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Waterfalls of Stars is Rosanne Alexander's love letter to Skomer Island, the nature reserve where she spent ten years as a warden. It portrays a relationship with nature enthralling in its immediacy and engages readers as she cares for Skomer's bird and seal colonies while exploring her own character during periods of isolation from the mainland.

The Other Tiger: Contemporary Latin American Poetry is a new and much-needed bilingual anthology of contemporary poetry featuring 90 Spanish-speaking poets from Latin and South America. Translator Richard Gwyn has selected from post-war poets from Cuba to Argentina, and from established names like Fondebrider to new voices like Carolina Davila.

Borders are a huge topic today, part of our zeitgeist. What do they mean? How do we define them? In Crossings Nicholas Murray considers the borders hehas confronted - geographic, cultural, linguistic, social, class, religious, sexual - and reflects on the influence of borders on how we think of ourselves and others, in his typically dynamic style.

Mametz marks the centenary of this Great War battle with thought-provoking new photographs of the battlefield, which even today bears the scars - and other evidence - of the attack in which 4000 of the Welsh Regiment were killed or wounded within minutes. Jeremy Hooker contributes a characteristically insightful essay on the images and the battle.

Television naturalist Iolo Williams' guide to Wales' top 40 nature sites is fully illustrated by beautiful colour photographs of place and wildlife. The sites are spread across Wales and in Wild Places Williams surveys the flora and fauna to be found on them, and aims to encourage more visits to them by people from Wales and beyond.

Siobhan Campbell is an Irish author noted for poems characterized by keen intelligence, cool skepticism, rich textures and wryly witty observations. Her new collection from Seren, Heat Signature, continues her fascination with power and responsibility as she skewers our most cherished notions in sharply memorable poems.

Part crime fiction and murder mystery, part meditation on grieving, friendship and family, Maria Donovan's debut novel, The Chicken Soup Murder, is a coming-of-age story narrated with resilience and humour by Michael. Michael's cosy young life is threatened by bullying and blasted by visitations from the biggest bully of them all: Death.

Deaton's poems are finely attuned and alert to the tensions in relationships, partly attributable to a difficult father figure, 'like a wounded bear', who haunts much of this book. A Watchful Astronomy is full of poems that are artfully formal, quietly precise, yet full of powerful emotion.

A much-needed exploration of motherhood as both political space and a complex personal experience, this book''s skewering literary portraits of contemporary motherhood contend with the tender and torturous issues raised when a woman dares to do both. Contributors include Carol Ann Duffy, Sharon Olds and Hollie McNish.

In Eric Gill and David Jones at Capel-y-ffin Jonathan Miles explores the four years which Gill and Jones spent in Gill''s religious and artistic community in the Black Mountains of Wales and discovers that it was hugely significant time for both. For Jones it was a cultural homecoming. For Gill it was an opportunity to experiment spiritually and sexually.

The Harveys arrive in the small southwest Australian mining town of Akarula in search of a new life, inspired by the dreams of self-made man Uncle Eddie. But the disappearance of their youngest daughter, Georgie, into the desert landscape marks the start of a new reality for the family and troubled community.

Unearthing the horrors of the GDR doping system for athletes drags ex Olympic swimmer Sophie brutally deep into the nightmare past she is trying so hard to hide from. Dark Mermaids is a gripping literary thriller by Anne Lauppe-Dunbar.

Robert Graves' war poems collected together in one volume, including the previously unpublished collection, "The Patchwork Flag". Edited by Charles Mandye, who also wrote an introduction and provides explanatory notes. *Also appeared in June Buyer's Notes*

Inspired by her years as an Immigration Caseworker to one of the most diverse inner-city areas in the UK, Caroline Smith has written a collection of poems, The Immigration Handbook, that details the many troubling and moving incidents in the lives of those she tries to help. This is a book that reaches out of the headlines into our hearts.

A collection of the vibrant, heartfelt and tragi-comic poetry of Katrina Naomi revealing a childhood fraught with family dislocation, upsets and even occasional violence, and finding, through her art, moments of grace, humour and redemption.

Peter Finch''s volume on 20th century popular music travels from 50s Cardiff to Ireland, New York, Tennessee, Mississippi and North Carolina. The Roots of Rock is a memoir and exploration of musical places and of music''s ability to create a world of and beyond the place in which it is heard. It also reflects on how music once defined society and is now just a mouse click away.

Translated from Quebecois, Gil Courtemanche''s novel is an enthralling story of childhood on two continents as an ICC investigator pursues a Congolese warlord responsible for the recruitment and dehumanization of child soldiers in civil wars in central Africa. A moving novel about war, work, obsession and the human condition.