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‘A remarkable and important book’ Murdo Macdonald, Planet Pick up your copy of Peter Lord’s The Tradition, A New History of Welsh Art for £25 between 16 and 24 December 2016 exclusively at these Parthian Christmas venues:   Carnival Bookshop 3-7 Duke Street Arcade, Cardiff CF10 1AZ Chapter Arts Centre Pop-up shop with Susie Wild CF5 1QE Cardiff Central Library publishers Fair The Hayes, Cardiff CF10 1FL Peter Lord surveys the evolution of the visual culture of Wales from the Renaissance to the end of the twentieth century in this new, single-volume history. Written for everyone with an interest in...

Winner of the Ploughshares John C. Zacharis First Book Award 2015 'Beautiful, memorable stories, artfully nuanced, boldly honest.' Joanna Scott   'These stories explore the complex harmonies within real imperfect relationships, revealing moments in a life when a carefully held balance shifts and, imperceptibly, that life is changed.' Philip Gross A haunting short story collection,  The Missing Woman circles around women who are either literally missing – a mother in rehab, a daughter never born – or who are missing some metaphorical piece of themselves. A father tries to convince his uncompromising, anorexic daughter to want to live, a single woman lures men to her bed...

Fred Johnston is an Irish writer, poet, literary critic and musician, born in Belfast 1951, he has written numerous anthologies, plays, novels, short stories and has also translated various works. Johnston has and continues to contribute a lot to the literary world; he is co-founder of the Irish Writers’ Co-operative 1974, which is a publishing outlet for new Irish Fiction, he is the founder and current director of the Western Writers’ Centre in Galway, and also he founded Galway’s annual Cúirt International Festival of Literature in 1986. Johnston has already won the Prix de l’Ambassade twice, for translating the work...

Here at Parthian we are celebrating the run up to Christmas by suggesting a new book for each day. There will also be some offers along the way so make sure you don't miss out by regularly checking our Facebook and Twitter.  For the first day of Christmas we present Alys Conran's brilliant novel, Pigeon; An incongruous ice-cream van lurches up into the Welsh hills through the hail, pursued by a boy and girl who chase it into their own dark make-believe world, and unfurl in their compelling voices a tale which ultimately breaks out of childhood and echoes across the...

  November 19th, 2016 saw Parthian Books launch Ugly, Lovely: Dylan Thomas’s Swansea and Carmarthenshire of the 1950s in picture, compiled by Ethel Ross, Edited by Hilly Janes. A brilliant compilation depicting Thomas’s favourite hangouts across Swansea and Carmarthenshire, Ross accompanies the pictures with quotes from Thomas’s poetry and her own comments. The book launch, held at the Dylan Thomas Centre, included a talk from Hilly Janes, our very own Richard Lewis Davies and Professor Dr John Goodby, Dylan Thomas expert. The trio discussed how the book came to be, where Hilly revealed that she discovered the album in her...