Parthian Books
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A Carnival of Voices in independent publishing. Our titles reflect a diverse and contemporary Wales that cast a keen eye on the wider world.
2026's first Just Another Poet interview features Tracey Rhys, discussing her debut collection Bathing on the Roof
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Poet Interview: Tracey Rhys
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February 2, 2026 at 10:26 AM
2026's first Just Another Poet interview features Tracey Rhys, discussing her debut collection Bathing on the Roof
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We do love a good pie
#FF It’s National Pie Day! To celebrate, give some ❤️ and a follow to these publications in the lit community that begin with “P”!
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January 26, 2026 at 12:19 PM
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.
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Events — Sustainable Wales
Event listings for Sustainable Wales and the Green Room, Arts, literature, music and community events in the South Wales area
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January 26, 2026 at 11:34 AM
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
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
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New report warns about the fragile future of bookshops in Wales
Gosia Buzzanca A major new report has revealed the extraordinary role Wales’s bookshops play in sustaining local communities, nurturing culture and strengthening the Welsh language. At the same time, ...
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January 21, 2026 at 4:38 PM
"Bookshops support reading and creativity while helping sustain cultural life in both the Welsh language and English language." - Bookselling Wales Chair Jo Knell
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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.
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Prynnu tocyn – Sweet Melancholy - Sgwrs am Brenda Chamberlain, Enlli a Hydra gan Elin Gruffydd – Plas Brondanw
Sweet Melancholy - Sgwrs am Brenda Chamberlain, Enlli a Hydra gan Elin Gruffydd – Plas Brondanw, Thu 22 Jan 2026 - Sgwrs am y gyfrol Sweet Melancholy.
Mae Sweet Melancholy yn brosiect ffotograffiaeth...
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January 21, 2026 at 4:34 PM
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.
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Nation Cymru has been named Online News Site of the Year in the Wales Media Awards for 2025 ✍️ Martin Shipton
Nation Cymru wins best news website in Wales award
Martin Shipton Nation Cymru has been named Online News Site of the Year in the Wales Media Awards for 2025. Announcing the award at an after-dinner ceremony in Cardiff’s Parkgate Hotel, co-presenter J...
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January 17, 2026 at 9:20 AM
Nation Cymru has been named Online News Site of the Year in the Wales Media Awards for 2025 ✍️ Martin Shipton
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Add this to your 'must have this book' list because Katherine's story is going to WOW you!! @parthianbooks.bsky.social
January 6, 2026 at 5:56 PM
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?
January 7, 2026 at 3:21 PM
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!
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Looking forward to more events here in 2026!
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Cultural highlights 2025: A blaze of local fires - an extraordinary year for Welsh writing
Lily Baron, Book Space Cardiff It has been a fantastic year for books! Here at Book Space Cardiff, we have a lot to say… 2025 is the year that we started our book club and have already had some wonder...
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January 3, 2026 at 10:42 AM
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!
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Looking forward to more events here in 2026!
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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.
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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.
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Parthian's Advent Calendar - Day Twenty to Twenty Three
We've had some goblins amiss it seems, and locked out of our own shopify advent.
So like one of those lucky days that you've realised you've got four teeny chocolates to scran at once, here's four sho...
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December 23, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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...
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.
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December 19, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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.
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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'.
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December 17, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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'.
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Read Eluned Gramich postcard from Osaka, where she participated in the Year of Culture between Wales and Japan
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Parthian's Advent Calendar - Day Sixteen
Eluned Gramich participated within the year of Wales and Japan, supported by Wales Arts International, British Council and Arts Council of Wales. Bringing her back to Japan after ten years, read her p...
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December 16, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Read Eluned Gramich postcard from Osaka, where she participated in the Year of Culture between Wales and Japan
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Get 50% off Alys Conran's critically acclaimed debut novel Pigeon with code ADVENT15.
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December 15, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Get 50% off Alys Conran's critically acclaimed debut novel Pigeon with code ADVENT15.
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'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
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Parthian's Advent Calendar - Day Fourteen
Bush Meat explores an expatriate family’s two-year stay in 1960’s Nigeria then moves on to explore its effect on all their lives over the next fifty years. Exploring themes of substitution, racism, an...
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December 14, 2025 at 4:16 PM
'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
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"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."
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Parthian's Advent Calendar - Day Thirteen
"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 coff...
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December 13, 2025 at 11:26 AM
"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."
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The Japanese Ambassador to the UK has been spotted this week in a Welsh pub enjoying a pint of Wrexham lager
Welsh Lager wins over the Japanese Ambassador
Ella Groves The Japanese Ambassador to the UK has been spotted this week in a Welsh pub enjoying a pint of Wrexham lager. Hiroshi Suzuki has been a hit with many in the UK, gaining popularity on socia...
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December 10, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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.
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Parthian's Advent Calendar - Day Twelve
Read ‘Winter Barn Owl over the Teifi Marshes’ from Carly Holmes’ tender collection of nature essays Love letters on the River.
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December 12, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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.
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Delve into our short story collections with 20% off. Just use code ADVENT11. Here's just a few of our recommendations.
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December 11, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Delve into our short story collections with 20% off. Just use code ADVENT11. Here's just a few of our recommendations.
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Listen to Angela V. John speak about her book Behind the Scenes: The Dramatic Lives of Philip Burton at the Oldie Literary Lunch
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December 10, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Listen to Angela V. John speak about her book Behind the Scenes: The Dramatic Lives of Philip Burton at the Oldie Literary Lunch
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"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.
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Read Imogen Davies' interview with film photographer Elin Gruffydd on the release of Sweet Melancholy.
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Parthian's Advent Calendar - Day Nine
Read Imogen Davies' interview with Elin Gruffydd on the release of Sweet Melancholy.
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December 9, 2025 at 3:21 PM
"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...
Read Imogen Davies' interview with film photographer Elin Gruffydd on the release of Sweet Melancholy.
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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.
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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.
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Parthian's Advent Calendar - Day Eight
Read Peter Finch's introduction to The Literary Business.
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December 8, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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...
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."
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A Big Thank You to Swansea Libraries! — Carys Shannon
Spending time in Swansea’s libraries to talk about Truth Like Water has reminded me that these spaces are about far more than books, they’re about community
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December 8, 2025 at 10:40 AM
"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."
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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.
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December 7, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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/...
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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.
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Parthian's Advent Calendar - Day Six
"What I didn’t know then was that everything that had led me on my hapless way – the desire to imagine what it had been like back then, the thrill of being in a landscape that had hardly altered since...
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December 6, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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...
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