Autumn 2013

Browse our Bookshelf, selected annually by the Exchange as a window to recent Welsh literary works which we recommend for translation.

Bookshelf 2013

The Rice Paper Diaries

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…more

Muscovy

Matthew 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,…more

Intermission

Owen 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…more

Eneidiau (Souls)

Aled 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…more

Paris

Shortlisted for the Wales Book of the Year 2014 awardIn this powerful new novel, leading Welsh-language writer Wiliam Owen Roberts continues his exploration of the impact of the October…more

Awakening

Stevie 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