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Paperback. Condizione: New. A brooding, murder mystery that hinges on the dark edges of imagination. A death on the mountain but no body, only rumours. Elan has been missing for two years. Her people presume she has abandoned the mountain to live with the Travellers 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 rumour 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 rumours hiding on the open mountain. The rumours grow as the winter begins to grip the mountain and the truth decides to come down from the High Vans.

Paperback. Condizione: New. Catherine Haines' lively account of student life is enriched with literary, philosophical and existential questions. As the Cambridge Weight Plan spins out of control, a post-graduate's academic subject, 'the mind-body problem', goes through an existential phase to become 'extraordinary morality' rather than a mental health problem. The iron will with which Catherine imposes on herself ever more onerous conditions is awe-inspiring. The author is clearly fiercely intelligent, as we can see from the way she exposes the ugly truth behind historical depictions of women with eating disorders andindeed the way society frames abstinence from food as an ally of virtue. However, starving her body means that Catherine also begins to starve her brain. Incisive literary criticism of Hamlet descends into feverish noodlings about Einstein's theory of relativity. Her descriptions enfold the reader in the hideous illogic of the anorexic.This is a rigorous, philosophical case for regarding an eating disorder as pilgrimage, a personal exorcism, the kind which writers perform on paper while ghting with demons, fears, fate and death, an exorcism which, while painful, is also saving.

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Paperback. Condizione: New. The Perseids brought it all out of the past, with a force like a blowthat leaves you winded. The night lurched and seemed to swoopsuddenly down. The boy still lay on his back, but when I sat up,gasping, I glimpsed the pale disc of his face as he turned to see whathad startled me.'It's all right,' I said, though it wasn't.It is the summer of 1954. Four young men, on a summer vacation buyan old car from a farmer and drive it from the hills of Wales all theway to the mountains of Spain. It is only a few years since the war,Europe is still in ruins. They are innocent and war-scarred, dreamersand realists, men but not much more than boys. They have their wholelives ahead of them. This will be their summer to remember.A beautiful, elegiac rumination on youth, friendship and the dreamsthat we hold."A haunting meditation on memory and loss that takes the readeron a summer road trip to a vanished Spain. In this well-crafted,wistful novella, Sam Adams weaves his tapestry from fragments ofa remembered friendship in a coming of age tale written with sixtyyears' bitter hindsight." - Richard GwynSam Adams has created a rare novel in The Road to Zarauz, bothtimeless and very much of a time and a place, a past of hope andexpectation erased in a moment, and what remains when hope is gone.

Paperback. Condizione: New. A banging musical about an unremarkable teenager.Expelled from school and not even able to get a job at the chippy, Jax (she/they/whatever) is a cocky, loveable teen living with herNan in a tiny, boring village.When Jax meets Ffion, with her smart talk and loud looks, sparks fly. Queer teenage lust brings together this unlikely match in all itsmessy, clumsy and awesome glory.Feral Monster follows Jax and her noisy, opinionated brain as they navigate love, identity, class and family. Mashing up grime, RandB, soul, pop and rap, the soundtrack takes us from the high highs to low lows of the hormonal rollercoaster of adolescence.First performed at Sherman Theatre in Cardiff in February 2024 before touring to Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Pontio in Bangor,Ffwrnes in Llanelli and Theatr Brycheiniog in Brecon.

Paperback. Condizione: New. We all have our favourite demons. A desperate Romeo circles the bushes below Juliet's balcony, hoping for a glimpse of her bare body, 'nipples stiffening on powdered ribs'. Adamant of his own sanity, Hamlet chatters away to his oldest friend - the squat skull grinning in his palm. Andromache screams for her only child, 'spiralling like sycamore' from the walls of Troy, her husband brutally dragged to death in the dirt that rises around her. All the while, weaved throughout this collection, the narrator is haunted by her biggest demon of all: the gargantuan Small. Told with a rawness and honesty that sears, the secretive nature of living with an eating disorder is yanked out into the open and given the voice that only ever hisses darkly inside the skull. Through relationship breakdowns, bath-times, the cacophonous dazzle of Delhi and the fug of hospital waiting rooms, Small is always, there slyly riding on the shoulders of a woman running for miles to get away - yet forever haunted by hunger.

