<p>Exploring the fantasies, aspirations and self-deceptions that color everyday lives, these stories home in with wit and understanding on ordinary lives that are extraordinarily well told.</p>

Silly Mothers (Honno Modern Fiction)

Literature & Fiction

Merriman, Catherine

Short Stories & Anthologies

Honno Press

Twisting the everyday in clever and unexpected ways, these short stories transform the mundane into something bright, with a distinct edge. A woman realizes suddenly that she has become invisible; bikers party in a remote mountain pub; an Englishman searches for mustard in a quiet Welsh village; and a housewife’s ordinary life suddenly turns very strange indeed. The collection emphasizes the potential for the extraordinary—even when that may mean a turn to something darker, more tragic, or sordid—and meets these twists with sharp humor and optimism.

Of Sons and Stars (Honno Modern Fiction)

The early childhood days of award-winning author Siân Jamesin are beautifully illustrated in this touching account that tells of the night she first sees the Milky Way; the day electricity comes to the Waun; the afternoon Dan and Raymond play Wolves and Travellers; the evening the first bombers drone overhead, and the day she witnesses an event which will change her world forever. Through her charming vignettes of childhood in the 1930s, she speaks on her individualistic and affectionate family, and of familiar scenes and of unexpected pleasures in the countryside around her home, with both the freshness of a child's vision and the wry and knowing smile of hindsight.

The Sky Over Wales (Honno Autobiography)

Biographies & Memoirs

James, Siân

Arts & Literature

Set in a picturesque seaside village in West Wales at the time of the 1904 Revival, this novel is one of the first books in English to set out a distinctively Welsh literary landscape. An enthralling tale of the complex lives and loves of Gildas, Nancy, Gwenifer and Captain Jack, it will capture the romantic heart of any modern reader.

Queen of the Rushes: A Tale of the Welsh Revival (Honno's Welsh Women's Classics)

Raine, Allen

Contemporary

Country men disguised as women, the Rebecca Rioters rose up against the oppressive imposition of steep taxes at the toll gates of rural Wales in the late 1830s. This story, first published in 1880, tells the tale of Evan Williams, a young working class man struggling to come to terms with the injustice and social inequalities of the world he lives in. His rebellious actions have dramatic consequences not only for himself, but inadvertently, for the woman he loves.

The Rebecca Rioter (Honno's Welsh Women's Classics)

Dillwyn, Amy

Genre Fiction

<p>Introduction by Jane Aaron A masterful reworking of a popular Fairy Bride legend examining the institution of marriage, motherhood and the breadth of the female experience. First published in 1948, Hilda Vaughan's classic work is considered indispensable in any consideration of Welsh feminism in the 20th century. Playing with the fairy tale theme of true love as a source of imaginative and material fertility, 'Iron and Gold' raises serious questions about conforming to social conventions versus remaining loyal to one's individuality.</p>

Iron and Gold (Honno's Welsh Women's Classics)

Vaughan, Hilda

Welsh Women's Poetry 1460-2001: An Anthology (Honno's Welsh Women's Classics)

Literary

Spanning 150 years of Welsh women’s experiences living abroad, this compelling collection ventures from southern Europe to South America, Russia to Australia, and east Africa to China. Welsh women sleep in trees in Corsica, escape Stalinist purges in Moscow, and curse head-leaping queue jumpers in China. In Eritrea they concoct a cactus fruit cure for travel sickness and in Serbia they learn how to make a traffic policeman very happy. Through their various experiences the writers ask themselves Who is a Welsh woman, what is she? What is “abroad” and how do you know you’re there? and What is home? A rich celebration of different cultural experiences, this is a highly readable and entertaining anthology.

Even the Rain Is Different: Women Writing on the Highs and Lows of Living Abroad

Drawing deeply from Lily Tobias’ own experience, this is the moving story about the treatment of conscientious objectors during the World War I. The spoiled daughter of a Cardiff industrialist, Eunice is outraged when her teacher husband refuses to fight. Her refusal to visit him in jail has disastrous consequences and repercussions which still affect her as another war threatens. First published in 1933, this novel was radical political writing for its time, making the suffering of pacifists, rather than the suffering of soldiers, its central concern.

Eunice Fleet (Honno's Welsh Women's Classics)

Tobias, Lily

The Wooden Doctor (Honno's Welsh Women's Classics)

Evans, Margiad

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