Artes Mundi

Tessa Jackson, Editor

The Artes Mundi Prize has been established to celebrate visual culture within a global context. Set to become a biennial event, it showcases artists who have achieved recognition in their own country and are emerging…

Arthur Giardelli: Painting, Constructions, Relief Sculptures

Derek Shiel

This beautifully illustrated book reveals how Giardelli’s childhood in the country shaped his life. It examines his Italian background, his education at Oxford, and his sudden removal to Wales. A friend of Cedric Morris, David...

Arthur Machen

Mark Valentine


Arthur Conan Doyle called Machen a genius; Oscar Wilde, W.B. Yeats and H.G. Wells admired him. His classic horror novel The Great God Pan, which both shocked and delighted contemporary readers with it’s dark portrayal of sexuality and it’s alluring villainess, has been favourably compared to Stevenson’s Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde ...

The Awakening

Kate Roberts

A new translation of a classic novel by the major author of twentieth century Welsh literature. The happy family life of Lora Ffennig is shattered when her husband abruptly and unexpectedly leaves her for a colleague. The world she has taken for granted is suddenly unfamiliar, and Lora must find a new compass to guide her and her children ...

Badlands

Robert Minhinnick

Industrial smoke turns the noon sky black. Beneath its clouds the poorest people in Europe arrange flowers on a dictator’s grave. On Avienda de las Pulgas an Oldsmobile slows down for a better view. Emerging from a lemon grove is the last pedestrian in California. At a nuclear plant the only sound is the sighing of photocopiers. Another party of visitors gets ready for a tour. Welcome to Badlands …

The Beautiful Lie

Sheenagh Pugh

Lying and truth-telling are a matter of choice; our innate capacity for mendacity is the source of all story-telling. The title poem poem sets the thematic tone for this collection which explores the interface between...

The Bed of Memory

Jean Earle

Shortlisted for the 2002 Arts Council of Wales Book of the Year Award. These poems are informed by layers of memory, but never weighed down by them. Newcomers will appreciate the accessible style and the universal...

Beware Falling Tortoises

Sheenagh Pugh

A falling tortoise is a bizarre way to meet one’s end, but it is typical of Sheenagh Pugh’s wry humour that it finds a place in her poetry. The more humorous aspects of mortality and human frailty receive the same alert consideration as sombre subjects such as dictatorship, torture, the Dieppe raid and pollution ...

The Big Book of Cardiff

Peter Finch, Grahame Davies

A new anthology of writing about Cardiff, celebrating 100 years as a city, 50 as the Welsh capital...