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Hummingbird wins at 2018 Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards

Hummingbird wins at 2018 Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards
On Thursday, 1 February, Tristan Hughes’s new novel Hummingbird was honoured with the ‘Fiction with a Sense of Place’ award at the 2018 Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards. Tristan’s novel, set in northern Canada, is an immersive story, one in which its setting transcends its normal function.

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Author of the Month: Terry Hetherington (January 2018)

Author of the Month: Terry Hetherington (January 2018)
January's 'Author of the Month' is Terry Hetherington, a celebrated poet from Neath, who passed away in 2009. To honour Terry's memory, the Cheval organisation was established with the goal to promote young writers in Wales. The result was the Terry Hetherington Young Writers Award, an annual award that accepts submissions of short stories and poetry, the winner of which receives £1000, while entrants have the opportunity to contribute to the Cheval anthology. 

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Hummingbird by Tristan Hughes shortlisted for Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards

Hummingbird by Tristan Hughes shortlisted for Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards

At a glamorous ceremony at the National Liberal Club, the Edward Stanford Travle Writing Awards announced the shortlists for travel writing fiction and non-fiction. Hummingbird by Tristan Hughes was shortlisted in the category 'Fiction, with a Sense of Place' among a strong pool of candidates. Tristan Hughes was born in northern Ontario and brought up on the Welsh island of Ynys Mon. He is the author of three other novels, Eye Lake, Revenant, and Send My Cold Bones Home, as well as a collection of short stories, The Tower. He is a winner of the Rhys Davies Short Story Prize and is currently a...

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Susie Wild's final launch of the Better Houses tour at Brown's Laugharne

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Parthian’s Carnival Bookshop at Chapter, Cardiff, 16 December

Parthian’s Carnival Bookshop at Chapter, Cardiff, 16 December

Foyer, Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff

Saturday 16 December, 9am – 6pm

Parthian's Carnival Bookshop will pop up at Chapter for one day only this festive season, selling award winning contemporary and classic writing from Wales and the world. As well as our Wales Book of the Year 2017 winners (Alys Conran's debut novel Pigeon and Peter Lord's The Tradition: A New History of Welsh Art) we will have a fine selection of our favourite titles from the last 25 years in independent publishing in Wales.

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