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 Award-winning author Tristan Hughes' most recent novel Hummingbird has been making the review rounds - here are some of the highlights:   'lean, lyrical...beautifully nuanced and utterly touching' -- Claire Allfree (Daily Mail), full review.   'Hummingbird is a triumph of compression, almost occupying a place somewhere between a novella and a more fully-blown novel. The narrative control and sense of scale it takes to make everything neither too long nor too short inform its structure...its evocation of eternity, the ever-deferred destination of the ever-changing, just perfect...this novel has scarcely any faults' -- Nigel Jarrett (Wales Arts Review), full review.  ...

We had a fab launch of Biddy Well's travel memoir crossing Portugal in A Van of One's Own at the Carnival Bookshop in Cardiff last Thursday. You can pick up a copy from our website and all good bookshops if you missed it.

Huw Lewis is a former Welsh Assembly member and Minister for Education in the Welsh Government, and is set to launch his memoir about growing up in Aberfan, To Hear the Skylark's Song, this Wednesday 5th July at the Pierhead, National Assembly for Wales.    The weekend will see Huw attending the Penarth Literature Festival. On Sunday the 9th, at 2pm, he'll be in conversation with Dai Smith. You can see the pair discussing Huw's memoir at the All Saints Church in Penarth, tickets for the event are £5 and are available here.   Huw was also featured on Radio Wales' Sunday...