Autumn 2020

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

Autumn 2020

Stillicide

Cynan Jones

Stillicide has a terse, minimalist quality… The radical distillation of language, the sense that every word has been individually chosen, results in a blunt perfection that heightens this effect.
Nina Allan, The Guardian

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Footnotes to Water

Zoë Skoulding

Informed, engaged, thought-provoking.
New Welsh Review

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Filò

Siân Melangell Dafydd

After reading this novel, I felt better in my soul. It is a beautiful novel: beautiful in its style, and even more beautiful in its love of humanity.
Aled Jones Williams, O’r Pedwar Gwynt

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The Party Wall

Stevie Davies

Witty, grief-stricken and packed with intrigue, Stevie Davies's tale about a budding, dangerous relationship between neighbours is a beautifully wrought page-turner.
Francseca Rhydderch

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Just So You Know: Essays of Experience

Durre ShahwarHanan IssaÖzgür Uyanık

‘Smart, bold and fresh – these are voices we need to hear’ – Darren Chetty

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Wing

Matthew Francis

Marvellous… inspiring… Nature does not go out of fashion and we need poetry of this quality more than ever.
The Guardian

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Gwirionedd

Elinor Wyn Reynolds

Here is a celebration of grief; of grief being the other side of the same coin as love, and to experience it is an integral part of loving and of being loved.
Grug Muse, O'r Pedwar Gwynt

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We Could Be Anywhere By Now

Katherine Stansfield

A humorous, perceptive and erudite collection that deepens our understanding and perception of language and identity.
Luanne Thornton, New Welsh Review

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Ar Lwybr Dial

Alun Davies

Alun Davies is an unmistakable writing talent – and the narrative here moves quickly, in an exciting, succinct style, sustaining the tension from start to finish.
Arwel Vittle, Barn

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The Mission House

Carys Davies

Subtle with nuance and alive with immediacy… a masterly achievement.
The Sunday Times

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The Jeweller (Y Gemydd)

Gwen DaviesCaryl Lewis

The Jeweller is a beguiling, quirky story examining the haunting afterlife of the objects we leave behind.
Gemma Pearson, Wales Arts Review

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The Jeweller (Y Gemydd)

Gwen DaviesCaryl Lewis

The Jeweller is a beguiling, quirky story examining the haunting afterlife of the objects we leave behind.
Gemma Pearson, Wales Arts Review

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Shattercone

Tristan Hughes

Absorbing stories of fragility and affinity… precisely and beautifully written.
Laura Wainwright, Wales Arts Review

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Fflur

Lloyd Jones

A gentle novel about love arriving unexpectedly and leaving without saying a word.
Jon Gower

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Iaith y Nefoedd

Llwyd Owen

A brand new classic. Each chapter is like a fist.
Manon Steffan Ros, author of Llyr Glas Nebo

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Rhwng dwy lein drên

Llŷr Gwyn Lewis

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Dal i Fod

Elin ap Hywel

This collection has a permanence that cannot be erased. The oeuvre of a poet who is fully aware of the power of words and the place of the poet in the world.
Iestyn Tyne, O’r Pedwar Gwynt

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Rest and Be Thankful

Emma Glass

Blends gnawing tension and surging tenderness ... At its height, Glass's battlefield prose calls to mind not a hospital soap but the literature of the trenches.
Boyd Tonkin, The Arts Desk

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