Edward Elgar: Sacred Music

John Allison


Edward Elgar was for many years the most popular composer in Britain; his music was, and remains, inextricably linked with the final, glorious years of the Empire. Yet Elgar himself was almost entirely untypical of the British Establishment ...

Eleven

David Llewellyn

In Cardiff’s offices and call centres the twenty-something white collar workers of the new sweatshops email each other with work issues, jokes,arrangements for their social lives, gossip and the products of sheer boredom…

"A compulsive read…" Ray French, The Guardian 

 

Entertainment

Richard John Evans

Vitriolic in its disgust, malevolent in its humour, dazzling in its invective, Entertainment pushes you places you’d rather not go, where life’s more bearable on vodka and whizz, bogs are for shagging other blokes’ birds and the pub singer’s crap and he’s your dad ...

Eric Gill & David Jones at Capel-y-Ffin

Jonathan Miles


This is the first book dedicated to the four year collaboration between two major British artists, Eric Gill and David Jones, at Gill’s artistic-religious community at Capel-y-Ffin, a remote disused monastery in the Black Mountains....

Eros and Thanatos

Paul Groves

Sex and Death are the dominant themes of this provocative new collection. With precise formal elegance and ironic flair Groves expertly dissects the angst of contemporary man ...

Eros Proposes a Toast

Tony Conran

This ’Collected Public Poems and Gifts’ illustrates the way in which the Welsh language tradition of composition for specific occasions - weddings, funerals, births, historical public events - has influenced Tony Conran for forty years....

Everything Must Change

Grahame Davies

Everything Must Change is a thoughtful first novel, exploring the place of passionately held, radical beliefs in the modern world. The novel intercuts the story of French philosopher and activist Simone Weil, with that of  21st century campaigner Meinwen Jones, adrift in a post-devolution Wales. Hailed as ‘the first post-national novel’ by Lord Dafydd Elis-Thomas, Meinwen’s inner struggle echoes Simone’s as she devotes herself exclusively to her cause of anti-globalisation and protecting culture…

“Grahame Davies puts flesh and bones on the historical figure with great success…it is a beautiful and assured read.” – Sian Melangell Dafydd, New Welsh Review, March 08