Browse our Bookshelf, selected annually by the Exchange as a window to recent Welsh literary works which we recommend for translation.
Francesca Rhydderch
Winner of the Wales Book of the Year 2014 Fiction CategoryIn 1996 Elsa lies in hospital reflecting on a past full of contrasts of place, language and circumstances, of safety and danger, and the…moreMatthew Francis
Journeys through time and space, and between dream, legend and reality wind through this fifth collection by well-known poet Matthew Francis. In the seventeenth century the scientist, Robert Boyle,…moreOwen Martell
When Scott La Faro, the young double-bassist with the Bill Evans Trio of New York, died in a road accident in 1961 after a successful concert and recording series, Evans disappeared into seclusion…moreAled Jones Williams
Shorlisted for Wales Book of the Year 2014 awardWhen young student Nerys Caroline Hindley, researching the Welsh connections of photographer Alvin Langdon Coburn, contacts the ageing novelist…moreStevie Davies
In rural Wiltshire in 1860, two sisters, Anna and Beatrice Pentecost, alone since the death of their repeatedly widowed father, struggle with faith in a changing religious and scientific landscape…more