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WLE 26 3 Silf

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…mwy

Truth Like Water

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…mwy

A New Welsh Tapestry

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…mwy

Communion

'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…mwy

The Hill in the Dark Grove

'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…mwy

Dogs In A Storm

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…mwy

Fel yr Haul

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…mwy

La Salamandra

'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…mwy

Plesera

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…mwy

Ffrwyth

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.…mwy

Ynys Gwales

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…mwy

Suddo

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…mwy

To

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…mwy

There She Goes, My Beautiful World

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…mwy

Blueprints

‘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…mwy

It Might Not Be True: a memoir of life and love

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…mwy

Ghost Stations: Essays and Branchlines

'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…mwy

Borrowed for a short time

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…mwy

Paradwys Goll

'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…mwy

Ni allwn Allwn ni

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…mwy

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,…mwy

Yn Ei Dro - Cymru'r Ddwy Olwyn

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…mwy

Do I Look Like An Atmosphere

‘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'. - Erín MoureTaking its title from a line in Hôtel du…mwy

No Image

The Storm's Flora

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…mwy

Chronic Women

Casgliad o gerddi pwerus a diflewyn-ar-dafod ynghylch byw gyda chyflyrau iechyd hir-dymor. Mae'r flodeugerdd ddwyieithog hon yn cydnabod amrediad o gyflyrau wrth i 14 bardd benywaidd rannu eu realiti…mwy

Yn y Freuddwyd

Mae breuddwyd a realiti yn pendilio'n hudolus drwy'r cerddi hyn, ac mae dychymyg lliwgar y bardd yn ystyried themâu pwysig fel hunaniaeth, teulu a chymdeithas.  Mae cynrychiolaeth yn bwysig i Nia, yn…mwy

Crocodeil yn Berwi Tegell

Trawma a roddodd fywyd i’r cerddi sydd yn y casgliad hwn, ond crebwyll a chrefft bardd a’u gwnaeth yn ddarnau i syfrdanu darllenwyr.   Fel hyrddiau o alar, mae’r cerddi hyn hefyd bron yn afreolus eu…mwy

Sgwâr

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…mwy

Huw Fyw

‘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…mwy

Dynolwaith

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…mwy

Vanishing Edge

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…mwy

The Wicked Lies of Habren Faire

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…mwy

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…mwy

Told By Animals

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.…mwy