C’mon City

Grahame Lloyd

Cardiff City are the only team to have taken the F.A.Cup out of England (in 1927). No club has come closer (0.024 of a goal) to winning football’s top division and they took part in the first Cup Final to be broadcast live on radio, as well as the first closed-circuit television transmission of a League game ...

Capel Sion

Caradoc Evans

Caradoc Evans is perhaps the most controversial writer Wales has ever produced. His first book, My People, met with outrage from the pulpit and the popular press, was banned in Cardiff, but also earned Evans comparison with Zola, Joyce and Lawrence ...

Captive Audience

Paul Henry

Private and public worlds collide in this second collection of poems by Paul Henry. A cast that includes, amongst others, butchers, teachers, hairdressers, mechanics and town planners sustains this poet’s awareness of human strengths and frailties ...

A Cardiff Anthology

Meic Stephens

’I’m Cardiff born and I’m Cardiff bred, And when I die I’ll be Cardiff dead’ - Frank Hennessy. Life in the Welsh capital means many things to many people. Frank Hennessy loves it, but others aren’t so sure ...

Cecil & Noreen

Patrick Corcoran

A poignant, subtle, and amusing love story in which an elderly couple - Cecil and Noreen - reminisce about their courtship and marriage. In a nursing home, Cecil recollects and relives the marriage through the aide-memoir of Noreen’s preserved letters, kept in a box at his bedside ...

A Certain Marvellous Thing

John Powell Ward

In his first collection of poetry since 1984, John Powell Ward breaks new ground. These are edgy, urgent, relevant poems. The new forms are varied, radical and playful. Ward has moved from the pastoral pleasures of his last book, The Clearing towards a new sensibility, one concerned about the state of the world that our children will inherit and interested in the options that language can give us to explore and influence our times...

Changes and Dreams

Glenda Beagan

Reflection and re-evaluation lie at the centre of the thirteen stories of Glenda Beagan’s latest volume. Their characters - mostly women - have reached a point in their lives , sometimes one of crisis, at which they must review what has passed and hazard a guess at what is to come ...

Childhood: An Anthology

Dewi Roberts

‘I like very much people telling me about their childhood, but they’ll have to be quick or else I’ll be telling them about mine’ said Dylan Thomas, and it is true that childhood – real and invented – exerts a particular fascination for writers....

The Chosen Ground

Neil Corcoran


For more than twenty years poetry from Northern Ireland has been amongst the most exciting in Britain. Beginning with Seamus Heaney a wave of young poets has explored the political and social situation there in there in invigorating and inventive style …

The Chosen People

Grahame Davies

The histories of the Welsh people and the Jewish people have entwined in a number of ways over the centuires. ’The Chosen People’ uses extracts from Welsh literature to show the two nations have interacted both in Wales and elsewhere ...