Exciting news! BBC's The One Show have been back in touch with John Martin, the 98-year-old author of the best-selling war memoir A Raid over Berlin, and will be rescreening the interview with him that first appeared in November 2018 this Friday, 8 May, to celebrate VE Day. Not only that but they revisited him last week (socially distanced, of course) and will also be showing that follow-up interview.
Roberto Pastore published his first full collection of poetry, Hey Bert, with us in October. He was recently featured in the Western Mail's Author's Notes and here is the interview with Jenny White in full: Tell me a bit about yourself – where you grew up, how you came to Cardiff, when you started writing poetry. So I grew up in and around Milton Keynes, England, we moved around a lot growing up. My family comes from Italy, my father lives there now. My poem Show Homes is about my parents fondness for looking around houses. It was the era of...
After the success of our first double book launch event at the Roath Park pub in Cardiff earlier in October, we bring you our new monthly reading event Picnic featuring guest readers published by Parthian and our friends and a spoken word open mic. This month's debut event features poet and novelist Rhian Elizabeth, essayist Dylan Moore and poet and fiction writer Mari Ellis Dunning. Free entry. 18+ Sign up for the open mic on the night, first come, first served. The open mic will be split across both halves of the evening, interspersed with the guests. Parthian books will also be on sale.
Our intern Ann went to the Edinburgh International Book Festival to represent Parthian Books.In this blogpost she describes her experience of the festival and gives a brief summary of the insightful discussion between authors Karmele Jaio (Her Mother's Hands) and Brian Conaghan (The Weight of a ThousandFeathers) on their books about children who must take care of their parents.
