In Orbit
By: Glyn Edwards
4.38
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
On receiving news of a beloved teacher’s death, a man struggles with the loss of a relationship sus…
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1. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
By: None , H.T. Willetts , Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
3.98
Format: 182 pages, Paperback
The only English translation authorized by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn First published in the Soviet… read more
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"A couple of ounces ruled your life."-None, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
"Two roubles. Worn notes that didn't rustle."-None, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
"It's all so arty there's no art left in it."-None, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
"Гении не подгоняют трактовку под вкус тиранов!"-None, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
2. My People
By: John Harris , Caradoc Evans
3.68
Format: 205 pages, Paperback
The appearance of My Peoplein 1915 caused a literary sensation. In England critics praised it as a … read more
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4. Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
By: David Mitchell
4.16
Format: 433 pages, ebook
A rollicking history of England's earliest kings and queens, a story of narcissists, excessive behe… read more
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"The defeat of the Armada in 1588 was Elizabeth's high point. Things went downhill after that. Militarily the triumph against Spain was rather undermined the following year when Elizabeth sent her own…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"There were a couple of positives: in 1554, the Queen Regent's Prerogative Act was passed which made explicit, for the first time, that when a woman inherited the throne - became the sovereign, queen …"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Standing jaggedly on Senlac Hill, where Harold Godwinson died, possibly as a result of having taken an arrow to the eye - though possibly more boringly than that, some historians have felt constraine…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Queen Mary was known as Bloody Mary because of the large number of people she killed. And also because of misogyny. She was the first properly crowned woman to rule as queen regnant, not just queen c…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
5. Broken Light
By: Joanne Harris
3.88
Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition
Bernie Moon is feeling invisible. She's given her life to other people - her husband, her son, her … read more
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6. Orbital
By: Samantha Harvey
3.73
Format: 207 pages, Hardcover
A slender novel of epic power, Orbital deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men … read more
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"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
7. Neon Roses
By: Rachel Dawson
3.92
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Eluned Hughes is stuck. It's 1984 in a valley in south Wales: the miners' strike is ravaging her co… read more
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8. Spring Rain
By: Marc Hamer
4.36
Format: 222 pages, Hardcover
This is a story about the rain, a boy, an angry dog and a gardener, and how some of them find peace… read more
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"When I look at the past I do it in the present, it becomes the present and I don't have any desire to cling to it. I make the three piles of stuff that we have all made at some time: a pile to keep, …"-Marc Hamer, Spring Rain
"I bought a narrow blue one with white spots and square ends, took off my long-striped tie and rolled it up in my top jacket pocket, leaving a bit sticking out. After a few attempts at the speckled mi…"-Marc Hamer, Spring Rain
9. Where the River Takes Us
By: Lesley Parr
4.25
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
It's February 1974 and working class families have been hit hard by the three-day week. The reduced… read more
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10. All the Men I Never Married
By: Kim Moore
4.34
Format: 70 pages, Paperback
All The Men I Never Married is the highly anticipated second collection by Kim Moore. The author po… read more
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11. The Unbroken Beauty of Rosalind Bone
By: Alex McCarthy
3.91
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
'Small Things Like These meets Under Milk Wood - this slim but devastating novel captures an entire… read more
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12. Sarn Helen: A Journey Through Wales, Past, Present and Future
By: Tom Bullough
3.98
Format: 232 pages, Kindle Edition
Sarn Helen - Helen's Causeway - is the old Roman Road that runs from the south of Wales to the nort… read more
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13. The Mab: Eleven Epic Stories from the Mabinogi
By: Matt Brown
4.09
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
If you think you’ve heard all the fairy tales out there, think again. Inside this book you will fin… read more
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14. This Is Not Who We Are
By: Sophie Buchaillard
4.43
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
In 1994 two girls are pen-pals. Then Victoria’s letters from Rwanda stop; in Paris Iris can only wo… read more
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15. Cowboy
By: Kandace Siobhan Walker
4.26
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
The poems in Cowboy are knowing, millennial, internet-sick, funny, with deep of embodied and disem… read more
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16. Conquest
By: Zoë Brigley
3.85
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
Moving from the violent to the erotic, Conquest describes women questing to rediscover their own de… read more
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"So many women come to me saying, “I have lost too, and this one, and this one"-Zoë Brigley, Conquest
"Beneath my dress is a ladder of desire, that I climb tonight and each night after that."-Zoë Brigley, Conquest
"How she realized at last that not even love could justify this, that no affection could, not ever. Still, in the glass, she sees her own mouth, opening and closing and silent as a fish."-Zoë Brigley, Conquest
17. Hand & Skull
By: Zoë Brigley
4.28
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
Zoë Brigley’s third collection Hand & Skull draws on early memories of the Welsh landscape and the … read more
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18. I Think We’re Alone Now
By: Abigail Parry
3.73
Format: 72 pages, Kindle Edition
I Think We’re Alone Now is a bold and far-ranging second collection from a fresh and original new v… read more
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19. In Orbit
By: Glyn Edwards
4.38
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
On receiving news of a beloved teacher’s death, a man struggles with the loss of a relationship sus… read more
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20. Birdsplaining: A Natural History
By: Jasmine Donahaye
4.00
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
In pursuit of moments of feeling 'sharply alive', confronting fear of the body's betrayals, and roa… read more
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21. Skrimsli
By: Nicola Davies
4.24
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Who are you if you’ve never seen another face like yours? Where do you belong if you don’t know whe… read more
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22. Brilliant Black British History
By: Atinuke
3.21
Format: 125 pages, Kindle Edition
'I started reading and couldn't put it down. It's the kind of book I wish I'd had when I was a kid'… read more
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23. Republic
By: Nerys Williams
4.43
Format: 90 pages, Paperback
Republic tells the story of a young woman growing up in West Wales the 1980s and 90s, following a b… read more
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24. 100 Poems to Save the Earth
By: Zoë Brigley
3.83
Format: 190 pages, Paperback
100 Poems to Save the Earth is a concise, eclectic, and engaging anthology of poems in English addr… read more
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25. Taking Liberties: ‘Everyone should be reading her’ Observer
By: Leontia Flynn
4.21
Format: 61 pages, Kindle Edition
A collection about motherhood at a time of continuous crisis - from one of Ireland's most important… read more
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26. As If To Sing
By: Paul Henry
3.60
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
The power of song, to sustain the human spirit, resonates through As if to Sing . Poems about famil… read more
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27. Stray Dogs
By: Richard John Parfitt
4.00
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
SHORTLISTED FOR THE *WALES BOOK OF THE YEAR* 2024 An instant cult classic - Buzz Magazine A … read more
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"I told em we were no thrill-kill cult and that we were just ordinary dictionary salesmen on a delivery job gone wrong"-Richard John Parfitt, Stray Dogs
28. Brittle with Relics: A History of Wales 1962–97
By: Richard King
4.52
Format: 550 pages, Hardcover
Brittle with Relics is a landmark history of the people of Wales during a period of great national … read more
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29. Hollywood or Home
By: Kathryn Gray
4.43
Format: 60 pages, Paperback
Welcome to Kathryn Gray’s Hollywood or Home, a poetry collection with as much ruthless glamour as a… read more
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30. A Marginal Sea
By: Zoë Skoulding
3.44
Format: 84 pages, Paperback
A Marginal Sea is written from the vantage point of Ynys Mô n/Anglesey, which is both on the edge o… read more
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31. International Velvet: How Wales Conquered the '90s Charts
By: Neil Collins
4.55
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
If the story of Wales in the 1990s was a movie plot, it would all seem so far-fetched. Thankfully, … read more
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