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This week in Nation.Cymru, Parthian Director Richard Davies published a piece on how Hay has been engaging (or not engaging) with Welsh literature and writers in recent years - and whether it's still held 'in' Wales at all...   Extracts below - for the full read, go to Nation.Cymru.   Writers love being invited to Hay. You’re part of the club, sales will rocket into double figures, you get invited into the Green room and get a free coffee, a chance to smile flirtatiously at Germaine Greer and listen to Stephen Fry talk about his bunions. You used to get paid in...

John Sam Jones’ new memoir, The Journey is Home: Notes From a Life on the Edge came out this month. As John is also the Author of the Month this May, we wanted to take a moment to celebrate him and his work!   In The Journey is Home, John Sam Jones writes of a life lived  on the edge. It is a story of journeys and realisation, of acceptance and joy. From a boyhood on the coast of Wales to a traumatic period studying at Aberystwyth, to a scholarship at Berkley in California as the AIDS epidemic began to take...

As we start a new month, lockdown restrictions are easing, and bookshops will begin to reopen on the April 12th throughout Wales. March has been a great month for Parthian’s authors, with some fantastic reviews over the past few weeks for Tristan Hughes, Lewis Davies and more!   Revenant  by Tristan Hughes   March was a great month for Tristan Hughes, as Revenant was crowned ‘Book of the Month’ by the Books Council of Wales. In celebration of the achievement, our intern Kate Waldock interviewed Tristan about his fiction, writing, and any advice he may have for aspiring writers - over on AM...

This BBC Radio 4 programme brings to life three selected stories from Leonora Brito’s short story collection Dat’s Love and Other Stories – narratives which were originally performed live online as a National Theatre Wales production.