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Dai Smith, Fiction, Parthian Books, Reviews, The Crossing, writing -

Gareth Kent offers a perceptive and engaged review of Dai Smith's closing novel in his trilogy of south Wales, The Crossing. Just published in Wales Arts Review.

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Books, Fiction, Hello Friend We Missed You, Parthian Books, Reviews -

June has got off to a great start for Richard Owain Roberts and his debut novel Hello Friend We Missed You. The first review, from Wales Arts Review, has come in and it's a corker!

Here are a couple of choice quotes to whet your appetite...

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Debut novel, Hello Friend We Missed You, News, Parthian Books, Richard Owain Roberts, Translation, Writers in Translation -

We are delighted to announce the Serbian translation rights for Hello Friend We Missed You, the debut novel by Richard Owain Roberts.


In a first for Parthian, the rights have been secured in advance of the original English language publication and will see Roberts follow Jarett Kobek, Ben Lerner and Miranda July as the latest English-language novelist to have his work translated into Serbian.

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Books, Jack Smylie Wild, Parthian Books, Riverwise, writing -

Jack Smylie Wild's beautiful book of slow river prose, centred around afon Teifi, has received a wonderful endorsement from Miriam Darlington, the best-selling author of Owl Sense and Otter Country.

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A Raid Over Berlin, Authors, Books, Parthian Books, VE Day -

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.

So tune in at 7pm on Friday!

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