Young and strong, this novel's protagonist, Lewis, is equally keen on beer and girls and bored in equal measures by his job and by club rugby. He only has one problem: he's a closet romantic, and life isn't matching up to all he thinks it should be.

Work, Sex and Rugby

Literature & Fiction

Davies, Lewis

Literary

Parthian Books

This sharp slice of the best short stories recently published in New Welsh Fiction are all past winners of the Rhys Davies Contemporary Short Story Competition.

Tilting at Windmills (New Welsh Short Fiction)

Contemporary

A modern romance, this story follows bewildered refugee Gregor Marini as he attempts to find his way through a world of half-real, half-fantastic territories in a quest for his past and future.

From Empty Harbour to White Ocean

Romance

Llywelyn, Robin

<p>A brooding murder mystery that hinges on the dark edges of imagination, this novel centers on a death on a mountain that produced no body—only rumors. Elan has been missing for two years. Her people presume she has abandoned the mountain to live with the travelers who collect crystals from the quarries every summer. Nye John, a friend of Elan, lives alone in a remote cottage on the far side of the Brechfa. He has lost valuable stock to unaccountable kills over the winter. He forms a theory that wolves from the North are running on the High Vans again. Not many people believe him, but it is enough to start a rumor of something unaccounted for on the mountain. Elan's brother Cain still farms his land to the rim of the Vans. He has also lost stock to unaccountable kills. He needs to believe there are only rumors hiding on the open mountain. The rumors grow as the winter begins to grip the mountain and the truth decides to come down from the High Vans.</p>

Tree of Crows

Genre Fiction

The single mother of a little girl, Jo is a young woman whose life consists of a council estate and a married man who loves her. She begins as an intelligent woman determined to get out of the poverty trap; when she becomes pregnant by her lover who soon leaves her, however, she experiences a descent through love into hell.

Streetlife

Francis, Karl

Dramas & Plays

<p>A young Welsh writer's personal odyssey on Steinbeck's celebrated dust bowl route and winner of the John Morgan Award. It's like a set from a bad movie. The sheets are strewn across the floor, the television is playing to an empty theatre, and there is a hanging smell of cheap cigarettes. I look for blood stains and a body."" And so begins Lewis Davies's trek across America from his David Lynch-like room in a small motel in Tulsa. One summer, using Rt. 66 and the trail taken by the Okies during the 1930s as his map, he makes his way west. His winding road narrative captures the faces, voices, and lives of people who live and work in the restaurants, gas stations, stores, and theme parks along this once-vibrant, now tired, almost desolate route.</p>

Freeways

Travel

Travel Writing

This trilogy brings together three important works of distinctive drama from one of Wales' leading contemporary writers. "Bull, Rock and Nut" tells the tale of two ex-fighters, waiting for an opportunity that hasn't arrived. "In Sunshine and in Shadow" centers on Vee, who lives in a home that is both a work of art and the ugliest Council Estate in Europe; while "The Redemption Song" follows Mick—toy designer, dreamer, and dope-smoker.

The Merthyr Trilogy: 3 Plays

Osborne, Alan

<p>This work features three new plays in contemporary Welsh drama: "Safar," which depicts the erosion of Urdu/Muslim tradition; "Gulp," which looks at the youth culture of the 1990s and the desires of a young, gay city; and "My Piece of Happiness," a play of love, friendship, and delivering papers.</p>

New Welsh Drama: Safar, Gulp & My Piece of Happiness

Afshan Malik

Lewis Davies

Roger, Williams

In this compelling novel, Claire is a young geologist working in Tunisia, while her partner sends her postcards from a damp, cold flat in London. John is Irish and the wrong religion; he is missing the way she messed up his life. She writes back, "Tunisia is warm, full of the bright colors of the desert. The smell of rain on the dry earth." But she doesn't mention Ali—she doesn't think John would understand.

Exiles

Bell, Jacinta

<p><div>In a strange medieval-like world, this inquiry into false Messiahs and failed utopias centers on Konrad, an enigmatic visionary. He arrives a stranger in Aln as a stranger but soon secures the position of schoolmaster, beginning to enmesh the townspeople and the children in his power. Ambition propels him to mayor, but hubris brings his downfall when he declares himself king and Aln the New Jerusalem.</div></p>

The Mayor of Aln

Comics & Graphic Novels

Rourke, James

Graphic Novels

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