High Fidelity for post-student women coming to terms with their men and their bands. A quirky battle of the senses for Ally, narrator with attitude and an unfortunate crush on the lead singer of Mr Big. This is homage in prose to the ultimate seventies band Free. The novel opens as the train door closes and Ally's day-long journey from Aberystwyth to Felixstowe begins. The narration moves from present to past as Ally remembers details of her thirteen-year stay in Aberystwyth. She arrived as a student to read English and now thirteen years later, she is leaving for the last time. "So what do you do? I'm in a band. Your Jonny's in a band. Everyone I ever see you with is in a band...Do you play anything?" "I drank some of my snakebite to buy myself time. Reaching the bottom of the glass, I plumped for Pamela Morrison's preferred job description. It hadn't done her any harm, unless you counted her heroin-related death a few years after Jim's." "I'm the ornament."

Published by: Parthian Books, 168 pages, Paperback

Pierre is fourteen years old.  His mother is dead.  His little brother’s back home in Brussels, in the African quarter. His grandmother Missy’s there too, nursing a stack of voodoo recipes and the means to cast a long-distance hex. So how come Pierre’s still stuck n a flat in Camden with the white man he’s not quite comfortable calling Dad? Ashley Cochrane is an English teacher.  He’s lived abroad too, met a few people, done a few things. He can handle a little squirt like Pierre and his mates. No problem. Kilburn Hoodoo is a wickedly funny, multi-cultural, modern day tragi-comedy about blame, guilt and vengeance.

Published by: Parthian Books, 292 pages, Paperback

The Library of Wales educational resource pack has been designed to help teachers introduce Welsh writing in English into the classroom. Teachers are provided with ideas and activities for:

• Placing each text within its social and historical context
• Encouraging discussion and stimulating oral presentations
• Understanding the themes.