A collection of new contemporary short stories by Welsh writers, comprising twelve diverse stories about relationships between people and places, representing the winners of the 2022 Rhys Davies Short Story Competition. Including short biographicalnotes on the authors.
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- 2022
- 2022
This book focuses on the stories of Syrians who have found refuge in Wales, based on their own oral testimonies. They were recorded as part of a research project undertaken by Cardiff University and Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales.
- 2022
Queer Square Mile
- 500 pages
- 18 hours of reading
This ground-breaking volume makes visible a long and diversetradition of queer writing from Wales. Spanning genres fromghost stories and science fiction to industrial literature andsurrealist modernism, these are stories of love, loss andtransformation.
- 2021
The Welsh Way
- 200 pages
- 7 hours of reading
This book argues for a new Welsh Way, one that is truly radicaland transformational. A call for a political engagement thatwill create real opportunity for change.
- 2021
Gorwelion
- 64 pages
- 3 hours of reading
Gorwelion: Shared Horizons is a climate change anthologyof poetry and prose edited by prize-winning writer andenvironmental activist Robert Minhinnick featuring Welsh,Scottish, Indian and English writers.
- 2020
Originally written in 1967 and not released in its uncensored form until 2003, Bels' infamous novel, Insomnia (translated from the Latvian, Bezmiegs) concerns the taboo subject of the Latvian Legion, and the atmosphere of inertia and paralysis in Soviet-era Latvia.
- 2020
The Crossing
- 305 pages
- 11 hours of reading
The Crossing bridges the past and the present andconnects Wales with America, as it tells of coal ownersand coal workers in the age of great transatlantic linersand fortunes to be made.
- 2017
Paris (2013) is William Roberts' most ambitious work to date and can best be described as a contemporary historical novel. It concerns an extended family of Russian emigres struggling to survive in Paris and Berlin during the inter- war years of the last century, and examines the difficulty of holding on to one's identity in exile.