Brief Lives

Christopher Meredith

From the nightmarish first story set in the South China Sea in 1946 to the final piece, set nowhere at the end of time, Brief Lives demonstrates in a short compass a huge range in technique and…more

Nostos

Aled Jones Williams

When Bet’s soldier son is killed on active service not even her Cartesian philosophy can help her cope with her bereavement. Instead, she embarks on her personal nostos, journeying back to the now…more

The Green Hollow

Owen Sheers

The Aberfan disaster in 1966 brought a small Welsh mining village to international attention when an unstable tip of coal waste collapsed into a wet landslide, ploughing through the school and…more

Llyfr Glas Nebo (The Blue Book of Nebo)

Manon Steffan Ros

Winner of the 2018 National Eisteddfod Prose MedalWinner of the 2019 Llyfr y Flwyddyn (Wales Book of the Year) Winner of the 2023 Yoto Carnegie Medal For Writing Winner of the inaugural Entente…more

The Glass Aisle

Paul Henry

From the seaside town of his childhood to a canal path encountered in later years, liminal places where earth and water meet, where past and present collide and overlap, form a major theme in this…more

Hen Bethau Anghofiedig

Mihangel Morgan

Shortlisted for the 2018 Wales Book of the Year AwardWhen he meets an old schoolfriend by chance on the train to west Wales, Merfyn takes advantage of a seemingly endless train journey through…more

Peach

Emma Glass

A brutal sexual attack has left Peach bleeding, bruised and traumatised. Her parents, too absorbed in each other and their new baby, notice nothing when she drags herself home and treats her…more

The Golden Orphans

Gary Raymond

The Bookseller Pick of the Week | Pick: Best New Crime Fiction, The SpectatorWhen an artist is invited to the funeral in Cyprus of his old college teacher and mentor, Francis Benthem, little…more

Pyrth Uffern (The Gates of Hell)

Llwyd Owen

In his latest thriller, master of Welsh noir Llwyd Owen returns once again to Gerddi Hwyan, a town somewhere in post-industrial south Wales, where detective Rolant Price and his sidekick Richard…more