Autumn 2019

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

Autumn 2019

Babel

Ifan Morgan Jones

'I'm hooked on Ifan Morgan Jones's latest masterpiece, my first taste of Welsh steampunk.'
Yr Herald

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Cerdded mewn Cell

Robin Llywelyn

'Experimental and very timely - a call for us to see the word afresh and, at a time of desperate need, to dare to re-imagine it.'
O'r Pedwar Gwynt

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Erato

Deryn Rees-Jones

'Deryn Rees-Jones shows us that in the right hands lyric is the sharpest, subtlest and most devastating instrument we possess'
Sasha Dugdale

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Ingrid

Rhiannon Ifans

'If there has ever been a work that deserves re-reading, revisiting and discovering again and again  until all the circles reveal themselves, this is it.'
Golwg

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Broken Ghost

Niall Griffiths

'A novel that intoxicates, but you had better be able to handle the hangover.'
The Spectator

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Docklands: A Ghost Story

Damian Walford Davies

'When much new poetry looks no further than the poet's naval, this kind of imaginative leap is a tonic.'
The Telegraph

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Hen Ieithoedd Diflanedig

Mihangel Morgan

'Profound... with flashes of his distinctive playfulness.'
Gwales.com

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Throw Me to the Wolves

Patrick McGuinness

'Compulsively readable sophisticated, and keenly alert.'
The New York Times

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Dignity

Alys Conran

'Fierce and compassionate... Three brilliantly realised characters, finely drawn and entirely believable.'
Mail on Sunday

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The Blue Tent

Richard Gwyn

'A mysterious, dream-like story, delicately-written and with a disturbing undertow.'
Patrick McGuinness

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Stowaway: A Levantine Adventure

Richard Gwyn

'Impressively layered and packed with puzzles and riddles to pore over and revisit.'
New Welsh Review

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