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These are strange and worrying times for us all.

At Team Parthian, as we all work remotely and from home, our working schedules and routines are going to remain pretty much unchanged. We're still editing and proofreading and sourcing covers and washing our hands and arranging typesetting... doing all the things we need to do to get our lovely books out into the world.

Events are getting cancelled in droves across the globe and our own authors may well have to cancel bookish events over the coming weeks. We'll be sure to let you know of any changes that might occur, and in the meantime we'll just keep doing what we're doing.

Look after yourselves. Keep reading!

Dai Smith's latest novel, The Crossing, will be published next month, and ahead of the release he's being featured as Author of the Month for March across Welsh libraries. "The Crossing is inspired by my commitment to express fully the profound human significance of what once occurred to shape the lives of the communities that were created as we crossed from one mode of living to another, and how all that lingers in the shadows of our current existence as we make another crossing today." You can read his fascinating interview here. Preorder your copy of The Crossing here.

As part of Wales Literature Exchange's open call to participate in the 2020 Ulysses' Shelter residency programme, candidates from Wales were chosen to participate in the residency programme during 2020. The candidates have been selected by a jury consisting of Sally Baker, ex-director of Tŷ Newydd, the National Writing Centre of Wales and of Wales PEN Cymru, Alexandra Büchler, director of Literature Across Frontiers, and Sioned Puw Rowlands, editor of the Welsh-language cultural magazine O’r Pedwar Gwynt. Lloyd Markham (1988) was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, and spent his childhood in Zimbabwe,  moving to and settling in Bridgend, South Wales, where...

We at Team Parthian are thrilled to announce that we've been selected as a Rhys Davies Trust Client Partner. This exciting initiative will allow us, over the next three years, to produce two titles annually as part of our Modern Wales series, focussing on interpretations of the Welsh condition, people, place and history.   The publications will include, among other studies, new biographies of Minnie Pallister and Gwyn Thomas, and we'll also publish Winter Sparrows,  a brand new selection of the work of Rhys Davies, Wales’s pre-eminent short story writer of the twentieth century. In an interesting new venture we'll...