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The Starry Wisdom
This collection features contemporary visions of cosmic transformation, mutation, and madness. Here the primal beings of Lovecraft's "Cthulhu Mythos" stalk a postmodern landscape of social collapse, ethnic cleansing, genetic engineering, and nuclear devastation.
Painting The Beauty Queens Orange
In Painting the Beauty Queens Orange, the women who livedthe decade reveal what it meant to push boundaries, claimyour identity, and carve out your place amidst the winter ofdiscontent, the scorching summer of '76 and the rise ofThatcherism.
The Small Mine
One of the few novels to merge from, and concern itself with, the industrial communities of the South Wales valleys. Here the lives of the mining community and its women are vividly portrayed as they struggle to come to terms with the death of a young miner, a loss which is unhappily a common occurence. Yet for all its tragic subject matter, Gallie's tale also conveys the warmth and gusto of the community's life by means of a witty use of language in a style that has often been favourably compared to that of Gwyn Thomas.
Strike for a Kingdom
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The Ghastling
A collection of short literary horror stories based on the tradition of the Victorian 'Penny Dreadful' alongside high quality illustration and design. A very collectable magazine gaining cult status around the globe.
Absolute Optimist
An affectionate yet critical biography of Eluned Phillips, an unsung heroine of Welsh literature. A controversial figure: a passionate woman who ignited passionate responses in others. She was only the second women to have won the National Eisteddfod crown and the only woman ever to have won it twice (1967 and 1983). Phillips was unusual among Welsh writers of her generation in that she embraced a bohemian lifestyle - taking her to prewar London and Paris, where she made the acquaintance of major artists Augustus John, Dylan Thomas, Edith Piaf, Jean Cocteau, Maurice Chevalier and Pablo Picasso.
One Woman Walks Wales
A routine trip to the doctor left seasoned traveller Ursula with a diagnosis of Stage 1A Ovarian Cancer. Determined not to sink into self-pity, she continued her travels by walking between her Welsh home and hospital appointments in Bristol, leading to her decision to walk across Wales to publicise the need for early detection of the disease, which kills many patients due to ignorance of symptoms. Taking 17 months Ursula's story is one of determination, tears and laughter, joy and pain; a fascinating insight into one woman's journey and also a country, its landscape and its people.
Not Thomas
Tomos lives with his mother, and sometimes her boyfriend. He longs to return to another place, a place he thinks of as home, and the people who lived with him there. And for Cwtch, who he had to leave behind, too. He knows that there are some things he cannot talk about - except to Cwtch - and then, just before Christmas, the difficult things come to a head. There are men outside who want to come in, and his mum has said not to answer the door. From behind his chair, Tomos waits, trying to make himself small and quiet. He doesn't think it's Santa Claus this time. When the men break in, Tomos's world is turned on its head and the adults around him must fight to make it right again.
Cold Enough to Freeze Cows
Iestyn and Menna have known each other since school, but the path of true love is rarely a smooth one; particularly when it's a rough farm track in the small mid-Wales town of Dros-y-Bryn! Johnny 'Sandwich' Brechan is a ladies' man par excellence; until a lonely call from the distance turns him from flirt to family man in a matter of hours. And Esther, struggling with a difficult family, has found a way to vent her spleen over the internet. A great romantic comedy and a wickedly humorous look at the frailties of man...and woman!
Little Brown Dog
When friends Lena and Eliza hear rumours of barbaric experiments being conducted under the guise of scientific progress, they infiltrate the closed ranks of elitist, male-dominated academia to help expose the callous truth. How much will Lena and Eliza risk in their fight against intolerable cruelty? What are they prepared to lose? Based on events that shook Edwardian London society and sent shock waves across Britain, Little Brown Dog is a deeply emotive, at times humorous, and agelessly important story that resonates with modern dilemmas regarding our careless treatment of nature.
