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Stale Bread and Miracles By Jan Fortune-Wood £8.99
Pre order: published October 2008.
Jan Fortune-Wood’s novelised sequence of prose poems reveal the essence of an institutionalised world that is outwardly safe, yet constantly on the edge of danger. There is a dark, subtle wit at work in this finely written and highly innovative exposé of ecclesiastical power turned inwards against itself. The writing is a tour de force, combining the lyric, rhythmic pulse of poetry with the narrative power of prose.
In Stale Bread & Miracles the reader is engaged in a drama that is as tragi-comic as it is stark. Intelligent, crafted, darkly humorous and formerly inventive, Fortune-Wood places every word with precision, building up a poetic narrative that is both disconcerting and compelling.
Three-three, two-two, five-six - Ann Drysdale £9.99
A masterpiece, striking a perfect balance between the metaphysical, physical, emotional and institutional aspects of serious illness. What makes it extraordinary is not only the brilliance of the writing but also the profundity of Ann Drysdale's love for this man… the balance between love and fear, distance and closeness, observation and empathy, humour and despair …something very rare in literature: great art that is also persuasive advocacy on a matter of the most urgent practical concern.
Raymond Tallis
An extraordinary account of an all too ordinary experience: the treatment in hospital of an elderly man afflicted with cancer. At heart, this is a love story, told in lucid prose and poetry of often corrosive honesty …reading it is a unique experience.
Herbert Williams
An extraordinarily moving work. The humiliations and fears are confronted with both painful clear-sightedness and saving humour; the moods are sometimes angry, sometimes loving, sometimes forlorn. It is a powerful indictment of the dehumanising system that is the NHS and of its broken promises. But it is also a record of the conspiratorial generosity extended by individuals within the system. In Three-three, two-two, five-six the poetry is not in the pity, certainly not in any kind of self-pity; it is created rather in the felt tension between human vulnerability and human dignity. This powerful work, beautifully crafted and judged, adds a new range and depth to the already considerable accomplishment of Ann Drysdale’s earlier work.
Glyn Pursglove
published October 2008.
Colleen is fifteen, unpredictable, unreliable and violent. She’s also gifted. And now she’s on her way to Wales for a special residential course for talented youth. An American psychologist wants to unlock her potential, help her become the person that she she’s always dreamt of being. God help Wales. God help us all.
Jonathan Diamond is forty-one. Looks a bit like Tom Cruise and he’s going to Wales too. A failed musician and a recovering alcoholic he’s now an Advanced Skills Teacher and he’ll be in loco parentis for the week. Together the two of them develop an unlikely and dangerous alliance as they are forced to confront difficult truths about themselves.
Part bleakly comic confession, part twisted romance, at heart an elegy for dreams that refuse to die, TAG is the fast-moving, at times shocking, story of two lives turned upside down by reckless moments and impulses that won’t be denied. Full of wit, drama and an eye for the absurdities of the way we live now, TAG is a memorable debut novel.
Stephen May is a former barman, warehouseman and teacher. He is Director of the Ted Hughes Arvon Centre at Lumb Bank.
“Though TAG is not a teenage novel any more than Catcher In The Rye is, the vivacity and iconoclasm of Colleen will surely particularly appeal to young adult readers in the way that Holden Caulfield did, while Jonathan Diamond’s weary stoicism in the face of a world he is beginning not to understand should resonate with all ages. Both characters are the kind that get under your skin, and by the end of the book you find yourself rooting for them both.”
Ray French, author of Going Under.
Eagle in the Maze (Anthology) £9.99
Publication date: May 2008
The short story is a vital and vibrant form. To make more of it the Rhys Davies Trust, established to promote the name and works of the great Rhondda novelist and short story writer, funds a regular short story competition. Eagle in the Maze represents the best of those stories.
“You can put a whole world in a short story or next to nothing at all: anything’s permitted. In all eleven winning stories, what matters is that subject and form and language combine to make the sparks fly, to make something happen, something new.”
Meic Stephens & Tessa Hadley
The Fugitive Three Mike Jenkins £9.99
Publication date: May 2008
In the South Wales town of Cwmtaff Shelly Bush, a fiery, intelligent girl whose mother died of a drug overdose leaving her at the mercy of harsh ‘care’ system; Sam Taylor, who seems adept only at getting life wrong and Mary Croft, a gifted A level student who feels alienated from her father, after the death of her mother and betrayed by her boyfriend find their stories coming together as insists on hope and rebellion in the face of overwhelming odds. Sharp, funny, fast paced and precisely executed The Fugitive Three is a dazzling display of dialect, plot and characters who, despite their flaws, are completely believable and eminently likeable.
“….narrated in a clipped, cartoon-like manner, blunt and humorous… The Fugitive Three is about isolation and the loss of the mother. It concerns the indifference (and worse) of society and shows how youngsters may be scarred but still possess a razor-edge resilience that can help them survive their wasted lives.”