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Paperback. Condizione: New. Myfanwy Haycock (1913-1963) mapped out a career as one of Wales's most talented female poets during the mid-twentieth century and was dubbed as 'Gwent's second voice' at the age of nineteen.A skilled illustrator, journalist and broadcaster, Haycock explored the world around her through impressionistic poetry and often outspoken articles. However, in the years since her death, Haycock's poetic landscape has largely been lost.These poems of nature and love, dreams and mourning, transport the reader from the roaming South Wales valleys to the trampled grass of Kensington and back again.

Paperback. Condizione: New. From Özgür Uyanik, novelist and film director, comes a debut collection of audacious, darkly wry and compassionate short stories. Driven by universal themes of desire, mortality, loss and yearning, each story evokes both the melancholy and the hope inherent in all stages of life, from childhood through to maturity.Artists, writers, lovers, killers: all types of men walk these pages and find love or lose love in the European cities of Cardiff, Istanbul, London, Paris, Odessa and Lisbon. All seeking to find a way to belong in the world.Men Alone is a meditative vision from a unique voice that explores the many - often confounding - permutations of modern masculinity.

Paperback. Condizione: New. Lives bustle within a busy hospital's walls, humming against the Gower landscape that stretches beyond its windows. The tiny worlds of a wide cast unfold as they deal with their own emergencies, losses, recoveries, hopes and histories.Medical students stride the length of the corridor in rubber shoes, scars running the lengths of their lives. A janitor is crying in the Gents', watching the flowers at the hospital entrance shrug themselves back into earth. The biblical Lilith offers knowledge from onewoman to the other. And somewhere in the distance, a bunker dissolves into gold upon Pennard's shoulder, dusk folding to sleep on Rhossili.The characters in this book are all bound by the undying pulse of existence - yet their stories serve as a reminder that despite these stark contrasts, life persists.

Paperback. Condizione: New. The debut short story collection from the Ondaatje-award longlisted author of The Half-life of Snails.Dead birds fall from the sky, an octopus lies stranded on a beach, and a lost shoe becomes a public shrine . Untethered, Philippa Holloway's first collection of short stories, provides an unflinching glimpse of daily life interrupted by unexpected events. Small intrusions into familiar spaces reveal nothing is as it seems, and to feel suddenly adrift, unsure, might just be the catalyst needed for clarity. Sometimes it demands a change of viewpoint, sometimes a cutting loose to find freedom.From conflicted parental expectations to unwanted visitors, from discovering tiny human teeth in the garden to a brief encounter with a murderer over the kitchen table, these precise, realist tales scrutinise families and lovers, colleagues and strangers with a keen emotional depth and sharp observation. Each one is a vivid snapshot of how people anchor themselves inside their lives and beliefs, exposing the fragile ties that hold people together, and highlighting the need to see things differently to survive the day.

Paperback. Condizione: New. Bill Rees has been living in the south of France for ten yearsworking as an itinerant bookseller in Montpellier. The onething he misses about England is table tennis. Then he seesan advert to join a club for "experienced players only" andveterans. He starts training immediately, he's forty and notas fit as he used to be but Bill Rees is returning to the gameà la carte.Covering one Sunday tournament in the depths of Languedocwhen his team bids to make the National Finals, Bill Reesproduces a deeply felt and deeply funny homage to thebeautiful game of ping-pong. Rees shows the sport for whatit is: painful, exhilarating, tactical, fast (especially when hisclub mate Alain is at the table), consuming. All of which isrevealed from the perspective of a Brit playing in Frenchamateur leagues.Conveyed is the pain of competition, the agony of losing andthe joys of victory. The reader is also regaled with a Zen-likeinsight into the sport.For all those athletes who dream of glory being around thecorner and never too late.Contains illustrations by the Monpellier based artist Beachy.

Paperback. Condizione: New. A story of time slipping, desire just out of reach, like memories lost.At the beginning of the summer, I had to spend two weeks in hospital. If I hadn't fallen from the balcony, what happened later would likely never have happened at all.So begins a memoir by a man trying to come to terms with the loss of a lover who is now a famous writer. He is given one more chance to forget by Vlado, the charismatic actor, who is not as successful as he believes. They will have a holiday to recover - find the lost love between them and bury their shared memories of Ivan. It will be a summer without you.

