Ram With Red Horns

Rhys Davies

When Rhonwen discovers her husband is spending his early retirement playing bowls and conducting an affair, her response is coldly murderous. But the relief of retribution is replaced by a guilt which haunts her in the form of a ram with red horns. Pushed to the point of madness she begins a new life and confronts her husband’s mistress ...

Remembering Carmen

Nicholas Murray

Nicholas Murray’s second novel is an elegant dissection of modern romantic mores. Christopher, a successful shopfitter specialising in transforming dilapidated London buildings into swanky bistros, is romantically involved with Carmen, a one-time academic now unhappily employed as a magazine-columnist ...

Resolution

Roger Granelli

Roger Granelli’s fifth novel is a subtle and compelling examination of human motives and desires. It is the start of the new millennium, and Rob and Cath’s fiery relationship begins to unravel. The split sends Rob - artist, musician, dreamer - into a nightmare of paranoia and resenment, while Cath’s resolve is threatened by fear, and by loyalty to the man she once loved …

Rumours of Fulfilment

Rob Watson

Rumours of Fulfilment is a novel of the passing through to womanhood of two sisters, Rhiannon and Ruth McLellan. Living in a sleepy Welsh village 18 years old Rhiannon is determined to break out into a wider world by going to university in England ...

Sea Holly

Robert Minhinnick

A stunning debut novel from this award-winning poet and essayist, Sea Holly is a story of drifting, burnt-out lives, shadowed by the mysterious disappearance of a vivacious young girl …

“The man is a consistent winner.” – Peter Finch, Western Mail, March 08

“Robert Minhinnick has been regarded as the best writer in Wales now for more than a decade and his voice needs to be heard internationally.” Peter Stead, Western Mail, March 08

 

Shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize 2008

Second Chances

Denis F. Ratcliffe

Critically injured in a mysterious air crash, D. considers the question which has haunted his young life: "what am I doing here?" What he recalls is a disturbing story of a child’s struggle for survival...

Selected Stories of Alun Richards

Alun Richards

Elgar Davies, Hon. Sec. of Pontlast RFC; scandalised Elmyra Mouth; lawyer Bunny Leyshon; Jehoidah Wetter, public convenience attendant; dream girl Dottie Lemon; Esme and her famous fly-half husband. The characters from Alun Richards’s classic short stories are joined by new figures soon to be held in equal affection ...

Shifts

Christopher Meredith


Against the background of a declining steel town, Shifts charts the lives of four closely bound characters, Jack, Keith, Rob and Judith in a story of grief, love, work and betrayal. When the plant closes all four are forced to take control of their lives. The men look to their work and to the past for explanation, while Judith seeks an answer in herself and those around her ...

The Shop

Emyr Humphreys

Eddie Lloyd, troubled son of the famous Welsh actor Orlando Lloyd is introduced to ambitious film-maker Bethan Mair Nichols, and immediately finds himself captivated by the intense young woman.  It transpires that Bethan’s Great Aunt Sulwen has left her a derelict shop in rural Wales.  As the novel and their relationship progresses, Bethan’s legacy becomes increasingly contentious, until a brutal assault allows the couple to reassess their fraught relationship ...