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Get 50% off Alys Conran's acclaimed debut novel Pigeon. Running today only, just use ADVENT 15 at the checkout.  Iola and Pijin make up stories to test each other, stories of daring and adventure, of bad people and of Gwyn who drives his ice-cream up the hill to their town every week. Gwyn is a dangerous man and Pijin knows it. Iola is not so sure. As they grow up and their friendship grows more complicated, some of their stories fall silent, but some will come true. Pigeon is a journey through the uneasy half-forgotten memories of childhood, a story about...

Bush Meat explores an expatriate family’s two-year stay in 1960’s Nigeria then moves on to explore its effect on all their lives over the next fifty years. Exploring themes of substitution, racism, and whether the spirit can ever survive transaction. Read the first 25 pages. 

"In Wales, every little pub or café on a wet day is a gift to a writer. Order something from the counter and listen: the hwyl, the humour, the body language, the self-deprecation, the hiss of the coffee machine, the drip of wet anoraks."

Read ‘Winter Barn Owl over the Teifi Marshes’ from  Carly Holmes’ tender collection of nature essays Love letters on the River. 

Delve into our short story collections with 20% off. Just use code ADVENT11. Here's just a few of our recommendations. Offer ends at midnight next Sunday, 21/12/25.    Untethered - Philippa Holloway  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. Sometimes it demands a change of viewpoint, sometimes a cutting loose to find freedom.        Local Fires -...