Paperback. Condizione: New. Winner of the 2015 New Welsh Writing Awards: WWF Cymru Prize for Writing on Nature and the EnvironmentShortlisted for the 2016 Wales Book of the Year: The Open University in Wales Creative Non-Fiction Award'Eluned Gramich has written the perfect essay - a minutely detailed yet nuanced evocation of place and personalities that is full of ecologically precise imagery and is as attentive to the Japanese language as it is to Hokkaidan landscape.' - Mark CockerAs precise and nuanced as Japanese calligraphy, this memoir of the author's stay on the remote Hokkaido island in the far north of Japan, has at its heart the mountain, Yotei-san, the region's iconic equivalent to Mount Fuji. As much about learning a language (with connotations of 'reading' a wild landscape) as it is about nature, this dignified and nuanced work evokes what is cultured and cultivated, and yet also honours the wild; the untranslatable. With its themes of seasonal transformation, the peripheral, folklore, loneliness and learning to belong, this work takes a personal philosophical stance in relation to the centre and the periphery.'"Eluned Gramich" is a name to hear time and again in the future. [This writing] is as good as we the jurors have ever read. short but perfectly formed. absolutely perfect.' - Justin Albert'Quite beautiful. [The author encounters a culture that is completely alien] and she does it with a poet's eye. precisely and vitally. She reads this unfamiliarity with all her imaginative nerve-endings open: the effect is quite remarkable.' - Tony Brown'Most rewarding is the philosophical approach. [Gramich's] embracing of. cultural multiplicity, fluidity and adaptability. suits perfectly the changing boundaries of our modern world.' - Wales Arts Review.

Paperback. Condizione: New. Moving On bristles with the talent of writers from Zimbabwe. It brings together twenty of Zimbabwe's finest storytellers, from within the country and without. Many of the characters in this anthology are themselves moving on: from the chains of the past, from the loss of loved ones, from long-held beliefs. Some from life itself and others to a brighter future.

Paperback. Condizione: New. Translated by Christina E. KramerGavdos: a remote island south of Crete, the southernmostpoint of Europe, surrounded by an endless expanse ofsea.To Oksana, who has come from Ukraine with her friendsto recover from illness in the aftermath of Chernobyl, itseems like a dream to live in a blue-and-white housewith a lemon tree.To Penelope, a Greek woman who was married off toan unsuitable man by nuns from the convent where shespent her teenage years, it is a kind of prison.Their two narratives, interwoven with other stories - ofthe other women of the sparse community, of their ownpast lives and loves - are skilfully combined with themesof otherness and the notions of 'foreign' and 'barbaric'in this poetic and timely short novel by acclaimedMacedonian writer Petar Andonovski, winner of theEuropean Union Prize for Literature.Translated from Macedonian.

Paperback. Condizione: New. Judged by Rebecca F. John.In these twelve bold, tender, brilliant stories from the winners of the 2024 Rhys Davies Short Story Competition, adults, children - and even an elephant - are challenged by ghosts of the past and a longing for friendship, meaning and connection as they try to make sense of their worlds.A group of lads unite on a bridge in the most horrific of circumstances; a family day out to celebrate the mid-harvest festival of Mabon does not go to plan; a research scientist grapples with the ethics of memory harvesting; one man tries to rebuild friendship through fishing; and a dancer disillusioned by broken dreams resorts to desperate means on board a ship. Here, lives are in transition - between cultures and language, past and present, dreams and reality. Characters, scarred and vulnerable, wander, and wonder. The stories within this collection, both traditional and experimental, present life in its myriad beautiful, heart wrenching, truthful forms.

Paperback. Condizione: New. Everybody had written it off as waste ground. But when a planning application is made to build houses on this wild and green patch ofGower common, something magical emerges. From the star-nose of the polecat and the bold zigzags of adders to the delicate yellowblooms of a bog asphodel glade, this small patch of common land has revealed dozens of unexpected wonders. Hiding beneath the bracken is a wet heathland, brimming with bog plants, fed by layers of nutrient-rich peat and supporting scores of species, a vanishingly rare habitat in the UK.Using her nature poet's eye for detail and treading in the footsteps of the original poet of the commons, John Clare, Howells brings to life the story of this threatened land. Her poems ring with passion for this wild place, recording the many rare plants and animals that will be lost if the common is developed. She asks important questions about land use, about what commons mean to us today, and about who - or what - gets to own and enjoy green spaces. Above all she takes us on a journey of discovery, into the miniature rainforest of this little, almost-forgotten place, where you'll find the uncommon is a common sight.Set on West Cross Common, Gower with universal environmental themes, this collection will appeal to: Eco-conscious nature lovers, those who are interested in activism, wilding, nature writing, planning, climate change, common land and land ownership, recording nature for future generations.

