Eleven

David Llewellyn

In Cardiff’s offices and call centres the twenty-something white collar workers of the new sweatshops email each other with work issues, jokes,arrangements for their social lives, gossip and the products of sheer boredom…

"A compulsive read…" Ray French, The Guardian 

 

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 ...

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