DECEMBER 2006
MORE WELSH JOURNEYS
Jamie Owen
(Gomer)
£19.99
ISBN 9781843237389 (1843237385)
Accompanying the new BBC Wales TV series, Jamie Owen returns to uncover further hidden treasures in Wales, including the Preseli Mountains, Talyllyn Railway, Flat Holm Island and the beautiful Gower Peninsula.
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NOVEMBER 2006
WHERE THE FLYING FISHES PLAY
George Brinley Evans
(Parthian)
£7.99
ISBN 9781902638591 (190263859X)
Where The Flying Fishes Play is the moving story of a miner from Banwen who joined the army in 1944. It tells how his horizons were widened through travel across oceans and continents filled with the danger, and the romance of a war that would change his life. |
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OCTOBER 2006
WALKING TO GREENHAM
Ann Pettitt
£8.99 (Honno)
ISBN 9781870206761 (1870206762)
Ann Pettitt's autobiography, telling the remarkable story of her involvement with the Greenham Peace Camp. This book is published in time for the 25th anniversary of the arrival of the first marchers at Greenham Common. Ann Pettitt, and her book, have received substantial coverage in the press and media.
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SEPTEMBER 2006
MIDNIGHT MURDERS
Katherine John
(Accent Press)
£6.99
ISBN 9781905170272
A novel full of suspense and lingering menace in which a police officer who is temporarily admitted to a Victorian psychiatric hospital finds himself under threat when a murder campaign is started by a dangerous motiveless killer.
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AUGUST 2006
WELSH WIT AND WISDOM
Aubrey Malone
(Y Lolfa)
£5.95
ISBN 0862438632
An anthology of hilarious quotations relating to Wales from various Welsh legends including Aneurin Bevan and Ryan Giggs. |
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JULY 2006
DEATH STUDIES
Lindsay Ashford
(Honno)
£6.99
ISBN 187020686X
A novel about a police pathologist whose skills are put to the test when a miraculously preserved corpse is discovered in the bog near her holiday cottage. Her knowledge of forensic psychology and unerring gut instinct for trouble are stretched to the limits by a ruthless killer determined on revenge for past misdeeds . . .
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JUNE 2006
WELSH NATIONAL OPERA: CELEBRATING THE FIRST 60 YEARS
(Graffeg)
£19.99
ISBN 1905582005
A book celebrating sixty years of Welsh National Opera from its post-war infancy to its current international status. Includes two photographic essays, one describing the WNO on the road and the other commenting on its new home at the Wales Millennium Centre. Illustrated throughout with over 100 sumptuous colour photographs.
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MAY 2006
OVERLAND
Richard Collins
(Seren)
£7.99
ISBN 1854114204
Richard Collins’s first novel, The Land as Viewed from the Sea, was shortlisted for the Wales Book of the Year Award, 2005 and the Whitbread First Novel Award and has sold extremely well. This new novel promises to be as vivid and atmospheric as his first, his prose being both lucid and evocative. Overland is an exhilarating, comic, tender, crazy and ultimately moving account of two journeys towards love. ‘Home isn’t a place on a map, it’s a state of mind.’
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APRIL 2006
HOTEL GWALES
Nigel Jenkins
(Gomer Press)
£8.99
ISBN 184323663X
A diverse and rousing collection of some eighty poems by award-winning poet Nigel Jenkins. They include three-line Haiku and extended meditations, and themes as variable as a commemoration of the Welsh 'Braveheart' to an elegy to a Welsh bus-driver, together with works of an undeniably international flavour.
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MARCH 2006
RUGBY TRIP STORIES
David Jandrell & Matthew Tucker
(Y Lolfa)
£3.95
ISBN 0862438713
The unsavoury exploits, jokes and drinking stories from rugby trips to the best tournament in the world with stories of the heroics and misdemeanours of the fans on the gruelling tours to Edinburgh, Rome, London, Paris and Dublin.
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FEBRUARY 2006
BY ANY NAME
Katherine John
(Accent Press)
£6.99
ISBN 19051702548
A story in which an amnesiac suspect of terrorism kidnaps his psychiatrist Elizabeth Santer, and drags her to a town he remembers in Wales. There, a violent and bloody confrontation exposes a horrifying story of treachery and political cover-up. Is Elizabeth in the hands of a homicidal terrorist, or an innocent pawn? Her life depends on the right answer.
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JANUARY 2006
WALES OF THE UNEXPECTED
Richard Holland
(Gwasg Carreg Gwalch)
£7.50
ISBN 1845270088
A collection of fascinating stories from the breadth of Wales’s rich folklore, from the shadowy figures which inhabit legends, to the tales of fairies and goblins, together with modern-day accounts of apparitions and other weird phenomena. The collection is drawn from Richard Holland’s weekly column of the same name in the North Wales Daily Post.
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