The Medlar Tree

Glenda Beagan

Glenda Beagan’s stories introduce a host of ordinary and extraordinary characters: Gypsy Hayes, who really can read the future but doesn’t like what she sees; slightly sinister old Mrs Mossop (the ’saddist’); the terribly embarrassed young Hafwen; Mrs Jenkins, Sgubor Fawr, who every so often screams for a day. A French teacher waiting for her environmentally-sound lover, the mysterious and escaping Mrs Prosser, the poppy growing Laura, are characters on the brink of revelations which will transform their lives and surprise the reader ...

Melog

Mihangel Morgan

One of the most exciting works of modern Welsh-language fiction, available in English for the first time. The dull life of unemployed academic Dr Jones changes forever when he sees a young man naked on a building top, threatening to jump to his death ...

The Memory Tray

Deryn Rees-Jones

Deryn Rees-Jones’ lively debut collection explores issues of gender and identity, memory and desire, through witty juxtapositions of character, plot and theme. Formative poems resound with magical imagery, as in ’The Great Mutando’ and recapture...

Mervyn’s Lot

Mervyn Matthews

Mervyn Matthews’ childhood in the thirties, forties and fifties was remarkable even by the standards of the time. Bombed out of his house during the Swansea blitz, he went to live with his maternal grandmother in the Hafod area of Swansea ...

Midas’ Daughter

Vuyelwa Carlin

Midas’ Daughter is Vuyelwa Carlin’s first full-Iength book of poems. She has a growing reputation as a distinctive new voice on the British poetry scene. Her short-line stanzas are studded with jewel-like images that accrue into mysterious...

Midway

Duncan Bush

From the threshold of his own fiftieth year, Duncan Bush returns to the ’Fifties of his youth as a springboard from which to explore the second half of the twentieth century in ways often more...

Mila and Mervuysa

Mervyn Matthews

The remarkable - and true - story of love opposed by political ideology. When translator Mervyn Matthews refused to be recruited by the KGB in the 1960s he found himself expelled from Russia and divided by the Iron Curtain from his Russian fiancee Mila Bibikova ...

A Militant Muse

Harri Webb

Harri Webb (1920-1994) was not only one of the most popular poets in Wales but also a plangent cultural commentator. He wrote extensively on literary and political subjects for more than three decades, in the Western Mail and several magazines ...

The Milk Thief

Paul Henry

The Milk Thief is time - as it colours the lives of the characters and relatives who feature in Paul Henry’s new collection of poems. The first two sections of the book are set primarily...