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A new edition of Dat’s Love has been published by Parthian’s Library of Wales series. Leonora Brito’s influential and award-winning collection of short stories was originally published in 1999. Yalan Bao reinvigorates Leonora’s stories and characters, reviving them for a new generation of readers. Leonora Brito was raised in and influenced by the multicultural community of Tiger Bay, she recreates the society’s values through a diverse collection of voices. Afro- Caribbean, Leonora writes about the diaspora felt by the Black-Welsh community. She has a vibrant writing style, inflected by humorous observations that highlight the oppression, persecution and daily life of...

Wil Roberts's forthcoming book, Paris, will be released in November and can be pre-ordered here. His award-winning novel Petrograd, published by Parthian in 2008, is also available for purchase here.   About Wil: Wiliam Owen Roberts was born in 1960 and educated at the University of Wales Aberystwyth. He worked for various theatre companies before joining HTV as a script editor in 1984. Since 1989 he has been a full-time writer and has written extensively for theatre, television, radio and film. His first novel Bingo! (1985) was described as the first postmodernist novel in Welsh. His second novel Y Pla (Pestilence; 1987) won the Welsh Arts Council Literature prize...

This month we're releasing a new Library of Wales version of Rachel Trezise's award winning debut novel, In and Out of the Goldfish Bowl, so Rachel is our Author of the Month.   About Rachel: Born in the Rhondda valley in 1978, Rachel is an award-winning author and playwright. She graduated in Journalism and English in 2000 - the same year that Goldfish Bowl was published. Her published work includes In and Out of the Goldfish Bowl, Fresh Apples (which won the inaugural Dylan Thomas Prize 2006), Dial M for Merthyr (Winner of the Inaugural Max Boyce Literary Prize 2010), the play 'Tonypandemonium' (Theatre Critics of Wales...

By Parthian intern Julia Bradley   This past weekend, I was lucky enough to be invited along on a Parthian trip up to Scotland, alongside Maria and Shona. The purpose of the trip was to attend the Edinburgh International Book Festival (12-28th August) and to support author Ece Temelkuran in promoting her book Women Who Blow on Knots. What followed was a whirlwind few days of meeting authors, exploring the city, and experiencing some of the varied performance offerings from the fringe festival.   We began our trek up to Edinburgh on Thursday, and took a seven-and-a-half hour train journey north from Swansea, reaching...