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It's 1954 and nine-year-old Mira's life is about to change forever. After a typhoid outbreak rages through her town, robbing her of her parents and siblings, the orphaned child is forced to live with her mysterious, depressive Aunt Hana, a figure both frightening and fragile.

It is the summer of 1954. Four young men, on a summer vacation buyan old car from a farmer and drive it from the hills of Wales all theway to the mountains of Spain. They are innocent and war-scarred, dreamersand realists, men but not much more than boys. This will be their summer to remember.

This collection is an open invitation. It is a bringing together of previously untold perspectives: creativeessays with no hard lines or prescriptive margins. No normative spotlights, only an open space to speak,and be heard.

From the remote forests of northern Ontario to aNeolithic burial chamber on the coast of north Wales,from a frozen lake in the Canadian wilderness to amysterious Welsh heath, Shatter Cones takes thereader on a strange, compelling and sometimesheart-breaking journey through the blurry juncturesthat bind together landscapes and lovers.

HELLO FRIEND WE MISSED YOU is a deeply poignant and bleakly comic debut novel about loneliness, the 'violent revenge thriller' category on Netflix, solipsism, rural gentrification, Jack Black, and learning to exist in the least excruciating way possible.

The Crossing bridges the past and the present andconnects Wales with America, as it tells of coal ownersand coal workers in the age of great transatlantic linersand fortunes to be made.

Cassandra Fish believes she is out of this world, wearing her orangefilm-set spacesuit daily in the hope that her absent parents will returnand take her back to her real planet. While she waits she accompaniesher friends on one last great night out to drink, dance, take bad chemicals, have bad trips,have bad ideas, and do unthinkable thing

How to Carry Fire was born from the ashes of familyaddiction. Beginning with the burning down of her childhoodhome, Thatcher explores how fire can both destroy and cleanse. Her work recognises embers everywhere: in farmhouses, heroinneedles, poisonous salamanders.

Saints and Lodgers offers an introduction to the wide range of Davies's poetry which lies beyond his famous reputation. Here are hymns to the beauty of his native South Wales and to the natural world, poems in praise of lives lived on the margins and on the streets, drinking songs and songs of the sea.

Join Peter as he ascends Orangutan Overhang, Supermassive Black Hole and Mental Lentils in the disused Dinorwig slate quarries of Snowdonia. Part creative nonfiction, part memoir and sports documentary, Slatehead is set in Thatcher''s Britain and the present day.

These sharp, ironic and compelling stories are perfect hard gems of observationabout the truths of everyday life: kindness and friendship balance precariouslywith obsession and desire.

At the heart of Country Dance is Ann Goodman, a young woman torn by the struggle for supremacy in her mixed blood, Welsh and English. This first-person account of passion, murder, and cultural conflict is set in the border country in the late 19th century, and the rural way of life is no idyll but rather a savage and exacting struggle for survival.

This anthology brings together the winning entries to the Penfro Festival's Poetry and Prose competitions, selected by Rhiannon Hooson and Niall Griffiths.

Sliced Tongue and Pearl Cufflinks explores fractured connections of self, family and home, laying bare the devastating impact of traumatisation against language and identity in its unflinching quest to communicate the brittle reality of everyday life at theedge.

Hey Bert contains poems that speak intensely of the everyday, of nostalgia, friendship and love, the body, the sacred, all seen through Pastore's unique, eccentric filter of spirit animals, pop-culture, dreams and astrology.

The seventh-most spoken language in the world,Bengali is home to some of the most distinctivepoetry ever written anywhere. Starting with thelater poems of Nobel Laureate RabindranathTagore, there has been a long and continuousline of modern poetry in the language.

A remarkable new selection in translation from the preeminent Turkish poet, Haydar Ergulen. The poems have been translated by a team of 13 translators, who include the co-editors of the book.

Hymns Ancient & Modern, New & Selected Poems, brings together the best of Brookes from four books and booklets, published from the early 90s: 43 Poems, The Dresden Cantata, Book, and More Last Poems and some new editions.

A family already struggling is ung headlong apart from each other in grief....In this atmospheric novella, the mysterious Plankton Collector visits members of a family torn apart by grief and regret. He comes in different guises. For ten-year old Mary, he is Mr Smith who takes her on a train journey to the seaside. Her mother, Rose, meets him as Stephen, by her son's graveside. Rose's youngest, Bunny, encounters him as the gardener. For husband and father David, meanwhile, the meeting is with a love from his youth. And long-lost Uncle Barnaby takes the children for a week's holiday during which their parents begin a reconciliation.A wound will heal, and knit them back together....All visitors are manifestations of the Plankton Collector who teaches those he encounters the difference between the discarded weight of unhappy memories and the lightness borne by happiness recalled.'A brilliantly evoked examination of memory and innocence... delivers a kaleidoscope of compelling voices united by a spectral visitor, not from the heights, but the apparent depths. Haunting.' James Clammer, author of Why I Went Back'A delicate paean for coming together, full of understanding for the quirks and pitfalls and ultimate goodness in human nature.' Mavis Cheek'Cath Barton tells the story... with a lyrical voice that is very much her own. This beautifully structured novella leads the reader to a resolution that is both moving and deeply satisfying.' Francesca Rhydderch, author of The Rice Paper DiariesIn haunting, exquisite prose the author explores the disconnects that exist within families as each deals with the internal difficulties inherent in life as it progresses. Moments of happiness can be overshadowed by loss, yet it is the former that should be granted attention and treasured... In this short novella a world has been conjured that recognises the depths of unhappiness yet offers hope. It reminds that reactions when grieving are neither uniform nor prescriptive, but that individuals, once known, are never entirely lost. Jackie Law, @followthehens'As light and fleeting as a happy memory... caring and heart-warming... about people with memories we could all share. It will resonate deeply with anyone who has been through trauma. But anyone who has longed for happier, simpler times will find nostalgic memories becoming lighter too.' James Lloyd, The Cardiff Review'Utterly convincing... so that the reader steps easily into the story, watching the characters` lives unfold at close quarters, hoping and yearning with them. The last few sentences brought me to tears. We all need our own Plankton Collector.' Robin Walker, amazon.co.uk'Unusual and skillfully crafted tale... filled with sublime descriptive language that has left lasting images in my mind.' Clement, amazon.co.uk'Poetic... skilful... a heart-breaking picture of love, regret, loss and ultimate reconciliation. Thoroughly recommended.' Martin, amazon.co.uk'Effortlessly creates a heady mixture of mid-century real world and magical realism.' Sheesh, amazon.co.uk'There's a flow to the language which is like... rocking gently in a boat... the characters are drawn with such subtly, honesty, and compassion. Even though the central event of the book is coming to terms with death, it was... the quiet disintegration and equally quiet rebuilding of a marriage... that had me riveted.... a short, utterly original, very human, marvelous book.' H Hewett, amazon.com

