsh-speaking inhabitants…more

Bydoedd: Cofiant Cyfnod (Worlds)

Ned Thomas

Before it was adjudged Welsh-language Book of the Year, this volume by one of Wales’s leading public intellectuals had already been reprinted and acclaimed by critics who saw it as redefining the…more

Merch Perygl, Cerddi 1976-2011 (Poems 1976-2011)

Menna Elfyn

Ever since the pioneering woman poet Menna Elfyn first burst onto the then male-dominated scene 35 years ago she has never failed to delight, stimulate and amaze her readers. Conscious of the wider…more

Sparrow Tree

Gwyneth Lewis

A dazzling flight of birds opens this new collection by Gwyneth Lewis, former National Poet of Wales. Rich and allusive in language and sharp in image, but always feather-light in touch, this…more

The Brittle Sea: New and Selected Poems

Paul Henry

With an artist’s eye for the evocative vignette and the songwriter’s musicality of diction, Paul Henry has quietly established himself as one of Wales’s most accomplished poets. Unerringly…more

Everything I Found on the Beach

Cynan Jones

The lives of three men, each looking for a chance to break the bonds of their circumstances, are brought suddenly into collision in this long-awaited second novel by Cynan Jones.Hold, the west…more