A few days late, perhaps, for a poem about love. But since when has love ever arrived on time? This little ditty comes from Breakfast with the Scavengers, my debut collection, edited by @soozerama.bsky.social and published by @parthianbooks.bsky.social last autumn. 🧟‍♂️

The Waterstones pre-order sale begins today and we've got two titles from Carly Holmes and Francesca Rhydderch included within the offer 🤩 Just use code FEB26 #WPreorder It Might Not Be True - A delicate memoir of life and love and everything in between. (1/2) www.waterstones.com/campaign/feb...

Join us for a Griffin Books After Hours special with Peter Finch and The Literary Business. Thursday 5th March, 7.30pm. Tickets below www.ticketsource.co.uk/griffinbooks...

Absolutely delighted that my novel Boundary Waters has made the longlist for the @walterscottprize.bsky.social in Historical Fiction. I'm thrilled and honoured to see it in such amazing company! www.walterscottprize.co.uk/announcing-t...

We are delighted to announce the longlist for the seventeenth #WalterScottPrize for #HistoricalFiction, run by The Abbotsford Trust. Congratulations to all of the longlisted authors! #longlist #booksky #histfic #sirwalterscott #booksky www.walterscottprize.co.uk/announcing-t...

Thrilled for Welsh Canadian author Tristan Hughes whose novel Boundary Waters has been longlisted for the 2026 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction ! @tristankhughes.bsky.social @nation.cymru @publishingwales.bsky.social @walterscottprize.bsky.social nation.cymru/culture/wels...

“My writing comes from observing what could be hidden in human relations… what lies beneath a facade, a performance. I think there’s beauty in exposing the complexities and contradictions in the human nature" - Nara Vidal nation.cymru/news/welsh-t...

Looking forward to this tomorrow :) Will have a strong cup of coffee in hand for the weary early bird I am

We are delighted be a recipient of a PEN Translates Award for Brazilian author Nara Vidal's short story collection, Maps to Nowhere (Mapas para desaparecer) Congratulations to Nara Vidal and Emyr Wallace Humphreys www.parthianbooks.com/blogs/news/p...

We’re delighted to announce that 18 titles from 14 publishers, 12 languages and 16 regions have won #PENTranslates awards. www.englishpen.org/posts/news/p...

2026's first Just Another Poet interview features Tracey Rhys, discussing her debut collection Bathing on the Roof www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2SD...

We do love a good pie

Join Tracey Rhys, this Friday at 8pm, who will be a guest poet at the Green Room, plus ambitious open mic. £5 entry. BYOB. All welcome. In support of Sustainable Wales. www.sustainablewales.org.uk/events

"Bookshops support reading and creativity while helping sustain cultural life in both the Welsh language and English language." - Bookselling Wales Chair Jo Knell nation.cymru/news/new-rep...

Elin Gruffydd will be talking about her book Sweet Melancholy tomorrow eve, intertwining her own film photography with the words of the artist Brenda Chamberlain, in a visual exploration of Ynys Enlli and the Greek island Hydra. www.tickettailor.com/events/ymddi...

Nation Cymru has been named Online News Site of the Year in the Wales Media Awards for 2025 ✍️ Martin Shipton

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? 🌙📚⁠