Fiction: general and literary

An artful collection of poems by noted Welsh poet Paul Henry, Boy Running is the first to follow his widely praised The Brittle Sea.

The day he knew he was going to die, Liborio Uribe took his young daughter in law to the Museum of Fine Arts to show her a picture.

Part fable, part mystery, Star-Shot is a stylish debut novel set in and around National Museum Cardiff in a time that is almost, but not quite, our own.

A Toy Epic is the story of three boys moving towards the threshold of adult life in the 1930s.

A remarkable collection of short stories, this book explores various liminal states: life on the Irish border, dual identities, emigration, being between states, certainty and doubt, codependency, and freedom.

Jayne Joso's new book is a collection of stories and short fiction set in Japan.

Griffith's first novel in English is a gripping story of relationships and simmering unrest in 1960s Gwynedd, driven by love, jealousy, and vendetta.

After losing his job and his home, a young Japanese man seeks refuge in a wood and paper house.

In the spring of 1940, Elsa Jones finds herself lonely and homesick in a changing Hong Kong as war threatens.

Lucy Swann is trying on a new life.

From poignant and dangerous obsessions with the iconic, to direct, often puzzled, conversations with ghosts, the characters in this short story collection strive to make contact with the impossible.

The Harvey family is persuaded to leave the UK for a dream life in the Australian outback.

Judy Brown's new poetry collection, Crowd Sensations, showcases her subtle and dazzling style.

Gentle but haunting, this selection of short stories takes a closer look at the importance of parental and filial love down the generations.

Past and present, real and imagined, vsible and invisible, worlds collide as Glenda Beagan explores people, places and memory.

It's Easter 1955 and as Lilia scrapes the ice from the inside of the windows, and the rust from the locks, but there are pasts that lurk with the moths in the folds of the drapes at Sugar Hall that she cannot reach.

This novel elegantly dissects modern romantic mores.

When Tessa's best friend organizes a surprise TV makeover, Tessa is horrified.

Richard Parry is a painter who cannot paint, a writer who doesn't write.

A secret she promised to keep, a boy with hair like fire, and a terrible accident -they're all connected, if only May could remember how.

The best of contemporary Welsh short story writing, Seren New Welsh Short Stories 2015 offers a wide-ranging view of a country from new and established writers including Stevie Davies, Trezza Azzopardi, Joe Dunthorne, Owen Sheers, Cynan Jones, Deborah Kay Davies, and Rachel Trezise.

Richard Parry is a painter who cannot paint, a writer who doesn't write.

In the aftermath of World War II, hundreds of thousands of Yugoslavia's ethnic Germans - Swabians - were expelled by Tito's Partisan regime.

Perceptive, persuasive and intricately made, the poems of Kate Bingham's third collection, Infragreen, take the reader on a startling and unfamiliar journey through everyday experiences and phenomena.

Based on a play of the same name, this novel tells the story of Jack O'Brien's odyssey from inexperienced childhood to mature manhood.

Nia Vine is about to fulfil her dream of exploring an unmapped cave system.

The lives of congenial American fly-fisherman Billy and his younger sister Alice meander alongside the Susquehanna River in this offbeat coming-of-age novel of death, madness, and fishing by debut author Karen Fielding.

As funny as a Nick Hornby, but with an existential seriousness that cannot be mistaken.

Alternating between serious and absurd, these 25 very short stories are written in a variety of styles and often from an unexpected viewpoint, such as that of an old woman, a young man with a missing wife, and a surgeon who becomes a shepherd.

Drawing from two medieval Welsh manuscripts with roots dating back many centuries earlier, this series of 11 stories sheds light on Celtic mythology and Arthurian romance while providing a new perspective on Great Britain itself.

Returning from London to Wales for her mother's funeral, actress Kate Rivers is overwhelmed by painful memories from her past as well as regrets about her current childless, unmarried life.

A collection of linked stories, this book provides voices to the migrants around the globe and explores their lives as they interact with others and experience a mix of hope, success, failure, fear, indifference, and passion.

In Candy Neubert's novel 'Big Low Tide' set on a small island in the Channel, Brenda, a feisty barmaid at the local pub suddenly finds herself raising her two young boys alone as her estranged husband, Peter, realizing he cant take the children with him leaves for Ireland in search of better prospects and a trip at sea.

One December night after watching his mother perform in the Mikado with a local amateur dramatics society, Pete meets the attractive and flamboyant misfit Sam, and his infatuation is instant.

Skillfully crafted and vivid with detail, this collection of prose examines the strength and fragility of life.

