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Author of the award-winning memoir Losing Israel, Jasmine Donahaye is holding a book tour for Birdsplaining: A Natural History. Described by Mike Parker as “An absolute kingfisher of a book”, shortlisted for Wales Book of the Year, Creative Non-Fiction Award, and winner of the 2021 New Welsh Writing Awards: Rheidol Prize for Pose with a Welsh Theme or Setting.   (Author photo credit: Keith Morris) Birdsplaining explores how women’s experience is shaped through observing the natural world and coming to terms with legacies of fear, uncertainty and the risk of getting things wrong. Jasmine Donahaye’s work has appeared in the...

  “Everybody sees the world a little differently,” Natalie Ann Holborow said, while introducing us all to her beautiful new collection of poetry Little Universe, journaling the ways she has observed the world around her. From people-watching in a hospital ward, to rediscovering an appreciation for nature during her lockdown walks through Gower, Natalie’s collection is a lovely appreciation for people and places alike. Natalie is a winner of the Terry Hetherington Award and the Robin Reeves Prize, and has been shortlisted and commended for the Bridport Prize, the National Poetry Competition, the Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine and...

We caught up with Philippa Holloway, whose debut short story collection Untethered was published last month, to ask her some questions...     Hi Philippa, and thank you for taking the time to talk to us. What inspired you to write your short story collection Untethered? Each of the stories in this collection is drawn from an observation, a question, or a concern, and the short story form is the perfect space for exploring these. It can be the smallest spark that sets me going – a shoe abandoned on the side of a road, a news story or headline,...

Tredegar-born author, Christopher Meredith, presented a copy of the new edition of his novel Shifts along with a framed print of the cover image to Ebbw Vale Works Museum on Wednesday 11th September. The cover image is taken from a painting in the possession of the Museum. First published in 1988, Shifts, which has been called 'one of the greatest novels ever written about Wales' and 'one of the great working-class works of fiction of the 20th Century', is now republished in Parthian's classic Library of Wales imprint. The novel is set against the background of the shut-down of a...