Product Description: Davies embarks on a journey that takes us into Sri Lanka, Wales, Spain, India, Morocco and the lives and minds of his characters. His spare prose has an inexplicable magic that metamorphoses the exotic into the familiar and vice versa, creating a sense of mild disorientation and unreality that makes you begin to see the world in a different way...read more

Product Description: Tai and the Troll are mates. Tai lives in Tremorfa and the Troll lives at the bottom of Mrs Griffiths' garden. The Troll likes fishing, apples, and his old car which only starts when Tai kicks the tyres. The Troll has to visit his Aunt Senni who lives under a bridge in Brecon and he's asked Tai to come with him on a day trip...read more

Some of the short fiction in this anthology is set in the urban centres of Wales. Other stories take the threads of styles of writing, urban and contemporary, weave them into the strings of themes that tie together the diversity and intertwining cultures strewn across the landscape of a modern Wales.

Product Description: Lewis Davies explores the nature of art and iconography and at the same time makes some perceptive comments on human nature. Football changes direction four times as the story becomes increasingly layered. The whole cleverly builds a far better picture of each of the three thirysomethings than if the playwright had followed a classic linear route...read more

Product Description: Exploring the lure of migration, this tale chronicles a drive along Route 66 from Oklahoma through New Mexico and Arizona to the promised land of California. Showing a country obsessed with change and itself, the story reveals how the nation fragments into pieces as the drift of manifest prosperity stalls on the coast...read more

Product Description: My Piece of Happiness is a delicate, compassionate story of two friends, George and Sean. George is a social worker, Sean is a mentally handicapped young man who has finally found a job he can do-delivering papers. George's job is to look after Sean...read more

Product Description: Continuing the Parthian New Welsh Short Fiction series, this work is an anthology of contemporary Welsh writing with 55 short stories from the best of new short fiction. Writers include Leonora Britto, Sian Preece, Anna Hinds, Alun Richards, Meic Stephens, John Sam Jones and Lloyd Rees...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

This work features three new plays in contenmporary Welsh drama, 'Safar' which depicts the erosion of Urdu/Muslim tradition, 'Gulp' which looks at the youth culture of the 1990s and the desires of a young, gay city, and 'My Piece of Happiness' - a play of love, friendship and delivering papers.

Product Description: Bitterly intelligent...gruesomely funny.""-New Welsh Review. This novel ruthlessly dissects a young man's passion on an absorbing four day odyssey through pubs, bedrooms, and building sites of a smoldering small Welsh town.