AUGUST 2008

BETWEEN TWO SEAS
R D Cook
(Seren)
£6.99
ISBN 9781854114730 (1854114735)
A poignant novella set in a tiny Cornish village. The story unfolds over three days and two nights and focuses almost exclusively on two characters: poet, Jenna Mundey, and 19-year-old college boy Tomas Lock, who comes to interview her for his college post.

JULY 2008

FIGHTING PRETTY
Louise Walsh
(Seren)
£7.99
ISBN 9781854114747 (1854114743)
In a clear an vivacious prose, Louise Walsh has created a tale of one woman's courage, struggle and triumph in a male-dominated sport and in her own life.

JUNE 2008

BARDSEY
Christine Evans, Wolf Marloh
(Gwasg Gomer)
£16.99
ISBN 9781843238195 (1843238195)
A beautifully produced gift book tracing the significance of Bardsey Island, off the coast of the Lleyn Peninsula, in north-west Wales.

MAY 2008

JUST ANOTHER MZUNGU PASSING THROUGH
Jim Bowen
(Parthian Books)
£9.99
ISBN 9781905762330 (190576233X)
A story set in Kenya in 1996, Griff takes a job teaching at a small, struggling school in Nairobi. El Nino floods, bulldozed slums, street justice and widespread corruption are all around him. A story that portrays an experience of modern Africa in all its contradictions - its beauty, squalor, joy and heartbreak.

APRIL 2008

RISK
Roger Granelli
(Accent Press)
£7.99
ISBN 9781906125103 (1906125104)
Set against the backdrop of life in the Welsh valleys, this is an edgy novel delving into addiction and the psychotic mind. James Read is a troubled man in his forties. A gambling addiction has destroyed his life, career and marriage. After a period living on the streets he ends up in a hostel, where he meets Colin, a Falklands war veteran with schizophrenia.

MARCH 2008

AT ARM'S LENGTH
Geraint Talfan Davies
(Seren)
£12.99
ISBN 9781854114365 (1854114360)
A book by a figure who has been at the centre of Welsh cultural life - in both languages - for over thirty years. In this volume he looks closely at the organisations with which he has been involved over the years. He also reflects on his family background and explores some of his professional passions such as Welsh civic society and devolution, broadcasting and the arts.

FEBRUARY 2008

COMING UP ROSES - STORIES OF GARDENS AND LIFE
Caroline Oakley
(Honno)
£7.99
ISBN 9781870206938 (1870206932)
A fiction anthology from Welsh women writing about gardens: what they mean to them, what happens in them and where they take them. There are sad stories and happy ones, tales from home and abroad - all of them share a love for plants and planting, flowers and seeds, a real sense of the power of growing things to change lives.

JANUARY 2008

LOVE AND OTHER POSSIBILITIES
Lewis Davies
(Parthian)
£6.99
ISBN 9781905762040 (1905762046)
A volume of short stories, offering a world of escape and adventure by award winning writer Lewis Davies.