Paperback. Condizione: New. The Equestrienne is a poetic, caustic coming-of-age novel about the desire of one young girl to realise her dreams before and after Velvet Revolution; it is a celebration of friendship between women and also a bitter acknowledgement that greed and the desire for power can destroy any relationship.

Paperback. Condizione: New. When you come out for the bell aged eighty you have no choice but to employ a late style. This is mine. A mix of deceitfully plain reportage; fictive history and fictional forays into the past; personalised reflections and more shaded perspectives from others; some poetry and polemics; glances of delight at the playfulness of sport and the charisma of personalities; taking a stance, whether orthodox or southpaw, in the courage to live with what you are given no matter what is put in front of you. And the illusion of random repetition, the rat tat tat bam bam, before any change in the angle of attack. But that's enough bobbing out of reach, jabbing and sliding away with pretty dancing around the ring.One of Wales's most successful interpretive voices of a generation casts his mind back to the preceding decades to offer a retrospective take on the legacy of the Labour party in Wales in a genre-defying work written in Dai's inimitable signature style.

Paperback. Condizione: New. In this atmospheric novella, the mysterious Plankton Collector visits members of a family torn apart by grief and regret. he comes in different guises. For ten year-old Mary, he is Mr Smith who takes her on a train journey to the seaside. Her mother, Rose, meets him as Stephen, by her son's graveside. Rose's youngest, Bunny, encounters him as the gardener. For husband and father David, meanwhile, the meeting is with a love from his youth. And long-lost Uncle Barnaby takes the children for a week's holiday during which their parents begin a reconciliation. All visitors are manifestations of the Plankton Collector who teaches those he encounters the difference between the discarded weight of unhappy memories and the lightness borne by happiness recalled.

Paperback. Condizione: New. Bill Rees has been living in the south of France for ten yearsworking as an itinerant bookseller in Montpellier. The onething he misses about England is table tennis. Then he seesan advert to join a club for "experienced players only" andveterans. He starts training immediately, he's forty and notas fit as he used to be but Bill Rees is returning to the gameà la carte.Covering one Sunday tournament in the depths of Languedocwhen his team bids to make the National Finals, Bill Reesproduces a deeply felt and deeply funny homage to thebeautiful game of ping-pong. Rees shows the sport for whatit is: painful, exhilarating, tactical, fast (especially when hisclub mate Alain is at the table), consuming. All of which isrevealed from the perspective of a Brit playing in Frenchamateur leagues.Conveyed is the pain of competition, the agony of losing andthe joys of victory. The reader is also regaled with a Zen-likeinsight into the sport.For all those athletes who dream of glory being around thecorner and never too late.Contains illustrations by the Monpellier based artist Beachy.

Paperback. Condizione: New. Winner of the 2015 New Welsh Writing Awards: WWF Cymru Prize for Writing on Nature and the EnvironmentShortlisted for the 2016 Wales Book of the Year: The Open University in Wales Creative Non-Fiction Award'Eluned Gramich has written the perfect essay - a minutely detailed yet nuanced evocation of place and personalities that is full of ecologically precise imagery and is as attentive to the Japanese language as it is to Hokkaidan landscape.' - Mark CockerAs precise and nuanced as Japanese calligraphy, this memoir of the author's stay on the remote Hokkaido island in the far north of Japan, has at its heart the mountain, Yotei-san, the region's iconic equivalent to Mount Fuji. As much about learning a language (with connotations of 'reading' a wild landscape) as it is about nature, this dignified and nuanced work evokes what is cultured and cultivated, and yet also honours the wild; the untranslatable. With its themes of seasonal transformation, the peripheral, folklore, loneliness and learning to belong, this work takes a personal philosophical stance in relation to the centre and the periphery.'"Eluned Gramich" is a name to hear time and again in the future. [This writing] is as good as we the jurors have ever read. short but perfectly formed. absolutely perfect.' - Justin Albert'Quite beautiful. [The author encounters a culture that is completely alien] and she does it with a poet's eye. precisely and vitally. She reads this unfamiliarity with all her imaginative nerve-endings open: the effect is quite remarkable.' - Tony Brown'Most rewarding is the philosophical approach. [Gramich's] embracing of. cultural multiplicity, fluidity and adaptability. suits perfectly the changing boundaries of our modern world.' - Wales Arts Review.

