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Parthian Books

    The Poetry Bug
    Short Story Anthology
    The Welsh Way
    Insomnia
    The Crossing
    The Rhys Davies Short Story Anthology
    • 2022

      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.

      The Rhys Davies Short Story Anthology
    • 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.

      Refugee 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.

      Queer Square Mile
    • 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.

      The Welsh Way
    • 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.

      Gorwelion
    • 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.

      Insomnia
    • 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.

      The Crossing
    • 2019

      Multilingual anthology of poetry and translation produced for the touring project `Talking Transformations: Home on the Move'. This collection combines filmmakers, translators, artists and poets from Romania, Poland, France, Spain and the UK.

      Home on the Move
    • 2019

      The first full-length biography of Brenda Chamberlain chronicles the life of an artist and writer whose work was strongly affected by the places she lived, most famously Bardsey Island and the Greek island of Hydra.

      Brenda Chamberlain Artist and Writer
    • 2019

      Arrest Me, For I Have Run Away

      • 210 pages
      • 8 hours of reading

      Arrest Me, for I Have Run Away is a stunning short story collection on human nature and identity.

      Arrest Me, For I Have Run Away