In The Gospel of Us, Owen Sheers reimagines as fiction his play The Passion, a three-day dramatisation set in the streets, beaches and clubs of Port Talbot, co-directed by and starring Michael Sheen.

Each story in An Affair of the Heart questions the apparently romantic title through its exploration of the enigmatic state of mind known as love.

"e;Patrick Corcoran's first novel, Last Light Breaking, breaks a silence, telling the story of a survivor of the Great War slaughter who, fearing hostility to his British Army past in post-revolutionary Ireland, chose invisibility as a village postmaster in Somerset for forty years.

"e;Engaging and entertaining, it's the perfect read to provide a bit of escapism.

What is Cecil and Noreen's secret?

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Immediately after the armistice was signed in November, 1918, an American journalist asked Paul von Hindenburg who won the war against Germany.

A supernatural love story from the globally bestselling author of love stories like The Notebook and the renowned writer and director of blockbuster thrillers like The Sixth Sense

*COMING SOON AS A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY M. NIGHT SHYAMALAN AND STARRING JAKE GYLLENHAAL AND PHOEBE DYNEVOR*

'You're going to fall in love, Tate. And when you do, it's going to change your life forever...'

When New York architect Tate Donovan arrives in Cape Cod to design his best friend's summer home, he is hoping to make a fresh start. Recently discharged from an upscale psychiatric facility where he was treated for acute depression, he is still wrestling with the pain of losing his beloved sister. Sylvia's deathbed revelation - that she can see spirits who are still tethered to the living world, a gift that runs in their family - sits uneasily with Tate, who struggles to believe in more than what reason can explain. But when he takes up residence at a historic bed-and-breakfast on the Cape, he encounters a beautiful young woman named Wren who will challenge every assumption he has about his logical and controlled world.

Tate and Wren find themselves forging an immediate connection, one that neither has ever experienced before. But Tate gradually discovers that below the surface of Wren's idyllic small-town life, hatred, jealousy and greed are festering, threatening their fragile relationship just as it begins to blossom. Tate realizes that in order to free Wren from an increasingly desperate fate, he will need to unearth the truth about her past before time runs out . . . a quest that will make him doubt whether we can ever believe the stories we tell about ourselves, and the laws that govern our existence. Love - while transformative - can sometimes be frightening.

A story about the power of transcendent emotion, Remain asks us all: Can love set us free not only from our greatest sorrows, but even from the boundaries of life and death?

A one-of-a-kind novel that grapples with the supernatural mysteries of life, death, and human connection - an unprecedented collaboration between the globally bestselling author of love stories like The Notebook and the renowned writer and director of blockbuster thrillers like The Sixth Sense.

Real readers love Remain:

'[This epic love story is] often creepy but always engaging. I raced through it' Daily Mail

'Love, spirits and sinister secrets converge in this unusual, genre-blurring collaboration between two masters of emotional and eerie storytelling' I paper

'A warm-hearted, sentimental tale' Guardian

'Tender and unsettling, a novel that lingers like a haunting' The Weekend Australian

'Nicholas Sparks with his signature love story combined with M. Night Shyamalan's suspense brought about a unique combination. This is one of those books you don't want to put down but you also want to savor' GoodReads reviewer ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

'The mix of genres (romance, whodunnit mystery, and slight horror) make this book a five-star read! Remain is a haunting, emotional, and unforgettable read. Highly recommend' GoodReads reviewer ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

'An absolutely captivating story! It had romance, suspense, paranormal, mystery, small town vibes, and healing...a perfect October book...I didn't want to put it down!' GoodReads reviewer ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

'I LOVED this romance, but it also had so many other elements that kept me hooked. The mystery and paranormal aspects were chef's kiss, and I felt like I was watching a movie while reading this one' GoodReads reviewer ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

'Spellbinding' Daily Mail From the award-winning author, a hauntingly beautiful coming of age novel set in the Welsh valleys of the 1970s Tirzah has lived a life of seclusion in a staunchly religious family.

From the bestselling Italian author comes a novel based on the true story of a priest who refused to surrender.

'THE MOST IMPORTANT LIVING RUSSIAN WRITER' New Yorker MY HEAD SPINS.

2016.

It's summer in Adders Fork.

The much-anticipated follow-up to the Radio 2 Book Club-favourite The Peculiar Life of a Lonely Postman Twenty-two-year-old Tania has moved to Montreal to study, fine-tune her French and fall in love.

Rosie Strange doesn't believe in ghosts or witches or magic.