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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
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9781906998080 | Parthian Books, April 1, 2010, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Davies embarks on a journey that takes us into Sri Lanka, Wales, Spain, India, Morocco and the lives and minds of his characters.
9781905762040 | Parthian Books, June 15, 2008, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: The short stories in this collection offer a world of escape and adventure by award winning writer Davies.

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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
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9781905762644 | Parthian Books, July 15, 2009, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Tai and the Troll are mates.

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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.
By Lewis Davies (editor)
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9781902638423 | Parthian Books, August 15, 2005, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Some of the short fiction in this anthology is set in the urban centres of Wales.

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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
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9781902638539 | Parthian Books, February 15, 2005, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Lewis Davies explores the nature of art and iconography and at the same time makes some perceptive comments on human nature.

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9781902638324 | Parthian Books, February 1, 2004, cover price $10.95

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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
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9780952155850 | Parthian Books, May 1, 1998, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: A young Welsh writer's personal odyssey on Steinbeck's celebrated dust bowl route and winner of the John Morgan Award.

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9781902638225 | Parthian Books, November 1, 2002, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: 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.

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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
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9781902638041 | Parthian Books, December 1, 2000, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: While Parthian Books has been publishing for a relatively short period, it has had a significant impact on the contemporary English-language literary scene in Wales, largely through the promotion of risk-taking, cutting-edge fiction by writers such as Lewis Davies.

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9781902638201 | Parthian Books, May 1, 2002, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: My Piece of Happiness is a delicate, compassionate story of two friends, George and Sean.

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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)
By Lewis Davies (editor) and Arthur Smith (editor)
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9781902638034 | Parthian Books, June 1, 2000, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: 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.

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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.
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9780952155874 | Parthian Books, January 15, 1999, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: 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.

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9780952155836 | Parthian Books, September 1, 1997, cover price $7.95

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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.
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9780952155805 | Parthian Books, January 31, 1993, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Bitterly intelligent.

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