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ABERFAN:
THE DAYS AFTER - IC Rapoport
I C Rapoprt's sensitive photographs are beautifully judged,
high quality images, they do not shock but seek to suggest
lives beyond their representations. the figures they commemorate
are allowed the dignity of being people rather than victims. |
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Angolans
- Landeg White
A volume of new and selected poems which focuses on the fall
of the British Empire in the Caribbean and Africa. Landeg
White surrounds his reader with sensuous detail, and brings
astute comments on the post-colonial era to a new light amidst
his impeccable observation of colour, ambience, sound and
scent. |
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Arab Work - Landeg
White
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As
I was a boy fishing – Lewis Davies
Lewis Davies’ new collection of essays reveals a respect
for hard graft and a deep empathy for people on the margins
of society. The effortless prose shows an honest love of place,
friendship, family … and fishing. |
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Ash
On A Young Man's Sleeve
- Dannie Abse
November
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bbboing!
- Lloyd Robson
A fantastic, energetic, exhilarating new collection from this
daring and exciting young poet. Lloyd Robson stretches the
possibilities of language, blows away structure and form,
bounces into and out of emotion, commotion, travel and abandon
with linguistic dynamism, humour and depth. From the author
of Welsh Books Chart-Topping Cardiff Cut, this book
is a must-read. |
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Being
In Water - Richard Gwyn
‘He lends each situation an air of mystery and offers
layer upon layer of speculation, a kind of reverse archaeology,
as to what will happen next... Gwyn truly shines in the senuous
details he imparts to each simple act’ |
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BODY
BEAUTIFUL - Ifor Thomas
The poems in Body Beautiful were written during the period
between when Ifor thomas was first diagnosed with prostate
cancer to his surgery and recovery. |
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Boys
of Gold - George Brinley Evans
George Brinley Evans was born in in Dyffryn Cellwen in 1925.
He began work in Banwen colliery aged 14 in 1939 and served
in Burma with the 12th Army during the second world war. He
returned to mining after the war and finally retired from
industry in 1977. Boys of Gold is his first book of fiction
and illuminates his life's concerns. |
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Brotherhood
A pacy novel about leather-clad men on fast bikes. Jay likes
to keeps his thrills simple; racing the fall-line home so
that he can watch the sun set twice, sex on the sofa with
his girlfriend, week-end runs up North with the boys. Things
begin to go downhill when one of the boys, Stu, bleeds to
death in a drunken accident, and Jay's life suddenly
seems to be full of new complications, as well as some old
ones that he'd been avoiding. |
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Circle
Games - Jo Mazelis
Circle Games probes our darker fantasies of power,
control and revenge, in a world not far removed from Grimm’s
menacing forests, where games are seldom innocent. |
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DE/TACHED
Thirteen writers from Wales, England, Canada and the United
States join forces to entertain, amuse and shock readers with
stories and poems set to challenge the reader’s perceptions
of life |
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Diving
Girls – Jo Mazelis
In the title story the ‘water sisters’’
unity is broken when Annie hurts herself, and the narrator
is forced for the first time to see her sister as a separate
entity. This separation has permanent consequences. |
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Downtrain
– Robert Nisbet
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. |
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THE
FESTIVAL OF THE WOLF
Poetry, fiction, drama and testimony by refugees and asylum
seekers, side by side with other writers in Wales, past and
present. |
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Fire
and Water - Hayley Long
High Fidelity for post-student women coming to terms with
their men and their bands.A very funny novel about University,
Rock Bands and catching trains. |
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Fishboys
of Vernazza - John Sam Jones
Ten new stories from the award-winning author of Welsh
Boys Too. Moving through city steam rooms, rugged North
Wales mountains, and estuaries facing other places, the young
men in this collection make choices. Risky sex, new romance
and easy understanding, a mortgage on a semi, or keeping a
lid on it all for the sake of family, status and belief. These
