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 ...

Folk Music

Sheenagh Pugh

Set in a country lying somewhere between Wales and central Asia, in a time which might be the middle ages or the near-present, Folk Music is a rounded and satisfying portrayal of a small rural community, its loves and its conflicts, and the tensions which threaten its cohesion ...

Frail Flesh

Rob Watson

Some do it for the money. Some do if for the fun - they’re the ones you really don’t want to meet. The all powerful state. The individual out of control. Love is at the mercy of strangers ...

FSP

Arthur Gwynn-Browne

“I am in the F.S.P. F.S.P. stands for Field Security Personnel. That is the authorized version.” So begins this remarkable account of six months’ service with the British Expeditionary Force in France, up to and including the terrible retreat to and evacuation from the beaches of Dunkirk ...

The Genre of Silence

Duncan Bush

Duncan Bush’s new work brings to life, at times painfully, the work of the Russian poet Victor Bal, who ’disappeared’ under Stalinism. This surprising and original new book recalls the period by an intermingling of history and fiction which imaginative writers have always understood but that historians have rarely admitted ...

Ghosts and Strangers

Emyr Humphreys

Ghosts and Strangers is an exquisite exploration of relationships. Wives and husbands, parents and children, lovers past and present, test and confirm the notion of love, the ingredient in life for which we all look....

The Gift of a Daughter

Emyr Humphreys

The Gift of a Daughter is a novel of delusion and self-knowledge, tradition and change, loss and identity in which the pace, plotting, characterisation and dialogue are as faultless as we expect from a writer of Emyr Humphreys’s experience and skill ...

Griffri

Christopher Meredith


On two nights separated by a gap of a dozen years, Griffri ap Berddig, a poet at the court of a minor Welsh prince of the twelfth century, tells his life story to a Cistercian monk. Part boast and part confession, his words turn into a compelling narrative which develops through an accumulation of obsessive images towards self-revelation ...

The Hand Glass

Frances Sackett

A stunning collection of short stories beautifully written by a craftsman of words. These stories record the turning points in life, the moments which give understanding or point to a new...

The Land as Viewed from the Sea

Richard Collins

Richard Collins’ debut novel is a dreamlike meditation on land and sea and the illusory nature of love. Two friends work together on a smallholding: one allows the other to read the novel he is writing, ’The Land as Viewed from the Sea’. As the novel unfolds, fiction begins to intrude upon reality, redefining the friends’ relationship, and threatening to change their lives forever ...

"Fresh, surprising and ambitious ... Richard Collins’ dark-hearted love story is a gripping tale that unfolds with immense narrative skill." The Whitbread First Novel Award Judges