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Bookshelf Autumn2020

Stillicide

Cynan Jones

Disastrous cycles of flood and drought dominate life in the climate-changed future. Guarded by marksmen, the armoured Water Train that keeps the parched city alive is under threat from terrorists.…mwy

Footnotes to Water

Zoë Skoulding

With Footnotes to Water, winner of the much deserved Wales Book of the Year Award 2020 for poetry, Zoë Skoulding confirms her place as a leading poet who continues to examine her surroundings, the…mwy

Filò

Siân Melangell Dafydd

Set in the Second World War and its aftermath, Sian Melangell Dafydd’s long-awaited second novel brings alive the story of Italian prisoners-of-war who were sent to work on farms in north Wales.…mwy

The Party Wall

Stevie Davies

In this gripping psychological thriller, award-winning novelist Stevie Davies analyses the complexities of a troubled mind with extraordinary insight and sensitivity. While Freya’s husband lies…mwy

Just So You Know: Essays of Experience

Durre Shahwar

Just So You Know: Essays of Experience is an anthology of sixteen essays, edited by Hanan Issa, Durre Shahwar and Özgur Uyanik to offer an open platform for LGBT, BAME, neurodivergent and disabled…mwy

Wing

Matthew Francis

In Matthew Francis’s seventh poetry collection, the leading poet guides us through his careful and meticulous observation of nature, through the delight to be had in the miniscule and variety of…mwy

Gwirionedd

Elinor Wyn Reynolds

With hindsight, a bereaved daughter realises that a seemingly trivial fall led inexorably to her widowed father’s death. An eloquent Everywoman, the daughter traces with great delicacy her response…mwy

We Could Be Anywhere By Now

Katherine Stansfield

Displacement and journeying underpin this engaging, second poetry collection by Katherine Stansfield. Having moved from her childhood Cornwall to Wales, she scrutinises the disjunctions and points…mwy

Ar Lwybr Dial

Alun Davies

Set in the coastal town of Aberystwyth, Alun Davies’s detective novel, the second in his trilogy, is among the finest example of the Welsh-language noir genre. For Taliesin MacLeavy, the wounded…mwy

The Mission House

Carys Davies

Shy, plagued with anxiety and unable to cope with life in Britain today, an Englishman escapes to India, finding refuge in a small hill town. Here he lodges in the mission house belonging to the…mwy

The Jeweller (Y Gemydd)

Gwen Davies

In this mysterious and quiet novel, steeped in emotion and filled with secrets, Gwen Davies has skilfully translated Caryl Lewis’s beguiling story of Mari, a market stall holder who lives alone…mwy

The Jeweller (Y Gemydd)

Gwen Davies

In this mysterious and quiet novel, steeped in emotion and filled with secrets, Gwen Davies has skilfully translated Caryl Lewis’s beguiling story of Mari, a market stall holder who lives alone…mwy

Shattercone

Tristan Hughes

Award-winning fiction writer Tristan Hughes bridges his twin homelands of Wales and Canada in this this new collection of short stories. Set mainly in rural Ontario and Ynys Môn, they reflect on…mwy

Fflur

Lloyd Jones

In this atmospheric novel prizewinning author Lloyd Jones returns to Dolfrwynog farm in north-east Wales, the setting for Dŵr (2009)/Water (2014), his powerful vision of future environmental…mwy

Iaith y Nefoedd

Llwyd Owen

Once said to be ‘the language of heaven’, Welsh takes on a sinister dimension in Llwyd Owen’s gripping new thriller. In this dystopian fantasy of the near future, ten years on from a disastrous…mwy

Rhwng dwy lein drên

Llŷr Gwyn Lewis

At the confluence of two railway lines, two lives come together in this second poetry collection by acclaimed author Llŷr Gwyn Lewis. Emerging from the lockdown period, these quietly powerful poems…mwy

Dal i Fod

Elin ap Hywel

A life lived intensely, running the gamut of human emotions, emerges from forty years’ work by one of the most remarkable poetic talents of modern Wales. Since first bursting on to the literary…mwy

Rest and Be Thankful

Emma Glass

Following hard on the heels of her searing first book, Peach (2018), Emma Glass’s second novel is equally compulsive reading, this time an intense, authentic study of an experienced nurse in a…mwy