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Norman Schwenk was born in 1935 in Lincoln, Nebraska and grew up there. Having early discovered a love of reading and writing poems, and wishing to work as a teacher, he took a B.A. degree at Nebraska Wesleyan University, and then enrolled as a postgraduate in American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, where he was made a teaching and research assistant in English. In 1960 he won a Fulbright Award from the U.S. State Dept, and for the next five years he was a Fulbright Lecturer in English at Uppsala University in Sweden. He came to Wales...

Congratulations to author, historian and Chair of our Library of Wales series, Professor Dai Smith, who has been made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2017 New Year Honours for services to culture and the arts in Wales.

With Christmas almost here and New Year's just around the corner, why not start 2017 with Dai Smith's latest works, available here in the riveting double-bill of What I Know I Cannot Say and All the Lies Beneath. In What I Know I Cannot Say / All That Lies Beneath, Dai Smith combines a novella and a linked section of short stories to create a dazzling fictional synthesis that takes the reader on a tour of the South Wales Valleys during the twentieth century. Picking up where his 2013 novel Dream On left off, What I Know I Cannot Say follows the life...

 William Glynne-Jones (1907-1977) was a Welsh novelist, short story writer, broadcaster, and journalist. He was born and grew up in Llanelli. When he was 16, he started working at the Glanmor Foundry as a steel foundry 'moulder', but was released at the age of 36 on medical grounds. Soon, he moved to London with his family and started his career as a writer. His novels Farewell Innocence and Ride the White Stallion have been re-published this year as part of the Library of Wales series. Find both novels in out Farewell Innocence/ Ride the White Stallion Bundle for only...

Featuring a foreword by C. V. Wedgewood and an appendix by George Bernard Shaw, Young Emma is a moving and revealing memoir of real life at the turn of the century, W. H. Davies’ frank and honest account of the relationship with the woman he encountered on a London street corner who was to become his wife. Find Young Emma here. “An extraordinary memoir destined to become a classic” Publishers Weekly   “Young Emma is a masterpiece, and stranger than any fiction” Sunday Telegraph   “Classic... remarkable... an extraordinary manuscript” The Observer Aged fifty, acclaimed by the literary intelligentsia and exalted by...