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

Falling Back

Christine Evans

Falling Back is a single long poem by one of Wales’ most acclaimed new poets. It is the moving story of a woman’s attempts to come to terms with the death of her husband, a shepherd in north Wales ...

Feet in Chains

Kate Roberts

Spanning a forty-year period ending during the First World War, Feet in Chains is a compelling saga of family life in the slate quarries of north Wales, a novel which ranks alongside How Green Was My Valley in the canon of Welsh literature ...

Fellini Beach

Tim Liardet

The diverse themes and textures of Tim Liardet’s second collection of poems are intricately wrought and almost operatic in scope and intensity. The poems of section 1 are not casual, ’occasional’ poems, but dramas with...

Fishlock’s Sea Stories

Trevor Fishlock

In ’Fishlock’s Sea Stories’, the popular broadcaster and author Trevor Fishlock turns his attention to Wales’s maritime history. In his elegant and informative style Fishlock explores the history of Wales’s relationship with the sea, from shipbuilding and seafaring to smuggling and emigration ...