Add this to your 'must have this book' list because Katherine's story is going to WOW you!! @parthianbooks.bsky.social

What are your new year reading resolutions?

Festival of the Ghost, Truth Like Water, This Room Is Impossible to Eat and Local Fires all in the 2025 bestseller list at Lily lovely bookshop Book Space in Cathays. Looking forward to more events here in 2026! nation.cymru/feature/cult...

We've had some goblins amiss it seems, locked out of our own shopify advent. So like one of those lucky days that you've realised you've got four teeny tiny chocolates to eat at once, here's four short stories to read amongst the last minute shopping madness. www.parthianbooks.com/blogs/news/p...

Folding Rock editor Kathryn Tann talks to Crystal Jeans about her upcoming collection of essays, Blueprints through an old-school e-mail exchange. Read below. foldingrock.com/getting-nake...

Winner of the 2025 Rhys Davies Short Story Competition, Keza O’Neill, joins The Wyn Thomas File to talk about her winning story 'The Man on the Train'. www.mixcloud.com/.../.

Read Eluned Gramich postcard from Osaka, where she participated in the Year of Culture between Wales and Japan www.parthianbooks.com/blogs/news/p...

Get 50% off Alys Conran's critically acclaimed debut novel Pigeon with code ADVENT15. www.parthianbooks.com/products/pig...

'Bush Meat is a sensitive, haunting collection that sets personal stories against a background of historical change. It is thoughtful and perceptive. And a real joy to read.' – Suzy Ceulan Hughes www.parthianbooks.com/blogs/news/p...

"In Wales, every little pub or café on a wet day is a gift to a writer. Order something from the counter and listen: the hwyl, the humour, the body language, the self-deprecation, the hiss of the coffee machine, the drip of wet anoraks." www.parthianbooks.com/blogs/news/p...

The Japanese Ambassador to the UK has been spotted this week in a Welsh pub enjoying a pint of Wrexham lager

Love Letters on the River is a lyrical, honest & tender tribute to the many creatures ‒ both in the garden & beyond the garden wall ‒ that bring joy to Carly’s life simply by existing. www.parthianbooks.com/blogs/news/p...

Delve into our short story collections with 20% off. Just use code ADVENT11. Here's just a few of our recommendations. www.parthianbooks.com/blogs/news/p...

Listen to Angela V. John speak about her book Behind the Scenes: The Dramatic Lives of Philip Burton at the Oldie Literary Lunch www.theoldie.co.uk/lunches/reco...

"The more I read about Brenda, the more I felt a connection forming, as though invisible threads were weaving our lives and paths together." Read Imogen Davies' interview with film photographer Elin Gruffydd on the release of Sweet Melancholy. www.parthianbooks.com/blogs/news/p...

On Day 8 of our advent calendar, read Peter Finch's introduction to The Literary Business. Few others in Wales know the book business and how we got here like Finch does. And few others will have been capable of reporting back in such an entertaining fashion. www.parthianbooks.com/blogs/news/p...

"Libraries are genuine community hubs, and we’re lucky to have so many brilliant spaces in Swansea - long may they be supported. It really has been a pleasure to visit so many libraries over the last couple of months." www.carysshannon.com/journalandev...

Sort your reading for the new year and get 10% off all our pre-orders. Just use code ADVENTSEVEN at the checkout, offer ends at midnight this New Year's Eve. There's a little bit of something for everyone, have a browse of our upcoming titles. www.parthianbooks.com/collections/...

Launched in style this June, with a canoe trip down the River Avon with fellow writer Tyler Keevil. Boundary Waters is a tragicomic tale of love, loss and redemption. www.parthianbooks.com/blogs/news/p...

Republished this summer as the latest title within our Library of Wales series, The Summer Flood 'occupies an important place in the vanguard of queer literature’. @norenashopland.bsky.social Read the foreword by Mike Parker below. www.parthianbooks.com/blogs/news/p...

@johnsamjones.bsky.social interviews author Petar Andonovski and translator Christina E. Kramer on Macedonian queer novel The Summer Without You www.parthianbooks.com/blogs/news/p...

'What I love most about the writing is the uncertainty. Even though I have the correct map for navigation in my head, I never know if something interesting will draw my attention & instead of following the map, I start walking down some wild & impassable roads.' www.parthianbooks.com/blogs/news/p...

Make yourself a cuppa and tune into Carys Shannon's interview with the @londonwriterssalon.bsky.social! Exploring her writing journey to publication and staying true to her voice. www.parthianbooks.com/blogs/news/p...

Travel the world from the comfort of your favourite book nook! Browse our rich catalogue of translated literature including novels translated from Basque, Latvian, Czech, French, Slovakian, and Turkish. Get 40% off our translated titles! Just use ADVENTTWO www.parthianbooks.com/blogs/news/p...

Read the freebie - buy the book! A great Christmas present for anyone contemplating a move to Japan for work or pleasure.

Diving headfirst into the snow on day 1 of our literary advent calendar! Sharing a chapter from The Transplantable Roots of Catharine Huws Nagashima by Susan Karen Burton Read Jac Philip's story from the snowy hills of Furano, Hokkaidō www.parthianbooks.com/blogs/news/p...

Pat Edwards finds Ben Rhys Palmer’s poetry collection Breakfast with the Scavengers to be a bit of a wake-up call londongrip.co.uk/2025/11/lond...