Written for the sister of a man who died from anorexia, this is a young woman's experience of the disorder while studying at the University of Oxford. Catherine Haines' lively account of student life is enriched with literary, philosophical and existential questions. As the Cambridge Weight Plan spins out of control, a post-graduate's academic subject, 'the mind-body problem', goes through an existential phase to become 'extraordinary morality' rather than a mental health problem. The iron will with which Catherine imposes on herself ever more onerous conditions is awe-inspiring. The author is clearly fiercely intelligent, as we can see from the way she exposes the ugly truth behind historical depictions of women with eating disorders and indeed the way society frames abstinence from food as an ally of virtue. However, starving her body means that Catherine also begins to starve her brain. Incisive literary criticism of Hamlet descends into feverish noodlings about Einstein's theory of relativity. Her descriptions enfold the reader in the hideous illogic of the anorexic. This is a rigorous, philosophical case for regarding an eating disorder as pilgrimage. My Oxford is a personal exorcism, the kind which writers perform on paper while ghting with demons, fears, fate and death, an exorcism which, while painful, is also saving.'Made me think deeply about the structure of society in relation to women's bodies. We still frame our conversations about food in terms or virtue. Searingly honest, sparing, taut, tightly controlled, provocative in the best way, considered and beautifully written. Catherine writes an account of how, through her regime of exercise and abnegation, she tries to reach some sort of transcendent truth in the footsteps of Simone Weil. My Oxford will stay with me.' Cathryn Summerhayes, Curtis Brown Literary Agency'This powerful, thought-provoking debut explores the author's experiences of her eating disorder in a narrative that is emotionally and intellectually complex yet unflinchingly accessible. Her honest, crafted words are alive with meaning both in what they say and in the spaces they create for the reader's imagination.' Frank Egerton, author of The Lock and Invisible 'Catherine has written a precise and gripping memoir that illuminates anorexia in a way I have never encountered. Eloquent and thoughtful, there is so much here for anybody who has wrestled with themselves.' Bridie Jabour, author of The Way Things Should Be'Superbly written; and as an author myself, I love the sparseness of the text - as if the words were doing to the page what the writer was dong to the flesh. It is a perfect example of the connection between style and content.' Stephen Stoneham'A rigorous, philosophical case for regarding eating disorder as pilgrimage.' Gwen Davies (adjudication), judge, New Welsh Writing Awards 2017

This insightful and revealing collection of essays focuses on seven Welsh women who, in a range of imaginative ways, resisted the status quo in Wales, England and beyond during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

After the funeral, a grieving son starts reading the diary his dead father had kept during the Second World War. As he turns each page, searching for a trace of the man he remembers, a portrait of an individual unfolds; a figure made both strange and familiar through the handwritten observations, the yearnings and the confessions.

The first full-length biography of Brenda Chamberlain chronicles the life of an artist and writer whose work was strongly affected by the places she lived, most famously Bardsey Island and the Greek island of Hydra.

Arrest Me, for I Have Run Away is a stunning short story collection on human nature and identity.

Multilingual anthology of poetry and translation produced for the touring project `Talking Transformations: Home on the Move'. This collection combines filmmakers, translators, artists and poets from Romania, Poland, France, Spain and the UK.

Between the Boundaries comprises twenty-six essays that follow the course of a single year and cover topics that range from the habits of beavers to the progression of Artificial Intelligence, journeying from Wales to Australia with many stops in between.

Threon, the Vagabond King, is torn from a life in the palace and forced to scrape a living on the streets. Meeting a witch of the underworld, a rebel soldier and a woman cursed by a god, he seeks retribution through a quest to reclaim his home and throne.

In a beautifully constructed first-person narrative that shifts in time and place, young French-Moroccan writer Ma -Do Hamisultane weaves a delicate web of fact and fiction.

Head in the Clouds: Memories and Reflectionsis the long-awaited sequel to Boyd Clack's firstmemoir, Kisses Sweeter Than Wine. Made upof 100 Facebook posts, the book blends poetrywith prose to share tales from the stage, fromthe Welsh valleys, and from the founder of TheLeague of Middle Aged Destroyed Men.

For twelve years the Terry Hetherington Young Writers Award has provided a platform for emerging young writers from and living in Wales. In this skillful and diverse collection of stories and poems, we celebrate the very best entries to this year's award.