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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.

The beautiful, multi-layered poems of David Foster-Morgan have already made him a ''poet''s poet'' amongst the cognoscenti. His debut collection from Seren Masculine Happiness, will bring this subtle and remarkable poet to a wider readership. O''Hara, Ginsberg and Borges are amongst the many influences that inspire these poems on themes of masculinity.

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.

A light-hearted exploration of the fate of a Swansea woman who is apparently possessed by the spirit of Dylan Thomas. Naturally all is not as it seems. By former National Poet of Wales Gwyneth Lewis.

In Her Own Voice collects interviews with 13 contemporary women poets from Wales and explores their practice and the various issues - cultural, literary, political, domestic, gender, locality among them - which have shaped their writing.

Playing House, the debut collection of poetry from Katherine Stansfield, features a concise wit, a distinct voice, and an unsettling view of the domestic with ordinary subjects viewed through the author's satirical yet sympathetic eye. John Lennon's tooth, an imaginary Canada, bees in Rhode Island, jetlag, and office politics are all peculiar grist to this author's mill. She presents both historical subjects, such as Captain Scott of the Antarctic, and common objects, such as household bleach, with a skewed perspective, adding humor, drama, and a quietly distinctive pathos.

The border town of Hay-on-Wye is famous for two things: the annual Festival of Literature (now in its 31st year) and its stunning location. Jim Saunders new book is a photographic record and words about Hay-on-Wye, its environs and people. The result is a record of the relationship in which a landscape of great natural beauty shapes a people, ...

Hannah King is a liar, everyone says. So her stories of growing up in the Rhondda, from playing with dolls to glam rock must be treated with caution. From dolls and sherbet lemons, to a bright student who drops out of school in favour of drink, drugs and glam rock up on an estate which feels like another planet, Hannah, it seems, has always been tr

Leaping from the pages, jostling for position alongside the Valleys mams, dads, and bamps, and described with great warmth, the superheroes in question are a motley crew: Evel Knievel, Sophia Loren, Ian Rush, Marty McFly, a bicycling nun, and a recalcitrant hippo. Other poems focus on the crammed terraces and abandoned high streets where a working-class and Welsh nationalist politics is hammered out. This is a postindustrial valleys upbringing re-imagined through the prism of pop culture and surrealism.

The book consists of two sorts of poems. The numbered "Imagined Sons" poems are little scenes where the author/narrator imagines, over a period of years, just what might have become of the son she gave up for adoption at birth in 1986. She imagines all sorts of destinies for him from the mundane (supermarket clerk) to the lively (singer-songwriter). Sometimes the scenes are realistic and sometimes they are steeped in the surreal: "visions" that evoke nightmares or practical jokes. The other "Birthmother's Catechisms" poems present the author/narrator's emotions more nakedly, in chorus-like laments for what might be or might have been.

In Port au Prince, Haiti, the police roam the streets and no one is safe. Fignolé, a musician and political radical, is missing. His sisters Joyeuse and Angelique search for their young brother amid the colorful bustle, urban deprivation, and political tension of the city; when they eventually locate him, they will have found more about themselves than they wanted to know. This story explores one day and three lives in a city where love is hard to find, life is cheap, and death is all too familiar. It is the tense, passionate, and vividly told story of small victories of hope in the face of a seemingly impossible fight against a monolithic regime.

New paintings on the subject of women and the constraints of domesticity by Shani Rhys James, accompanied by an informative interview and commentary by Edward Lucie-Smith.

A lavishly illustrated guide to sacred wells in the contested lands between England and Wales from prehistoric times to today, pagan to Christian, with diversions into the Roman occupation and the commercial spas of modern times.

This novella by Owen Sheers retells the Passion of Christ, based on the author''s groundbreaking National Theatre of Wales play starring Michael Sheen and performed over three days in Port Talbot.

Unsentimental, tough-minded, and fiercely lyrical, these works of poetry are inspired by places visited, including Australia, France, Germany, Greece, Luxembourg, and the United States. Moreover, this collection examines a number of subjects, including the marginal lives of vagrants, gypsies, minor criminals, the burnt-out, and the bereft as well as the accomplishments of superlative athletes and the beauty of the tango. With a touch of bitter political satire, this book radiates a tension between sensual rapture and knowing cynicism.

Brave and beautiful, this remarkable debut collection of poetry features the edgy, modern voice of an urban female. From poems of a fraught childhood in Bridgend, south Wales--where a sensitive child escapes through imaginative games--to works depicting student rivalries, damaged peers, and tense situations associated with teenage problems, this compilation matures with an underlying sweetness. Additional poems explore the sensual rapture of love and the clear-eyed realization of its inevitable disappointments.

Judas Iscariot - that byword for betrayal - tells his own story in Damian Walford Davies'' compelling and finely wrought new collection of poetry from Seren.