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A Hardy Breed is a collection of 120 black and white photographs celebrating shepherding and sheep farming in mid and north Wales. An important social document, of reportage, portraiture and documentary photography, it records a way of life under pressure for the past couple of centuries, and more than ever today.

Grief's Alphabet by Carrie Etter is a shattering elegy for the poet's mother, opening a pathway through grief in spite of the impossible task of expressing such a loss. Beginning both chronologically and alphabetically, the collection moves from early life with the narrator's adoption, through to the mother's unexpected death and the banal yet painful tasks which follow, such as sorting clothes and arranging the funeral. The final section deal...

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Grahame Davies's A Darker Way ?is a collection of poems and songs which traces a hard-won but redemptive path between idealism and irony, failure and faith. Including ' Sacred Fire', set to music for King Charles' coronation, these poems are steeped in curiosity, self-questioning and compassion.

Leaving the Hills by Tony Curtis is a collection full of stories from everywhere by a great Welsh poet at his best. From the Welsh mountains to the Hollywood Hills, these lyrical poems explore events from both history and modern life, questioning how far we've really progressed. Filled with dramatic monologues and personalities as various as Roger Bannister, Muhammed Ali, Billie Holiday and Claude Debussy, Leaving the Hills is a collection whi...

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After a plot to assassinate the Czar of Russia is foiled by government agents, Inspector Thomas Chard must find a lone assassin being protected by a group of anarchists in Glamorganshire. Chard‿s efforts to find his man are frustrated by several apparently random murders. Can he figure out the killer‿s true objective before it‿s too late?

Magnum photographer David Hurn is one of the world‿s most influential photographers. He covered the Hungarian Revolution in 1956, and was at Aberfan in 1966. He has shot iconic portraits of The Beatles, Hollywood stars such as Sean Connery and Jane Fonda, and leading figures across the arts, politics, science, and sport. During the seventies he established the acclaimed School of Documentary Photography at Newport. Throughout his life, he has ...

Born into a world of pickets and poverty, Girlo Wolf dreams of being a poet. But mental health challenges and an underworld of sex, drugs and alcohol threaten to stand in her way ‿ until she discovers that words are exactly what she needs. Set in post-industrial Wales, The Crazy Truth is an authentic story of one woman‿s journey to empowerment.

Elizabeth Parker's second collection, Cormorant, explores the bird of the title from all angles: from diving cormorants to cormorants in flight, cormorants in motion and also in stillness. The bird itself however is always untameable and irreducible to human impressions, but it becomes bound up with a family history, legacy, and losses. Human relationships, seen through the varying lenses of family, are a key focus of this collection. In 'You ...

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Elizabeth Parker's second collection, Cormorant, explores the bird to tell stories about human and natural worlds, their losses and felicities. As Parker regards the miracle of the cormorant, she reminds us of the importance of wonder, offering an uplifting antidote to difficult times.

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In Last Poem for Sarah & Other Poems, John Powell Ward, now at the age of eighty-five and in the seventh decade of his career, offers memorable work on a twentieth century life and recollections of Wales. Most poignant is his commentary on grief in the titular elegy for his late wife, Sarah.

1967, the war still casts a shadow. Ruth was a child resistance fighter, her secret past sends daughter Katya on a dangerous chase across Germany in search of Nazi diamonds.

Ten new writers explore what Wales and Welshness mean to them as people from backgrounds largely 'under-represented' in an inspiring new look at Wales, previously unwritten. Identity, integration, language, aspiration, civic decline are the subjects of those who have sought sanctuary.

God's Little Artist is a biography in verse of Welsh painter Gwen John (1876 - 1939). Illustrated with precision, authenticity and a keen painterly eye, God's Little Artist is a celebration of John's life and work, by poet, novelist and art critic Sue Hubbard.

Pontypridd receives the Real treatment. The unofficial capital of the South Wales Valleys, Pontypridd is a place of sometimes surprising contrasts. It boomed from an earthern house at the confluence of the Taff and Rhondda rivers into a pulsating urban and industrial centre. Its early wildness attracted Turner, its industry produced thinkers like William Price and developed trade unions, its proud Victorian society gave us the Welsh national a...

Welcome to Kathryn Gray's Hollywood or Home, a poetry collection with as much ruthless glamour as any Old Hollywood movie. These worldly-wise poems explore celebrity culture in a mode that is both seriously playful and playfully serious. Here, melancholy and humour, irony and sincerity can be often found in the same poem, creating a rich experience for the film buff or fan of celebrity culture, as the book is full of easter eggs and movie refe...