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Loudness
'Loudness' is the debut collection from Judy Brown. Her poetry combines a straightforward manner with artful complexity, a gift for ironic humour with exacting observations of the everyday.
Seren's Seasons
Seren can’t wait to put on her snow boots and build a snowgirl. She just needs to wait for the right season. Spring, summer, autumn and winter bring lots of different types of weather. What is your favourite type of weather? Download the full eBook and explore supporting teaching materials at www.twinkl.com/originals Join Twinkl Book Club to receive printed story books every half-term at www.twinkl.co.uk/book-club (UK only).
The Prince's Pen
A contemporary retelling of the bizarre Mabinogion myth of Lludd and Llevelys, which reveales the origins of London. In this story by Horatio Clare, the Invaders' drones hear all and see all, and England is now a defeated archipelago, but somewhere in the high ground of the far west, insurrection is brewing. Ludo and Levello, the bandit kings of Wales, call themselves freedom fighters. Levello has the heart and help of Uzma, from Pakistan, the only other country in the free world. Ludon has a secret, lethal if revealed. A penetrating and daring raid on the past, present and future of the British Isles and their place in the modern world.
A City Burning
Set in Ulster, south Wales and Italy, many of the stories in A City Burning concern a point of choice and decision. Characters reach a turning point at which their lives can become fuller and more meaningful, but at a cost to themselves. In others they bear witness to an event must decide whether to become involved or pass by. They could be ordinary people in Belfast during the Troubles or their aftermath, or during the Covid-19 pandemic, or priests facing a new religious reality in their ministries, or family members in a domestic situation in south Wales. Characters are forced to look into themselves; each must make a choice of how to live their future lives.These stories are vividly writt...
Edging the Estuary
The Severn Estuary: border, trade route, home of industry and leisure. Peter Finch walks the Welsh and English sides and explores its significance past and present, to him and the people who live by it, from tidal Maismore to Worm's Head and Lynmouth.
Restorations
"No poet I know writes about art with such an intense feeling for its materiality, for smells and texture as well as nuances of colour. If a poem is like a picture, these are history paintings, rich in human detail and many-layered in their brushwork." – Matthew Francis"Hudis honours painters, plant collectors and patients who hear 'morse in the water pipes' by lovingly restoring stories from remembered fragmants. These poems are a masterclass in how to allow the energy at the centre of each poem to open like a concertina until we are engulfed by 'a whitewash of song'." – Samantha Wynne-RhydderchRestorations is the vibrant new collection by Rosalind Hudis. The book is a journey into what...
Bragr
In this rich, three-part collection of poems, Bragr ('poetry' in Old Norse), Ross Cogan re-imagines tales from Norse Mythology for our times. Part one evokes Norse creation myths. Part two, 'Bestiary', contains eulogies for vanishing wildlife. Part three, 'Ragnarök', reinterprets the apocalypse myth of the 'Twilight of the Gods'.
Real Powys
Observant, passionate, witty, offbeat, Mike Parker tours Powys from the border towns of Hay on Wye, Presteigne and Knighton, through the interior and on to the furthest points of Newtown, Penybont, Ystradgynlais and Brecon. What surprises does he stumble upon among the mountains, forests, streams and farms of this mysterious countryside?
Boy Running
An artful collection of poems by noted Welsh poet Paul Henry, Boy Running is the first to follow his widely praised The Brittle Sea. A singer-songwriter, Henry is known for his precise lyricism, intimate tone, and a cast of characters inspired by his childhood by the sea in Aberystwyth, West Wales. The lyrical beauty of the poems will appeal to those who enjoy folk music, and anyone going through divorce will empathize with the poet/protagonist of the poems.
Limestone Man
Richard Parry is a painter who cannot paint, a writer who doesn't write. His obession is Lulu, an aboriginal child. Returning from Australia to his south Wales hometomw, Parry finds it has become notorious for suicides of young people. As he tries to connect past and present he is haunted by dreams of Australia and of his youth. But is Parry all he seems?