sensual and sometimes erotic stories by prize-winning author
John Sam Jones reveal a lucid prose, etched with echoes of
the sea, fish and rings that signal eternity in very different
worlds. |
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Flamingos
– Gail Hughes
Flamingos by Gail Hughes is an elegiac and poetic sequence
of stories following the progress of a young girl through
childhood and adolescence on the fringes of the Badlands in
Alberta, Canada. |
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Football
- Lewis Davies
It's 2006. England have won the world cup. (thank
f*** - otherwise we'd have to invade Iraq again.) Sir
David Beckham is a national hero. His shirt has sold for 137,000
euros at a charity auction. Three friends meet for dinner,
two want sex, the other bought the shirt. It is almost ART." |
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Fresh
Apples - Rachel Tresize
For decades now we have been searching for the authentic literary
voice of post-industrial South Wales, where fly-by-night factories
have replaced the mines and their steelworks, television and
pop music have swept away chapel religion and the chosen drugs
of recreation are heroin and cocaine. |
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FUSE
- Patrick Jones
Acclaimed drama and poetry in one volume.Patrick Jones, born
Tredegar 1965. Educated Oakdale, Cross Keys, Swansea. Writer
of 'Everything Must Go' (UK tour March 2000), 'The
Guerilla Tapestry' (performed at opening of Welsh Assembly
'Voices of a Nation' concert summer 1999), 'Poem
for Pictures of the Gone World' (film for BBC Wales 1999),
'Unprotected Sex' (Cardiff October 1999). Lives
for his children Evan, Ethan, Rebekah and Victoria and writes
in order that we, we we may feel less alone... |
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Ghosts
of the Old Year
Ghosts of the Old Year is an atmospheric collection
of contemporary Welsh writing. Stories of passion, death and
desire love between parents and children, men and women, believers
and gods, people and places. This is an anthology of winning
stories from the 2001 Rhys Davies Short Story competition.
Because the competition is judged anonymously, this volume
collects new stories from well-respected Welsh authors Stevie
Davies and Jo Mazelis alongside brilliant new talent such
as Ruth Joseph and Tristan Hughes |
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Home to an empty house
- Alun Richards
November 2006 |
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Hidden
Dragons – English language editor: Allan Sutherland;
Welsh language editor: Elin Ap Hywel.
Funny, sad, passionate, tender, sarcastic, intimate, angry,
nostalgic, a great variety of writers each with their own
writing style, their own experience of life, and their own
idiosyncratic outlook. All of them are doing the writer's
job of telling the truth as they see it. This anthology of
new writing from disabled people across Wales is promoted
this summer with reading tours from the contributors and is
part of the Summer Reading Festival. It is produced in large
print and is spiral bound for easy access. CDRom and spoken
word formats are available. |
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Hijinx Theatre
- Edited by Val Hill |
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Kilburn
Hoodoo - Hayley Long
September 2006 |
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Luggage From
Elsewhere - Aneurin Gareth Thomas
September 2006 |
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A Man’s Estate
- Emyr Humphreys
November 2006 |
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Misappropriations
– Jasmine Donahaye
Sexually frank and politically charged, this debut collection
of poetry ranges from the Israel/Palestine conflict and the
experience of immigration, emigration and displacement, to
the dark aspects of childhood, motherhood and sexuality. |
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More lives than one - Marc Jenkins
A collection of Jenkin's plays including Birthmarks,
Downtown Paradise, Mr Owen's Millennium, Nora's
Bloke and Playing Burton, which took Edinburgh by storm in
2004 and is currently playing at the Wales Millenium Centre. |
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Mother Tongue
- Roger Williams |
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Outside Paradise - Siân James
The selected stories of one of Wales’s leading writers,
Outside Paradise is a testament to women of all ages. Sometimes
bright and uplifting, sometimes dark and moving, Siân
James’s work celebrates life. Her characters are not
impossibly virtuous or improbably depraved. They are real
women dealing with whatever life throws at them, whether stranded
on a mountaintop or caught shoplifting. Every story is intriguing,
intense and touching. |
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Playing Mercy - Matthew David Scott
It is Friday and Chris is trying to meet up with what might
