The Library of Wales – Writing for the World

The Library of Wales for prize-fighters, lovers, poets, sportsmen, writers, railwaymen, miners, farmers, footballers, shopkeepers, messiahs, teachers, prostitutes, priests, philosophers, rogues... all in these pages.

Our library has been created with Wales in mind and heart, a young country with all of the above and more...

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"The Library of Wales will keep in print the English-language literature of Wales in ways that will connect our past to our present. It will be an essential tool in the self-understanding required to build an emergent Wales. The world will note how we now sustain our common memory through literature and will share in our riches." Dai Smith.

"This landmark series is a testimony to the resurgence of English-language literature in Wales" M.Wynn Thomas

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NEW TITLES COMING SOON!

Black Parade
Jack Jones
Writer, soldier and political activist Jack Jones creates a superbly riotous, clear and unsentimental picture of Merthyr life as his home town reels headlong into the twentieth century.
ISBN 978-1-906998-14-1
£8.99
Foreword by Mario Basini

Dai Country
Alun Richards
In this compendium volume, the best of Alun Richards' short stories, as funny and savage as they are scathing and compassionate, are combined with his entrancing autobiographical memoir Days of Absence to take us to the core of the valleys, with their lived experience stripped bare for once of their usual cloak of cliché and sentiment.
ISBN 978-1-906998-15-8
£7.99
Foreword by Des Barry

The Valley, The City, The Village
Glyn Jones
Glyn Jones was one of the giants of twentieth-century Welsh writing whether as short story writer, critic or poet, and here in his remarkable novel of 1956, he creates a narrative of exceptional power that draws on all these gifts.
ISBN 978-1-906998-13-4
£7.99
Foreword by Stevie Davies