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 ...

The Distance Between Us

Fiona Sampson

This brilliantly-devised verse-novel opens with a love affair in crisis, unfolds through loss, risk and existential challenge, and ends with love-making in a domain at once sensual and imagined. Such radical ambiguity invites us to...

Don’t Stand So Close

Lloyd Rees

Tom Browning is 36. Bored and frustrated at home, he has reached the point of cynicism as a music teacher in a comprehensive school. Asking a class to respond to the lyrics of some pop music, it is Tom, afraid of growing fat, bald and middle-aged, who discerns a spurious truth in the hope and yearning of the words ...

Drawing Down the Moon

Robert Minhinnick

Drawing Down the Moon is an anthology of work from Welsh writers in 1996. Inevitably the reader will identify glaring omissions and infuriating choices here? Where are the young writers? Is there enough political writing?...

Dylan Remembered - Volume 1 : 1913 - 1934

David N. Thomas


’Dylan Remembered: 1913 - 1934’  is the first of two volumes culled from the archive tapes of journalist, broadcaster and author Colin Edwards. Edwards, a California-resident Welshman, had interviewed everyone he could find with a Dylan Thomas connection ...

Dylan Remembered - Volume Two: 1935 - 1953

David N. Thomas


This second volume culled from the Colin Edwards Archive of interviews with Dylan Thomas’ family, friends and colleagues made during the 1960s covers Thomas’ ‘adult’ life from his move, aged 20, to London to become a professional writer to his death in New York 51 years ago…

Dylan Remembered, Volume One: 1914-1934

David N. Thomas


This is the first of two volumes of transcribed interviews about the poet Dylan Thomas. Journalist, broadcaster, and author Colin Edwards interviewed numerous sources close to Thomas for a planned biography of the poet, but he was unable to begin work before his early death …

The Dylan Thomas Murders

David N. Thomas

Waldo: a loner, an obsessive, the son of a famous writer - but which one? His mother Rosalind: did this old lady really work for MI5? Rachel: poet, Jew, Quaker - why is she taking such risks for the sake of friendship? Martin: her husband: retired academic, amateur detective, who is tested to the limit by events past and present in his new home in rural Wales ...