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A few snaps for you from Eric Ngalle's recent appearance at Edinbugh's Radical Book Fair. You can buy his memoir I, Eric Ngalle from our online shop or order it in from your favourite bookshop.  Images by Andrew Scott   Eric Ngalle was born in Cameroon. After nearly a decade seeking sanctuary as a refugee, he eventually reached south Wales, where he studied modern history and popular culture at Cardiff Metropolitan University. In addition to being featured at Hay Festival and BBC, Eric earned a place to start an MA in creative writing at Cardiff University.

'A gripping fantasy debut... If you're hungry for a new epic fantasy series, the debut novel from Jodie Bond might be just what you need, writes Jenny White' in the Western Mail on Saturday. Buy The Vagabond King from our online shop More about Jodie

JAMIE GILLINGHAM What do you find are the most enjoyable and most challenging aspects of writing/being a writer? RHYS OWAIN WILLIAMS I think most writers struggle to switch off, and perhaps we never completely do. Everything we encounter in life has the potential to provide that flash of inspiration. Feeling attuned to the world around you in that way is such a positive experience, giving you those moments of absolute creative thought, but it can also be a huge strain on your mental health. The screenwriter Lawrence Kasdan said that “being a writer is like having homework every night for...

Zoë Brigley's essay collection Notes from a Swing State has had two recent, favourable reviews in the latest issues of Planet and the welsh agenda. 'If, as for Raymond Williams, great shifts in time and society are a picking up and setting back down again, then surely we are currently within just such an undefined state, the consequences of which are unknown until the settling and evaluating that comes with the aftermath. The swing state of this new collection of essays by Zoë Brigley is not only Ohio and the Electoral College, but self, home, nationhood and identity. Body, mind and...

Hello Book Lovers! A very happy Monday to you all. I have some news... for those of you living in the city or visiting there will soon be more poetry in your life with the addition of five (soon to be six) poems in our shopping arcades for the next year including work by Topher Mills, whose Selected Poems will be released through Parthian in the summer, and João Morais, whose debut short story collection Things that Make the Heart Beat Faster is available through us now... Literature Wales write: 'Cardiff is the City of Arcades and soon enough those...