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Fri, 2012-01-27 00:40 | 
Susie Wild
Five new pieces of theatre make up Converging Paths. Taken together they form an adaptation of The Ground Remembers, Matthew David Scott's dark, suburban novel. A myth about love, jealousy, shame and the things we cannot throw away.
Thu, 2012-01-26 20:20 | Susie Wild
Hay International Fellow Jon Gower has set himself a New Year challenge to read all of the titles currently published by the Library of Wales. With a total of 33 books, from the best-selling novels such as Raymond Williams' Border Country to newly-discovered literary gems such as Margiad Evans' Turf or Stone, this series has something for everyone. Gower will begin his challenge, symbolically, on 1st of March 2012 - both World Book Day and St David's Day.
Fala’ Surion, the Welsh-language adaption of Rachel Trezise's award-winning short story collection Fresh Apples, tours from the end of February through March 2012. The book has been adapted for the stage by Catrin Dafydd and Manon Eames.
Fresh Apples was Rachel Trezise's first short fiction collection. Winner of the inaugral Dylan Thomas Prize in 2006, the collection contains wry and defiant statements on the power and the beautiful transience of youth.
'The confidence, coolness and maturity of tone in Fresh Apples is exceptional.' Andrew Davies
Visit the Fala' Surion official website
Read the Art Council of Wales interview with Rachel Trezise
The tour dates are as follows:
Limited edition packs including the full 33 titles of the Library of Wales Series are now available in the Parthian online bookshop.
The Library of Wales is a landmark series of books representing the best of Welsh writing in English, bringing classics of Welsh literature to the general reader.
‘One of the best things we’ve supported as a government’ Rt Hon Rhodri Morgan.
This is the chance to buy a complete set of the Library of Wales series - a total of 33 titles, from the best-selling novels such as Raymond Williams' Border Country to newly-discovered literary gems such as Margiad Evans' Turf or Stone, this series has something for everyone. For an even luckier few, the first limited edition packs sold will include a rare hardback edition signed copy of Goodbye, Twentieth Century by Dannie Abse. Only 200 copies of this book were printed.
Mon, 2012-01-02 17:35 | Susie Wild
Parthian would like to congratulate Dannie Abse on being awarded a CBE in recognition of his outstanding services to poetry and literature in this year's New Year Honours list.
Hear Dannie speak about receiving the award on the BBC Wales website.
We recently launched the poet and playwright's superb updated autobiography Goodbye Twentieth Century as part of our Library of Wales series. Buy it from us for £9.99.
Thu, 2012-01-26 18:40 | Susie Wild
The Western Mail ran a piece on our author Bill Rees on 14 January 2012. You can read it below:
Having quit work as a reporter, Bill Rees took to the road with the enthusiasm of a Kerouac wannabe. The Loneliness of the Long Distance Book Runner is an idiosyncratic account of what turned into a life of dealing in books
The Raymond Williams Collection: A Report represents the culmination of long endeavour to bring to view unpublished manuscripts, notebooks, letters, diaries and papers that the academic writer and novelist Raymond Williams left in part discarded, often neglected.
The Collection itself is held in the Richard Burton Archives, Swansea University, and has been catalogued courtesy of funding from the Barry Amiel & Norman Melburn Trust. The papers of the renowned cultural critic and writer Raymond Williams (1921-1988) range from the creative works of his childhood through his time at Cambridge and World War Two, to his later academic life. The Collection reveals the development of this leading intellectual figure.
The work of bringing the Collection to hand has been completed by numerous people, some of whom appear in this report. The Collection is now open to view in Swansea, and accessible by means of online catalogue. Now, with these more personal materials available, it becomes possible to better understand the life and how to build on the work of Raymond Williams.
Mon, 2012-01-16 13:51 | Susie Wild
A review from www.gwales.com, with the permission of the Welsh Books Council.
Funderland - Nigel Jarrett
Wed, 2012-01-11 18:48 | Susie Wild
Almanac is the annual publication from the Association of Welsh Writing in English and features the sharpest critical writing in the field. It is edited by Katie Gramich who is Reader in English at Cardiff Univeristy and is a specialist in the literature of modern Wales.
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Thursday 19 January 7pm
A satisfying end to 2011 for A Fish Trapped inside the Wind author Christien Gholson, who made Steve Donoghue's Fiction Honour Roll, beating Umberto Eco's The Prague Cemetery to third place.
Steve Donoghue is editor of Open Letters Monthly, the Honour Roll is a feature of his book review blog SteveReads. Steve writes:
'There’s quite a lot going on in Gholson’s debut fiction collection, and all of it is orchestrated with such dry wit and deep thought that it barely ripples the surfaces of this story about a handful of remarkable people in a small village in Belgium. That village wakes one day to encounter fish everywhere, fallen on field and street, and the novel’s matter-of-fact surrealism takes off from there. As some of you may know, I usually detest whimsy in fiction...But controlled whimsy – ah, now there’s another story! And that’s what readers get here: wonderfully intelligent, controlled whimsy of a quality rarely seen in contemporary fiction. We should all band together and make this author famous.'
See what all the fuss is about http://www.parthianbooks.com/content/fish-trapped-inside-wind