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Ioan M. Williams (Ioan Williams is a Welsh scholar and was Head of the Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies at Aberystwyth.)
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Emyr Humphreys
Emyr Humphreys, poet, novelist, short-story writer and dramatist, is one of the foremost literary figures in Wales. For over 40 years he has interpreted the world of Welsh-speaking Wales, sympathetically…
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With science fiction tropes recalling Philip K. Dick, Kurt Vonnegut and Olga Ravn, The Last Day is a testament to the depth and creativity of Welsh literature. Its translation into…
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Widowed farmer Gethin is content with his quiet life in the Welsh countryside. But when a developer offers him a generous sum for his land, Gethin is faced with a…
This is a novel of delusion and self-knowledge, tradition and change, loss and identity in which the pace, plotting, characterization, and dialogue are as faultless as we expect from Humphreys…
Full of immense richness and subtle wit, this engaging novel examines the power of ancestral and cultural heritage and the impact such history has upon the present. As an intense…
Emyr Humphreys is a major figure in twentieth-century writing, this collection of short stories is an immensely enjoyable and impressive addition to his outstanding list of award-winning work.
A Toy Epic is the story of three boys moving towards the threshold of adult life in the Thirties. From differing backgrounds, their lives cross and touch until they become…
Emyr Humphreys has written six long stories for and about the elderly. In these stories Humphreys explores change: political, social and physical, and its effects on the individual and society…
New edition of a history of Wales. Includes a Postscript written in the context of the millennium as a fixed point in the development of welsh identity. Emyr Humphreys shows…
In this novel, Peredur defies both his mother’s hostility and his brothers’ lack of concern to seek out the truth of his father’s death and to take part in a…
Hannah Ellis is 35, unmarried, and still living at Y Glyn, the family farm in Wales where she has been brought up by her mother and step-father–a forbidding man with…
A collection of five interviews with one of the most versatile and prolific Welsh authors of the 20th century, celebrating his life and work as he reaches his eightieth birthday.
In this new edition of Humphrey’s major novel, Miles - a retired Calvinist Methodist minister - guides the reader through the major triumphs and crises of 20th-century Wales, as he…