John Pikoulis
Yeah Dai Dando by Meic Stephens £9.99
Publication date: October 2008
Hiya, I’m Dai Dando. From up the Coeca estate in Ponty. Working down year in Cardiff at the Gwalia. We do sell mortgages, see. They do call me Dave in work. Clive Hourahane’s my best mate. Bit of a tosser but e’s ok. I got a poncy brother called Steve who’s a lecturer up England way. Mam and Nanna still live on the Coeca but I got this grotty flat in Landaff North. They do always call me David. I do go out most nights for a few bevvies with the lads, mostly to The Plough in Whitchurch. Then we go on the pull in the clubs. Nah, aven’t ad any since comin back from Lanzarotty. That Eleri Vaughan Jones was somethin else though. Ad an ead on er, she did. Called me Dafydd. Nearly ad it off with er up on the Garth. I dunno about er, mind. I carn make er out, see. Er mother’s nice enough, but a bit posh, like. Er usband was somethin igh-up in the Welsh Office. Speak Welsh they do, like that poxy Peredur, my line-manager, a North Walian git who carn pronounce the letter z. Nah, I don speak it, but I gorra O level in it. An I’m keen on local istory. Lot of Welsh in Cardiff these days, too royal there is. Anyway, this is all about me. It’s a kinda diary for twelve days late last summer. We do all tell stories, don we? Well, this is my story. It’s Dai Dando’s story. Yeah, Dai Dando.
Dinner Time by Holly Howitt £9.99
Publication Date: June 2008
“Holly Howitt’s microfictions confront the reader with an unsafe world on the edge of implosion or disintegration, a world where the contours are forever folding in upon themselves. The tour de force of the collection is undoubtedly ‘Dinner Time’, a sequence describing, in powerfully surreal imagery, the extremities of lust, longing and cruelty, between a man, a woman (and a dog), that is both awful and intoxicating in its attention to detail and its evocation of an obsessed state of mind.
Nothing is quite what it seems here; a quality which intrigues the reader, inciting one to turn the page and discover where we are going next. The tales are gripping, the writing is intelligent, measured, funny, frequently delicious and Ms Howitt knows how to apply a sharp twist of the knife, often in a way that is as poetic as it is unsettling.”
Richard Gwyn
The Marionettes - Herbert Williams £9.99
“The shitfaced baboon who is my husband went off a year and a half ago with you-know-who” – begins Moira, one of a group of voices that make up this fast-paced, witty prize-winning novella from one of Wales’ best loved authors.
The break-down of a marriage, the struggle to re-define identity, the effect on children… are well worn themes, but in Williams’ hands they become fresh, vivid and urgent.
‘…a good measure of sexual excitement, emotional damage, contempt, self-loathing and despair…It is contemporary, has psychological depth, is convincing, and entertaining’
Meic Stephens
In a future without freedom life is unravelling for Luke until he has a virtual encounter with a girl from beyond the all-controlling grip of E-government.
Is Alys real? What parts have the mythical characters of the past to play in saving the future and, most importantly, can Luke find the Standing Ground?
‘A wonderful novel… The tensions that emerge between… possible futures make this a gripping read’
Anna Kiernan
Eva Shell - Kate North £9.99
April 2008
Eva Shell is what you’d expect a modern novel to look like: like nothing you have ever seen before. It is an innovative mosaic, a multilayered visual feast constructed through a variety of typeface and media: Eva Shell is kaleidoscopic. It is a book that explores new narrative possibilities for the novel… keeping you eager to turn the page.
Eva Shell is a book that mirrors the life we lead today: fast, pacy, fractured, where technology has in many ways unplugged us from the world but also forged new and exciting ways of telling our stories… … set against the backdrop of Cardiff, a fresh and vivid portrait of this city in the 21st century... This is a world where past and present hold hands towards an uncertain future
Angela Morgan Cutler
Marilyn and Me - Shanta Everington £9.99
My name is Marilyn, like Marilyn Monroe. I was left for dead at a bus stop on Christmas Eve…’ So begins the story of Jane, a learning disabled young woman, who is also known as Marilyn, after her heroine Marilyn Monroe.
“It's beautifully written and very moving (I cried several times!). Marilyn herself is a wonderful character: vulnerable… but strong inside and with a gentle optimism and sense of humour. “
Sue Haasler
Shanta Everington trained as a teacher and worked in the voluntary sector for over ten years, with several years as a support worker with adults with learning disabilities living in the community. She lives in London with her husband and baby son.
Dear Ceridwen- Jan Fortune-Wood £9.99
In North Wales Bethan writes a letter to her missing daughter, Ceridwen. What is the truth about Stephen and the abuse that took place at the Soulful Living Community in Bristol? Most importantly, is Ceridwen alive and what has become of her?
As Bethan reconstructs the past, her voice competes with the voice of Stephen’s wife, Caro. Both women reveal more than they realise in this story of domestic lives posing universal questions.
Dear Ceridwen is about truth and lies, tricks of memory, betrayal, trust, and above all: hope.
How to Marry the Dead - Francesca McMahon £9.99
- Selected from our first novel writing award competition entrants, this will be a first novel by a new author to look out for. Francesca McMahon's poignant, darkly comic debut novel is the story of Sue, whose daughter dies for no real reason on an ordinary day in 1979. Witty and sharply observed insights into motherhood, the nature of family and fidelity and the enduring impact of bereavement combine with a humane story that never fails to deliver surprises.
