Books from Parthian
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GI Limey: A Welsh-American in WWII
By Geraint Thomas, Clifford GuardGI Limey is a story about the bond that keeps soldiers together, through the danger of combat and the decades after. Clifford Guard examines how war shaped his identity, one defined by two allied countries an ocean apart.
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A Warrior's Tale
By Dai SmithNow, for the first time, making full use of Williams's private and unpublished papers and by placing him in a wide social and cultural landscape, Dai Smith, in this highly original and much praised biography, uncovers how Williams's life to ...
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In the Frame
By Dai SmithIn the Frame is a powerful alternative history of twentieth-century South Wales, offered from the personal viewpoint of cultural historian Dai Smith.
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The Crossing
By Dai SmithThe Crossing bridges the past and the present and connects Wales with America as it tells of coal owners and coal workers in the age of great transatlantic liners and fortunes to be made.
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Dream on
By Dai SmithDream On is a black comedy, a flashlight noir thriller, a meditation on the lives and stories that connect up the frayed wires in the business of living.
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Max: Hymns and Arias: The Selected Stories, Songs and Poems of Max Boyce
By Max BoyceCompiling - in some instances for the first time in print - the ve ry best songs, poems and stories from across his celebrated career , Max: Hymns & Arias is the definitive selected work of a major cu ltural figure who, through his ...
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Ironopolis
By Glen James BrownGlen James Brown orchestrates a remarkable novel across these streets as Ironopolis tells its own story across three generations.
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Hana
By Alena MornštajnováAfter a typhoid outbreak rages through her town, robbing her of her parents and siblings, the orphaned child is forced to live with her mysterious, depressive Aunt Hana, a figure both frightening and fragile.
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Easy Meat
By Rachel TreziseThe south Wales Valleys, 23rd June, 2016.
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Sunbathing in Siberia: A Marriage of East and West in Post-Soviet Russia
By Michael A. Oliver-Semenov, M. A. Oliver-SemenovTold completely from the Trans-Siberian and a series of Russian jets, this is the story of a young British poet, who, after becoming engaged to his translator more than 3,500 miles east, embarks on a journey into the very heart of Siberia ...
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The Elephant's Foot
By M. A. Oliver-SemenovYouths congregated at a bus stop. These are just a handful of the themes touched upon in Michael Oliver-Semenov's deeply personal and introspective first poetry collection.
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The Blue Tent
By Richard GwynAs his life unravels, the man begins to question whether he is the orchestrator or the victim of his own experiences. Are the stories that guide or steer his life--any life--real, or merely the echo of other, possible lives?
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Between Two Rivers: A Story of Life, Love and Marriage from an English Woman in Baghdad
By Dorothy Al KhafajiBetween Two Rivers is an honest, funny and moving memoir of Baghdad life from the perspective of a young woman from England, transplanted into another culture by love and family.
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Brotherhood
By Catherine MerrimanA novel about the comradeship and loyalty of a crew of motor bike fanatics from South Wales who go on a long run to Cricieth in memory of a dead...
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Martha, Jack & Shanco
By Caryl LewisAn English version of Martha, Jac, a Sianco. A powerful novel relating the story of two elderly brothers and their sister who are held captive by family circumstances and by...
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Welsh Boys Too
By John Sam JonesInspired by the lives of gay men in Wales, this collection of stories is funny, poignant, and ultimately revealing.
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Dial M for Merthyr: On Tour with Midasuno : ****king, ***king & ****ting
By Rachel TreziseAt a rock gig in a Rhondda pub, Rachel Trezise discovered Midasuno; a gaggle of Merthyr kids with a ton of conviction and a penchant for neck breaking guitar riffs....
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The Loneliness of the Long Distance Book Runner
By Bill Rees, William Geraint ReesThe Loneliness of the Long Distance Book Runner recounts the trials, joys and tribulations of selling second-hand books.
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Saints and Lodgers
By WH DaviesW. H. Davies, the famous 'tramp-poet' of Newport, lived a swashbuckling life of vagrancy in London and America, rising from a life on the streets to life as a famous poet, who was championed by Edward Thomas and George Bernard Shaw.
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The Water-Castle
By Brenda ChamberlainThe Water-castle is a journal of love, romance and discord in 1950s Germany as a Welsh artist and poet, Elizabeth Greatorex, travels with her French husband to meet her former lover Klaus, a German count.