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Life is tough for Cilydd, after his wife Goleuddydd, who is nine months pregnant, seems to vanish into thin air at a supermarket one wintry afternoon. Cilydd gets his cousin, Arthur - a private eye who has never solved a single case - to help him with the investigation. So begins a tale of intrigue and confusion that ends with a wild boar chase and a dangerous journey to the House of the Missing. In this contemporary retelling from Seren's New stories from the Mabinogion series, award winning Fflur Dafydd transforms the medieval Welsh Arthurian myth of the Mabinogion's 'Culhwch and Olwen' into a 21st century quest for love and revenge.
'A testament to the power of the written word' THE TIMES 'Unsettling and thought-provoking' CLARE MACKINTOSH, SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE LAST PARTY THIS ISN'T THE WORLD YOU KNOW. THIS ISN'T THE STORY THEY EXPECT. Twins Ana and Nan believe they keep no secrets from one another. They both think they know what pushed their mother to suicide. Only one of them does. They both think they know how their revenge plot will play out. Only one of them does. They both think they know what's really happening at the library. Only one of them does. But neither of them know what will unfold once the library doors close and the chaos begins. No one's getting out, but the truth finally might. A thrilling and unexpected dystopian book club novel, for fans of Emily St. John Mandel and Andrew Hunter Murray.
Cyfrol o ugain stori fer gan awduron o Gymru a thu hwnt, gan gynnwys awduron profiadol a phoblogaidd megis Mihangel Morgan, Eigra Lewis Roberts, Kate Roberts, Manon Rhys, Sonia Edwards a Fflur Dafydd; cyfieithiadau o straeon gan Maupassant a Chekhov a stori newydd sbon gan Caryl Lewis. Cyfrol 2 ar gael hefyd.
For readers of H Is for Hawk, an intimate memoir of belonging and loss and a mesmerizing travelogue through the landscapes and language of Wales Hiraeth is a Welsh word that's famously hard to translate. Literally, it can mean "long field" but generally translates into English, inadequately, as "homesickness." At heart, hiraeth suggests something like a bone-deep longing for an irretrievable place, person, or time—an acute awareness of the presence of absence. In The Long Field, Pamela Petro braids essential hiraeth stories of Wales with tales from her own life—as an American who found an ancient home in Wales, as a gay woman, as the survivor of a terrible AMTRAK train crash, and as the ...
Gang wars, opium dreams and a mysterious clinic are all part of the landscape in the remote borderland town of Fountainville. But when Owain Knight arrives, his entanglement with the owner of the town's magical fountain, her mobster husband and her assistant, Luna, spells a terrible change for them all. Fountainville is the tenth and final tale in Seren's New Stories from the Mabinogion series and weaves together Celtic and Indian cultures.
‘The Circle meets Black Mirror in a thrilling, plausible and gripping debut. Frighteningly inventive.’ John Marrs, bestselling author of The One ‘Wow wow wow! What a story that was!... An unputdownable thriller... Absolutely brilliant read that had me on the edge of my seat!’ NetGalley reviewer, 5 stars
This book is a comprehensive single-volume history of literature in the two major languages of Wales from post-Roman to post-devolution Britain.
This volume provides accounts of well-established themes of general Celtic inquiry from new theoretical perspectives, in addition to addressing new areas of research that have remained largely unexplored. The collection includes contributions by both established and young scholars on diverse aspects of culture, literature and linguistics, reflecting the multidisciplinary character of current trends in Celtology. The linguistic section of the book includes chapters dealing with Welsh phonology and possible areas of influence of the Brittonic language on English, as well as with the issues of translating culture-specific aspects of medieval Welsh texts and the problems of standardising Irish o...
Chameleon Poet book goes against the grain of previous readings of the Welsh poet and nationalist R.S. Thomas by revealing him as profoundly indebted to the modes, traditions, and personae of the English literary canon.
This collection of essays rediscovers and reassesses the extraordinary literary legacy of the border writer, Margiad Evans (1909-48) - novelist, poet, short story writer and autobiographer.