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Parthian Books

    Gorwelion
    Paris
    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
    • 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.

      Paris