The Mabinogi

Matthew Francis

Shortlisted for the 2018 Wales Book of the Year Award | Shorlisted for the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry 2017Following the success of Muscovy (2013), acclaimed poet Matthew Francis…more

Fabula

Llŷr Gwyn Lewis

Shortlisted for the 2018 Wales Book of the Year AwardFlitting from place to place like the fabula zollikoferi moth, the narratives in Llŷr Gwyn Lewis’s second, eagerly awaited prose volume shift…more

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Mihangel Morgan

11 o’clock one morning in a small Welsh town and it’s Orig Owen’s sixtieth birthday. Alone and anxious, he walks to the optician’s shop whilst other inhabitants and visitors tread their parallel…more

Cove

Cynan Jones

‘Pick salad’: the man leaves the note for his pregnant wife and sets out alone from the seashore in his kayak. At his feet lies the plastic urn containing his dead father’s ashes, which he will…more

Zoology

Gillian Clarke

In this new collection, the former National Poet of Wales once again demonstrates her complete mastery of her medium. This generous selection of richly textured poems is as ever deeply rooted in…more

Y Gwreiddyn (The Root)

Caryl Lewis

Characteristically powerful, deceptively simple narratives make up this latest volume by Caryl Lewis, twice winner of Welsh Book of the Year. In these perfectly sequenced, thematically-linked short…more

Pantywennol

Ruth Richards

A gripping and believable historical novel, based on a true story. Elin Ifans is frustrated by the limitations rural life imposes on a young girl in a far-flung district of mid-19th century north…more

Bad Ideas \ Chemicals

Lloyd Markham

Shortlisted for the 2018 Wales Book of the Year Award | Shortlisted for the 2018 Betty Trask AwardCassandra Fish cleans her bright-orange spacesuit. She must be ready when the window of lunar…more