Paperback. Condizione: New. Catherine Haines' lively account of student life is enriched with literary, philosophical and existential questions. As the Cambridge Weight Plan spins out of control, a post-graduate's academic subject, 'the mind-body problem', goes through an existential phase to become 'extraordinary morality' rather than a mental health problem. The iron will with which Catherine imposes on herself ever more onerous conditions is awe-inspiring. The author is clearly fiercely intelligent, as we can see from the way she exposes the ugly truth behind historical depictions of women with eating disorders andindeed the way society frames abstinence from food as an ally of virtue. However, starving her body means that Catherine also begins to starve her brain. Incisive literary criticism of Hamlet descends into feverish noodlings about Einstein's theory of relativity. Her descriptions enfold the reader in the hideous illogic of the anorexic.This is a rigorous, philosophical case for regarding an eating disorder as pilgrimage, a personal exorcism, the kind which writers perform on paper while ghting with demons, fears, fate and death, an exorcism which, while painful, is also saving.

Paperback. Condizione: New. In this atmospheric novella, the mysterious Plankton Collector visits members of a family torn apart by grief and regret. he comes in different guises. For ten year-old Mary, he is Mr Smith who takes her on a train journey to the seaside. Her mother, Rose, meets him as Stephen, by her son's graveside. Rose's youngest, Bunny, encounters him as the gardener. For husband and father David, meanwhile, the meeting is with a love from his youth. And long-lost Uncle Barnaby takes the children for a week's holiday during which their parents begin a reconciliation. All visitors are manifestations of the Plankton Collector who teaches those he encounters the difference between the discarded weight of unhappy memories and the lightness borne by happiness recalled.

Paperback. Condizione: New. Finding out you've got a serious illness like multiple sclerosis is a bit like falling in love. you are never quite the same again. The Last Polar Bear on Earth charts the fallout after the writer's diagnosis with Multiple Sclerosis from dealing with the diagnosis, dealing with the illness itself and using writing as a form of therapy. A collection of prosaic poetry.

Paperback. Condizione: New. In Mari Ellis Dunning's début poetry collection fairy tale figures abound, historical women are revived from the dead, and the intricacies of relationships are examined as they are built and undone.

Paperback. Condizione: New. 'This is a beautifully written retelling, demonstrating that some old stories never lose their power to move us.' - Alexander McCall Smith 'Sensual, ambitious, flowing and intimate. [a] warm, [diverse] exploration of mental health, dodgy money and optimism.' - Gwen Davies, adjudication, New Welsh Writing Awards 2022'This is an extraordinary transformation of an ancient narrative into an immediate contemporary vitality. Written with wit, inventiveness, compassion and economy, it persuades us that the step from the chaotic world of the biblical Middle East to modern south Wales is not really all that far.' - Rowan WilliamsI'm getting in touch because Tobias is here. He's a fine boy: handsome, kind. You and your husband must be so proud of him. He and Az came for supper and are staying the night. They don't actually know I'm writing to you. I hope you don't mind.And so begins a secretive, tentative and increasingly affectionate correspondence between two strangers. Edna and Anna are both mothers, both lonely in different ways. When Anna's son Tobias turns up at Edna's house in Newport, en route to somewhere else altogether, it seems to be an act of pure serendipitous coincidence.He settles into the heart of this adopted family, healing fractures they hadn't even acknowledged were there. But he also has a mission to retrieve a fortune on behalf of his ailing father, the difficult and unhappy T.And there is the mysterious Az ? beautiful, enigmatic, and mesmerising. His presence is the thread that stitches these two families together and makes them one.

Paperback. Condizione: New. Late in the 1960s, before Bell was born, her father and mother visited Aberaeron, a small fishing town on the west coast of Wales. Here, her father heard a voice - which he knew to be God - directing him to minister to the Welsh. Six months after she was born in the early 1970s, they moved to Aberaeron where he took up his first curateship. Over the next eighteen years they would move to various parishes within a forty mile radius: first to Llangeler a predominantly Welsh-speaking parish in the Teifi valley, then back to Aberaeron where Bell's father became vicar, and then to a larger and more Evangelical church in Aberystwyth.This unique memoir in verse offers a series of snapshots about religion and sexuality. In verse because it's how Bell remembers: snapshots in words strung along a line, which somehow constitute a life. Snapshots of another time from now, but from a time which tells us about how Bell got here. Not the whole story, but her story. Of an English family on a mission from God, of signs and wonders in the Welsh countryside, of difference, and of faith and its loss.