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Parthian has been announced as the recipient of a PEN Translates Award for Brazilian author Nara Vidal's short story collection, Maps to Nowhere (Mapas para desaparecer). Maps to Nowhere was published in Brazil to great acclaim, winning the 2021 Luiz Gondim Book of the Year Prize. It was also shortlisted for the prestigious Jabuti Prize the same year. Focusing on women’s experiences in Brazil, the stories tackle a number of timely issues including gender discrimination and femicide, disappearance, class inequality, and race relations, revealing the prejudice and danger beneath the veneer of modern society across the socioeconomic spectrum. The UK...

Happy New Year! Have you blown out the cobwebs yet or are you still in the post Christmas/New Year delirium?  We had a fantastically busy year in 2025, so before we look ahead to the new years let's take a quick wizz around the writing that 2025 brought us. Tristan Hughes and Tyler Keevil launched their books with style, canoeing the River Avon from Bristol to Bath to Mr's B Emporium Boundary Waters and Take Three Canadians in tow. In line with Richard Burton's centenary celebrations, historian Angela V. John brought out the meticulously researched biography Behind the Scenes bringing the...

This beautiful book is back from the printers now and it is STUNNING!  All of the website orders (signed!) have been posted out, so those customers who bought directly from us can expect your copies in the next few days. And don't forget the book launch and exhibition of the artwork by the fabulous Tenby artist Guy Manning is on Sunday 6th July from 3pm at Y Cartws / The Coach House in St Dogmaels. Free entry and all welcome. For those who aren't able to make Sunday's launch, Carly will be at the wonderful Chapter One bookshop in Narberth...

Rising star on the Slovak and Central European literary scene Nicol Hochholzerová, is coming over to the UK to celebrate the English language publication of her debut novel This Room Is Impossible To Eat. Masterfully translated from Slovak by Julia and Peter Sherwood, this poetic novella is a brutal and psychologically penetrating account of abuse and its consequences. Full book tour details below.

We are delighted to reveal both shortlists in the prestigious New Welsh Writing Awards. Established in 2015 to champion the best unpublished short-form writing from Wales and beyond, we were excited to continue the awards in their tenth year running two writing competitions in 2024; The Rheidol Prize: for Prose with a Welsh Theme or Setting and new poetry prize The Borzello Trust Poetry Prize. The awards are made possible with thanks to the generous support from RS Powell and Bob Borzello and prize sponsors Literature Wales and Gladstone’s Library.