Dark Edge

Roger Granelli

In the 1984 Miners’ Strike two brothers find themselves in the no man’s land between police line and picket line. A union official, Edwin Bowles is deeply involved in organising striking miners and defending his community. His younger brother Elliott is an ambitious policeman who sees promotion in the strike. The two men must face each other in a conflict in which they must both fight ...

Dat’s Love

Leonora Brito

Dorothy, 59, takes up nude modelling; Dooley Wilson’s funeral in Cardiff; the assassination of J.F.K.; what’s going down at the Blue Bayou; the road that was once a canal; Dido Elizabeth Belle, a slave in England. These are just some of the characters and situations in Leonora Brito’s wide-ranging collection of stories ...

David Jones & Other Wonder Voyagers

Philip Pacey

In David Jones and other Wonder Voyagers, Philip Pacey explores the aesthetics of some of the twentieth century’s leading poets and artists: David Jones, Hugh MacDiarmid, George Mackay Brown, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Paul Nash, Geoffrey Hill and others. The emphasis of this collection of essays rests on David Jones, whose poetry is now recognised as amongst the most important of the century …

David Jones: The Maker Unmade

Jonathan Miles, Derek Shiel

New edition. David Jones, the greatest painter-poet since Blake, was celebrated and revered by the most renowned of his contemporaries. Since his death in 1974, a growing circle of enthusiasts has valued his work for...

The Dawes Decades: John Dawes and the Third Golden Era of Welsh Rugby

David Parry-Jones

Across the world the Welsh team of the late sixties and early seventies is fondly remembered for its mix of steely ball-winning and flamboyant try-scoring. The architect of their success was one of the game’s outstanding thinkers: centre John Dawes ...

The Democratic Genre

Sheenagh Pugh

Fanfic is the fastest-growing form of writing in the world. Working in ‘fandoms’ anonymous authors bring their own gloss and invention to novels, films and tv series, developing characters, expanding narratives and, in the ‘slash’ genre, boldly going where the conventional genre writers fear to tread in relationships …

Dennis Potter

Peter Stead


Dennis Potter is the most gifted and influential playwright in television history. Millions of people have been fascinated by his novels, plays, adaptations and films. Brilliant Oxford student, journalist, an early television critic, a failed parliamentary candidate, Potter belongs to that generation of the working-class which rose to prominence in the media during the sixties ...

Dirt Roads

John Davies

Rusted mining towns in the American west connect along dirt roads with the slate country of North Wales, peopled, not empty, in John Davies’ new collection. At its heart is the sonnet sequence ’Reading the Country’ ...

A Dissident Voice

Mike Jenkins

In his fourth collection of poems Mike Jenkins addresses issues of the greatest concern to us in the nineties. His subjects include South Africa, Chile, the Falklands War, Northern Ireland, economic dereliction, the environment and sexual oppression ...