Megan at Waterstones Cardiff restocking Rape of the Fair Country. In the heart of iron country, this unforgettable novel begins the saga of the Mortymer family. Emblematic of a nation’s history and struggle, first published in 1959, Rape of the Fair Country has become an icon of Welsh literature

Des Clifford, literary editor of @nation.cymru , takes a deep dive into the connections between Wales and Japan featured in Susan Karen Burton's absorbing new book of oral history, The Transplantable Roots of Catherine Huws Nagashima nation.cymru/culture/book...

It’s our bookshop signing day with Mari Ellis Dunning and Carys Shannon. Come say hello at our stops along the way 👋🏻 Just popped into The Hours Brecon. Up next @book-ish.bsky.social in Abergavenny at 11am

Join us tonight at Addyman Books in Hay-on-Wye for a fantastic Dark Nights are for Reading in collaboration with @honnopress.bsky.social and @fireflypress.bsky.social. Wrap up warm and see you there at 7pm!

Join Carys Shannon tomorrow at 6pm for the Literary Salon Series at the Cultural Institute, Swansea University. Discussing her suspenseful debut novel Truth Like Water with @elaine-canning.bsky.social Register for your free spot below. @covertocoveruk.bsky.social www.swansea.ac.uk/cultural-ins...

Join Carys Shannon and Mari Ellis Dunning for a Dark November Chill event at Pen'rallt Gallery Bookshop, TONIGHT at 18.30 (doors at 18.00). Delving into the darker worlds of fiction writing in conversation with Carly Holmes. @honnopress.bsky.social www.penralltgallerybookshop.co.uk/dark-novembe...

Join us for a #DarkNightsareforReading soiree at #AddymanBooks in #HayonWye with 3 writers from 3 indie Welsh presses:⁠ ⁠ @clairefayers.bsky.social @fireflypress.bsky.social @mariellisdunning.bsky.social @honnopress.bsky.social #CarysShannon @parthianbooks.bsky.social ⁠ See you there? 🌙📚⁠

Delve into the darker worlds of fiction this November with two gripping debuts; Truth Like Water by Carys Shannon, and Witsh by Mari Ellis Dunning from @honnopress.bsky.social.

"Truth Like Water deserves to be high up on best-novel-of-2025 lists; Carys Shannon is definitely an author to watch." A big thank you to Buzz Magazine for this fantastic review. www.buzzmag.co.uk/truth-like-w...

Join Carys Shannon on her debut book tour with events and signings held throughout the month. "Suspenseful and suffused in the uncanny power of the ever-shifting tides of a Welsh estuary, Carys Shannon’s Truth Like Water is a first-rate mystery novel” – Joanne Owen, @lovereadinguk.bsky.social

"I thoroughly enjoyed this book from start to finish....Finch deploys the right amount of irreverence and respect to tell his stories." Thanks to Desmond Clifford, @nation.cymru for this lovely review of The Literary Business. Read in full below nation.cymru/culture/the-...

"I didn’t become aware of my Welshness, or how that is expressed in my writing, until I left Wales. Only when I was more than a thousand miles away, living in Andalucía and teaching English, did I start to understand all the ways in which it expressed itself." nation.cymru/culture/on-b...

Well done to @parthianbooks.bsky.social for ensuring Alexander Cordell’s classic novel ‘Rape of the Fair Country’ is back in print 👏

Minnie Pallister now out in paperback. Lovely job...thanks @parthianbooks.bsky.social

Lovely piece from fellow @parthianbooks.bsky.social author Eluned Gramich on our recent cultural trip to Osaka where she lived up to her name and brought much-needed rain to the city. nation.cymru/culture/post...

Lord Gregory Mostyn, a frequent visitor to Japan and fluent Japanese speaker, kindly wrote the foreword to my book, 'The Transplantable Roots of Catharine Huws Nagashima: Encounters with the Welsh in Japan'. Thanks, Greg! @parthianbooks.bsky.social nation.cymru/feature/meet...

Join us at @storyvillebooks.bsky.social this Thursday for the New Welsh Review and Parthian Books Autumn Party! With readings from issue contributors and special guest and Ponty local Crystal Jeans will also be reading from her brand-new essay collection Blueprints. Kicking off at 7.15pm🍂

Roberto Pastore and Ben Rhys Palmer will be launching their joyful and deeply human poetry collections tonight at Waterstones Cardiff! Get yourselves down there, doors at 18:30 to start at 19:00. @waterstones.bsky.social @benrhyspalmer.bsky.social

I'm really enjoying Carys Shannon's debut novel Truth Like Water 🌊📸 Available now from @parthianbooks.bsky.social 👌🏼

On the journey they were beaten, tortured and shackled beneath a waste pipe. The ship had dropped anchor in the middle of the bay of Hirado, a thriving trading post in the west of Japan, north of Nagasaki... nation.cymru/feature/the-...

Carly Holmes’ Love Letters on the River has been selected for the Wales Literature Exchange 2025 Non-fiction Bookshelf. Selected annually by @cyfnewidfalen_waleslitexchange to champion Welsh literary works recommended for translation. waleslitexchange.org/bookshelf/au...

This Sunday - all welcome! @parthianbooks.bsky.social #wales #japan

TONIGHT at 6.30, at The Medical Society of London and online: a lecture on Welsh National Identity and the Second World War with Professor Martin Johnes, author of 'Wales: England's Colony?'. www.cymmrodorion.org/talk/welsh-n...