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 quarry to the headstones of a gaping graveyard. In Caryl Lewis's 'The Root', unspoken presences encroach on the customs a farming family clings to. Francesca Reece's 'Paul' is a darkly comic homecoming for a Londoner who claimed Welshness when it suited her but never had to endure living in Wales. Manon Steffan Ros's 'Dust' holds its breath in the space between a betrayal and its consequence; Fflur Dafydd's 'The Physicians' visits the National Botanic Garden at the end of the world; and Siân Northey's 'The Architect' meditates on the prisons we build for ourselves.

Between them these writers work in both of Wales’s languages and across genres of fiction, poetry, screenwriting and children's books. Compact and representative, the collection is an ideal introduction to contemporary Welsh fiction with each author's own books available for translation.