Room / Ystafell / Phòng – Various (Parthian)
Six writers, three from Việt Nam and three from Wales come together in the Room/Ystafell/Phòng to
discuss their queer identities and how it has been shaped by world around them. Featuring work by
Xuân Tùng, Joshua Jones, Kai Nguyen, Leo Drayton, Maik Cây and Lauren Morais.
The Hindu Bard – The Poetry of Dorothy Bonarjee, edited by Mohini Gupta & Andrew Whitehead
(Honno)
The first ever collection of Dorothy Bonarjee’s verse, offering an expert assessment of Bonarjee’s
writing and a vivid account of her remarkable life. Includes a detailed narration of the poet’s
extraordinary life in India, London, Wales, and France.
Hymnal – Julia Bell (Parthian)
This unique memoir in verse offers a series of snapshots about religion and sexuality. In verse
because it’s how Bell remembers: snapshots in words strung along a line, which somehow constitute
a life.
Republic – Nerys Williams (Seren)
Republic offers stories that are overheard, handed down, magnified, often translated from Welsh. Its
sequence of 80 prose poems is about class, culture, and community in west Wales.
Dominoes – Connor Allen (Lucent Dreaming)
Delving into his life and experiences of love, loss, growing up mixed-race in Newport, and more, this
is the debut poetry collection from award-winning multidisciplinary artist and former Children’s
Laureate Wales, Connor Allen.
Lipstick Eyebrows – edited by Rebecca Parfitt and Mari Ellis Dunning (Honno)
Bold and brilliant contemporary short stories from new and rising women authors from Wales.
Chosen for their contemporary edge in both setting and story, this collection reflects the lives of
contemporary women of mixed age and background.
Local Fires – Joshua Jones (Parthian)
Local Fires sees debut writer Joshua Jones turn his acute focus to his birthplace of Llanelli. Sardonic
and melancholic, joyful, and grieving, these multifaceted stories may be set in a small town, but they
have reach far beyond their locality.
Crow Face, Doll Face – Carly Holmes (Honno)
A story full of strangeness and extraordinary twists, games and trickery, Crow Face, Doll Face is
about being forced to live with the consequences of the decisions we make and the fantasies we
construct to soothe ourselves when the life we live falls far short of the life we planned.
This Thing of Darkness – Nicola Edwards (Aderyn Press)
1780. Windswept Yorkshire. Sixteen-year-old Heathcliff runs from the only home he has ever known
in a squall of fury. Hankering for revenge, he sets out for Liverpool in search of answers. The town he
arrives in is a brutal new world. Here, Heathcliff might make his fortune. But at what cost…
Cymru & I – Various (Seren Books)
In Cymru & I nine new writers look at what Wales means to them as people from backgrounds
previously largely underrepresented. Their various viewpoints make this book a new look at Wales
or show a Wales for the most part hidden: a Wales unwritten.
Available now from your local bookshop.