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In 2006, Richard Gwyn was given a year to live without a liver transplant. A novelist and poet, he lost nine years of his life as a vagrant alcoholic roaming the Mediterranean. This memoir is an account of his "lost" years: of addiction and reckless travel, serial hospitalizations, living under sentence of death, the life-saving gift of a hepatic graft, recovery, and at last, redemption via friendship, imagination, intellect, love, and fatherh...

After the death of her architect husband, Charles, and the discovery of his affair with another woman, Gaia Ore is about to learn some harsh but rewarding lessons on the nature of erotic and artistic obsession. She joins a contest to design the perfect home with fierce competition coming from four world-class architects who were once her husband's rivals. But will they truly understand what is required of them? Accustomed as they are to large-...

A collection of three interweaving stories, each presenting a character whose obsessions and attachments become magnified through chance encounters, leading to unforeseen and ultimately catastrophic results. The bumping' of the title conveys something of these random processes. The themes include relationships with home and place, male preoccupation with mechanisms and systems, moral evasion, and the tyranny of random events.

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Tim is emasculated by a gang of bullies at the age of fifteen and devotes his life to revenge. He plans to build a machine that will kill each member of the gang one by one. Each death must be aesthetically beautiful, and so Tim apprentices himself to a brilliant craftsman to acquire the skills he needs. Then he begins to practice the perfect murder. A psychological thriller set in Spain and south east Wales, focused on obsession and the far-r...

In 1941, artist Antun Fiskovic experiences a change in his fortunes following the dramatic revelation of the identity of his parents, just as occupying forces take over the government of his country. Fifty years later, a young woman, Dagmar Petric, tries to solve the mystery surrounding her father's death. Antun and Dagmar's stories come together in 1998, three years after civil war has torn apart the former Yugoslavia. This novel weaves publi...

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Lee is a grown man with a sweet tooth and a mild case of uniform fetish. A phone call from a distant hospital summons him to the bedside of his father, Arthur, a man he barely knew. He seeks solace in his father's nurses, despite being told they have attended mandatory training on not dating the bereaved. When his eccentric mother Pet shows up, she starts to spill gin and family secrets. Do these explain why their only photo of Arthur is a sha...

Archaeologist Deian returns to the island of his childhood, where his mother disappeared without a trace. Sister Viv, closet heretic and host of the annual conference of hermits, has erected a gold plaque in her memory, declaring her official sainthood. Meanwhile, documentary-maker Leri is keen to portray the island's inhabitants as anything but saintly, pursuing a story that has less to do with birds and saints' bones than with real bloodshed...

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Aled is accustomed to his dad Geraint waxing lyrical about some saint's cliff top lookout, some Greek temple or another hosting a thousand sacred prostitutes, some village near Corinth. Geraint is the county archaeologist, after all. So when travel agent Aled takes a trip to that same Peloponnesian village, his father is surprised. When Aled fails to return on the eve of his marriage, Geraint becomes alarmed and sets out on his trail. This que...

A short break in a shoreline cottage is an ideal place to struggle with your demons and for Elly and Martin it offers a place to recuperate after a scandal. But Elly makes a life-changing find on the tideline in the form of a finger wearing a huge pink diamond ring. Scroll back a few months to the hospital where Martin works, we meet nurse Hayley, twenty-five, gorgeous, a player, and totally turned off by the ward surgeon. Richard Congreve. Un...

A collection of fifteen stories on relationships: the nuances of class, exile, sexual exploitation, the civilizing influence of women, and the accommodations made necessary by old age. Sinister impulses lurk behind Greg's acclaimed portraits of his wife. Mair loves her husband but sleeps with a television producer. A divorced couple find themselves staring at reunion. A talented tramp in a dirty pajama jacket shares lentil soup with an archite...

Alun Brady is a 30-year-old man, still living with his parents in Cardiff, Wales when his grandfather moves home to die. He brings fresh air into Al's cushy life and makes Al face a difficult decision. But after his death Al's world seems almost empty. Haunted by his brother's perfect new family, Al seeks in dangerous new friends what he needs from his lost kin. Drawn into Cardiff's underbelly, events take a turn towards the tragic as he disco...

It is Berlin, 1929. The inflation-hungry city is edging towards disaster, but seven-foot, Jewish orphan Esther Rosenbaum is serving up chocolate hearts stuffed with saffron pen nibs. The bohemians, artists and cabaret composers who sample her finest recipes in the legendary Schorns restaurant, have declared her Germany's most celebrated chef. Yet it is a life built on quicksand: Schorns is owned by a gay black marketeer Leon Wolf - but patroni...

A debut novel about sex, financial boom and bust, corruption, cultural collision, fertility, and altruism. A pseudo-Buddhist monk, an illegal immigrant, a teenager with precarious mental health, and a quixotic pair of young businessmen chancing their luck. From faux-Eastern objects to real estate, client-centered sperm-donation to gypsy magic, Bamboo Grove is a black comedy exploring themes surrounding mental illness and the nature of mother-d...