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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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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...

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 Five Read Mike Parker's foreword to Gornowy Rees' classical novel The Summer Flood.

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.

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Parthian's Advent Calendar - Day Four On day four read John Sam Jones' interview with Macedonian author Petar Adonovski and translator Christina E. Kramer, in celebration of the english translation of The Summer Without You, released last...

@johnsamjones.bsky.social interviews author Petar Andonovski and translator Christina E. Kramer on Macedonian queer novel The Summer Without You

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'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.'
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Parthian's Advent Calendar - Day Three On Day Three tune into Carys Shanon's interview with the London Writer's Salon on 'Staying True to Your Voice and Finding the Right Publisher'; exploring Carys' journey to publication for her evocativ...

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.

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The Summer Without You UK postage is 99 pence per order.   “Dark, absorbing and deeply moving… when memories remain unresolved there can be chaos. I loved this novella.” – John Sam Jones 'An intricate, puzzling story plaite...

This January we published queer novella The Summer Without You from one of the leading voices in contemporary Macedonian literature Petar Andonovski. Translated by Christina E. Kramer.

A story of time slipping, desire just out of reach, like memories lost…

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Parthian's Advent Calendar - Day Two On Day Two explore new worlds from the comfort of your favourite reading spot and pick up one of our translated titles with 40% off.

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

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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

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Pat Edwards finds Ben Rhys Palmer’s poetry collection Breakfast with the Scavengers to be a bit of a wake-up call

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Megan is holding up a copy of Rape of the Fair Country in front of a corner of bookshelves in Waterstones Cardiff

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

Book review: The Transplantable Roots of Catharine Huws Nagashima: encounters with the Welsh in Japan by Susan Karen Burton Desmond Clifford This book is a collection of interviews with Welsh people living in Japan. They are a diverse bunch including ecologists, writers, translators, farmers, video game entrepreneurs (coal...

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

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Chats and book hauls in Bardic Books in Llantwit Major

Chats and book hauls in Bardic Books in Llantwit Major

At Nickleby’s Bookstore in Llantwit Major 💛

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Storyville Pontypridd @storyvillebooks.bsky.social

At the lovely Book-ish Abergavenny #choosebookshops @honnopress.bsky.social

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!

Literary Salon Series - Swansea University All the upcoming and previous events hosted by the Cultural Institute as part of the long running Literary Salon series

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

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DARK NOVEMBER CHILL / TYWYLLWCH TACHWEDD — galeri a siop lyfrau pen'rallt gallery bookshop

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

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Join us for a #DarkNightsareforReading soiree at
#AddymanBooks in #HayonWye with 3 writers from 3 indie Welsh presses:⁠
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@clairefayers.bsky.social @fireflypress.bsky.social

@mariellisdunning.bsky.social @honnopress.bsky.social

#CarysShannon @parthianbooks.bsky.social
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See you there? 🌙📚⁠

DARK NOVEMBER CHILL / TYWYLLWCH TACHWEDD — galeri a siop lyfrau pen'rallt gallery bookshop

Next Monday 6pm, join us for a Dark November Chill at Pen'rallt Gallery Bookshop

With a number of gothic & horror tales in her writing cauldron, Carly Holmes welcomes the debut novelists, to read from their work and talk about the writing journeys.
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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.

Gower author CARYS SHANNON offers twists and mystery with her debut novel Truth Like Water deserves to be high up on best-novel-of-2025 lists; debut novelist Carys Shannon is definitely an author to watch.

"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.
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Book tour poster for Carys Shannon and her debut novel Truth Like Water. For full events details please visit the Parthian Books events page.

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

The Literary Business by Peter Finch Desmond Clifford Peter Finch is a poet because he’s a poet. No one told him to, he passed no exam, entered no guild. He’s a poet because he is, and now he’s been at it for as long as Tom Jones has bee...

"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

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On Being a Writer in Wales: Carys Shannon Carys Shannon “Where were you going when I saw you coming back?”  is one of the phrases I heard when growing up in Wales. I’ve begun to argue that it is one of the best philosophical questions that ex...

"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."

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An announcement on Facebook that Alexander Cordell’s Rape of the Fair Country is back in print. Image of the book against bookshelves.

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