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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...

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.

On Tuesday, Dec. 12, Masters will be launching 'Nothing has Changed' at the ITV studios in Cardiff. If you are interested in attending this event, Parthian has ten tickets available, please contact Maria Zygogianni at maria.zygog@gmail.com.

About Joe: Joe England was educated at Cyfarthfa Grammar School, Merthyr Tydfil and at the University of Nottingham where he studied Economic and Social History. In a varied career he has been editor of a weekly newspaper, a full-time lecturer for the Workers’ Educational Association, Deputy Director of the Department of Extra-Mural Studies in the University of Hong Kong, Research Fellow in the Industrial Relations Research Unit at Warwick University and Principal and chief executive of Coleg Harlech, Wales’ residential college for adults. He has travelled widely in East Asia and is well-known as a lecturer on social and industrial...