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Eluned Gramich participated within the year of Wales and Japan, supported by Wales Arts International, British Council and Arts Council of Wales. Bringing her back to Japan after ten years, read her postcard from Osaka below.

Get 50% off Alys Conran's acclaimed debut novel Pigeon. Running today only, just use ADVENT 15 at the checkout.  Iola and Pijin make up stories to test each other, stories of daring and adventure, of bad people and of Gwyn who drives his ice-cream up the hill to their town every week. Gwyn is a dangerous man and Pijin knows it. Iola is not so sure. As they grow up and their friendship grows more complicated, some of their stories fall silent, but some will come true. Pigeon is a journey through the uneasy half-forgotten memories of childhood, a story about...

Bush Meat explores an expatriate family’s two-year stay in 1960’s Nigeria then moves on to explore its effect on all their lives over the next fifty years. Exploring themes of substitution, racism, and whether the spirit can ever survive transaction. Read the first 25 pages. 

"In Wales, every little pub or café on a wet day is a gift to a writer. Order something from the counter and listen: the hwyl, the humour, the body language, the self-deprecation, the hiss of the coffee machine, the drip of wet anoraks."

Read ‘Winter Barn Owl over the Teifi Marshes’ from  Carly Holmes’ tender collection of nature essays Love letters on the River.