be the girl of his dreams - Keeley, but on his way to meet
her he is beaten up in a revenge attack. Romance has to be
put on hold as his older brother David plots retribution as
a last ditch attempt to hold onto a hard-man reputation he
feels is slipping away. |
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Pterodactyl's
Wing
The Pterodactyl's Wing: Welsh World Poetry, edited by
Richard Gwyn, is an impressive anthology of thirty-six Welsh
poets writing in English. The underlying premise of the anthology
is that poetry reflects a state of astonishment before the
world as well as the means for that astonishment. Collecting
work from Welsh poets living in Wales and those who have travelled
further, the poetry constructs both an outward-looking Welshness
and poetry written from beyond our borders. This powerful
combination incites a deeper reflection on what our poetry
is and might be. |
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(Selected)
Work '95-'98 - Ed Thomas |
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Sideways Glances
Meandering, walking without necessarily a plan to arrive,
to take in the scene, to explore, to experience. This is what
this book is about. It's an attempt at a sideways glance
at the cultural activity bubbling under the surface, deliberately
choosing five very different artists, whose vital off-centre
work benefits from being produced away from the pressure of
the dominant metropolitan culture. |
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Still Life
- Charles Way |
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THE
LONG DRY -
Cynan Jones
An intense novel of startling imagery, told in an elegiac
tone. The narrative is based around a farmer's day-long hunt
for a missing cow. What follows however is a search through
memory, and anxiety about losing what he has. |
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The Origami Bird – Elizabeth
Ashworth
Fourteen stories about women’s relationship with art,
artists and their daughters. This collection explores the
triumphs and compromises of creative lives: how art can both
shore us up against chaos and unleash it on our lives. There
are daughters who condemn their mothers, mothers who grew
up longing for a stranger to take them away, and feisty individuals
who defy convention |
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Things
You Think I Don't Know-
Deborah Kay Davies
September 2006 |
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A Trilogy of Appropriation –
Ian Rowlands
Love in Plastic With the death of his parents Harold
coats the interior of his house in easily disinfected plastic
and regestates for nine months. As re-birth approaches he
becomes obsessed with an image of an actress who appears on
a TV commercial. To find her he journeys into the evils of
society protected only by a space suit. |
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Weak Eros - David Greenslade
Weak Eros is a brilliantly wry and invigorating journey
of love, lust, desire and other erotic possibilities. In this
far-ranging collection of entirely new poems, David Greenslade
asks whether the soul is ready to embark on that eternal journey
familiar to all who have ever been in love. |
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Welsh
Boys Too – John SamJones
Welsh Boys Too is a bold and adventurous collection of stories
inspired by the lives of Gay men in Wales. Funny, poignant
and ultimately revealing Welsh Boys Too introduces John Sam
Jones as a unique new voice in the world of Welsh fiction. |
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Where
The Flying Fishes Play -
George Brinley Evans
October 2006 |
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Whiteout
- Damian Walford Davies, Richard Marggraf Turley
November 2006 |
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White Star – Robin Llywelyn
White Star is the first translation into English of
Robin Llywelyn’s award-winning novel Seren Wen.
A hilarious romp through the fears and fortunes of three unlikely
heroes out to save the world... |
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Window Dressing For Hermes – Rhian
Saadat
The poetry of Rhian Saadat describes a world of bright shanty
towns, nationless water-carriers, migrating bees, the promise
of obscure pleasures and a confabulation of subtle dreams.
This, her first collection, tackles various themes, including
love, fashion, travel and culture, but always returns to an
ongoing concern with the subjective experience of reality. |
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Work,
Sex and Rugby – Lewis Davies
Lewis Davies's critically acclaimed and commercially
successful first novel has become one of the most popular
Welsh books of recent years. He ruthlessly dissects a passion
on an absorbing four-day odyssey through the pubs, bedrooms
and building sites of a smouldering town. |
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