Twenty-four stories that bring to life a West Wales’ community. We meet characters from the last thirty years of life in Haverfordwest: wheeler-dealers, ladies’ men, teachers, journalists, shop-keepers, rogues and idealists; all placed in the changing backdrop of market stalls and football grounds, dancehalls and Broad Haven beach.

The downtrain. I stand watching buses with poetic destinations pull out of the station: Oystermouth, Langland Bay, Caswell, Bay; redolent of frustrated journeys back from beach dances. Louise, bright, breathless and late, scurries past thundering city wheels to meet me. Grinning.

“His stories are constructed from minutely-observed and memorable pictures of his characters, which are deftly handled.”

Pembrokeshire Life

“[Nisbet] finds a poignancy and humour among his everyday protagonists and brings them to life with hints of hope and love.”

The Big Issue Cymru

Robert Nisbet is a lecturer in Creative Writing at Trinity College, Carmarthen. He has previously published five collections of short stories. His fiction has been published around the world and translated into German and Romanian.

Paperback Original - Fiction

£6.99

ISBN 1-902638-37-9

Publication : March 2004

197 x 128 mm 180 pp